Chapter 87: Chapter 87

Although Kyosul was excited, she tried her best to stay calm as she was walking with Bipaan. Following him silently, she folded her hands and walked along, with her head lowered.

‘I didn’t know there was a path here.’

While waking behind him, Kyosul took a walk in the untrodden path in the back of the East Palace for the first time. She always passed through the front and middle gates of the palace, but he took her down the secluded road. She heard the sound of the stream while walking down the road. As the road was adjacent to the wall of the palace, there was a stream leading into the outer castle. At that moment, she recalled what she heard from Kyoyoung, his second wife, when she first arrived in the Mok Kingdom.

‘Come to think of it, she told me that the Crown Prince enjoyed taking a stroll along the road near the stream.’

Kyosul suddenly felt that Bipaan might have intentionally decided to use this path to take her to the Dongbi Palace.

She liked the secluded atmosphere around the path. Without feeling any fear of Bipaan. She enjoyed looking around.

“Ooops!”

At that moment she discovered something that caught her eyes. Forgetting even his presence, she walked up to it and bent down.

“I didn’t expect to see this here.”

She held out her hand out of excitement. There was a bunch of blue flowers blooming there. In fact, they were the same flowers that Ruhae used to place at her windowsill everyday. The little petals smaller than fingernails were thickly grouped together to protect the yellow stamen. Those little and lovely blue flowers made her heart thrilled.

She instinctively squatted down before the flowers and looked at them.

“Cucumber herb.”

“Pardon?”

“They are called cucumber herb.”

While looking at the flowers with an innocent smile, she was surprised to hear his unexpected commentary and looked back at him. While she focused on the flowers, she forgot about him momentarily. He was now standing behind her.

She looked up at him with a curious look. She was surprised that he talked to her kindly and that he knew the name of this small flower on the road. Looking at the blue flowers, he said in a low voice, “They won’t bloom anymore.”

“Are they not blooming?”

“Because they bloom in the summer.”

“Ah…..”

She looked at the cucumber herb again.

Come to think of it, it was around the beginning of the summer when Ruhae started to put the blue flower on the windowsill of her room in the Dongbi Palace.

‘Would he continue to bring flowers when the summer was over? Can he place other flowers when the fall comes?’

She was innocently thinking of such questions.

She suddenly became curious about something, so she turned and asked Bipaan, “By the way, how do you know the name of this little flower?”

He didn’t reply. He briefly stood behind her and then turned back. With his back straight, he quickened his pace. She was looking at his back with a curious expression.

She was holding a small and cute blue flower that her lover used to bring to her windowsill every day.

***

The bathroom was covered with a long stretch of unobtrusive fabric. The jewelry hung in the cloudy moisture that filled the bathroom. The high table had vases, bottles of oil, and soaps. The humid air was filled with a gentle mixture of fresh scents.

This was the bathroom of the West Palace. In the middle of the bathroom was a large bath.

The bath was filled with water at a moderate temperature, and there were petals sprinkled on the water as decorations. Oran sat in the bath brimming over with water soaking, with only her shoulders bare.

“Haaaa…”

Oran leaned back against the edge of the bath, leaned her head back fully and lay it on the floor outside the bath. Her mouth open in a gasp, she shook. Then she moaned.

“Ahhhh… . ”

Oran moaned. She closed her eyes as if she was savoring something. As if it wasn’t enough just to lower her eyelids, she wanted to bring her eyes down to a spot where she could not reached.

Oran shook her head. The bathtub water rippled around her fingertips. Some of the petals that floated in the bath sank down, succumbing to the ripples.

“Oh my god…”

Her coquettish voice sounded like a sob. She eventually couldn’t stand it and reached out to grab the railings of the bath tightly.

Carried away with immense pleasure, her body shook.

The moment she burst into ecstasy, Dukwol rose from beneath the water’s surface with a splash.

Hot water drops splashed on the floor with his rough breathing.

He violently shook hair free of water and swept it up with both hands. Water drops flowed down his firm muscles.

Dukwol said, looking at her with his dark eyes, “Your are always sweet!”

He licked his lips and approached Oran.

Immersed in ecstasy, she was barely hanging on to the bath’s railing, feeling like a limp noodle.

Dukwol put one of his sturdy arms under her slender body and embraced her.

She said, “You’re the best all the time!”

Oran laid his hand on his chest. Touching his hard chest, she felt a sense of infinite happiness. Oran wrapped her legs around his waist. He supported Oran’s slender waist with one arm and caressed her full bust with the other.

For a while, the sound of splashing water echoed in the bath.

After they had passionate sex, they lay in the bath in the afterglow.. The temperature of the bath remained just right as the court ladies changed out the water constantly, taking care not to disturb their masters’ enjoyment.

There was no paradise like this to them when they soaked themselves, surrounded by the warm steam. As he now felt fully relaxed, Dukwol began to bring up the topic slowly.

“I hear the Crown Princess came out of the East Palace finally.”

“Did she come out? How long did she stay there?”

Counting the date, she pressed his bare chest with her fingers.

“Looks like eleven or so days. It’s amazing that she slept together with the Crown Prince in his icy room. ”

“Well, I am not sure if she really slept with him or not.”

“You don’t know? Really?”

In her mind, the couple lived in the same place for several days. Accordingly, it was natural that they made lover during that period. Oran’s question made him curious more about Bipaan’s relationship with Kyosul.

Oran, who terribly hated Kyosul from their first meeting, glared when he mentioned her name. Although the West Palace was wary and kept an eye on the East Palace, there was something more about Oran’s attitude toward Kyosul. As Dukwol also knew how Oran felt about Kyosul, he watched Kyosul more carefully.

Dukwol leaned his head toward her ears. The court ladies in the bathroom were from the West Palace, but he felt he wanted to take extra caution. Especially when it came to the most secret and important secret about the East Palace, he was extremely cautious.

“The Crown Prince already knows.”

While he whispered into her ear, he bit her earlobe gently.

Oran burst into laughter quickly and splashed him with water.

After she made sure that their conversation would be seen as a leisurely bathing play, she wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered, “What do you mean the Crown Prince knows? Have you boasted to him about my sexual skills?”

“How could I talk about my sexual pleasure with you to another man?”

Then he grabbed her hair and pulled hard, forcing her to bend her neck backwards and making her moan.

Deukwol lifted her and kissed her lips. Quickly stopping her nonsense in a rough and sensual manner, he spoke with his lips touching hers.

“The Crown Prince already knows about the dirty relationship of Prince Ruhae and Crown Princess Kyosul.”

“That’s impossible!” Oran shouted in surprise. She slapped the surface of the water and splashed it noisily.

“As you know, Bipaan went to the trouble of going to the East Palace to care for Kyosul in person, right? How could he do that knowingly? How could such a cold-hearted man do that?”

With a smile, though, Dukwol called her in a low tone, which was scary enough to make her lower her voice. With a sullen face, she pouted and wrapped her hands around his neck and buried her face in his chest.

“How could he ignore his wife’s infidelity, which could certainly be his liability? How could he do that?”

“Yeah, that’s my question. I just wonder if he has done that. He’s a totally different man.”

In fact, Dukwol had been suspicious about Bipaan’s actions on Mt. Mokka.

Based on his longtime observation of Bipaan, he should have kicked the Crown Princess out if it was certain that her actions would stand in the way of his succession of the throne even if she was his official wife, but he didn’t.