A Kind Goblin's Bird

“On the way to Mang Mountain, there is so much blood that there is still plenty of blood left over even when it is lit up, so let’s not use the blood of an innocent person. Did you understand?”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

“Open it.”

The gates were opened on both sides.

What kind of face will the Prince have? Sa Heon-Young was very much looking forward to it.

However, the Prince completely betrayed his expectations. He was drooling and snoring, drunk and asleep. And beside him, the naked Crown Princess was trembling with the sheet. As if she had been subjected to harsh things, her whole body was in a mess, not like a noble status. The handprints were white and bloodstained on her slender body, and semen was clinging to her.

Sa Heon-yeong closed the door with his own hands. He felt that the men who were about to follow them stopped, but they obeyed Sa Heon-yeong’s will and knelt outside the sliding door again.

Sa Heon-yeong approached the crown Princess and knelt down on one knee.

“Your Highness.”

“…… King Mun.”

The Crown Princess knew that Sa Heon-yeong was the twin of the Crown Prince. This was because the Crown Prince often bad joked her, like letting Sa Heon-yeong assault her to humiliate the Crown Princess.

“What happened to your clothes?”

The Crown Princess shook her head. The Prince did not allow his wife to appear even a little dignified in front of him. When he married her, he stripped her off, wrapped her in a blanket, and brought her to the bed. The Crown Princess once could not overcome this disgrace and cut off her wrist. It was a disgrace that was hard to bear for a woman of high-ranking in the Sun Dynasty.

“Your Highness.”

“Yes, King Moon.”

“Look carefully at my face.”

As the Crown Princess hesitated, she looked up at Sa Heon-yeong’s face.

“After Friday night, I will ascend to the throne.…… Do you know what that means?”

“…….”

The Princess’ eyes widened and her mouth gaped open. As she looked at him, when he came to the bedroom in the middle of the night, she didn’t even think that Sa Heon-yeong was rebelling.

“You decide now. What would you like to do? If you want to leave the palace, I will prepare a body now and replace it. Then you will be free. I do not know for sure whether the Princess, who does not know anything, will be able to get through the world well. Or there is a way to become an accomplice to this brother-in-law’s treason.”

“Treason…….”

The Crown Princess murmured like a fool. Just one word, it was a word that crushed her heart just by muttering it. Sa Heon-yeong nodded his head.

“Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and ten years from now, Your Highness will still be the Crown Princess, and after that, you will rise to the throne of the Empress. But I’m Your Highness’ brother-in-law and we know that for sure. Your Highness will be alone until the day of her death. Of course I will save your face.”

“…….”

“I have become unable to hold a woman for my own reasons, so I am no different. It would be very painful for you to live your whole life as a woman of a man who can’t hold you. I’m sorry for making you make such a heavy decision, but I don’t have much time.”

Although he said two paths, Sa Heon-yeong knew well what the Crown Princess would choose.

She had a son. She had only one way in the first place. Of course she could take her son and go out into the wide world, but it would be too much for the fragile woman.

The Princess bit her lip for a moment. She closed her eyes and shook her body. Then she opened her eyes and looked back at the Prince who had raped and assaulted her and fell asleep. Sa Heon-yeong did not miss seeing the hate flashing through her fearful eyes.

The Crown Princess whispered.

“One, there is a condition.”

“Tell me.”

“Never again, never again shall he come back. Can you do that? If you do that, this body will become the wife of His Highness King Mun, or even of His Highness the Crown Prince. When the sun comes up, I will return to my palace as if nothing had happened, and I will not speak about this to anyone, and until the day I die, I will bury this night in my heart and live as the Crown Princess.”

‘Will you recognize him as your son when I’m deposed?’

There’s nothing wrong with the Crown Princess. It’s just that the Crown Princess doesn’t love the Prince. And Sa Heon-yeong’s wife loved him. The love was too much for Sa Heon-yeong to receive. His sick chest throbbed like a seizure again.

Sa Heon-young got up. He took the Prince’s red robe and placed it over the Prince’s head. The Princess fled herself to the very corner of the bed.

He got the body up. He strode to the door and opened the door.

“Fill the prison with water.”

The command was simple, but the implied meaning was terrifying. Who was he going to imprison in that prison? No one said yes, just bowed their heads.

*

“Did the Prince come to greet me? What is up with that drunkard these days?”

The Empress had a smile on her face.

Today, the Prince has changed. He doesn’t drink and he doesn’t kill people. The banquet held every night was also cut off. It was said that the light of the study did not go out until late at night, and that only slept with the crown Princess on the designated union day. It was said that he didn’t act unpredictably with the Princess, but, accordingly, went to the Princess’ bedroom by himself, and after the union was over, he returned to his bedroom. Compared to the previous Prince, he lived a life almost like a monk.

As a result, the complexion of the Princess also improved day by day. She seemed like a person waiting for her death every day, but now she’s as lively as the girl from the days of running around in the flower garden. When the consort’s palace was established, the promiscuousness in the concubinage was also corrected at once. She was a woman who had been educated from her childhood to become a concubine of the Prince. She resolutely cracked down on the underlings.

As if all the turmoil in the past was a lie, the Crown Prince’s Palace was advancing without hesitation in the tailwind. The Prince’s adjustment also stabilized in an instant.

She couldn’t stand her proudness. Yes, this is my child. The Empress believed. The Prince just wandered a little. Some fools say that the Prince and the goblin are reversed, but hey, she is their mother, how can she not recognize her child?

Her own child was her only son.

“Prince, welcome.”

“Greetings to my mother.”

The Prince knelt down on his knees, and the Empress hurriedly raised the Prince.

“Don’t do this, Prince. What a strange thing to your mother…….”

The Empress did not raise the Prince, but opened her eyes wide.

The features are very similar. She knew, because it’s always been the same

“You…….”

But the Empress never, she swore, never confuses her son with the goblin.

Why is the goblin wearing her son’s clothes and pretending to be her son in her son’s place?

If the goblin is like this, where is her son?

The Empress’s face was distorted.

“You…… !”

At that moment, Sa Heon-yeong’s hand moved.

It moved so fast, and the attendants kept their heads down, so they couldn’t see it properly. Sa Heon-yeong’s finger plucked exactly somewhere on the Empress’s neck. The pain was so strong that for a moment the Empress staggered her body. Sa Heon-yeong said, “Mother, be careful,” and embraced her. And he whispered in her ear.

“Yes, it is me, Mother.”

The Empress opened her mouth, but couldn’t say anything, euph, euph. No words came out. What happened? Why can’t she speak? The Empress was desperately trying to speak. But no matter how hard she tried to squeeze her voice out, it was no use.

“It is of no use. You had a blood clot. Simpler than cutting off your tongue. It takes some skill.”

Heup,…… Ooph! The Empress tried to hit Sa Heon-yeong. Then Sa Heon-yeong flicked somewhere with his fingers, tak, tak, tak, and the Empress’s body stiffened like a log. Her body, unable to give strength, collapsed as it was, but Sa Heon-yeong firmly grabbed her and prevented her from collapsing on the floor. But maybe she’d rather fall to the floor.

Sa Heon-yeong, drowsily, imitated her son’s voice in her ears.

“Mother took everything from my wife, but I can’t do that. The grace of giving birth to me is great, how can I do that? So I will live like your son.”

The Empress’s enlarged eyes stared at Sa Heon-yeong. What about her son? Her eyes were asking so.

“He became a fish. I will raise it in a fishbowl.”

And Mother.

Sa Heon-young continued.

“Well, since you have been praised for your beautiful hair colour, wouldn’t it be better to be a doll? What do you think, Mother?”

Eup, Eup-.

The Empress looked at Sa Heon-yeong’s face with a languid smile, and she desperately opened her mouth. She should scream. She must drive out this goblin. Any one. Look at me, any one! But no one raises their head.

Her limbs keep getting stiff. It was as if it was dead but alive. The Empress’s face was distorted by the terrible and disgusting feeling. Sa Heon-yeong’s smile deepened even more as he looked at her face with tears streaming down her face.

*

And that night, in an abandoned mansion.

Twinkle, Song Young-young opened her eyes.