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No one acted like children here. Even royal children behaved like solemn and anxious elders.
Red flag
To enter the palace means to walk a path stained in blood, our medical teachers had whispered. There will be bloodshed. I only hope it will not be yours.
The time will come soon, I’d overheard a palace nurse say once, when the Crown Prince will be put to death, either by the hands of the Old Doctrine faction or his own father.
“I am told your birth name is Baek-hyeon.”
Baekhyunnniiieeee?? Hahahahaha
“In the palace, you speak with a loud voice only when your words are public words; you must whisper when speaking private words. Everyone is listening in the palace. Everyone is spying for someone.”
Where had the real Prince Jangheon disappeared to?
Perhaps the palace had grown too ordinary for a prince fond of the unconventional. Perhaps he had wandered outside, even though that was forbidden—no royal was permitted to leave the palace without the king’s permission.
Fear had never felt so tiring as it did today; I was exhausted.
I would not love, unless I was loved first and loved the most. I would be nothing at all, if I could not be first.
They didn’t like me, for they thought themselves above me.
“It seems there is always someone in the family determined to drive us mad.”
“I promise. I promise on my father’s grave that nothing you tell me will ever be turned against you.” And in that moment, I felt a strange feeling. I trusted him.
Sometimes—oftentimes—we cannot do both what is right and also please those around us.”
No matter how hard you try to preserve yourself, every important decision in life will come with a price. It will come with regrets.”
It is those you love that make a wretched life worth living.”
I wanted to love and be loved. I wanted to be known. I wanted to be understood and accepted.
She does not know how to love. It does not mean that she does not love at all.
We must value the lives of others. And those that are most vulnerable are the most precious of all. We are uinyeos, Hyeon-ah. We must protect.”
“There is only you.” His words caressed me, winding themselves around my soul. “There will only ever be you. I promise, Hyeon-ah.”
