Chapter: 870

‘This is the best kind of luxury.’

The Emperor had always been kind to the eldest son, Zhu Taiyoon, but always cruel to the other children.

Therefore, the fact that he’d managed to earn some affection, was already a great achievement.

‘It was the first time he called me son.’

It felt weird.

It was because he was the son of a concubine that the Emperor never called him ‘son’.

“Anyways, until the Dano festival, I just need to recuperate in the palace.”

“Thank goodness. I was worried that Your Highness wouldn’t be able to walk again. Besides... I was nervous as I didn’t know what Lord Chun would do to you.”

Contrary to what had initially been planned, a variable that turned out to be the Emperor, had appeared.

Zhu Taikhan had been worried to death as he could never have guessed that the emperor would come and mess up the whole plan.

In particular, he felt sorry for Yeongjo, the Northern Commander, who was the strongest swordsman in the palace and a close person to him.

Even if he wanted to let him know in advance, the Northern Commander had to escort the Supreme Commander all the time, which had made it impossible to talk to him about the plan, that had been told to them by Chun Yeowun earlier in the morning.

“It would have been nice if these were only broken slightly. Lord Chun is surely good...No, to call him good would be wrong. To be called as... Huh? Southern Commander, why do you look like that?”

Seeing the expression of Zhu Taikhan who was mumbling to himself, Yon Namgun’s face hardened.

“Why are you so stiff?”

“... Your Highness, in front... Your Highness...”

“Front? What could... ugh!”

Zhu Taikhan turned his head without much thought, and his face turned stiff.

Chun Yeowun was standing there looking at him.

It wasn’t like his martial arts skills were low, but the difference between him and Chun Yeowun was too high for him to detect his presence.

“Lord, Lord Chun?”

“I didn’t expect you to think about all those things.”

His voice was low, yet concerned.

‘Ekkk! Even so, it’s the prince’s bedroom, you can’t come up here like you wish!’

He didn’t say it out loud, but he was scared that this man would listen to his thoughts too.

In a cold sweat, Zhu Taikhan waved his hand.

“Ha... hahahaha Lord Chun. I didn’t mean anything by that. Ah! I just wanted to say that with a little less force, the situation would have been resolved easier!”

He made excuses to defend himself.

He could understand why the officials looked dumbfounded at the emperor who declared defeat in front of Chun Yeowun.

He realized that when facing an embarrassing situation, people tend to spit the words and fix the problem.