Record of Mad Love

“I’m back.”

“…”

Jin Ye’s thin brows wriggled. Mugeon then added.

“Welcome me.”

Jin Ye was amazed by the imposing demand that sounded like he had entrusted his possession.

The waist that was still not bowed and eyes that looked straight at her. Everyone, even her brother, Prince Hwa, was kneeling in front of her, but Yeon Mugeon daringly looked at her head-on.

Looking at him scratching her nerves from the corner, Jin Ye slowly creased her forehead. Then, she suddenly found a bandage shown between Mugeon’s clothes.

Injuries.

It had been more than a month since she ordered Yeon Mugeon to be thrown. There was no doubt that Seoyeob would have taken and abandoned him in Eupju. However, Mugeon got out of there safely and stood in front of her on two feet like this.

It was just that he was not in a good condition…

Is that why Prince Hwa brought him in front of me this late? Does it really mean that he has survived from the Ikjae through some kind of method?

Exactly, how?

While continuing her rambling thoughts, Jin Ye felt the gaze of those who began to be wary of her reaction. Among them, Jin Pyeong was especially observing Jin Ye. Thanks to this, she was able to escape from her thoughts at once.

Jin Ye lifted her chin slowly and looked at Mugeon. Then, she threw the words he wished for.

“Alright, it’s quite nice to meet you.”

She meant it. At least Yeon Mugeon was a pretty interesting creature for her.

He was a new class that was completely out of the various human groups she had classified. A guy without any malicious intent, and only faithful to his instincts. Therefore, he was a guy that she couldn’t force to stay calm with the methods she had been using all this time.

The same was true this time.

“I kept my promise that I would come back.”

“So?”

“Now, it’s your… Your Majesty’s turn.”

Mugeon almost made a mistake in addressing her because he wasn’t used to it, but fortunately he corrected it. It was a minor mistake, but Jin Ye already knew it.

The status of an emperor meant nothing to Yeon Mugeon anyway. He wasn’t the kind of person who cared about things like that.

However, one had to dance according to politics and the law in the Imperial Palace. She had to teach him that slowly from now on. Thus, she had to tame that wild fellow with her own hands.

That was unless she could avoid this damned fate of the name seal.

Hence, Jin Ye brought up the question she asked the first time they met again.

“Then, will you lick my feet?”

Everyone was silent, but the vulgar words on the emperor’s lips made the surrounding atmosphere turn strange. Someone stopped breathing and lowered their head deeper as if they were even embarrassed to hear that.

Even Mugeon, who was tactless, seemed to have felt the strange atmosphere properly and moved his eyes to look slowly next to him. Then, his eyes met with Prince Hwa Jin Pyeong. At that moment, Jin Pyeong nodded softly. As if asking why he didn’t quickly accept it.

Jin Ye, of course, saw that signal, but she didn’t take back her words. The emperor would never change their words. Therefore, she waited for the next word from Mugeon. Soon after, Mugeon, who looked at Jin Ye again, bowed his head. There was a moment of hesitation in the next word.

“… If you give me a chance.”

“If I give you a chance?”

Mugeon breathed deeply. Then he continued his answer in a straight voice.

“That was my wish from the moment I saw you, Your Majesty.”

In other words, zest for lechery.

Not only was it very disloyal, but it was also insidious and dirty. However, Mugeon said that very calmly and naturally. Jin Ye managed to stop herself from laughing out loud. Then she turned her steps first and looked at the soldier who was guarding the palace gate.

“That person is my fated person.”

Her declaration briefly shook people around her.

The emperor’s fated person.

At a first glance, it was obvious that he was a man who didn’t even know about courtesy. It was clear that he was a humble man who was not an aristocrat and had never even received a government post. However, the existence of the emperor’s fated person itself may cause crustal disturbances within the palace. No, it would surely happen.

But that storm was stopped through Jin Ye’s short words.

“Let him in.”

Then she led her people over the threshold of the imperial palace first.

Inside the door, there was Jo Seoyeob, whose face was pale white, unlike him. As Jin Ye entered, Seoyeob gently moved away and checked Yeon Mugeon outside the door. Finding the dark eyes following Jin Ye’s back, Seoyeob’s face distorted as he could not control himself.

He secretly bit the flesh inside his mouth.

Yeon Mugeon…

It was regrettable that he could not immediately pull his sword because he was in front of the emperor. If it weren’t for that, he would have cut that guy’s carotid artery right away.

“Marquis Jo.”

Seo Yeop was startled by the sudden call. Jin Ye was looking at him.

“Yes.”

Jinye slowly moved her steps as if telling him to follow her and issued her order.

“Bring Yeon Mugeon to my chamber.”

“… Your Majesty.”

Why do you have to give me that order? Seoyeob made eye contact with Jin Ye with that meaning behind. However, Jin Ye, who would have understood the meaning, turned her head as if she feigned ignorance and gave another order to the eunuch next to her.

“I will take a bath, so tell the court ladies to heat up the water.”

Seoyeob’s lips trembled.

He wondered if Jin Ye was going to listen to Yeon Mugeon’s absurd wish.

A terrible imagination began to creep into his head. He felt like his chest would burn just by thinking about it in his head, and his heart felt like it stopped.

For that reason, he realized it. Jin Ye was now asking himself for the crime of not properly handling Yeon Mugeon. In the way that Jo Seoyeob hated the most to boot.

She did not send him to an exile, and she did not remove him from his post. Instead, she pretended to give what he wanted the most into other people’s hands.

That’s absurd. That can’t be true.

While soothing himself, Seoyeob held his sword so tightly that his hand became white because he couldn’t control his trembling hand in the boundless clouds in front of his eyes.

It was the biggest mistake of his life and the worst humiliation that he could not deal with Yeon Mugeon. He wanted to go back to the past and kill his pathetic self.

However, Jin Ye looked at Seoyeob and struck him.

“Why aren’t you answering, Marquis Jo? Do you can’t do it?”

A cruel person.

Seoyeob got suffocated as if blood were pooled in his throat. However, as usual, Jin Ye eventually brought out the answer she wanted out of his mouth.

“… I can, Your Majesty.”

Otherwise, he might be completely abandoned by her. Such things should never have happened.

* * *

Jin Ye’s wet feet stepped on the floor. The floor was cold to walk barefoot because it was in the middle of winter, but Jin Ye did not seem to be cold.

Then she washed her body and changed her clothes. Dressing lightly, free from the heavy formal attire, and finished modestly with a small binyeo, she slowly walked to her chamber.

All of the people, who followed the emperor with quiet steps but busily, seemed nervous.

A man who seemed to be classless appeared as the emperor’s fated person, and even the emperor admitted that he was her fated person with her own mouth.

Furthermore, she even brought him to her chamber.

It was an unusual situation. In the meantime, Jin Ye had never brought a man to her chamber. No, to be exact, it was only allowed to Seoyeob. However, that didn’t mean Seoyeob received imperial grace from her. It was only because Jin Ye trusted him, so she only accepted the agenda brought by Seoyeob everywhere.

Therefore, Yeon Mugeon was clearly the first man brought to the emperor’s bed.

Everyone wondered if Jin Ye would really spend the night with Mugeon today.

The female emperor of the Hwan Empire, which no man could ever look over, Jin Ye. There was no way she would just allow him to do something, but for some reason, she put Mugeon in her room and even took a bath as if she were going to do that thing.

In addition, she took off the formal attire and dressed lightly, looking more beautiful than ever. With the important title of the emperor taken off, she was a beautiful woman that anyone could covet.

Jin Ye’s feet, which finally walked her quarter, did not stop and reached the front of the room where Yeon Mugeon would be. Jo Seoyeob was on standby there.

Jinye glanced at him and asked on purpose.

“How about my fated person?”

Even though she knew he had brought him in properly.

Seoyeob bowed his head and looked down at the floor and answered a beat late.

“He’s inside… Please come in, Your Majesty.”

He didn’t want to say the last words, and it was obvious that he forcefully said it. Despite knowing it, Jin Ye did not comfort him. Instead, she signaled at the eunuch to open the door.

“Here comes Her Majesty the Emperor.”

Drrtk

Simultaneously as the doors were opened to the right and left, Yeon Mugeon’s figure appeared.

In the spacious room, the lamps on all sides were subtly lit, pushing back the darkness, and Mugeon sat with his knees bent there. When Jin Ye appeared through the two doors, he raised his eyes and stared at Jin Ye with dark black eyes.

Not only Seoyeob, but others would have warned him not to look directly at the emperor’s eyes.

Of course, if he kept his head down because of that, it would not be like Yeon Mugeon.

Hence, Jin Ye was pleased and raised the corners of her lips. At that moment, a proper greeting finally came out of Mugeon’s mouth.

“May you be blessed, the Majesty Emperor of the Great Hwan.”

Jinye stepped inside and approached him while stating her order.

“Close the door and everyone steps 50 steps away from this hall.”

As soon as the order was issued, the door was closed again with a loud sound.