Record of Mad Love

Jinye moved her feet slowly in the room where only two people left. Soon after, when the sound of other people’s footsteps outside stopped and complete silence came, she looked carefully at the kneeling Mugeon with her eyes down. She could see that Mugeon’s shoulders were so tense as if he was nervous.

With the small sound of her feet pressing down on the floor, Jin Ye moved slowly like an eagle that was spinning above and looking around before biting its prey.

When she first saw him, she didn’t realize it because she didn’t pay attention in this way, but Mugeon’s body was quite shaped. He would not have been trained anywhere, but the trapezius muscles looked quite firm, and the muscles of the arms were as developed as any other military officers.

As she came to think of it, he indeed looked a little bigger when standing side by side with Seoyeob. Although she did not measure it properly, he looked taller than six feet tall through eye measurement.

He might be a pretty useful guy if he learned sword or spear. While having such a thought, she suddenly found a body wrapped in a bandage between loose clothes. Jin Ye gently pressed his neck with her slender fingertips, moving down and pushed his collar.

“…”

Mugeon jerked slightly and took a big breath once he came to touch with a slightly cool body temperature. Nevertheless, he didn’t resist it. Resisting Jin Ye’s touch? Such a thing was impossible.

As the fingers grazed past the neck and began to slide down the shoulder through the trapezius muscle, a faint tremor occurred in Mugeon’s body. Looking at that, Jin Ye pulled up the corner of her lips, smirked.

“What are you expecting?”

Mugeon knew he was being played, but he offered his frank opinion. It was an irresistible impulse.

“Your touch is really strange, Your Majesty.”

It wouldn’t be this ticklish even if dozens of ants crept on him. Upon hearing the answer, Jin Ye completely revealed one side of his body.

Perhaps because he got a lot of sun, his inner skin was a little dark as well. Perhaps for that reason, his body looked healthier.

However, his solid body was trembling faintly under her small hand. Mugeon’s expression was also stiff enough to notice his nervousness.

A man whose both mouth and body were honest.

“Seems like you have never enjoyed a woman’s touch?”

Following the question, Mugeon nodded as if it were natural.

“You are the only woman I have ever had in my heart, Your Majesty. Even in the future… it will stay that way.”

In fact, at this point, this answer from Mugeon became natural to Jin Ye. Blindness, tenacity. This kind of tough man was the first for her.

However, those things actually wouldn’t be very helpful to the individual in life. The reason was looking at only one thing meant that it was easy to be swayed by that one thing.

And Jin Ye intended to use it to her heart’s content from now on. The answer to how to do it easily came up. All she had to do was follow the set path. If she could reduce the undesirable variable, she could make the man in front of her her servant.

Then, as she did that, she would find a chance to stab a knife into Prince Hwa, who tried to do something to her by using this man for some reason.

Expecting such a future, Jin Ye stopped her steps behind Mugeon’s back.

“Take off your top and unwrap your bandage.”

Mugeon heavily moved his Adam’s apple up and down. After swallowing his saliva and breathing out a long breath, he took off his top and untied the knot in the bandage.

Although it was a burden because his internal injury was not completely healed, he obediently followed what she said. Still, he didn’t want to show Jin Ye a bad appearance. Mugeon, being worried if there were any scars that stood out on his body while taking off the bandages, soon breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, his upper body was apparently fine. There was a deep cut on his right wrist, which was cut while loosening the rope tying his wrists in Eupju, but it was not a place that stood out, so it looked better than having it on his body by his standards.

The bandages wrapped from under his chest to around his abdomen scattered and fell to the floor. Mugun, who revealed his clean upper body, asked first rather than waiting for the next order.

“What should I do now?”

In truth, it was because of impatience. He wanted to hold Jin Ye in his arms as soon as possible. For he was about to go mad at the scent of her body.

Of course it had nothing to do with Jin Ye. Although Jin Ye well predicted what he felt, she tested Mugeon’s patience that wasn’t deep. She changed the topic.

“I have a question. How did you survive from the ikjaes?”

“… Are you curious about the way I survived or are you expressing doubt that I survived?”

“If I say both, how will you answer it?”

Mugeon thought over his answer. This was because his value was likely to be determined depending on the answer. Even so, no aureate came to mind. There was only one way to explain why and how he came out alive.

“I got an odd chance.”

“An odd chance…”

Jin Ye, who repeated the words told by Mugeon, had a bad feeling for some reason.

She thought it was obvious that Yeon Mugeon would have not survived if it wasn’t for things that great, but after hearing the answer, she felt very uneasy.

An odd chance that could make him escape from the ikjaes.

Shadow was cast on Jin Ye’s red eyes and the color became darker. It might be only her feelings, but she felt like her shoulders where the name seal was inscribed were getting stiff. Now, the three characters of Yeon Mugeon’s name were being stamped deeply as if someone seared it with a hot iron. It was like it was going to be engraved on her bone.

If she guessed right, it was around the time when Mugeon was expected to arrive in Eupju that the name seal got darker like that.

Jin Ye asked again to grasp the reality of the ominous premonition that was starting to creep up.

“What kind of odd chance was it?”

She hid her rare flustered feelings.

“I don’t know well what kind of ability it was. However…”

“Don’t you dare try to hide it from me.”

Jin Ye intervened right when Mugeon was pondering how far he should tell her. Mugeon inevitably said it in the scope he could express.

“The ikjae was burned to death.”

“…”

Jin Ye thought it was fortunate that she was standing behind Yeon Mugeon at this time. It was due to the fact that she couldn’t completely control her expression.

The ikjae was burned to death.

Jin Ye clearly understood what that meant.

So, is this God’s answer to her trying to get rid of her fated person?

The shackle of the name seal that was so persistent, couldn’t be escaped by no one. There was something called an occasional harmony effect in it. Originally, it was an essential phenomenon that occurred among those who were imprinted to each other, but sometimes it occurred without imprinting.

The harmony effect was fundamentally a phenomenon in which a part of a fated individual was taken as if it were copied as it was to another one. In fact, it didn’t play a very important part in everyday life. This was because they mostly came to have the same taste or have the same lifestyle. Occasionally, irreversible side effects such as suffering from incurable diseases and changing in reproductive functions occurred, but in general, it was not a big problem.

However,

“So you killed all the ikjaes and escaped?”

In fact, even killing an ikjae was difficult for the general people. That was why the nations constantly invested a lot of resources to fight a war against the ikjaes.

And the one who did best in doing that war was the Hwan Empire.

The reason was nothing else. It was because of the presence of Jin Ye.

“It’s not that…”

“Then?”

Jin Ye asked back involuntarily. Fortunately, Mugeon didn’t seem to think there was any other significance to her question. It meant that he had not yet guessed that what he had experienced was a harmony effect.

“The Ikjae with the evil god on their back pushed me out of Eupju.”

Jin Ye’s expression turned stiff, although in conclusion it was not a big deal.

His explanation made it clear. There was a harmony effect between them.

This was because the ability to burn and kill Ikjae was originally an odd chance obtained by Jin Ye a long time ago.

On her crown princess days, when her father finally exiled herself, who was an eyesore to him, Ikjae attacked her. Fortunately, just before her death, Jin Ye obtained the said ability and slaughtered the ikjaes. She returned to the capital right away and seized the throne.

For Jin Ye, it was a curious chance that brought her the turning point in her life. But Yeon Mugeon also experienced it, right in front of death’s door.

The harmony effect did not mean much in itself, but there were other reasons why it had a deep meaning among fated individuals.

“Is my answer enough?”

Yeon Mugeon suddenly raised his head and looked at Jin Ye. Jin Ye quickly hid her expression and nodded.

“… It’s enough.”

However, she was complicated inside.

Is this guy born with luck…?

She had no choice but to think like that on her own. The reason was she had regarded that it was fine as long as she didn’t get imprinted with the man in front of her eyes, but seemed like it wasn’t the case.

There was an incidental to the harmony effect, which was that the fated individuals had the same lifespan.

In other words, it meant that Jin Ye could no longer kill Yeon Mugeon.

This was unexpected for her as well.

The curse of the name seal had begun in earnest.

Fortunately, Yeon Mugeon didn’t seem to have guessed it, but it was only a matter of time before he found out.

And Mugeon, who just emerged as the most meddlesome person in Jin Ye’s life, couldn’t hold his temper any longer and provoked her.

“Then how much of my value has been proved?”

“Your value?”

Mugeon propped his body and slowly rose to his feet. Then, he, who quickly raised his eye level, looked intently at Jin Ye and moved his lips.

“You said it last time. You’ll admit a little of my value if I survived from Eupju.”

Indeed, he did not make a single mistake in expressing what Jin Ye had said. Jin Ye closed her mouth. Mugeon approached Jin Ye one step closer and asked.

“Is there any reward for acknowledging my value a little?”

The two became so close that it would not be strange if their lips immediately touched. Jin Ye calmly watched him tilt his head slowly and tried to calm his unruly reason.

“… Yeon Mugeon.”

But it didn’t work.

“Can I hug you?”

What Mugeon said was not a question. He didn’t even wait for her answer and locked Jin Ye in his arms.