Record of Mad Love

Even though she closed her eyes, she couldn’t sleep. This wasn’t new, but in the last few days, it had gotten worse. Somehow, the bed today felt hard on her back.

Jin Ye, who eventually couldn’t fall asleep, sat up. It seemed like Yeon Mugeon was clearly rooted down inside her head.

A man that got on her nerves.

He could do nothing because he was illiterate, and perhaps because he had nothing to lose, he didn’t know how to value his life. The kind of person she had never seen anywhere before.

“Please promise me you will let me leave a marking on your body, Your Majesty.”

In addition, his impertinence soared up high to the sky.

“Marking, isn’t that funny…”

Name seal, marking.

Such things might sound romantic to somebody, but only those with a utopian head would think so. Jin Ye was someone who had been early to witness that cruelty with her own eyes.

When the previous emperor, who cursed her by saying ‘a woman can’t be a supreme ruler; you will only become a tyrant,’ had his head cut with Seoyeob’s sword, the empress next to him also ended up dead. That woman undoubtedly didn’t want to die. However, when the previous emperor’s neck was cut, blood also gushed out of the empress’s neck. It was due to the essential phenomenon that followed after a marking.

The proposition of dying on the same day at the same time couldn’t be modified with a beautiful expression of growing old together. If one died painfully, their marked lover would also get the same pain.

Why should she share her pain with her lover? Such a thing was crazy. It was worthless to stand that.

The reason Yeon Mugeon could recklessly say such a word was obviously because he didn’t think much. The type of people she detested most.

Recalling the person’s name that was inscribed on her shoulder, Jin Ye suddenly furrowed her brows. She felt as if her body had become dirty. However, because it couldn’t be washed away with water, she had no other choice than to hope for him to die.

Correction, he would surely die.

As he had gone to Eupju, the probability of him surviving was nonexistent. It had been a few days, so he might have been immediately surrounded by numerous ikjaes as he was bitten, getting eaten by them down to his bones.

Jin Ye tried hard to suppress her thoughts from wandering. Seoyeob would surely take care of him, so it was okay for her to be at ease.

Then,

Creak, creak…

She noticed a presence approaching beyond the quiet door. They tried their best to hide their footsteps so that they wouldn’t get noticed, but the old floor let out some sounds.

Jin Ye saw the shadow reflected near the door moved then she said,

“Who’s there?”

“Have you woken up, Your Majesty?”

The voice of Eunuch Park, slightly surprised by Jin Ye’s question, rang behind the door. It seemed like he thought she had woken up because of the sounds of his footsteps. Because that wasn’t the case, Jin Ye didn’t scold him. Instead, she pressured him to get the answer she wanted.

“I asked who’s there.”

“Just now, Marquis Jo has entered the palace.”

Marquis Jo referred to Jo Seoyeob. People normally called him that because he had the marquis title. Just in time, another shadow appeared in front of the door.

“Come in.”

At Jin Ye’s order, the door was opened. After Seoyeob appeared while bowing his head, the door closed back.

Thud.

Seoyeob glanced at Jin Ye’s toes as she sat on the bed, and when that sound rang, he carefully lifted his head. Originally, no one was allowed to meet the emperor’s eyes without the emperor’s order, but it had been specifically allowed for Seoyeob.

Jin Ye straightened up her back and asked,

“How is it going with Yeon Mugeon?”

“I couldn’t see his death because I was in a hurry to leave.”

As Eupju was the most dangerous spawning ground of the ikjaes, he had to bear great risk just by stepping in there even for a short moment. Not only did every ikjae have abilities, but all of their abilities were also generally exceeded humans’. In addition, because they also had wings, it was difficult to escape once caught inside their sight.

It was around 300 years ago when they appeared.

The evil god controlled the monster born from eating her lover, and the area was swept away immediately. The place where the first ikjae bred its species alone was none other than Eupju.

Afterward, the ikjaes started to spread out and began to spawn again.

The criteria for them to take root were precisely unknown. However, because they mostly settled areas where many people lived, the damage wasn’t trivial.

For 300 years, humans continued to wage war, and currently, the ikjaes’ numbers have decreased slightly. Nevertheless, some neighboring nations lost to ikjae and their whole dynasties collapsed. The other nations also spent a large amount of power in order to stop the ikjaes.