
Step by step the princess Quan Ling stepped out her feet, with a crumbling feeling she was trying to penetrate the cold night piercing the bones. He continued to force himself to swing his steps with that pain.
However, all of those feelings were not comparable to the pain in his heart. He had never imagined this long, and in his lifetime he would fall for a man who turned out to be a murderer.
"Let'soooooo!"
The screams of princess Quan Ling shook the silence of the night, the wind blowing as if to accompany her in the turmoil.
"Why? Why should I love you Kim Yung? If I had known you were Zhou Yhan, I would not have left the door of this heart open for you!" Back princess Quan Ling shouted.
That night Quan Ling's daughter felt her life was so empty, half of her soul seemed to have gone from her. The raging feeling made him unguided, drop by drop a clear feather fell rolling past his cheek.
Princess Quan Ling was sitting lethargic with a face radiating disappointment, her heart was as sick as it was slashed with a million wounds in it. His blank gaze was fixed far ahead, as if waiting for someone to appear.
Due to her chaotic mood the beautiful woman was unaware of the presence of Queen Mother Yan Yikhu who stepped towards her with great care, because she did not want her favorite daughter-in-law to be surprised and away from her. Even the group of soldiers who were with him were forced to wait a little further from his position.
“My daughter, forgive your mother for all the wrongs my son has done,” Queen Mother Yan Yikhu said as she stood beside princess Quan Ling.
Sontak made Quan Ling's daughter startled as she looked up at the middle-aged woman's face that was soothing to her heart. Instantly princess Quan Ling wiped away the tears that were still welling up on her eyelids. Slowly princess Quan Ling stood up and hugged her Mother-in-law.
“Mother, hiks... hiks...,” the cry of princess Quan Ling back in the warm embrace of the Mother-in-law.
“I know, my son must have done something to hurt your heart, so forgive me..” Queen Mother Yan Yikhu said by stroking the young woman's head.
Hearing her mother-in-law's words suddenly made Princess Quan Ling break her embrace, staring intensely at the Queen Mother's face with various questions twitching inside her head.
“What's right, my husband is my father's killer?”
PAUSEARR!
Like being struck by lightning when the Queen Mother heard the question coming out of her daughter-in-law's mouth, she never thought that princess Quan Ling would ask her that. Queen mother Yan Yikhu looked puzzled and began to fidget what answer she should give.
“A-what do you mean, son?” Why are you asking like that?”
“I just want to know about the truth of that information, so I beg you to answer honestly and remember not to have anything covered up,” replied princess Quan Ling with a still fixed look on her mother-in-law's face.
Seeing such a sharp gaze from her daughter-in-law made Queen Mother Yan Yikhu feel that lying was not the right choice for the current situation because surely princess Quan Ling would be able to figure it out. So he must inevitably say the truth.
“True, son, the king of Shan Hua was indeed killed and that too by my own son, Zhou Yhan.”
“But, just so you know, my husband was also killed by your father,” continued Queen Mother Yan Yikhu with a look of sadness.
And it made Princess Qan Ling lower her face, in fact she also understood how her Mother-in-law was feeling at this moment. Of course a feeling that is not okay, but he still tries to make peace with the situation. Instantly Princess Quan Ling turned her face and turned her back to Queen Mother Yan Yikhu.
“I'm sorry Mom, but I have to go,’’ said princess Quan Ling.
“What do you mean?” the queen mother asked slightly squinting one eye.
“Yes, Mother, I must go because I can no longer live with a husband who turns out to be my father's killer,” Princess Quan Ling said by closing her drooping eyelids.
Not playing how shocked the Queen Mother was when she heard her daughter-in-law's answer, she quickly turned the body of princess Quan Ling and looked at her sharply,.
“Do you want to leave your mother?” ask the middle-aged woman, but it still looks so beautiful, “if you can't stay as a daughter-in-law, then stay as a child, because I have considered you as my own daughter,”
Princess Quan Ling was again bowed when she heard her Mother-in-law's words, honestly deep in her heart she did not want to make the woman disappointed and sad. Before Quan Ling's daughter could answer, the queen mother resumed her words
“I beg you to stay here and never think about leaving and if until all that happens then I will definitely choose to end my own life.
“No Mom, don't say that,” between Quan Ling's daughter, she felt she couldn't bear to add to the suffering in her mother-in-law's life.
“Then, let's come back with me.”
“But Ma'am. I miss my mother so much, I'm so eager to meet her.”
“Alright, I will accompany you to go see your mother, but.. You must promise to come back with me to stay in my palace.”.
“But Bu...,”
Queen mother Yan Yikhu crouched down in front of princess Quan Ling with a compassionate look she said, “I beg you not to leave my son, he desperately needs your affection to change his personality.”
“Alright Ma'am, I will remain with you but not for His Majesty the king, but only for you.”
The two hands of princess Quan Ling grabbed both of her Mother-in-law's shoulders and asked her to stand up, a smile rising on her dry lips. Then Queen Mother Yan Yikhu led Princess Quan Ling towards the palanquin and the soldiers who were always on standby.
Prince Shin Haein smiled as soon as he saw his mother coming with his sister-in-law, from the beginning he had thought that his mother would definitely succeed in persuading his sister-in-law. After cleaning the blood marks on the wounds on the legs of princess Quan Ling first then they again continue the journey to King Huan's kingdom.