The Examination of Love for a Princess
Chapter 5's
Alex whistled in his sports clothes, he came out of the room in the residence he was staying with his mother. He will soon be heading to the palace horse race.
"Malalabalala"
"You seem to be happy with my sister" said someone leaning beside her bedroom door.
"Jeez Kyuhyun hyung. You surprised me." said Alex who was shocked.
"Hahahaha is happy to surprise you, because you're usually the one who surprises you"
"Fuck you hyung. Let's sit down first" Alex said, inviting Kyuhyun to sit in the living room. "What's hyung here for? Missed me eoh?"
"Why do I miss you Alex, we meet every day, right?"
"You know hyung?"
"of course. Who doesn't know if there's a new lady in the palace kitchen in your weird style that's hahaha"
"You're hard to fool, but no one knows if I've been undercover for 3 months. Excited hyung toyed around in the kitchen with various dishes but because my disguise Suzy noona messed up and I was punished by my mother massaging it all night until my hands ache"
"You want me to report to the noble king? If all this time you've been playing around, you're not really going to Gangnam to Consort Chang's brother"
"Andwae hyung's. You don't pity me, I've already punished mom. If you knew I would have been banished to the southern palace. Andwae!!"
"Then do me a favor, testify to what you saw and give your weird tools about yesterday's talk at the party"
"What do you mean?"
"Do you want me to report the glorious one right now?"
"Andwae hyung's. All right I'll give you, just don't let the noble know that I've been undercover for 3 months, I don't want to get punished."
"good. I guarantee you won't be punished if I say you were in the palace only yesterday when it happened. How's it?"
"By the way why would you bother to help Suzy noona hyung?"
"She was kind, funny and made us all cheerful. Myungsoo also seemed to like it despite denying it. But my strongest reason is because he's innocent, shouldn't justice be served?"
"Yes, but he loves emotions and violence. If it wasn't for him fighting and not making my fake hair fall off then my disguise would never have been exposed. She's so strong for a woman, I'm not sure Prime Minister Shin's son will be okay receiving that blow"
"Hahaha just tell me the truth in front of the noble so that Suzy is free, and do not play continue. Study seriously. Who knows who the noble king will rethink to make you king in the future"
"Andwae hyung's. Let Myungsoo hyung be the king's candidate, I don't need to be the king because I want to be the palace's greatest chef just like you who are interested in the law department"
"haha"
The underground prisoners
True to her promise, Eunji escorts Sohee to the dungeon to see Suzy who is still confined. Sohee immediately ran when she saw Suzy's detention place in front of her.
"Zy, you're fine here" Sohee said, grabbing Suzy's hand.
"I'm doing fine. After this I must have been killed or maybe sentenced to be thankful if I was kicked out. Didn't I tell Sohee that I'm not talented at being a princess. But you forced me into the palace" Suzy said with a smile.
"We're gonna rescue you and get you out of here. We are brothers so it's hard to be together"
"The Queen mother will not let me be free, especially if the noble daughter yesterday to death. Sohee, if I die, tell my sister that I love her so much"
"Yaaa don't talk that no-no. We're all gonna save you from here. Don't worry" now Eunji mediates the two.
"But Eunji I've made the son of the palace officials seriously injured. Is that forgivable? It must have made the palace image bad."
"You did so in defense of Zy's mother, whom the noble will surely understand. I'll talk to him" Sohee said.
"I'm not sure. My punch must have hurt him so hard. I'm resigned to Sohee, Eunji to my fate that's been like this"
"Zy, yesterday's incident wasn't entirely your fault. You take it easy even if I can't help because I'm a lady-in-waiting but the others will try to help you."
Palace library.
Everyone gathers here except Sohee and Eunji, who are still being held underground, accompany Suzy. Kyuhyun and Miura were already sitting up, Myungsoo was still thinking while Sungjong was trying to cross out the idea of paper. They were thinking hard about how to help Susy get free from the fight yesterday afternoon.
"Aigo are we just gathering to keep quiet" Miura grumbled annoyedly as she kicked the table, and looked at the three men sitting with her.
"Why are you worried, baby? We are thinking about the best idea to help him" Kyuhyun said casually.
"Good idea what you mean. We clearly don't know what to do? Eunji was threatened by the queen mother last night, Sohee will not necessarily be trusted the noble because she was only a few months in the palace. How then? If Suzy gets kicked out, and Sohee will definitely get kicked out. I so don't have any more brothers in the palace, they're pretty fun your huwa sucks"
"Hyung, what if we ask for help from the ladies because if we ask for help from other officials' children it seems too risky" Sungjong said while still doodling papers.
"Why are you all confused. There's a younger brother that I'm going to make the last weapon, so you guys don't worry too much. Let Sohee give her testimony first" Kyuhyun said with a mysterious smile.
"Yaa hyung what exactly are you planning. Didn't Alex just come home from his mother's sister's house last night. I saw her with concubine Chang at dinner, what are you hiding from us?" myungsoo asked, urging his brother.
"Let's see tomorrow when the queen testifies hahaha. This is gonna be the palace's greatest joke in my opinion."
"It's because he's a noble favorite, so you're using that hyung."
"Aniya, you're smart-brained but you're actually stupid, Myung. Not even aware that Alex didn't actually go to his uncle's house, he was still wandering around this palace."
"So? Andwae, It's impossible" Myungsoo said, shaking his head in doubt.
"That's right. She disguised herself as one of the ladies-in-waiting working in the palace kitchen. Haha"
"Yesterday I don't even know if he's there. So you?"
"Nde. With Alex's glorious testimony to believe and the Queen mother unlikely to threaten Alex as she did with Eunji, neither will her threat work on Alex"
"You're right hyung. We're calm now"
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Sohee came to the palace family room with Miura who had picked her up, she tried to prepare herself to talk for Suzy. There was already the king of Hwanhee, Empress, concubine Chang, Kyuhyun, Myungsoo, Sungjong, the secretary Lee, Eunji and Alex were also there with her boss face.
"Our respect to the noble king, queen mother, consort and concubine Chang" said Miura and Sohee to the royal court, who then took the right row with Eunji, Sungjong and Myungsoo.
"Please sit down" king Hwanhee ordered the two of them. "You guys gathered here must know what I'm trying to say. Indeed, I am very disappointed and sorry for the incident that happened to Princess Suzy and daughter Min Ah. But I don't want to just hear one-sidedly from the opinion of the queen mother, empress, concubine Chang alone. I also want to listen to Princess Miura and princess Sohee's opinion on this matter. Prince Kyuhyun of the legal department also I hope can help to resolve this matter" King Hwanhee said.
"Why are you so good my son, just punish that troublemaker girl. He had already made the image of the palace family ashamed of his brutal actions towards the daughter of Min ah son of the prime minister Shin. Please the noble king give a severe punishment for this event. The palace will be underestimated if it acts improperly that noble." said the queen mother who had wanted to punish Suzy.
"Sorry yangmulia suri. I knew this would ruin the image of the palace, but wouldn't an act of violence not have happened if there wasn't a reason." Myungsoo interrupted the conversation.
"Yaaaaa Prince Myungsoo watch your words. You dare to defend her in front of me not because of your misguided feelings?"
"Easy-after. Princess Sohee, I want to know what you think about this matter, because you were also at the scene when the fight broke out" the king said.
"Actually.." Not yet Sohee started the queen mother has spoken back.
"King why are you so curious of his opinion that I feel insignificant. Eunji who was with them had told me that Suzy's daughter did not accept being said to be from the village, so he immediately attacked Min ah's daughter. The village girl did not know the manners like her" said the queen mother but Eunji just looked down when all looked at her.
"Hmmmm, okay"
"Please speak your opinion Princess Miura" the empress said after calming the queen mother.
"Actually I don't know the origin of their fights how, because I was seeing the son of the palace doctor who discussed Hyura's health. But I'm sure that Suzy's daughter will not attack anyone else if she is not attacked first" Miura said.
"You just got to know how you know she's not like that princess Miura"
"Mama, calm down. My daughter is now your turn to speak in your opinion? Tell me the truth because you've been with him since you were a kid so you must know his nature. Don't be afraid if you say wrong, if you're telling the truth."
"Please forgive me my noble. Actually this is my noble fault because I cannot prevent Suzy from acting like this. I had tried to prevent her from letting the noble princesses speak contemptuously, revile and ridicule us using the palace even tricking the palace that I am a noble princess, she said, but Suzy didn't accept it when the swarm of noble daughters insulted our mother. We never knew what kind of mother with the palace family until mother was expelled from the palace when she conceived me and raised me myself even raised Suzy as my sister, but whether there is a child who will accept if their mother is insulted and demeaned like that, you also certainly will not accept not the noble if the noble mother of the queen humiliated others in front of you. I hope that if your Majesty wants to punish Suzy let me also share her sentence, for me she is an important brother to me. If indeed we had to leave the palace, we were ready to leave the palace right now, because the palace was not the dream place we wanted to go." sohee said with a sad face holding back the tears that she had been holding back since.
"Don't make a decision, son. You are my most precious daughter as well as Suzy, but the court law must go on, baby. Forgive your father for this son who can not help anything" said king Hwanhee approached Sohee who had begun to shed tears.
"Yangmulia doesn't have to apologize to me. Our destiny was wrong for having to have a relationship with a palace family that wasn't our dream."
"What kind of empty "mong is this? King Hwanhee don't listen to his words. He must be the same liar as his mother who was a traitor and a cheater"
"Mom, please don't talk about mass issues" said concubine Chang.
"Nde mom. It was a long time ago, so there is no need to be reinvented" added the empress.
"Indeed his mother was a cheat, whether he was the son of king Hwanhee or not, we all no one knows."
"Mama" shouted everyone in the room.
"Yangmulia the queen mother doesn't need to speak rudely to me, nor do I know who my real father is? The noble king or not I do not know. Like I said before if it turns out my father is a king, so I would never pray to God to meet her because I never wanted to be born the daughter of a king. I came here because my father forced me to come here, so let me and Suzy return to our quiet lives, we are happy to accept our life in the village. The humiliation of the noble daughters yesterday has made me realize that my place should not be here. Excuse me" said Sohee who immediately left the room.
"Sohee, Sohee's daughter, Sohee's daughter listen to my father first son" cried king Hwanhee trying to chase after Sohee but was prevented by the queen mother. "Let him go noble, you're the king why you're weak"
"Let me pursue her noble, all of you continue this conversation. Jja Sungjong" said Miura, inviting Sungjong to leave the room.
After Sohee, Miura and Sungjong, the king of Hwanhee, asked Kyuhyun about what to do to solve the problem.
"What do you think prince Kyuhyun, this matter cannot continue to be left like this. I as a judge who works in the legal department can certainly provide a solution to this problem"
"In my opinion, just release the noble daughter Suzy" said Kyuhyun casually.
"Prince Kyuhyun is so brave that you speak like that, he has put the palace to shame in front of all the noble princesses with his brutal actions. And if something happens to the daughter of prime minister Shin, we will definitely be prosecuted and embarrassed in front of the people" the queen mother snapped.
"Please forgive me mama, yesterday's fight was not entirely the fault of Suzy's daughter. He's guilty of hitting Min ah's daughter but you just imagine how wrong Min ah's daughter was with her friends who insulted concubine Kim. Is that allowed? A child defending his mother is that wrong? Miss Eunji may be afraid to give her testimony here but what if Alex? He can't lie. Alex"
"Nde Hyung's. Waeyo?"
"Why should prince Alex? He's coming back from Gangnam?" asked the confused king Hwanhee.
"Prince Alex, Hurry up tell me the truth or.." Kyuhyun's orders looked at Alex seriously.
"Yaaaa hyung you promised me you wouldn't tell a noble. You tricked me" Alex's whining was upset.
"It's for the good of everyone, or you want to be punished more severely" Kyuhyun said with a face.
"Mother, I see Kyuhyun hyung is trying to intimidate me here" Alex whined again with his lips.
"Tell me what you know, son? It'll help justice this palace."
"But the noble king won't punish me if I tell him the truth?"
"Nde, I promise I won't let anyone punish you including your hyung and your mother, if you tell me the truth about yesterday afternoon's incident" said king Hwanhee digging up information from his youngest son.
"Actually..."
"Thank God, please don't listen to this brat. She had made a delinquent that should have been punished by disguising herself as a palace lady in the palace kitchen to indulge her desire to be a palace chef" said concubine Chang, fearing her son would be in danger of telling the truth.
"Don't be afraid of concubine Chang, Alex is not committing a crime. It was just that his fad had already crossed the limits of a normal human being. Let's say it quickly or I'll punish you and write it in the legal department's report " Kyuhyun said a little threateningly.
"Yeah"
"Quick say son"
"Look, your majesty the king, ahem earlier forgive me the noble queen mother, empress and mother. I didn't mean to lie by disguising myself as a lady-in-waiting and infiltrating the palace kitchen. I beg you not to be angry at the palace chef who let me disguise myself. I was just bored because uncle was not there when I arrived in Gangnam, and because of curiosity what it was like to be a commoner? That's why I'm undercover. But it seems like the result of the actions of the fierce Suzy noona, I became caught if I was undercover in the kitchen istn" said Alex with a lowered head.
"Prince Alex stop this nonsense. Don't talk no-no 'cause you just got back from Gangnam. Disguised as a food deliveryman just because you want to play around with them, why you should be brought to the problem of Suzy's brutal actions" the Queen mother insisted prevent Alex who would speak the truth.
"Aish yangmulia the queen mother will not understand. I had never been to uncle's place in Gangnam because uncle was out of town so I came back, because I was bored if I came back then the noble would tell me to continue studying so when I saw the palace chef was hard to find a sedating lady for a sick lady so I decided to just disguise myself in the palace kitchen, so I decided, it was me who forced the palace chef. Well yesterday I also witnessed not only a little but saw all from the beginning of the quarrel of prime minister's daughter Shin with Suzy noona."
"Then?"
"Yes if from my point of view both are indeed wrong as mentioned Kyuhyin hyung. Wrong because of the impolite mouth of noona Min ah, Suzy noona is also wrong for being too emotional to hit Min Ah's daughter brutally"
"Alex until when do you want to talk pleasantries, tell the obvious" Kyuhyun scolded with a sharp look.
"Alright hyung. This is what the king of yesterday was actually the daughter of Min ah insulting Suzy noona and Sohee noona, initially I saw Sohee noona had prevented any fights that occurred in the gathering of noble princesses, sohee noona, until princess Min ah insulted the third concubine and said that they both came just to cheat and take advantage of the palace family. They were deceivers and liars just like their mothers who were cast out for cheating the palace and cheating. And most importantly the news seemed to have circulated among the ministers just that no one seemed to dare to ask the noble, though, may the noble follow up soon and not punish Suzy noona severely because as Sohee noona said earlier there is no child who will not defend her mother. Even though his mother is as bad as any child will defend him, after all it was your time with concubine Kim when young why it was revealed again at this time, plus daughter Sohee did not know about the problem, isn't that unfair to him. And if it wasn't from the palace who told the ministers then where did they hear this glorious rumor? what's more to speak is that they're the prime minister's daughters"
"Prince Kyuhyun how is the next? What punishment does Suzy deserve and what if Minister Shin demands the palace?"
"Give the treatment fee to the best doctor for Prime Minister Shin's daughter, I think being treated in a few weeks the wound on her face will heal. They won't dare to sue the palace let alone we have princes Alex, Sohee, Eunji and a few ladies-in-waiting at the scene. If they dared to sue then their own image would be damaged from insulting part of the palace family. Isn't that noona Eunji?"
"Nde prince"
"And for daughter Suzy just give the punishment to fill the water from drawing in the well and then take her to the palace kitchen for a month, after she finished the lessons that Prince Myungsoo and Miss Eunji taught her. I think it's a punishment that can train his patience and so that his emotions don't overdo it anymore. I will ask Princess Miura to watch over her actions as long as Princess Suzy receives the punishment"
"It's not wrong that I hired you in my son's law department"
"Nde the king"
All accept the decision from Kyuhyun, except for the disgruntled queen mother and clench her hands for failing to remove Suzy and Sohee from the palace.
The underground prisoners.
Sohee cried in front of the prisoner Suzy who showed the face of Suzy who was pale there.
"Zy, after this let's go back to the village. There is no justice for us here huhuhu all only care about the throne and their position, no one understands our feelings here." said Sohee who was unable to hold back her tears.
"Nde, I'm tired here too. After this let's go back to where we belong. We don't deserve to be here" said Suzy, who clasped Sohee's hand, leaving Miura and Sungjong moved.
"We were going to spend our time together working hard in the place of Madam Nam, I miss where our lives used to be, even though our lives are difficult because we are chasing loan sharks but our lives are happy. If you know your life like this then I will not pray to meet him, better I never know who he is" said Sohee who continued to cry with Suzy who also cried. "You will no longer be forced to memorize this, that, and the many rules by which we must obey all that the palace has. What good is it all if our justice is usurped"
"Nobody will come out of the palace" exclaimed the King who was in custody at some point. "The bodyguards quickly release Princess Suzy"
"Nde yangmulia Hwanhee"
When the prison door is released Sohee immediately hugs Suzy tightly, because for her suzy is everything. King Hwanhee who saw the harmony between Suzy and Sohee was moved by their familiarity.
"The glorious Kamsahamnida for releasing my brother."
"You are my children, so there is no need to thank me" said King Hwanhee who immediately embraced Sohee and Suzy. Not far from there the Queen Mother and Choi's half-century-old lady-in-waiting watched her furiously. "Damn, how could prince Kyuhyun know that prince Alex was there. Whereas yesterday it was just me, the empress and concubine Chang were there. Even we don't expect Prince Alex to go undercover, if only Consort Chang hadn't come to him yesterday"
"Please forgive mama, prince Kyuhyun may already be suspicious of Alex's sudden arrival and there's such an incident."
"It's really bad because I lost fast, so I can't kick out Princess Sohee and princess Suzy to get out of the palace. I have to think of another plan. Let's go before they realize our presence" Suri's mother told Choi to leave the detention room.
