Chapter 769 – #96. Jinhaesol (73)
No way!
This service was only for my family.
What he had done to the empress was to be kind to him because he had suffered a special hardship today.
“Then again, are you going to say that I was the only one who did it? You’re so good at it?”
“It’s true. It’s only for the empress.”
Slowly, her lips rise.
“…If you show favoritism too much, the concubines will be jealous.”
You can see that she likes everything, but she quickly becomes sober and brings up the story of her concubine.
That’s definitely what I mean.
However, he was clearly trained in being questioned about women’s issues.
He has the guts to pass this level smoothly.
“Aren’t they married? This is not a favoritism, it’s natural.”
“Do you know where a woman’s heart goes so rationally? It’s not so. Rather, it’s often impulsive. So I’m the only one who knows that she waited on me.”
Laughter broke out at the empress’ words.
Haha! As expected, the only one who thinks of Jim is our empress.”
It was because he cared about the concubines’ jealousy.
“It’s a promise, so I’m just keeping it.”
I had many options.
It didn’t matter which of the noble ladies he chose.
However, the current empress had too much power in her family, so her power could be concentrated.
Nevertheless, what made her her empress was that she knew that she was someone who valued reason more than emotions.
“It’s a pity. It was quite fun to see the empress jealous. Didn’t you enjoy it today thanks to me?”
“…If it’s that good, should I brag?
When asked to do something, she raises her eyes as if she doesn’t know how to do it.
I nodded at her provocation.
“Be proud. I will continue to only serve as empress, so even if her concubines are jealous, I can’t help it.”
Her concubines would beg for it too, so it would be annoying to refuse it.
“You’re mean. Won’t you lose once?”
“Haha, can I lose?”
“It’s done.”
Even while she was having a conversation, the service for the empress continued.
She started her massage for her today, who suffered from her various postures.
“Ummm… Uhm…”
As she touched her bones and surprised muscles, which had been twisted in accepting her size, the empress fell into a sleep again.
Taking care not to wake her up, she carefully dressed her in clothes brought by her courtiers and returned to her bedroom.
While I was washing the empress, the courtiers had cleaned the bedroom, which had been messy and dirty.
“Do not wake the empress and let her sleep well. Cancel all schedules.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“I’m going to sleep until late because I’ve worked hard. Let’s wake up around dinnertime and eat together.”
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Since it was the empress’s palace, there were very few cases where what happened inside it spread to other places.
She is very kind to her people, but once she gets out of her eyes, she’s not a nice person.
Instead of paying the price mercifully normally, there is absolutely no forgiveness when mistakes are made.
The courtiers knew very well how comfortable it was to live in the shadow of her empress, and they would never take advantage of her being placed before her eyes.
It was because the benefits bestowed by the empress were much more valuable when looking into the future.
Most of the information flowing out of the empress’ palace was what the owner of the palace intentionally ordered the courtiers to spread in order to pass it on to the outside world.
“Even though her concubine was pregnant with her, she said His Majesty visited her empress?”
“It’s strange that Her Majesty and the Empress are good at forbidden arts, even though they’ve hired so many concubines.”
She knew very well that if no information came out, she would rather fret and she would somehow try to drill a hole.
That’s why I release the news to the outside in an appropriate way.
This was not a bad choice in terms of being able to control the news sent out.
“They said they stayed up all night until daybreak.”
“…Until dawn?”
It was definitely the concubines who checked the information coming from the empress’ palace most sensitively.
Isn’t the time with the empress and concubines much more than the time with the emperor?
The best gossip for them was news about the emperor.
Who was often called by the emperor these days, which concubine was favored by the empress these days, and so on.
Being favored by the emperor was important, but not being hated by the empress was also a very important issue for the concubines.
The Empress had the power to punish her concubines.
Of course…
“I’m soaking my pillowcases in longing because I don’t know when I’ll meet someone…!”
That said, if everyone was trying to look good for her empress, that wasn’t it.
Even if you can’t openly show your dislike in front of her, isn’t it just a matter of hiding it behind her back?
“Mama.”
“It’s noisy!! Doesn’t it look like I’m not mad at you?! Of course you should have come to me!! I heard I’m pregnant!! She’s not even pregnant!!”
When I was a young noblewoman.
As a daughter of a duke’s family, Luabel stood at the center of the group even back then.
Even then, when her concubine, who was jealous of her, found out that she had become her empress, she was so angry that she couldn’t sleep well.
‘That seat should have been mine!’
Compared to the duke’s family, it was a little behind, but her family was also a family that was not envious of.
However, it was Lou Abel who became empress, and even gave birth to a boy as her first child.
Is she all that?
She took away all the emperor’s favor.
“This is against the law. How is it possible to have it all by yourself? At least if you become empress, shouldn’t you yield the emperor’s favor to her concubine? What on earth am I lacking compared to that bitch!!”
“Mama, Mama!! I’m afraid others will hear it. Please calm down!”
“I don’t know, I don’t know! Aah! Annoying!”
“Ah, Agi-san is surprised!”
The concubine, who had closed her ears and screamed despite her courtier’s urgency to dissuade her, calmed her excitement when she said that she was Mr. Agi.
“Whoa…Whoa…Yes, you shouldn’t get excited. How did you get that child…!”
Had it not been for the monthly banquet, she would never have seen the Emperor again.
Who would have known that the dance son-in-law he had learned so hard in the past would be so helpful.
Of course, she broke the ankles of her bitches who danced better than her so they couldn’t come out, although that helped her win first place.
Whatever her method was, the one thing that won her first place was that she was herself and spent the night with her emperor and became pregnant with her child.
‘How can you be so heartless…? I heard that I had a child!!’
Now that she had conceived, she knew, of course, that she would receive the Emperor’s congratulations.
However, she rushed to the empress, and it was natural for her to be indignant since she had completely neglected herself.
“He will come today.”
“That’s right, Mama. Didn’t you get a lot of presents?”
The courtiers do their best to make her feel better.
Of course, that didn’t make her feel better.
Even when the emperor sent her only gifts to congratulate her on her conception.
And when she heard that she had dinner with the empress again.
The next day, when her empress called her aside to congratulate her on her conception, she only built up anger.
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Among the concubines, there is a woman who is exceptionally jealous.
It wasn’t all filled yet, but seeing as many as 2,000 concubines were gathered, they all had great personalities.
“The concubine cursed the empress? Then shouldn’t it be punished?”
“Yes, Your Majesty. But… The concubine who used the curse…”
“Why?”
“You are the concubine who has been conceived.”
This.
“So what should I do with this concubine…”
“Hmm…”
Her concubine’s punishment lies with the empress, but since the concubine who was pregnant with my child committed a crime, she couldn’t punish it at will.
I thought something like this would happen one day, but I never thought it would be a concubine who was pregnant with my child.
“Is she the concubine who was said to have conceived this time?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Tsk… It’s still time to take care of yourself.”
This place is not ‘cursed’ by superstition like our world.
The actual ‘curse’ ability existed, and if the curse had not been prevented, it would have damaged the empress’ body.
She said, “Since she sought the life of the empress, she cannot help but punish her. She is a woman with a child of my own, so we will suspend her punishment until she gives birth to a child and send her to the villa.” She also said that after she gives birth to a child…”
I can’t stand to see someone committing a wrong and not being punished properly.
However, thinking of the child to be born, it was not easy to say that he should be punished.
Isn’t it over when you have a child?
Her mother has to take care of her herself, but there is no way she can entrust her childrearing to the concubine who cursed the empress.
‘She doesn’t know what she’s going to do with him later.’
It is right to clear things up that could give an excuse, even for the sake of the crown prince.
‘…Cruel. I didn’t know I’d be thinking this.’
Everyone at least once said, ‘I wouldn’t have done that.’ You may have thought that.
Until I became a party to it, I thought this cruel thing had nothing to do with me.
Even if this situation happened, I thought that I would not have made a cruel choice.
‘I can’t help but worry. I don’t like the fact that there is no punishment, but what is the child guilty of? I don’t feel comfortable asking someone to raise them.’
There is nothing more cruel than to forcibly separate your children.
Even so, it was too much to ask the empress to raise her child.
Wasn’t she the child of her concubine who tried to curse herself?
However, he does not mind asking the concubine who gave birth to raise the child.
How upset would you be?
Perhaps he will take that resentment out to his children.
‘A child is a mirror of her parents.’
It is clear that there will be an afterthought in the future.
Of course, the concubine’s family was a family that used a lot of power, so I couldn’t just leave it alone.
She must have dared even think of cursing the empress because she had the power of her family.
“I will discuss the punishment with the empress and make a final decision.”
In addition to warning the other concubines, she had to punish them properly and move on.
However, it seemed that her concubine did not want to give up her position easily than she thought.
Perhaps asking for help from the family, some of the aristocrats came together and began plotting to pardon the concubine’s sins.
Of course, the weapon they were holding and shaking was the baby in the belly.
