Chapter 13. Jing Ke Attempts to Assassinate the King of Qin (1)
“Ugh, this is suffocating! I’m not a prisoner!”
Unable to bear her frustration, Wolyeong took it out on an innocent pillow.
For someone who had always lived freely, confinement was even harder than she expected.
“I can’t even see Husband. Haah.”
Of course, she fully understood the situation.
If news of her pregnancy became public, the entire Cult would be turned upside down.
The Left Envoy had gone even further.
For now, even the news that the Princess had returned was still being kept secret.
“But do they really need to lock me away this early? My stomach isn’t even showing yet.”
“Maybe... it’s showing a little?”
She gently rubbed her belly.
It was far too early to feel the child's movements, but knowing that a new life was growing inside her gave Wolyeong a strange feeling.
I’m going to become someone's mother.
Honestly, it still doesn’t feel real.
If Bi Anso failed to become Prince Consort within two years, she would be married to the eldest son of the Sword Demon Clan.
Her child would then be adopted as her older brother's child.
She did not even want to imagine something like that.
But she could not simply refuse.
Her father was the Cult Leader of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult before he was her father.
“Husband can do it.”
“Who do you think chose him? Right, little one?”
“Young Miss!!”
At that moment, an enormous muscular man appeared from the ceiling like an assassin.
His body was large enough to remind one of a giant bear.
Yet when he landed on the floor, he was as light as a feather.
“Uncle Right!”
“Kahahahaha! It has been a long time!”
The giant man, the Guangming Right Envoy, began to reach out to hug Wolyeong.
Then he suddenly remembered something and stopped himself.
“Come to think of it, they said you have a child now. If I hugged you as tightly as I normally do, something terrible might happen. Hahahahaha!”
“How did you find out? Uncle Left said he would absolutely never tell you.”
“That scholar gives everything away when he has something to hide. I kept questioning him until he told me.”
The Right Envoy lifted Wolyeong high into the air and laughed loudly.
“Hahahaha! It feels like you were born only yesterday, Young Miss, and now you’re already going to become a mother!”
“If I were slightly less manly, I might have cried!”
“Right Envoy, are you really fine with it? I’m carrying an outsider's child.”
“Even Brother Cheon has to admit defeat when it comes to your eye for people.”
“Knowing how to judge and use people properly is a completely separate talent from martial arts.”
“...”
“If you chose him, then this Right Envoy approves completely.”
Until now, everyone in the Cult had either criticized or worried about Wolyeong's decision.
Having someone trust her without question made the tip of her nose sting.
“As expected, Uncle Right is the only one truly on my side.”
“Kahahahaha! Make sure you say that in front of the Left Envoy!”
“He won’t show it, but when he’s alone he’ll drink himself unconscious!”
The Right Envoy carefully lowered Wolyeong back to the ground.
“Actually, I brought news about that fellow Bi Anso. I thought you would be curious.”
“Really? How?!”
“I happen to know the Black Blood Unit Leader. Hearing news from the Black Blood Unit is easy for me.”
“How is Husband doing? He’s doing well, right?!”
“Apparently, the moment he entered, he accepted a mission worth forty points.”
“Even when I was in the Black Blood Unit, I almost never saw missions worth that much.”
“That bastard has courage.”
Wolyeong's expression darkened.
In the Black Blood Unit, the higher the points of a mission, the lower the survival rate.
“Do not worry. He is not handling the mission alone.”
“The Deputy Leader of the Black Blood Unit is accompanying him.”
“Is that Deputy Leader trustworthy?”
“Her martial arts are fairly good.”
“She is also a crazy woman who once pointed her saber at me.”
“...A woman?”
“So Husband is currently completing a mission alone with another woman?”
The Right Envoy immediately realized he had made a mistake.
Wolyeong's voice had suddenly become noticeably cold.
“H, hahaha! Don’t worry, Young Miss! She only looks like a woman. She’s actually a complete mad dog!”
“Judging by the way Uncle Right says that, she must be fairly attractive.”
“She is not bad looking. Of course, she cannot compare to Young Miss...”
The Right Envoy decided to shut his mouth.
For some reason, the more he spoke, the more it felt as though he were committing a crime against a man named Bi Anso.
“We haven’t even been apart for long, and he’s already happily running around with another woman? That man, seriously!”
Bi Anso was absolutely not someone who would look at another woman.
Even while jealousy burned inside her, Wolyeong trusted him completely.
He was, after all, a man who had spent a full hundred days beside her without touching her.
But reason and emotion were two different things.
“Uncle Right. Keep watching Husband from now on. Understand?”
“Pardon? But I also have duties...”
“I know you’re free unless a war breaks out. Uncle Left handles all the administrative work you’re supposed to do anyway.”
“Ahem! That is true.”
“If Husband seems to be in real danger, quietly help him from time to time.”
“And this will absolutely never happen, but if!”
Wolyeong held both hands out and made a crushing motion.
“If he cheats on me, crush it.”
The Right Envoy did not ask exactly what she wanted him to crush.
“Hey, lunatic. If you get in my way when we catch that bastard Jang Gal, I’ll leave you behind. So take care of yourself.”
“...Are you really the same person who knelt in front of me yesterday?”
“Don’t mention that! Erase it from your memory!”
“If you can’t erase it, tell me. I’ll beat your head until the memory disappears!”
What a strange woman.
Was this really the same person who had knelt down yesterday and begged me to take her?
I know people behave differently before and after getting what they want, but this woman was impossible to understand.
Unfortunately, the coin had landed on heads.
Thanks to that, I was now going to hunt Jang Gal together with the Deputy Leader.
Damn it.
Why did it have to land on heads?
I should never have tossed the coin.
No choice.
