A Kind Goblin's Bird

It was dawn, but the Queen still did not return. With an ominous foreboding rushing in like a tidal wave, Ha Soye headed to the Imperial Palace with several military officers just before dawn.

The atmosphere was dark and no one spoke recklessly.

When she arrived at the imperial palace, the gate had just opened. King Mun. Even though the guards were puzzled by this, they moved away from the palace gate and let them. King Muns carriage ran straight into the Imperial Palace.

Ha Soye had someone she was aiming for from the beginning. As soon as she got off the carriage, she headed towards the concubinage. She passed the eunuch and the guard who guarded the concubinages gate, and as soon as she entered, she headed straight to the shrine.

The shrine is for court ladies, not the imperial family.

The benevolent Empress of 100 years ago, when her own nanny died, she built a shrine to enshrine her memorial table. The nanny was highly esteemed not just by the Empress and other court ladies, so many wanted to offer prayers.

Then the Empress opened the door of the shrine to the court ladies, and it began like that, and now the shrine has become a place where the tablets of the court ladies who died alone are enshrined.

She saw the back of a middle-aged woman sitting alone in the shrine and offering a prayer. Ha Soye crossed her arms.

Long time no see.

This shrine is also the place where the mortuary tablet of Court Lady Ho, who taught Court Lady Yoon when she entered the palace at the age of ten, is enshrined here. Ha Soye was well aware that Court Lady Yoon treated Court Lady Ho like her mother and offered prayers every morning.

Why did you come?

There was a time when Court Lady Yoon was scary when she asked with a voice like that. But Ha Soye was no longer afraid of Court Lady Yoon. No, she was planning to grab Court Lady Yoons hair at this shrine now, if necessary. If King Mun had asked to open the gates of the palace last night, it would have been a crime of treason and all members of the Mun family would have been killed. He had barely escaped death. Ha Soye had nothing left to look at now.

I would like to ask you directly, Court Lady Yoon. Her Highness, where is she?

When Court Lady Yoon didnt answer, she smiled bitterly.

If you know what I am prepared to do,

She is in the concubinages prison.

Court Lady Yoon raised her body and answered. And turned her body and looked at Ha Soye. Like asking what she would do about it.

Ha Soye was unable to continue her words for a moment before she asked softly.

Prison, what do you mean?

The Empress wanted to hear the song, so the Queen went to sing, but why was she in prison now?

How about His Highness?

Prison, you say, Court Lady? Her Highness, what mortal sin has Queen Mun committed to be imprisoned without any trial?

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COURT LADY!

As Ha Soyes voice rose, Court Lady Yoon covered her face and sighed.

She did not know that Ha Soye herself would come, but she expected trouble. The fact that Ha Soyes face hardened so much, as she didnt even know the whole story, it was just funny. Court Lady Yoon looked at her quietly and said,

She disobeyed the Empress orders.

Yes?

Ha Soye frowned at the absurdity. She knew her master, Queen Mun, well. She was a pure and gentle person. She was never one to challenge the Empresss authority head-on.

Framed.

Court Lady Yoon shook her head as Ha Soyes eyes gleamed coldly.

Its not a lie. She did disobey. She sang once, but it didnt grant the wish. So the Empress ordered her to sing a second song.

?

She didnt sing it.

Yesterdays scene flashed into Court Lady Yoons mind.

That hellish sight. The innocent Queen who smiled when the tea was brought was nowhere to be found.

The bloodied Queen shook her head as she trembled with the cold. She said she wouldnt sing. She shook her head violently, even as the angry Empress ordered to cut off her tongue.