The Nature of Possession

407 – EP.15 Selections

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Chunhyang didn’t say much. But even from what little she said, I could tell what my father had said to persuade her.

“I must give up my feelings for you, my lord, in order to protect them.”

Chunhyang spoke, her face faintly revealed in the moonlight.

You have to give up your heart to protect it.

There was nothing I could do but hang on to the bars.

“Chunhyang, don’t you have to live anyway?”

I try to persuade people by saying the most precious thing to them.

“Aren’t there things that are more precious than life sometimes?”

She was as hard as a rock.

“No. There is nothing more precious than life.”

He brings his face closer to the bars and says.

“Your Majesty is not good at lying.”

Chunhyang smiled very slightly.

“Are you lying?”

“Haven’t you acted for something more precious than life?”

Chunhyang took her gaze away from the floor and looked straight at me.

Chunhyang’s eyes, hidden in the shadows, seemed to be looking at the sunken night sea.

Calm, stillness, silence and the readiness to die…

The very act of taking the risk and coming here was a question of whether there was something more precious than life.

“This lowly girl. I haven’t seen you for long, but… you’ve always been running around for things more precious than life.”

As if vaguely reminiscing about the past, he smiled faintly like the frost on the window sill in early autumn.

“That is why everyone in Namwon respects and follows you and your family.”

“Children who don’t know what’s going on, old people, women who draw water…….”

I thought it was a bit too much to take the gaze of the women with you…

Chunhyang muttered in a voice that was barely audible.

“I believe that all the interest and respect directed towards the Kang family is not the result of the elders, but of the passion and sincerity of the young master.”

“Chunhyang.”

His scarred hands gripped the blade tightly.

“My lord said that I looked beautiful riding on the swing.”

Chunhyang was cautious, as if revealing a hidden secret.

“I’m telling you now… In fact, whenever you pass by the market, you always ride the swing.

I held the rope, bent my knees, and spoke to Hyangdan.

Hyangdan, push the rope

To the distant sea

As if pushing the boat out,

Hyangdan-ah

“To see you, to look into your clear eyes just once more. I rode the swing with such hope and wish.”

Chunhyang took out and searched through the very precious memories that were tightly hidden in the treasure chest of memories.

“I always resented the world. I thought there was no one who understood me, and that there was no one like me. And then… you, Master, appeared.”

For a moment, I felt like I was being sucked into Chunhyang’s deep eyes.

“It was definitely you who brought spring to my heart, which was frozen like a winter river.”

“When that dazzling young master… said he loved me, a lowly person… I felt like I had the world at my fingertips.”

Tears flowed down her left cheek like rain.

“Chunhyang-ah. That’s why you should think more about leaving here. If the time you spend with me is precious, you should think more about living.”

Chunhyang shook her head slowly.

“If I could leave here and connect with you, it would be a great happiness for me… but for you, it would only bring suffering.”

“no….”

“Are you going to become someone who, bewitched by the beauty of a lowly woman, drives a nail into your parents’ hearts? Do you intend to abandon the cause and spend eternity in the arms of a mere woman?”

“but….”

“I am glad to hear that you are saving me, but I believe that sacrificing myself for the one I love is the way to remain chaste.”

As before, it indirectly expresses the intention to reject.

“So, Master, I beg you to leave now. You lowly woman. I will treasure this meeting with you even after I die.”

“…….”

frustrated.

It’s so frustrating.

It’s so stuffy that I want to put my hand inside my mouth and scratch around.

– Ahem!

A cough was heard from outside. It must have been the guard who had stepped aside.

I got up off the cold dirt floor.

“I think time is running out.”

Chunhyang bowed her head politely and greeted me.

“No matter what, I will save you. Just know that.”

Feeling suffocated and uncomfortable by that sight, I said as if declaring something and headed out of the prison.

“Is that your choice, Master?”

As I was about to leave, Chunhyang asked me on my back.

“what?”

“…No.”

Chunhyang turned her head. This probably meant that she would not talk any more.

– Ahem!

After a second cough, I walked out of the prison.

***

My destination was in a quiet place away from the center of Namwon.

“Is it okay, my lord? What if the old man gets angry….”

Bangja, who seemed willing to do anything to save Chunhyang, looked worried when I told him to go home.

“Father is a ‘former’ deputy, not a ‘current’ deputy, right?”

“If only you had been a vice-president, this wouldn’t have happened.”

The guy grumbled without saying a word.

I wanted to hit him in the head, but since Bangja wasn’t wrong, I walked on in silence.

As soon as the old days came, I put the room in front. My house was quite far from the prison.

It was like the emotional distance between me and Chunhyang.

The sun had fully set, and the flowers and grass that had been asleep all night sang a song of spring.

I kicked my feet without even having time to capture the distant scent of spring.

As I got closer to home, more and more people recognized me and greeted me.

Judging from the lack of fear on their faces as they greeted her politely, she realized that there was no lie in what Chunhyang had said.

The rather large tile-roofed wall of a house came into view.

I passed by the slowly moving Bangja and followed him with quick steps.

“You’re a pervert.”

“Yes, your highness.”

“What kind of son was I?”

“He was a son who kept well the line set by his elders.”

As we stood in front of the gate, Bangja stepped forward to knock on the door.

I blocked the room with my arm.

“master?”

And then just lift your legs.

bang!

The front door was kicked.

“You said you kept the line well?”

The hinges broke, the door slid back, and the servants of the mansion began to gather around in shock.

I looked around the house from the yard where the dust was rising, then looked back at the room.

“Then I guess he was wild outside the line.”

So, you must have been dating without your parents knowing.

Bangja closed her eyes tightly and hit her forehead with her hand.