A Kind Goblin’s Bird - Chapter 47

Heon-yeong whispers something to the woman who he is holding, and the woman smiles lowly and replies with something. Then, Heon-yeong smiled.

At that moment, the Crown Prince clenched his fist.

He thought Heon-yeong had forgotten all about smiles when he was young. How could the goblin be happy?

The Crown Prince could feel the underlings watching. He smiled with a benevolent face, but those who had supported him for years were not deceived. Rather than being deceived, they quickly lowered their gazes. The Crown Prince took his gaze away from those lowly ones and looked at Heon-yeong again.

Heon-yeong was smiling happily.

Heon-yeong became happy right away because of what that stupid woman said. There was a gritting sound from the Crown Prince’s jaw.

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Sa Heon-young was nervous.

Because the moment Young-young saw the Crown Prince’s face, she would know everything. 

Twins. That he was the cursed race. How can people be born with the same face? All people are different beings and have different faces. 

He was a goblin. A goblin that sits in a person’s stomach pretending to be a human and is born like a human. He should have been killed as soon as he was born, but the benevolent mother could not kill the child she gave birth to, so Sa Heon-yeong became a goblin.

He remembers the first time he met his queen, his arranged wife.

Sa Heon-young doesn’t know who she is, nor does he remember her face. The marriage was thoroughly carried out by his mother’s hands, and Sa Heon-yeong barely reached Yang-an in time for the wedding day. 

As soon as he entered, he took off his dusty armor, took a bath, and performed the rites of the wedding ceremony. He is probably the only member of the imperial family to have a wedding done at lightning speed like this.

However, he was a goblin, and he was in a situation where he had to be proud of being able to have a wedding. No, actually he didn’t think about the wedding at the time. He was only ordered to get married. He followed the orders of his father, the Empress, and the Crown Prince. That was it.

He took off the red head covering covering the bride’s face in the room, and the bride’s eyes widened. 

And she trembled. 

When he asked why she was so nervous, she said that she had medicine but forgot to take it today. The nanny has the medicine, and she says it is a medicine for having children.

She was sorry if others knew so she asked to bring it himself. Even though he was puzzled, he went out to find the nanny instead. The nanny he had found asked how could the maiden of a noble family take such a medicine, and he got a strange feeling and ran back and opened the door — ,

At his eye level, the two feet were dangling from the ceiling.

He can’t even remember her face. Only those two feet of hers remained in his memory.

However, Young-young’s face was already in his memory. Even if she dies, he will wander, and he will search for that face. He can’t forget and can’t let go, so he has no choice but to hold on to her. 

As the cold chill subsided in Sa Heon-yeong’s heart, Young-young stood up. She stumbled greatly, perhaps she was hurt. Was it the beginning? Sa Heon-yeong clenched his teeth and supported her.

He could feel the Crown Prince’s silent laugh. It was common. Sa Heon-young didn’t want to express anything. The Crown Prince was remarkably well aware of Sa Heon-young’s feelings. Even though he was hiding his face with a mask, it was difficult to deceive the Crown Prince. And the Crown Prince was very happy to see Sa Heon-yeong suffering. It’s been a hobby of his since childhood.

When Young-Young was caught, Young-Young raised her head and spoke to Sa Heon-Young. At that moment, Sa Heon-yeong was prepared for all the curses. But,

“He looks like Lord Heon-yeong.”

It’s not that I look like him, but that he looks like me?

It was a strange feeling. He didn’t know how to react to the first word he had ever heard in his life. When Sa Heon-young looked down at her, she smiled at him bashfully and whispered in a beautiful voice.

“But Lord Heon-yeong is prettier.”

At that moment, Sa Heon-yeong hugged her. Wah – He could see her eyes widening as if startled, but he couldn’t stand it without hugging her. He wanted to hug her, he wanted to touch her a little bit more. Without viewing eyes, he wanted to hug her to crush her if she was okay with it.

Do you know what you have done to me now? He wanted to ask that.

His feet became light. He felt a wind that could not be in the imperial palace. That fresh wind, the invisible dazzling light. He has come and gone of battlefields dozens or hundreds of times. In a place of majestic and strict eternal winter, suddenly spring came.

Do you know what you have done to me now?

Sa Heon-young looked down at his bride. The beautiful bride, in her wedding dress, he grinned again over the red head veil. Tilt, ouch, ouch, she cried. Her body looks so uncomfortable.

In his heart, his whole body, his whole soul, he was filled with joy. At that moment when a word from his bride completely transformed him from a goblin to a human.

“King Mun!”