Author's Note:
As I mentioned before, Tainted Salvation has ended, and the Goryo's Royal Family story continues here.
I love them too much to let go, so I've decided to make this story another good friend of mine.
Very NSFW. Prepare your heart and avoid this if this is not to your liking.
This is my birthday, so the time I made writing this is one of the gifts for myself.
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Lee Ji Hoon, the crown prince of Goryo, became a very important anchor in his parents' life. Being born at a very dangerous night, the night of the attempted coup to his father, Ji Hoon became someone who divided a dark and a bright era.
Before he was born, Goryo was facing a lot of uncertainties and confusions because there seemed to be the separatists who kept trying to kill Lee Gon and his queen, Jung Tae Eul.
It was revealed that there were never any separatists. There were only the five richest people in Goryo who hated Lee Gon's revolutionary decisions.
They all nearly died, because the two people closest to them appeared to be traitors.
The night left deep wounds inside the Royal Couple's hearts. Two people who were close with Tae Eul were traitors, and the King's Unbreakable Sword, Captain Jo Yeong, was killed that night.
Lee Gon then held an election to see whether his people wanted the monarchy to go on, or whether the people of Goryo wanted to be a republic.
The monarchy won with a nearly absolute percentage, and although Lee Gon's mind and heart were exhausted, he resumed his position as the King of Goryo.
On Ji Hoon's first month, his father had to cope with losing Jo Yeong, while his mother had to cope with losing Myeong Seung Ah and Jang Mi.
On the baby's second month, his parents could focus better on loving and caring for him. It's not that he was not loved and well taken-cared of the previous month, but they were so full of grief, that their hearts were too heavy to fully love the baby.
They both liked to hold him, admiring the miraculous reality of his existence.
Everytime Tae Eul held him, she prayed that Ji Hoon would grow healthy, and the kingdom would be safe.
Everytime Lee Gon held the baby, he thanked the infant for surviving his difficult pregnancy and labour, for becoming Tae Eul's reason to hold on against all the nightmares she had, and for coming to the world as his son.
On Ji Hoon's third month, Lee Gon appointed a personal Royal Guard for him. Not an Unbreakable Sword, but someone to stay by his side until he found someone he trusted enough to be an Unbreakable Sword.
The name was Park Seo Joon. Someone who had worked under Jo Yeong for five years, was dismissed after Seok Ho Pil's attack, but loyally helped attacked the palace during the coup night.
In Yeong also swore that he could be trusted, since they were classmates in the navy and the Royal Guards Academy.
It was also the month when the giant aquarium in the palace grounds finished. Lee Gon moved Figaro to the palace, with a huge aquarium truck. He got not only one whale shark, but two.
A baby whale shark was born on the same day Ji Hoon was born, 22 June. Which was also the king's birthday. The mother of the whale shark pup got stranded on Busan beach due to a storm.
The mother was sick, and passed away after the pup was born.
The pup was then moved to Busan Sea World, and Figaro could live peacefully with it. Needless to say, the king fell in love with the pup as well, and named him Dimitri, the Russian version of the Greek god's name, Demeter.
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Goryo's Future
General FictionTainted Salvation sequel. Their life is brighter and happier after Ji Hoon was born. There were no hidden enemies anymore.