Rise of an Empress

Unexpected

Entering the concubines' palace, Sinjong walks with quick steps to the north wing. Two faithful eunuchs are following him from behind. They are afraid as the emperor is furious after his meeting with the Chinese Emperor.

Concubine Seo was preparing for sleep. She gets startled when the door to her room opens with a loud bang. But looking at her husband standing at the door, she feels a bit happy thinking the emperor has come to her.

"Your Imperial Majesty!"

She is about to bow down to show respect. But before he does, Sinjong holds her shoulder roughly and pins her to the wall. He makes Concubine Seo look at him. For the first time, she notices his eyes are burning with anger.

"What do you think of yourself, Yun Hee? You are nothing to me other than a low-rank concubine. How dare you have the courage to seduce another man while staying in my palace? You are a slut. I was wrong to accept you as my concubine. A low rank can never be a royal. I thought you were innocent. But this is what you are hiding behind your innocent face, slut?"

Concubine Seo can't understand what's going on. But hearing these hateful words from Sinjong, already tears have started forming in her eyes.

"What wrong have I done?" She says with a shaky voice. Sinjong's grip is hurting her wrists. Sinjong isn't even letting her move a bit.

"You are dying to go to bed with the Chinese emperor? Are you not getting enough here? What do you expect as a low rank? Need to change husbands? A palace guard would be better for you. Your ambition is so high. What do you think that you can seduce anyone with that curvy body and innocent face?"

"Why are you saying this to me?" Yun Hee sobs.

"What did you do with that Chinese Emperor, slut?" Sinjong shouts in an angry voice.

"I didn't do anything. I didn't know him until the night of the festival. I still don't know anything about him."

Concubine Seo's answer makes Sinjong more furious. He throws her on the floor from his grip. She whimpers in pain as her body hits the hard floor.

"Then why did he want you as an offering from Goryeo? Are you a witch, slut? What do you think I will let you go to China to be his concubine? "

"No, this can't be. You are my husband. Don't do this, please. I don't know anything about it."

Concubine Seo was feeling pain in her lower abdomen until now, she was ignoring it. But suddenly a sharp stabbing pain hits her lower abdomen, she screams in pain.

"Stop acting, bitch. I would rather kill you than let you go outside this place even in Goryeo." Sinjong shouts but looking at the blood on the floor he loses his voice.

Concubine Seo is bleeding!!!

For a few moments, he hesitates. But as she curls herself almost into a ball to get relieved from pain that makes him understand that Yun Hee is suffering from unbearable pain.

He sits on the floor and takes her in his arms. "Yun Hee?"

"I didn't do anything... Ahhhh... It hurts..." Concubine Seo pants taking deep breaths.

"Eunuch Won Jo! Eunuch Jung!" Sinjong shouts for the eunuchs who are waiting outside.

As the eunuchs enter the room looking at the concubine in the arms of the emperor on the floor and the blood on the floor, makes them afraid thinking the emperor has stabbed the concubine.

But they come back to their senses after hearing Sinjong's voice. The emperor orders them in a shouting voice, "Call the royal physician. Concubine Seo is bleeding!"

He lifts the concubine in his arms and takes her to bed.

"Yun Hee..." He calls her so softly. He moves the hair away from her sweaty forehead. She is sweating so much.

"Yun Hee!" Sinjong calls for the second time. But she has already lost consciousness.

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