The Gentle Couple

Thank you husband

Yn waved her fan anxiously.

Taehyung pulled Yn onto his lap and he whispered in her ear. 'Wife, you don't need to worry. My spies have secretly investigated everyone in the manor. Now that Sooya is gone, you're free to climb walls or roll on the ground.'

'Who's worried?' Yn asked. Taehyung reminded her of embarrassing childhood memories and she jumped off his lap. 'What climb walls? It was you who provoked me to climb walls. What roll on the ground? It was you who forced me to roll on the ground.'

Taehyung smiled happily at the sight of an angry Yn.

Yn ran to sit on the chair opposite Taehyung. She worried pointlessly, Taehyung had a dangerous stomach and anyone that dared to wrong him was unlucky.

'Huang Guo's messenger sent Sooya the poison,' Taehyung said. 'I asked Hoseok to check her chamber long ago. In the past I didn't hesitate to eliminate spies sent to the manor. But she was Huang Guo's spy... out of consideration Consort Chen was my adoptive mother, I acted like I didn't know about Sooya spying on me. I had her followed and I slowly thought of ways to return her without offending Huang Guo... that was two years ago. After I came back from Southern Jiang I could only avoid her and I waited for the right opportunity to chase her back to Huang Guo's manor.'

'Oppa, how are you going to deal with Huang Guo?' Yn asked.

'As long as my wife is happy I'll use all my abilities,' Taehyung said.

Yn didn't know how Taehyung could talk nonsense while looking serious.

'Wife, you can see that Huang Guo doesn't want to only spy on me anymore,' Taehyung said. 'If I didn't deal with Sooya then I don't know what would have happened to us.'

Yn remembered the bottle of poison and her heart shivered fearfully. 'Oppa, the poison... is Huang Guo's scheme?'

Taehyung nodded and Yn took a deep breath. 'But in the morning didn't oppa said Huang Guo... if oppa can't have children then what's the purpose of you climbing high?'

In the morning Taehyung whispered in Yn's ear, 'Huang Guo always wanted me to climb high, but I don't want to.'

Each time Yn remembered Taehyung's words, her heart pounded continuously. She thought the battle for the throne was only between seventh prince and crown prince. She didn't know there were court officials who secretly supported Taehyung. Although Huang Guo resigned, Huang Guo's influence in the imperial court wasn't insignificant.

Yn didn't know why if Huang Guo was secretly supporting Taehyung then why Huang Guo sent Sooya to poison Taehyung.

'Yn, you should know in this world there's something called puppet,' Taehyung said.

Yn stayed quiet for a while and thought about the meaning of Taehyung's words.

Taehyung smiled at the sight of Yn's revelation expression. He leaned back on his chair and he thought about Consort Chen. When Consort Chen was alive, Huang Guo's desire was for him to become emperor. But Consort Chen didn't want him to be caught in the deep web of battles. Consort Chen only wanted him to grow into a healthy and carefree man. After Consort Chen died, Huang Guo resigned and to other people it appeared like Huang Guo didn't have any influence left in the imperial court.

When Taehyung was eighteen years old, Huang Guo asked him, 'who do you think suits being emperor?'

'I don't know,' Taehyung said.

'What if you are emperor?' Huang Guo asked.

'I don't suit,' Taehyung said.

'I think you suit more than them,' Huang Guo said.