"Your Highness."

"Yes, King Mun."

"Look carefully at my face."

As the Crown Princess hesitated, she looked up at Sa Heon-yeong's face.

"After Friday night, I will ascend to the throne....... Do you know what that means?"

"......."

The Crown Princess' eyes widened and her mouth gaped open. As she looked at him, who had came to the bedroom in the middle of the night, she didn't even think that Sa Heon-yeong was rebelling.

"You decide now. What would you like to do? If you want to leave the palace, I will prepare a body now and replace it. Then you will be free. I do not know for sure whether the Crown Princess, who does not know anything, will be able to get through the world well. Or there is a way to become an accomplice to this brother-in-law's treason."

"Treason......."

The Crown Princess murmured like a fool. Just one word, it was a word that crushed her heart just by muttering it. Sa Heon-yeong nodded his head.

"Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and ten years from now, Your Highness will still be the Crown Princess, and after that, you will rise to the throne of the Empress. But I'm Your Highness' brother-in-law and we know that for sure. Your Highness will be alone until the day of your death. Of course I will save your face."

"......."

"I have become unable to hold a woman for my own reasons, so I am no different. It would be very painful for you to live your whole life as a woman of a man who can't hold you. I'm sorry for making you make such a heavy decision, but I don't have much time."

Although he said two paths, Sa Heon-yeong knew well what the Crown Princess would choose.

She had a son. There was only one way for her in the first place. Of course she could take her son and go out into the wide world, but it would be too much for the fragile woman.

The Crown Princess bit her lip for a moment. She closed her eyes and shook her body. Then she opened her eyes and looked back at the Crown Prince who had taken her without her will and assaulted her and had now fallen asleep. Sa Heon-yeong did not miss seeing the hate flashing through her fearful eyes.

The Crown Princess whispered.

"There is a condition."

"Tell me."

"Never again, never again shall he come back. Can you do that? If you do that, this body will become His Highness King Mun's wife, or even of His Highness the Crown Prince. When the sun comes up, I will return to my palace as if nothing had happened, and I will not speak about this to anyone, and until the day I die, I will bury this night in my heart and live as the Crown Princess."

'Will you recognize him as your son when I'm deposed?'

There's nothing wrong with the Crown Princess. It's just that the Crown Princess doesn't love the Crown Prince. And Sa Heon-yeong's wife loved him. The love was too much for Sa Heon-yeong to receive. His sick chest throbbed like a seizure again.

Sa Heon-young got up. He took the Crown Prince's red robe and placed it over the Crown Princess' head. The Crown Princess fled herself to the very corner of the bed.

He got the body up. He strode to the door and opened the door.

"Fill the prison with water."

The command was simple, but the implied meaning was terrifying. Who was he going to imprison in that prison? No one said yes, they just bowed their heads.