“What’s the problem? It was a perfect plan…!”
Operation name: Let’s trust Hwa-rin’s wide chest.
Not the physical chest, but the inner chest. Of course, her physical chest is the best in the Central Plains. I’m talking about trusting Hwa-rin’s broad and resilient chest.
From my meeting with Im Ha-yeon to the successor exam with Miss Zhuge. I’m writing my thoughts honestly in this letter.
I wouldn’t have expected Hwa-rin to not get angry. How should I write this? I pondered countless times, and there were dozens of discarded letters.
Eventually, I wrote diligently and sent it off.
I took a sneaky glance at the letter lying on my desk.
‘Kang Yoon-ho!!!’
Hwa-rin, each letter overflows with emotion.
“I totally messed up….”
This is my story. I’m sending it all to my fiancée.
Im Ha-yeon. I really think I’ve messed up. Let’s trust Hwa-rin. If I write with sincerity, she should understand.
Complete failure.
Morning already. I couldn’t sleep properly the night before and couldn’t get out of bed.
“What’s wrong? It’s morning; why aren’t you getting up?”
Gil-san barged into my room, flinging the window wide open.
“Ugh! Hey! It’s cold!”
I winced at the sunlight pouring in and the chilly air.
“You need to breathe in the cold air to wake up. You look worse than yesterday. What happened?”
“Letter….”
I gestured toward the letter on the desk.
“A letter? Wow! What is this on the desk? Did your fiancée send it?”
Gil-san glanced at the three bold letters and asked me with wide, surprised eyes.
“It only has three letters written on it.”
“What do you mean? It has more than three letters.”
Gil-san picked up Hwa-rin’s letter, examined it closely, and said, “More than three? Really? Where?! Show me!”
No way?! Was I so shocked that I didn’t notice another page was attached to the letter? Or was there another page in the envelope?
No, I checked thoroughly.
Could it be that it was written with the Tang family’s special ink, revealing new content after some time?
Yeah. Hwa-rin couldn’t have sent just three letters out of anger.
I immediately got up and approached Gil-san.
“I’ll definitely kill you. Get ready and wait, Kang Yoon-ho! That’s how I see it.”
“…….”
This guy. Can I hit him once? I shook the letter and glared at Gil-san as I seriously thought about it.
“So, you better keep a close watch on the central bridge.”
“If I had written it myself, I wouldn’t feel so unjust….”
I only used my lips and hands.
“Our Hwa-rin, Kang Yoon-ho. You’ve completely blown it. Couldn’t you have tried to explain things clearly in the letter?”
“Hwa-rin also said that if her side feels empty, she shouldn’t have to bear it.”
Of course, I refused. Hwa-rin said there was no need for her to wait just because of me for ten years.
“You sure got empty fast.”
“…….”
This guy. Sometimes his words strike like a punch to the gut.
“Only three letters in a long-awaited letter must mean there’s a bigger reason behind it, right?”
“Is that the issue?”
“What? Do you have any guesses?”
I nodded at Gil-san’s question. I definitely had a suspicion.
“After arriving in Yichang, or on the way to Yichang, did I get a girlfriend? That must be why Hwa-rin is most angry, right?”
“Umm….”
As expected. Seeing Gil-san’s sour reaction, I must be right.
“No! She was the sister of my sworn brother! How could I pretend not to know?”
Although the truth is, I didn’t know.
How could I not rescue her when the original story’s heroine suddenly appeared before me?
“Yeah. That’s right.”
“I only learned she had feelings for me, not in Yichang, but after going to Wuhan. This is a bit unfair. Seriously!”
It’s unfair. It really is.
Hwa-rin, it’s a misunderstanding of what you thought. Since she’s an original story character, I had to rescue her because she might be the true heroine. Of course, it’s true that Im Ha-yeon had a big chest, a nice butt, and was pretty too.
Sometimes when she smiles, she looks alluring, and every time we walked together, my gaze would inevitably fall on her bouncy lower half. No. It sounds strange saying it that way.
Anyway. Kang Yoon-ho. I didn’t waver at all while thinking of you.
That’s how it was in Yichang.
“Im Ha-yeon suffered a lot because of you.”
“Because of me?”
“She kept showing interest since the very first time you met, but when she finally tried to approach, you ignored her.”
“No. That’s because she’s my sworn brother’s sister.”
I never thought Im Ha-yeon would say such a thing.
“Really? Looking at that beauty and body, and you just thought of her as a sworn brother’s sister?”
“……Ah, there was a slight inkling.”
She was the woman who would become the greatest courtesan in the Hu Province. A woman destined to be an idol, how could I not be shaken?
“See? It’s already showing that you messed up.”
I smacked my chest in frustration at Gil-san’s poke.
“It’s unfair. I tried so hard to put up walls. Hwa-rin doesn’t understand that. Hey! I built a Great Wall against women!”
“You fools built the Great Wall, and that’s why you fell to foreign tribes.”
“…….”
“Ah! Wait, were you the foreigner who crossed over back then?”
I couldn’t refute that.
“……Maybe I shouldn’t have been so honest and started with the stories from months later.”
Im Ha-yeon said to write honestly, and I did, but I should have skipped the early parts.
“When women feel slighted by a half-hearted lie, they get angrier.”
“No, there’s no way Hwa-rin got angry over something like this. There must be another reason.”
“It seems sufficient.”
There must have been something I wrote wrong.
“Is it that? Living together with Im Ha-yeon in Yichang?”
“Didn’t you just say you realized your feelings in Wuhan?”
“I had to catch her since it would be a shame to let go of such talent.”
Who knew when we’d meet again if we parted ways in the vast Central Plains?
“You trash….”
“What do you mean?!”
“Which lunatic would live with a talent because they didn’t want to let go of her? Seriously. I think I finally understand why Im Ha-yeon suffered because of you.”
“No, even Hwa-rin would have understood me protecting Im Ha-yeon. It must be because I went on a blind date even though I already have a fiancée. No, this is the fault of Man Geum-jeon. Living with two women at once? No, this is Hao-moon’s fault.”
“Umm….”
“Could it be that I said I would take the successor exam for the Man Geum Battlefield and that’s why it happened? That I had to marry Miss Zhuge first? Or maybe I promised marriage to both women at the same time? Seriously, getting two fiancées in less than a year is too much?!”
“Any excuse you can think of seems to justify that your fiancée should want to kill you.”
“……Yeah. I think I might be the one who deserves to die.”
No matter how I think about it, it’s my fault. Unquestionably my fault. I faced west where Hwa-rin would be and got down on my knees.
Hwa-rin, hurry up and come kill me.
“You, who were so confident in front of the great Zhuge head, why are you shaking like this now?”
“Hwa-rin being angry is no ordinary matter.”
The shock must be severe. The fact that she’s angry even with that wide, resilient chest is truly no ordinary matter.
“I want to see what kind of fiancée can put a buffoon like you in a daze. What kind of woman could that be?”
“With Hwa-rin’s personality, even if Miss Zhuge and Im Ha-yeon teamed up, they would still have a hard time.”
“Is it that serious?”
The only women who could compete with Hwa-rin are probably just those two.
Of course, if Hwa-rin found out that fact, the next letter wouldn’t be from Kang Yoon-ho but filled with animals or curses instead.
“Should I try rewriting the letter again?”
“If you write it in that mindset, you might not even get a reply the second time.”
“Ugh.”
Just the thought of it makes me suffer.
It might be more painful than the countless times I was left on read during college. Specifically, it felt worse than when my friend replied with a knife the next day when I thought about it.
“If you think you sort of got it together, get up.”
Gil-san patted my back as I was still down on the floor.
“Why?”
“Someone at the door said they wanted to let you know. I think the Tang family people seem to want to see you.”
“No way! This isn’t the time for that!”
I jumped up at the good news.
“Huh?”
“I had a way to ask about Hwa-rin’s recent activities!”
Instead of fretting over a single letter, wouldn’t it be better to directly ask about Hwa-rin’s situation?!
“Can I come too?”
“When have you not come? Follow me!”
———
“How have you been?”
“Chief of the Guard Unit. It’s been a while.”
As I headed to where the Tang family was staying, the Chief of the Guard Unit greeted me as if he had been waiting.
Good. First, let’s quickly resolve the misunderstandings between the Tang family and Zhuge family, and ask about Hwa-rin’s news.
“Master Kang, it’s nice to see you again.”
A familiar face approached me with a warm expression.
“Did Tang Pae come too? Long time no see.”
The Deputy Medical Official, Tang Pae. He was a martial artist who escorted me to the Tang family and even to Yichang. It looks like he’s been working well under the Chief of the Guard.
He was also the one who diligently taught me Stealth Techniques, so I was glad to greet him.
“Kang Yoon-ho. Who’s this by your side? The friend who was eating squid yesterday?”
The Chief of the Guard gestured towards Gil-san, who was anxiously looking around.
“Oh! I’m from Man Geum Bookstore….”
“No! You’re Jeon Gil-san?!”
Tang Pae exclaimed in shock, pointing at Jeon Gil-san.
“Who…? Ack! O, oh no! This person is?! No! This is!”
“This guy, what’s he doing here?!”
What just happened? Tang Pae glared at Gil-san with eyes that seemed ready to bring out his hidden techniques.
“Do you two know each other?”
“Yeah! We definitely do! He’s the one who tried to harm Master Kang in Yichang! You scoundrel!”
That’s right. No wonder he’s suddenly angry. Tang Pae helped us when we first met Gil-san.
“Eek!”
“Chief of the Guard! Our assumptions were right! Those damn Zhuge family people are here?!”
“Oh, it’s a misunderstanding! Hey! Kang Yoon-ho!”
Gil-san, your clothes are going to get all stretched out. Why are you hiding behind me?
“Kang. Yoon. Ho?! You’re friends with Master Kang? You scoundrel!”
“Kang Yoon-ho. Save meeeeeeeee!”
“This guy!!!”
I immediately restrained Jeon Gil-san, who seemed to be in danger from Tang Pae, and opened my mouth.
“He’s my friend.”
“What?”
“Somehow it ended up that way.”
Coming to resolve misunderstandings has ended with a new misunderstanding.
It was a rocky start.
