13 I did not, for heaven’s sake!

The consort was able to hear the princess's mumbled words then he avoided her gaze for him to calm down for even a bit.

"Hu.S.Band?" Tease the princess.

"Y-yes?" Taejoo replied, still avoiding her gaze.

"Hmm? Are you avoiding my eyes?" Then the princess shifted her place towards where the consort is looking.

"No." Then he looked away.

"Really?" The princess shifted again.

"Yes." Again, he looked away.

"Are you sure?" Princess shifted for the third time.

"Yes." And the consort looked away again.

"Is it uncomfortable?"

"Yes."

"You do not want me to stare at you?"

"Yes."

"Do you hate it?"

"Yes. No! I mean yes!" The flustered Taejoo denied.

The two just stared at each other blankly. And speechless.

"So you hate it?" Princess Ye Beom asked.

"What? Hate what?" Consort Taejoo asked back.

"Me, staring at you."

"No—"

"Then why did you say that you hate it?" Ye Beom annoyingly replied.

"I did not say I hate it!" Taejoo retorted.

"Yes you did!"

"I did not."

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"I did not, for heaven's sake!" After that, the princess did not utter a word.

She just remained silent and waited for the consort to speak again. And when he did.

"Sighs. I guess I did." He admitted.

"Mmm.." Ye Beom coldly replied with a hum.

"Are you mad?"

"Hm-um." The princess shakes her head pouting slightly.

Ah. That must be a no. The consort thought.

"Then, are you upset?" He asked. Lowering his head to look at the princess who's have her head bent over.

"Mmm." she mums.

"I am sorry."

"Mmm."

"Hey, look at me." Taejoo lifts up the princess's chin. "Are you still upset? I'm sorry... I was just flustered and stuff. I'm sorry." He kept on apologizing with such a gentle and worried expression. Then he placed a soft and gentle kiss at the princess's forehead.

"Hmmm." Ye Beom replied.

The consort chuckled and said; "That hum is a bit longer. Perhaps we're good now then?"

A smirked form from the consort's lips while anticipating for the princess Ye Beom.

"Hmmm."

She is still sulking like a child. It's cute, but her, hating me... this feels so awful Consort Taejoo thought once again.

Taejoo tucked the princess's hair behind her ears. As the consort tucked her hair behind her ears, Ye Beom looked up at him. She was blushing. For a moment they just stared at each other.

"I'm sorry I ruined the mood earlier. Are you feeling any better now? The sun is about to set, you should head back now." A hint of worry came from the consort's voice.

"Yeah. I think so too. How about you?" The princess asked back.

"I still have tasks to do with the prime minister." Taejoo replied.

"I see." The princess hesitated. "Will you be late?"

Consort Taejoo wondered why the princess asked so. "If I can finish my works instantly then perhaps I might not be. Why'd you ask?"

Then Ye Beom smiled as lovely as she could ever do. "Then, I will be waiting for you for dinner."

Taejoo was dazed as his heart started to beat faster. He was filled with joy and excitement, then he said; "Then I shall get going to finish my work early..." he paused as he smiled at Ye Beom the caress her cheeks.

"...then join my wife for dinner."

Ye Beom blushed with Taejoo's sudden action. Though a bit flustered— still, Ye Beom leaned her face to Taejoo's palm and holds it while smiling as well as her eyes. "Off you go now, Taejoo."

"See you later." Taejoo bid Ye Beom before she goes back to the palace.

"Yes, see you later." She bids Taejoo back before she and her court ladies walk back.

Taejoo just stare at Ye Beom walks farther aways.

"Taejoo. You know that you mustn't—"

Taejoo interupted the prime minister and said;

"I mustn't get involve with her? Yeah I get it. It has always been the way she wanted, isn't it?" He said fixing his gaze to the ground. And when the prime minister was about to speak up again.

Suddenly Taejoo slowly looks up at prime minister Jigum with a cold deadly glare as Taejoo tilted his head, that sent chills through his body. "However, she crossed the line."

"Dare they do put her in harm for the third time around. I won't hesitate to slit their throat off." He warned with a murderous aura.

"Forget the aftermath, but at least with my own hands... I'll be able to let them feel double the pain they've done to my wife." He smirked wickedly.

His eyes wandered around the garden and there his eyes landed at the blue dahlia bulb flower that mesmerized the princess. His raging madness slowly fades away as the picture of Ye Beom smiling towards him calms him down. He touched the flowers and whispered to himself:

"No flower can compare its beauty to you Ye Beom." Then he smiled at the thought that Ye Beom will be happy if he brings her a bouquet of those blue dahlia bulbs when he come back home for dinner.

"Now, now Prime minister... let's just keep this a secret between the two of us. Is that alright with you?" A favor he asked but is an obvious threat. A strong menacing aura coming from Taejoo. With a glint of threat on his glare that emphasizing not to mess up with him.

"A lot of administrator might be wait for us at Haeng palace already. Let's head there now shall we, Prime minister?" He walked ahead and then paused for a moment. "Ah... prime minister, I will be rude enough today. I wish to go home early, so can eunuch Byun Yeul do the rest of my work? You will agreed to this, am I right?" Then he smiled wickedly.

"O-of course haha. After all you are the princess's consort. Haha." Prime minister Jigum nervously laughed."

After that princess's consort Taejoo went to Haeng palace, leaving prime minister Jigum alone.

This is not going as planned. What should I do your majesty? If I continue this... no no, I have to keep my neck intact to do something for her. I shall obey her. Consort Taejoo sighed as he thought about it.