I'm way too smart for that

guryong was very far from the imperial palace, due to the very huge gap between the poor, the rich and noble. guryong was a poverty stricken village and it was were the plague hit most due to their poor hygiene.

byeol had already decided to spend all his time on their way to guryong mapping out his plans and spending time with xingye. slowly his lips curled up slightly everything was going so well, he had ordered nanzhi to stay behind because he knew that something bad was going to happen something very very bad byeol smirked.

one bad thing about the empress was that sometimes like now she was very predictable and predictable was always bad. byeol had schooled himself In such a way that he could never be predictable. he was always like ice. the only people that knew him a little was feiye and xingye and even then he still had walls up against them.

"what" byeol questioned. he had noticed xingye staring at him "are you hungry" byeol asked again. "very" xingye cried out. "well I warned you not to come, hold on. just lemme finish with this" byeol joked.

"your highness" feiye called out. byeol hmmed and climbed down. feiye immediately started reporting "we're still Miles away from guryong, I've been scouting ahead and I noticed suspicious movement and--" "men" byeol completed for him.

"predictable empress" byeol scoffed. even a stupid person would have been able to predict that she would send men after him. send men after him not to kill him but to try snd hold him off from going to guryong. maybe she thinks the men might even kill him. while she sends sunhoe to guryong, and then she causes chaos in the palace for his mom.

hitting two birds with one stone; in this case to the empress the two birds are byeol and his mom. byeol scoffed again "nice idea empress, too bad. I'm way too smart for that".

"feiye" byeol said drawing out of his thoughts "here are my orders; those letters I gave you tell send them out to fellow doctors, physician or normal people,anyone who wants to help me. tell them they're all welcome to learn and help. also make sure xingye doesn't hear about what you just reported to me,he'll be really worried."

"your highness" feiye called out "what about the suspicious men"

byeol coldly responded "leave them be, it's about time I played a little don't you think so?". his response sent shivers down feiye's back.

on getting back inside. byeol immediately notices that xingye has fallen asleep in an uncomfortable position. coughing badly byeol immediately lays xingye down and proceeds to stare at his face. frowning byeol bends down wordlessly only to peck xingye pink and petite lips, only after pecking him does byeol whisper

"what have you done to me".