The Hated Male Concubine - Chapter 30.2

So Yihan looked at Hwawoon silently for a moment, wanting to know what he really wanted from this person now. He thought they were in a relationship that could never be restored, but he really wanted to know what was so great and special about him acting calm, like now, that made him anguish like this.

Yihan continued to look at Hwawoon standing in front of himself. Even so, he couldn’t get any answers, so he moved his body again and stepped into Hwawoon’s residence without replying to him.

Yihan wanted to find the answer to all this confusion, and he couldn’t get anything just by running away. Yihan really wanted to escape from these difficult and unknown emotions from Yeon Hwawoon.

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Yihan and Hwawoon, who sat facing each other, said nothing even when Ahjin had put simple snacks on the table. Yihan was staring around the room with a firm expression as if he didn’t like everything that happened in the world, and Hwawoon just shut his mouth together because he didn’t know if he could initiate talking to him or what to say if he talked to him.

Of course, Hwawoon couldn’t know that Yihan was angry inside, is he shutting his mouth because I don’t talk to him, so he doesn’t talk to me either?

At that time, there was something that caught Yihan’s eyes when he was staring at Hwawoon’s face with a very grumpy expression. One cheek of Hwawoon was slightly protruding.

Yihan suddenly opened his mouth without realizing it, forgetting that he was determined to not talk to him first.

“Why is your cheek like that?”

Hwawoon looked up at the emperor with an expression of not knowing what the emperor was asking for and soon opened his eyes wide, very embarrassed.

Hwawoon had been having the candy that Ahjin put in his mouth after taking the medicine a while ago.

He was so surprised and flustered that he forgot to spit it out when he suddenly heard the emperor was visiting. Then, when he walked out and saw the emperor walking into Jeongan Palace, he was so nervous that he didn’t realize he was still holding a candy in his mouth. Hwawoon was really dumbfounded.

When Hwawoon hurriedly looked at Ahjin, who had stepped back after setting the food, Ahjin finally realized the situation, then hurriedly took a handkerchief out of her sleeve and approached Hwawoon. Hwawoon hurriedly turned around so the emperor couldn’t see and spat candy out to the handkerchief. Then, he knelt in front of the emperor.

“Forgive me, Your Majesty. I drank medicine a while ago, but I was so perplexed about your visit that I hadn’t spit out the candy I ate because the medicine was bitter.”

“Gee…”

At Hwawoon’s words, Yihan clicked his tongue and looked down at Hwawoon with a baffled expression. He couldn’t believe that the almighty Yeon Hwawoon forgot to spit out candy because he was so surprised by the news he was coming. It was rather believable if he forgot to do it after jumping up and down because he was very happy with the news.

“I got it so get up and sit.”

However, instead of criticizing him, Yihan first ordered that. He didn’t want to keep someone who just drank a medicine kneeling down for a long time. Hwawoon said thank you and got up, and then Yihan looked at his face again—examining his expression.

He wondered if this was all planned out because Yeon Hwawoon’s cheeks, which bulged a little because of the candy—that thing—looked a little cute in a way that he would never have felt before while looking at Hwawoon.

Then Yihan hurriedly shook off the idea by himself. Cute? The fact that he thought Yeon Hwawoon was cute made his spine chill as if he had put together words that should never be said in a row. No, it doesn’t make sense. I can’t fall into Hwawoon’s tricks like this. Yihan tried to keep his mind alert while making such a determination and spoke to Hwawoon.

“What kind of medicine was that?”

However, despite making that determination, Yihan brought it up and at the same time, he wanted to close his mouth again. This was because he had no intention of asking Hwawoon such a thing.

Well, he actually thought about it. Whether the medicine he took was the medicine he always took, whether he took it because his body had not been fully recovered from drowning, or if it was because he hurt him last time. Some thoughts like that. He was a bit—really just a bit—curious about that.

Thus, Yihan swore he did not mean to say it out loud and ask Yeon Hwawoon. Yihan knew so well that if he said a word, Hwawoon would inflate it by a thousand times and thought it had tremendous meaning. Yihan really couldn’t tell why his thoughts suddenly jumped out of his mouth.