SheJin looked at the books. He decided that he will just drop the books then be on his way out of the library.

With what's going on he has time to burn as the movement of servants and officials would be forbidden for the next couple of hours.But then again he has to prepare some refreshments for MinHee s mother as she and her daughter are eventually going to have lunch with one of the minister s mother

It's not obvious but it seems that MinHee s mother is on a rush to get her daughter married off as soon as possible. MinHee is at that age where she should be called Mrs somebody and raising tiny people.

Being the royal family member is a huge bonus but that comes with some sizable flaws.

There are so many rules, unavoidable spotlights not to mention very high expectations. Everything one does has to be indefectile all the time. From the thing they so to the things they like all the way to the people they interact with. There is no room for error and there are no exceptions. These people are the definition of ideal so they have to maintain their image all the time.

That also mean they have to get married to the elite of the elite. That process involves tedious filtering as there are so many tough boxes to tick for one to become an eligible bachelor

Of course the king can just randomly point at someone to marry them to MinHee but HyanNi wants to be ahead of him. Maybe she is intending to overrule the order of the king by saying she has already found somebody immaculate for her daughter

The king has to be unbiased but that doesn't not mean that he should be deaf to any suggestions. Plus HyanNi only had the best interest at heart for her daughter. So whoever she picks must be a diamond in the desert

SheJin placed the books on the tray that he had brought with him. The bowl was already cold as it has been in he open for a while. He could eat it but he never liked milk-porridge more especially when it had cooled. It tastes so funny like frozen saw-dust.

His ability to make it comes from the fact that he habitually prepared it for his grandfather. Because alongside Kimchi porridge or congee and steam buns stuffed with beef stir-fry, grandfather forced him to learn to prepare them as it's a 'rite of passage '. Of course that was just a tactic as he just couldn't come up with a concrete reason for SheJin to make his all-time favorites

By and by no matter how SheJin made it and inspite of whether it was hot or not, he always ate it with so much joy

Even -so he would mock SheJin before and after eating, saying he would never be as good as himself or that the goat-smelling medicine AhMun gave him tasted like marshmallows compared to this, never once has he ever left a drop of milk-porridge in the bowl. His words and actions when he is and when he is not eating the food always contradict one another. According to AhMun, grandfather behaved like a man who belittled alcohol when sober but praised it when drinking

SheJin felt a yearn develop in his heart as thinks about the only person who ever made a house a home. The one person who taught him how to write Kanji and Hanja with a brush. Who taught him how to paint and how to. He never knew anybody else and he didn't need to. His heaven and earth resided in the old man with a crocodile chuckle and a very exotic persona

Though he usually doesn't think about Grandfather, he always sees him in his dreams. His mocking voice, his sarcasm, his soft white hair, deep wrinkles and flat teeth

He really wishes there was something he would have done to hold on to him a little longer but he was powerless. The sweet soul passed away in his sleep. No struggle, just simply closed his eyes and never came back to see the light

The summation of such thoughts made him want to cry but he can't do that anymore. He has shed too many tears in his honour and feels so numb towards the burden he bares. Maybe indeed his wounds will heal

At that instant, a knock came on the door. SheJin got startled. The melancholy in his face quickly faded but the one in his heart s far from blurring. He wore his indifference like a mask and faced the door.

Dressed in the all popular uniform and very neat hair, a young maid stepped into the room. In her hands was a stone containing a black liquid.

The stone had a golden exterior but it's not pure gold as that would be too heavy to carry around. In this era there is no electrolysis so whatever that stone is made of is a counterfeit of the real deal . That is not to say anything bad but rather to applaud whoever made such a piece with few scientific knowledge. For now this sort of work is worth being expensive

She bowed then smiled at SheJin

The sort of smile she gave him was more than just a greeting. And she wasn't even trying to hide that at all. And why should she, there is only the two of them in the room

To be honest no matter how strict this place is, there are somethings that just can't be restricted by laws. Those things include the excitement of these young ladies when they meet the handsome men in this place.

They just can't help it. It's the power of opposites attracting and the attraction being stronger if the gap between the two is huge.

That gap being measured in terms of wealth, relation and most of all aesthetic appeal. All of which SheJin has especially the latter as according to his girlfriend and her friends, he is in the top ten most handsome people in the palace. Of the latter didn't say it to his face but he has caught them whispering especially wherever they see a group of men gathered in one place like during morning meal and delivery of reports.

For a gullible reason , he felt quite happy that he looks good to the eyes because whenever he looks into the mirror he can't see his reflection. Never at any point has he seen the look on us face. He can trace them but he really can't he really can't imagine what he looks like

Out of curiosity, he wanted to ask if YongSun is in the list and if possible to ask his and YongSun s position so he can estimate how appealing he is

But then again they might say or ask something inappropriate so he forged that. If and only if YongSun doesn't fall in the list, whoever made it must be very much in need of an optometrist or a physcologist. Reason being that if SheJin made that list, the first four positions would have the same candidate

Notwithstanding he looked away from the lady, who instantly felt like she had just been thrown with cow dung across her face . It's not uncommon for men here to give them the cold shoulder but rumor has it that the men seldomm do it when it's just the two of them so she probably thought that SheJin would keep the trend alive.Poor her!

The only woman that SheJin knew to be exquisite was his beloved. Her conduct and down to earth behavior is what made SheJin take a deeper liking into her

However ever since he came here he has seen women who are far much gorgeous cultured and extra-ordinary.

So seeing these traits in everyone no longer makes one having them interesting as their behavior is common. Therefore it's not worth saying it makes one unique

Withal he bowed to her since she is a lot older than him. That was also his way of telling her that he doesn't want to interact further with the likes of her

Even if he wanted someone of her calibre, it would never stop bothering him that she threw herself at him or other men like this. In SheJin s perspective, it's truly undignified especially for people serving a heaven s sovereign. And thus a big turn off especially if he usb acquainted to that someone. It's genuinely crude and un-lady like.

He headed out of the place

The king's reading room is in a square along with other buildings like the meeting room and the talk room. They enclose a small garden that is very famous for the king and his ministers. Due to the fact that it's shaded , they tend to favor having meals and tea meetings there. This section is found in the west so they named it W4. The number indicates the hierarchy in ascending order

There are many such important buildings grouped into sections but they just name the sections this way instead of using superstitious names.

The design for each section was made with incredible accessibility in mind

It's not practical to pass through any section as it's where important business is held but the royal family can use it and some workers unless forbidden by the guards. Since there is nothing happening, anyone can pass

Entrance towards the king s room can be from where Iseul was coming from, which is the resident side. Another is from the direction where DeJang and YongSun arrived. The route they came with was absurd as the king would never have a reason to go to the grand room without passing by W4 so they didn't make a door behind the reading room but instead they made a passage that would join to the one leading out of W4 to the library.

But the official entrance that everyone is supposed to use is the one directly ahead, which is like the gate the whole complex. Outside that gate, it leads to the streets that criss cross like the Lang passages.

The other two buildings here , they , like the king s room have a shielded passage so it's very comfortable to walk here. In front of them there is a short pleat of stairs leading into the garden.

This is the general structure of the sections with some having a U-shaped building or two L-shaped ones positioned opposite each other. But whatever the case there is a middle space. Either a garden or just a yard. But the former is popular, taking eighty percent of the sections.

He walked for over two minutes and in front of him s trio of palace workers came walking from that direction. They must be from other rooms and have been performing errands

The ma had cream-white Baji and a pair of brown Jokki. He must be working some remote place like the laundry because SheJin has never seen this color of uniform before

As for the two women, they wore the same thing as the maids that serve food and the woman had delivered the ink. Their Jeogori was different that it was magenta color instead of purple. This pink hue is free styled a lot but only under agreement and those that wear a free-style are personal maids. So if they are personal maids, why does it seem like they are guarding the man

Anyway he bowed to them and they the same before they passed him

He watched them leave and surprisingly enough that was undoubtedly akin to impeccable walking

The man was striding effortlessly while the women seemed to be flowing over the ground. They walked way better than most noblewomen that SheJin had seen and that was solemnly commendable because those ladies were groomed from infancy on the etiquette of composure

SheJin was impressed so much so that he forgot to stop gawking

Just then a whooshing sound swerved over the Lang passage he was standing beneath. He turned back and toward to locate what it was and before his mission was completed, a humongous blast erupted behind SheJin startling him so much that he lost his grip on the tray

The books went out flying and the bowl splattered on the ground. He could not care less about that because he wanted to identify this malicious factor

His eye scavenged through the scenery to pin point what it was and he saw a young male with the same dress color and attire of the south sect

SheJin deduced from the description of the novel that only few cultivators use a whip in the south sect. So this could be Zhao LiuHe, Zhao YuFen or Zhao SuYen.they are the only prodigees of Zhao MeiYang so they probably use the same cultivation weapon like him

Nevertheless the young master split the sky and roof of the Lang passage in a single slash of his flexible thunder bolt

"Are you crazy!?! Let him go ",the guards shouted to the capturer

SheJin ran to the scene alongside some of the imperial guards who enraged out of nowhere

The cultivator had wrapped his whip around the man and the more chaotic everything was becoming the more it was tightening around him

Their anger woke him up and compelled him to show the tricks under his sleeve