Chapter 15: It’s Too Late

Slap, slap.

With every movement of their bodies, the water rippled.

The inner walls swirled around Lee Kang’s member, clenching tightly.

Huff.

Lee Kang swallowed a short moan, pulled his hips back, and thrust up hard.

Eun-gyo’s white body bobbed in response to his force.

“Ah, ahh, huht!”

Broken moans continued in succession.

He reached his arm around Eun-gyo’s front and gripped his chest.

Even just that made his upper body flinch.

His body was far more sensitive than most women’s, reacting keenly to every stimulation Lee Kang gave him.

When he scratched his nipple with his finger, a shrill cry escaped.

Biting his shoulder lightly, he twisted the nipple.

Haahk—a voice lower than a woman’s but higher than most men’s.

Depending on how one heard it, it could almost sound like a woman’s.

That this one was a man—he was surprised every time.

Partly because he was disguised as a woman, but when he first performed the sword dance, he truly thought he was a woman.

Even when he brought him to the bedchamber, he never suspected he was a man.

He’d only thought, ‘she’s on the larger side for a woman.’

That small face, completely covered by one of his hands, with long eyelashes, a straight nose, and neatly pressed lips…

Overall, his features were so delicate that calling him a man was a stretch in many ways.

Was that why his body was so lewd?

When he held him like this, it was a stark contrast to the way he’d look straight at him and say exactly what he wanted.

“Uhn…”

When he thrust his member in as if driving it deep, Eun-gyo’s waist trembled and he didn’t know what to do.

As his fingers kept toying with his nipples, he twisted his upper body away.

“Ah, don’t do that, hwaah…”

He tried to push his hand away, saying he didn’t want it, but every time he pinched and twisted his nipples, a pained whimper escaped, and below, he clung to his member as if biting down.

So even when he said he didn’t want it, it didn’t sound entirely convincing.

“What do you want me to do?”

He deliberately rubbed inside lazily.

He already knew exactly which spot made this child scream, but teasingly, he avoided only that spot, repeatedly thrusting in and out.

Eun-gyo turned his head and shot Lee Kang a sideways glare.

Whether tears or moisture, his wet lashes fluttered rapidly, stoking a man’s desire.

No one else would dare look at him so brazenly, let alone glare.

He was certainly different from the women who trembled in fear even when being held.

Though he seemed to submit obediently, that subtly defiant gaze only made Lee Kang torment him more persistently.

“If you don’t speak, I won’t move.”

When his movements slowed to a complete stop, Eun-gyo bit his lip.

He tried to touch himself, but Lee Kang grabbed his hand to stop him, and his face contorted from unsatisfied desire.

It was strange.

That expression kept stirring something dark within him.

A sadistic urge rose—to ravage him completely and make him cry beneath him.

“Ju… just…”

His reddened lips, flushed with heat, parted.

Lee Kang narrowed his eyes and waited for the rest.

Eun-gyo bit his lower lip once, then released it, reaching one hand back to clumsily grasp Lee Kang’s member still lodged inside him and pull it deeper.

“Put it in…”

At the barely audible urging, a smirk escaped him.

When it came to this, he was always short on words.

Yet he didn’t feel like scolding him.

If anything, it seemed endearing, like a child being spoiled.

It was an unfamiliar feeling.

It was rare for him to desire someone, and even rarer for someone to make him smile.

This was a problem.

Of all people, to be dealing with someone whose identity and heart were both unreadable…

But that was precisely why.

As Eun-gyo had said, that was what piqued his interest, and with him, the world could be silent—that too pleased him.

‘Good heavens… impossible…’

Amid the sounds of water, wind, and Eun-gyo’s moans, another noise mixed in.

Lee Kang’s face hardened instantly.

“I’d like to play with you more, but we’ll have to stop here.”

Grabbing Eun-gyo’s face, he covered his lips.

Because of their position, their lips couldn’t fully seal, and ragged breaths escaped.

In that state, his other hand gripped Eun-gyo’s waist and thrust up hard.

Thud, thud, splash!

The water made the friction sounds even louder.

“Hmmph!”

Eun-gyo swallowed his breath, trembling.

Once again, the water clouded with murky fluid.

Holding the shuddering Eun-gyo, Lee Kang thrust several more times.

With his inner walls being continuously stimulated during climax, Eun-gyo writhed helplessly.

“Haahk, let go, mph!”

Covering his mouth as if to devour him, he thrust deep enough to split his body in two.

At the rapid thrusting, Eun-gyo’s inner walls quaked and tightened around Lee Kang’s member.

Huff!

Lee Kang also frowned and stiffened.

When he broke the kiss, huff, huff, Eun-gyo gasped out the breath he’d been holding.

When he withdrew his member from behind and released him, his legs seemed to give out as he lurched forward.

Catching him with one arm around his waist, Lee Kang sat him against the edge of the tub and stepped out.

He draped only his dragon robe over himself and picked up the sword he’d set aside.

Then, without a moment’s hesitation, he walked toward the bamboo grove.

‘Heeek!’

Terrified at being discovered, the other tried to flee.

“Stop.

If you try to run and get caught, I’ll tear your limbs apart.”

At Lee Kang’s warning, the other froze.

When he slashed through the bamboo with his sword, the man hiding behind it fell backward, screaming.

“Sp-spare me, Your Highness!”

The man quickly knelt and pleaded.

“Spare you?

You dare spy on my private affairs and beg for your life?”

“I-it’s not that!

I didn’t mean to watch, it was just coincidence…”

Unlike his words, the man’s inner thoughts were a complete mess.

Various words surfaced in chaos, making it dizzying just to listen.

“Who sent you?”

“You misunderstand!

Who would dare do such a thing?

It really was coincidence.

I happened to pass by, heard sounds, and curiosity got the better of me…

I have committed a capital offense!

But it was never intentional.

Please, please show mercy, Your Highness!”

The man spoke rapidly.

Anyone else might have believed his words.

His face was filled with so much shock and injustice.

But it was a lie.

In his thoughts, the man had recalled ‘the Empress.’

This one was a spy sent by the Empress.

Having heard he’d brought a dancer, she must have been concerned she might bear a child.

But that wasn’t the problem.

“What did you see?”

He pressed his sword to the man’s throat and asked.

“Nothing…

I saw nothing.”

The man bowed his head and reported.

Perhaps he truly hadn’t seen anything, or perhaps he meant he wouldn’t speak even if he had.

‘That dancer was a man…

The Crown Prince was holding a man…

This is truly a disaster.’

The man’s inner thoughts spilled out as he kept his head bowed as if pressing it to the ground.

“You have seen what you should not have.”

Lee Kang’s voice dropped to a chilling depth.

As the man flinched and raised his head, Lee Kang’s sword swung high.

Swoosh.

The blade cut through the air and came down, severing the man’s neck as blood sprayed.

The man collapsed to the side, his eyes still open.

Drops of blood dripped from the tip of the sword.

Lee Kang’s face and dragon robe were also stained with the man’s blood.

“Ah…”

At the suppressed voice, Lee Kang finally turned around and subtly furrowed his brow.

Standing naked in the water, Eun-gyo was staring at him.

His trembling fingertips covering his mouth were clearly visible.

The eyes that held Lee Kang’s face were also shaking.

So this was his first time seeing someone killed.

Blood was still dripping from the sword in Lee Kang’s hand onto the ground.

“Now you’re afraid—how sudden.

Even if you’re an outsider, you must have heard rumors about me, no?”

He knew well what they said about him.

A cold-blooded killer without a drop of pity.

A murderer who shows no mercy even to women and children.

The epithet that had followed him since he personally cut down the child born on the night of two moons fifteen years ago.

Because he had led Sinhye Kingdom to victory in two wars, even that cruelty was now praised—but still, the image of him slaying a child was deeply etched in the hearts of the people and ministers.

“Didn’t King Seongrim tell you?”

The reason Eun-gyo could be so absurdly rude toward him was because he was a foreigner.

He didn’t know the Crown Prince—the cruel tyrant who wielded power over the palace and all of Sinhye Kingdom while propping up the decrepit Emperor—so he hadn’t feared him.

Or even if he’d heard, it hadn’t felt real.

“But even if you know now, it’s too late.”

Still wearing his dragon robe, he stepped into the tub.

As he walked closer, Eun-gyo, retreating backward, stumbled as he reached the edge of the tub.

“D-do not come…”

Eun-gyo cried out with a pale, horrified face.

With his back against the wall and nowhere left to run, Lee Kang wrapped an arm around his waist and pulled him close.

Eun-gyo’s wide eyes turned toward him.

Even in moments like this, he didn’t look away.

That was something he liked.

He moved the hand around his waist downward, slipping it between his buttocks, and spread the hole he had been ravaging moments ago.

Whether from the water that had pushed in or from the traces he’d left behind, the inside was slick and wet.

“Whether you fear me or not, it doesn’t matter.

I said to become my woman, holding my member like this.

That is the only way you survive.”

No sooner had the words ended than he covered Eun-gyo’s lips.

Eun-gyo struggled, trying to push against his chest, but Lee Kang caught both his hands with one.

Pushing his tongue deep enough to reach his throat and stirring wildly inside, Eun-gyo tried to turn his head away from the suffocation, but that too was not permitted.

“Mmph!”

After struggling for a moment, Eun-gyo soon went limp.

Only then did Lee Kang break the kiss—and saw that he had lost consciousness.

Having had intense s*x in the hot water, he must have already been dizzy.

Then, seeing Lee Kang covered in the blood of the man he’d beheaded, he must have looked like a demon to him.

And with a deep kiss that stole his breath away, it was a natural result.

“Is Court Lady Han outside?”

Removing his dragon robe, he wrapped it around Eun-gyo and lifted him.

Even if he feared him now, it was already too late.

Lee Kang had no intention of letting go of Eun-gyo—this creature who had fallen from somewhere unknown into the imperial court.

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