Chapter 76: Teasing the Empress

“Even if I were to hold you back and beg you not to go, it would hardly be enough, yet you keep pushing me to leave, which makes me want to go even less.”

“Did Your Majesty not say you set aside your state affairs to come here? If your servant were to detain you, it would be the height of disloyalty. How could I dare interfere with the nation’s business? Please, attend to your duties.”

To send the still-indifferent Emperor on his way, Haeryeong approached him and pressed a brief kiss to his cheek.

“I shall be waiting.”

The Emperor let out a short, mocking laugh.

If someone has gone to the trouble of kissing you, you should at least act pleased.

Why on earth was he making such a face?

Without needing to think twice, Haeryeong confirmed that the Emperor was indeed a loathsome man.

“You act so cutely while telling me to go back to that boring work; you truly are heartless.”

Haeryeong’s mouth parted slightly at his words.

His words and his expression were completely at odds.

Which part of his face was he looking at to call it cute?

He couldn’t understand it at all.

The Emperor smiled crookedly and pulled at Haeryeong’s back.

Thump.

As Haeryeong collapsed into his arms, the Emperor kissed him.

From the start, his tongue delved deep as if to block Haeryeong’s breath, stirring the entire mouth with a wet sound.

In an instant, his mouth became flooded with saliva.

Because the man licked at the root of his tongue as if trying to reach his throat, the saliva Haeryeong couldn’t swallow trickled down his chin.

He felt suffocated.

He knew he could breathe through his nose, but when his mouth was being ravaged like this, his body would not move as he wished.

Haeryeong, his shoulders bunching at the ticklish sensation, grabbed the Emperor’s dragon robe.

When he tugged on the fabric, pleading for him to stop, their lips finally separated for a moment.

While Haeryeong gasped for the air he lacked, the Emperor draped Haeryeong’s arms around his own neck and joined their lips again.

As Haeryeong let out a groan from the painful suction on his lips, the Emperor chuckled against his mouth.

‘I told you to stop, so why are you doing this?’

Unable to even push him away, Haeryeong endured the breathless kiss until his head grew dizzy, only then being released.

The Emperor pulled his lips away and peered into Haeryeong’s eyes, whispering.

“Your eyes are unfocused.”

Even as he spoke those brief words, the Emperor’s lips traced over his cheeks and chin.

“Do you realize you are looking at me as if asking for more?”

‘My eyes are unfocused because I can’t breathe.’

Haeryeong barely swallowed the words rising to his throat and lowered his gaze.

“I apologize…”

The Emperor swallowed his lips again.

By the time Haeryeong regained his senses, the Emperor’s hand had already slipped inside his inner jacket.

A shiver ran down his spine at the touch caressing his side and lower belly with a heavy pressure.

Haeryeong barely managed to pull his head back to break the kiss and called the Emperor’s name in a gasping voice.

“Your… Majesty…”

“You called?”

He had barely managed to pull his head back, but the Emperor followed him closely and whispered against his lips.

As Haeryeong retreated and the Emperor pursued him repeatedly, Haeryeong soon found himself almost lying on the bed, cradled in the Emperor’s arms.

“I should be going to attend to state affairs, but how can I, when the Empress is seducing me like this?”

The Emperor had already pulled open his inner jacket.

The Emperor leaned down, his lips touching sensitive flesh.

Tracing a long path up his arched side, the Emperor licked Haeryeong’s chest.

Taking a now-stiff nipple into his mouth and rolling it with his tongue, he spoke with slurred, mocking words.

“You’ve already made it stand like this; if the servants knew, they would curse you for being undignified.”

Startled by his words, Haeryeong twisted his body.

“Pl-please, let me go.”

“As you wish.”

When the Emperor obediently let go, Haeryeong ended up lying flat on the bed.

While he was still startled by the touch of the quilt, the Emperor climbed over Haeryeong’s waist and began to caress his body.

“St-stop, please.”

Haeryeong twisted his upper body to avoid the hands that were slithering up his frame like serpents.

Every time the Emperor’s hands moved, a faint shiver ran through him.

His hot palms began to steadily heat skin that was already more sensitive than usual due to the approaching heat cycle.

As Haeryeong shifted restlessly, the Emperor sat back on Haeryeong’s thighs and chuckled.

“Your penis has already grown so hard. I see, you must want to rub it.”

“No, no. It is not like that…”

The Emperor rubbed his hands all over Haeryeong’s body.

As the Emperor stimulated his penis with his hand, Haeryeong’s waist bucked involuntarily.

“Hng…”

“That’s it, rub against me. For the Empress’s sake, I shall at least provide my palm.”

Haeryeong was on the verge of going mad.

The movement of the hand tracing his penis was so lewd that he squeezed his eyes shut and twisted his waist.

It was a movement meant to escape the man’s hand, yet he was pinned down by the Emperor’s weight and could not move an inch.

The Emperor wore a joyful expression, as if misinterpreting Haeryeong’s movements.

“You are doing well. Keep rubbing like that.”

Whenever Haeryeong stopped moving, the Emperor moved for him.

Bewilderment and shame mixed together, causing heat to flood his face.

Regardless of Haeryeong’s face turning red, the Emperor continued to rub his hand up and down.

When the Emperor curled his fingers around the shaft of his penis and squeezed, Haeryeong’s waist bucked of its own accord.

Caught in a sensation he could not control, Haeryeong sobbed, unable to find any way out.

“You must not… please… Your Majesty, please, ah, do not do this…”

No matter how much he tossed and turned, the Emperor would not budge.

Haeryeong raised his arms to push him away, only to have both his hands captured.

“Why be so reserved? I am rubbing you out of consideration for the Empress.”

“Please do not do this. Let me go.”

As Haeryeong began to sniffle and weep, the strength left the Emperor’s hands.

After staring down at the man weeping with a beet-red face, the Emperor finally moved off his thighs and sat on the edge of the bed.

Haeryeong hurried to sit up and closed the front of his disheveled inner jacket.

Perhaps due to the shock, his tears did not stop easily even after the Emperor had pulled away.

Haeryeong tied the sash with trembling hands.

Unable to even think about smoothing out the messily wrinkled jacket, he let his hands hang limp.

Seeing Haeryeong weep so sorrowfully, the Emperor reached out and whispered in a slightly softened voice.

“Were you that startled?”

Haeryeong jumped the moment the Emperor’s hand touched him, and his hands instinctively clenched into fists.

He froze just before he would have struck the Emperor to push him away.

The Emperor laughed heartily and pulled Haeryeong into an embrace, patting his back.

“Did you hate it that much? It is surprising to see the modest Empress raise a hand against me.”

Haeryeong glared venomously at the Emperor with tear-filled eyes.

“Does it please Your Majesty so much to humiliate your servant?”

As he protested while sobbing, the Emperor’s eyebrows drooped.

He might have intended to look apologetic, but his eyes were shining with amusement.

Furthermore, the smile still hanging on his lips only made him look more spiteful.

The Emperor used his fingers to wipe away the moisture that had gathered on Haeryeong’s lower lashes before falling, and then he let out a fake cough.

“It is because you are so cute that I become so mischievous.”

Haeryeong’s eyes tightened further.

Why was he blaming others for his own wicked heart?

He was glaring with all his might, yet seeing the Emperor’s grinning face, it seemed utterly useless.

Finally, when Haeryeong turned his head away with a sigh, the man rubbed his lips against his ear and whispered.

“Do not give up already. It wounds me.”

The Emperor pressed close and murmured for him to show more of his anger.

Haeryeong could not even beat his stifled chest; he simply clenched both fists.

What was he to do with this infuriating heart?

Today, once again, resentment continued to pile up within his soul.

Gangcheon was eventually pushed out of the private quarters by Haeryeong.

Normally, preparations for dinner would have been in full swing by now.

In any case, the Empress’s intuition was worth less than a pile of dog dung.

Even if one wanted to use it as medicine, where could any be found?

He too was a fool for stopping his work and rushing here just to humiliate such a boring person.

He couldn’t even bring himself to be angry at the absurdity, so he just kept letting out short, repetitive chuckles.

Since the pyeonjeon and the Great Hall were not far apart, he strolled along with his entourage, only to find an unwelcome person waiting for him in the Great Hall courtyard.

It was Court Lady Han from the Consort’s Palace.

“I humble myself before Your Majesty.”

Court Lady Han bowed deeply as if she had been waiting for Gangcheon to stop.

“I have no memory of summoning you to the Great Hall; what is the matter?”

Gangcheon had already received a report on the Consort’s condition before coming to the Great Hall.

They said he was poisoned with jealousy; had he already lost his patience and sent a servant?

Gangcheon openly clicked his tongue.

Hearing that sound, Court Lady Han bowed her head even deeper.

“I have come to deliver a message from Noble Consort Jeong.”

“A message? What is it? Speak.”

“He asked… to inquire if Your Majesty still remembers your promise.”

Gangcheon glared intensely at the back of the bowed Court Lady Han’s head.

Perhaps because he was offended, a stern voice escaped him involuntarily.

“Tell the Consort: We still remember the promise, but We must ask back how the Consort is faring with his.”

Court Lady Han flinched and took a step back.

Gangcheon did not wait for her reply and left his final words.

“Furthermore, tell the Consort to pay no more heed to the Empress’s heat cycle.”

“In addition, for as long as the Empress remains here, We shall not permit anyone from the Consort’s Palace to set foot in the Great Hall.”

“Anyone who disobey this command shall be beheaded on the spot.”

“There shall be no exceptions. Do you understand?”

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