sleep didn’t invade him that night and was far away from his eyes, so many things worried him, but the thing that worried him most was the silence from hye ryeong, he heard from palace guards that she visited somewhere out after soo hyang has come to deliver the news, but where ? did gwi called her and troubled again ? if not where else she could go and become that silent. It seemed like a different self from her, he has seen her cold and mysterious side, also when she was crying and a few times when she was smiling and some confidence and kindness when she assured him that “you have me, please don’t say that” when he was feeling very low upon the incidents, but this her, he felt like she was empty now, like life has been out of her, and it disturbed him a lot, so yoon decided to take a walk around the palace.

“ I thought you asked me to visit you” yoon asked as he saw sung yeol in the conference room, he earlier heard the news from hye ryeong that kim sung yeol has sent a word asking him to visit, he thought of doing that the first thing tomorrow.
“nothing majesty, I just wanted to take a look at the throne” sung yeol said, it was one place where he can see his prince jung hyun, the one who started this battle for good and his best friend, even though crown prince jung hyun has died years ago the same day as myeong hee did, he couldn’t bid them any farewell upon them leaving his life, time has come now since his time has come to an end, may be a few days were left and as the plan will take on action when he will tell the present king, there might be nothing left, maybe he can’t see him here, but this place was same, the palace so he decided to visit here one last time.
“oh” yoon said in response, but silence filled as they both were having thoughts of their own but yoon decided to break it
“you had some news haven’t you ?”
“please visit me tomorrow majesty, I will tell you there” sung yeol said as he remembered the day incidents again. Yoon just nodded thinking maybe he has a reason not to speak here. And for the second time there was silence, sung yeol was still looking at the throne thinking about jung hyun’s words and yoon about hye ryeong and it was yoon who once again broke it
“can I ask you a favor, for something personal ?” well, since it was from after soo hyang visited hye ryeong and left was from when she seemed like this, maybe she have an idea on what was troubling hye ryeong, sung yeol sat beside where yoon took his seat and gestured him to ask
“can you please ask your follower if she knew anything about where she went after her visit ? or did they talk about anything in particular” sung yeol just stared at him since he was sure that yoon has something more to tell and yoon sure did as he continued saying
“the queen, she seemed troubled after soo hyang came and left and she herself went out following soo hyang, I was wondering if you could talk to soo hyang once” yoon finished, never once he imagined he could look into things this way, if it were his normal self he would have waited for hye ryeong to open up herself, but the face of trouble her was concerning him a lot and he couldn’t help but ask. 
sung yeol knew the answer, but he couldn’t tell yet, he decided to tell him tomorrow.  But there was something else other than just concern he can see in yoon’s eyes, and that emotion was not new to him
“is it out of concern or anything more majesty?” and there was some confusion and also so many emotions flowed in yoon’s eyes, sung yeol smiled at that, he is falling for her, yet is unaware of his own feelings,
“why are you smiling just now ?” it is best if he figures out himself or better if he doesn’t with the current events, that may be the best for the time being
“nothing majesty” sung yeol said, what does that smile mean ? yoon wondered but sung yeol won’t say,
“I will look into it” sung yeol lied, just to reassure him for the time being, for one night he wanted everyone to have a good night’s sleep, he felt like a hyung trying to assure things to his younger brother,  since yoon was one of the people that didn’t fear his existence as a vampire, and approached him with respect, yoon and hye ryeong were people he expected least to show him that respect and turns out that they did give him that respect. Hye ryeong, the look alike of his myeong hee who he thought was completely opposite proved her to be the same, she was never the side of gwi and always against him and though he wanted so much to help her and yoon, he was just as helpless in the present situation with all the power he has, may be this was all their fate. Yoon left after a while, sung yeol stayed a bit longer than he thought he would be but as the time for sun rise has come he left.

“sunbae, don’t leave just yet” hye ryeong stopped yoon as he was leaving to kim sung yeol, with the black robe, he decided that giving it back might be the best thing and also hye ryeong has suggested him to do it the first thing in the morning. To yoon’ surprise she didn’t seem like yesterday, and she was quiet cheerful to say which made yoon wonder more
“please take a seat sunbae” hye ryeong asked him and yoon did taking his steps back to his table, hye ryeong placed the tray on his table and she also sat down, she carefully poured him a drink and extended towards him as she said
“I brew it myself, it is lavender rose tea sunbae, it helps to relieve stress and exhaustion” does she know I am exhausted ? then doesn’t she knew that she was the one that caused him that stress ? but those words didn’t leave his lips as he saw her smiling at him, a very warm one at that as she gestured him to drink and he followed as he took a sip of the tea
“how is it sunbae ?” and it was okay, may be a little sweetening could do, he is someone who likes things if they were a little more sweeter than they normally were
“it is great hye ryeong ah” he lied, but the smile on her face brightened and hye ryeong happily said
“thank you sunbae” well worth a lie then yoon thought.
“I am going to meet with kim sung yeol and come” yoon said as he finished the tea.
“please take care on your way sunbae” hye ryeong said as yoon got back to leave, yoon nodded and left to his way to kim sung yeol’s place.  This is all I can do for you sun- ani oppa, I am sorry hye ryeong though to herself as yoon left closing the door as she slumped back to the seat, act the best as she can and as happy as she can so that , no I am not going to let that thought cross my mind and she slapped that thought away and sighed heavily.

this is a different side of her, and her doing things for me. Yoon thought as he closed the door behind him, not that he hated that but rather liked her doing this for him, for some unknown reason it increased hope in him, hope to live on. Smiling he walked towards his horse and also with some of his guards following him he started to kim sung yeol.
“here your black robe”
“why are you giving it back to me ?”sung yeol asked, there were quite a few moments where they could return him that but didn’t but not did, why now? Or why not till now ?
“me and the queen decided it is for the best since you will be powerful than gwi” well a point, but queen you say, I am afraid that you already fell for her majesty sung yeol thought as he took the black robe from yoon’s hand and thanked him
“thank you for trusting me” yoon nodded assuring him as he asked sung yeol
“so what do you want to talk about ?”
“I have found the plan to kill gwi ” sung yeol declared and yoon was full of questions on how and when and what. Sung yeol explained things to him, a few minutes of serious talk and yoon left the place with a heavy expression.