Jaejoong heard the silent knock on his bedroom door. He closed the wardrobe and walked to the door. He couldn't help but smile when he heard the voice outside his room.

"Jaejoong, please open the door," pleaded the woman's soft voice.

He opened the door and Queen Jessica quietly strode through the door. He quickly closed the door.

"If someone sees you here, Jessica, it would create a scandal. Your husband would be shamed," he warned her.

"I was careful. I made sure that no one saw me. Besides, with the way I am dressed, anyone who saw me would assume I am just one of the maids in the villa."

Jessica was indeed wearing the white and black uniform of the maids complete with a green apron and headscarf. At first glance, one would immediately assume she was just one of the maids going about their usual duties. The servants were the last to sleep and rest in the villa because they had to make sure that everything had been cleaned and was in order so that everyone would wake up with a clean house the next day.

But if one would look closely, someone with Jessica's light brown eyes and comely face would never become a maid. Beautiful women, even of low birth never found themselves working as servants. There were a lot of men who would gladly support them as wife or as mistress. And the headscarf couldn't completely cover Jessica's bright red hair. Red-headed women were quite rare in Haldor, and most of them came from Yore.

After Jessica was crowned queen, it became fashionable for women to dye their hair red. There was an abundance of young women with red hair during those first years of Jessica's marriage to Donghae. But no one, even the famed alchemists of Risine, were able to create a dye that could properly match the color of Jessica's hair. Jessica's hair had often been compared by bards to the redness and brightness of the setting sun because of its unique golden-red color.

The Queen of Haldor climbed on Jaejoongs's bed.

"Jessica, you should not do this," he admonished her. "I told you before that there can never be anything between us but friendship now that you are a married woman."

"Rumors say that you don't care even if a woman is married."

"That was when I was young and stupid. But I had since then learned a lot from my mistakes."

"Are you telling me that you do not desire me?" She began unfastening the knots that held the opening of the upper bodice of