Jewel In The Palace

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The story of Emperor Donghae and his slave, Eunhyuk
... and the pet tiger Bada.
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This story is a remake of my old story Precious. It was a KiHyuk one shot I did years a go (you can still find it in my LJ). When I saw Donghae saying that he wanted to keep a tiger pet in one of the shows he hosted with Shindong, I decided to do this remake.
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Warning: I am terrible with period-setting/ historicat setting, so I'll leave it to your imagination where (and what year) the story is set. Please ignore the historical inaccuracies and just enjoy the story!
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Poster credits to: CrazySuJuNoona
Beta readers: CrazySuJuNoona and GuidingLight
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Foreword

0: SLAVE MARKET


 

”This is the slave market, Your Highness, the citizens in this area don’t have enough helpers to do their daily chores and producing goods, so they keep slaves captured by the pirates to run the economics”, his General, Kyuhyun, motioned to the men and women on the wooden crates.


As the only surviving son of the Emperor meant Donghae was to be the next Emperor over his country. He fought hard to keep the whole country under his command, unlike his father who softened a lot and caused many rebellions and corruptions.

 

 

Donghae was only nineteen when his father died, but he knew what he wanted and soon his army doubled in size, he used his power to take control over the outer tribes, attacking smaller countries around his own and widened his land. The Empire was stronger than ever.



Five years after he was crowned as the Emperor, Donghae’s army conquered the islands on the Southern border. Pirates colonized the islands, spreading terrors on the inhabitants, the rich people living on the coasts turned a blind eye over the injustice and sufferings, in exchange of luxurious lives and riches brought by the pirates.


Donghae’s army wiped out the pirates and installed new government officials covering the area, setting new rules and regulations, now the islands were part of his Empire. He chased the pirates and sank many pirates ships, giving harsh executions to the pirates caught, setting his authority over the area.


The Emperor looked around, slavery was uncommon in the mainland, he would have to discuss the issue with his advisors later. As for now, he decided to get a good look at the custom.


 

“What is that?” Donghae pointed at another crate in the corner, it was almost empty, the content only consisted of a person, curling on the dusty floor, completely oblivious to the surrounding.
 

 

Kyuhyun asked the slave trader about the crate and explained to his Emperor, “Don’t bother about that crate Your Majesty, it’s just some left over slave from the market.”
 

 

Ignoring his general, Donghae came closer to the crate and saw the person laying on the bottom of the crate. It was a young male, but it was a bit hard to determine that by just looking at his face.


The man was almost too feminine to be male but lacking the curves of a woman. He was laying in fetal position, a long wound tore the skin on his right thigh, the skin around the bloody wound started to blackened and he was obviously in pain.


The slave’s eyes were closed, he was shaking in fever probably due to the infection. Dirt smudged his face and body, his dark hair was messy and tangled, but something intrigued the Emperor about the slave. He found himself taken by the slave with a strange feeling.

 

 

The slave trader mentioned something the slave as, “... too weak, not good with household chores ... too clumsy, but not strong enough for farm work ... ugly and too awkward as slave ... not making any money out of him ...”
 

 

“Take him, I want him alive”, Donghae told Kyuhyun, “Give the dealer some gold”.
 

 

The next thing heard was a scream of agony as the man forced the sick slave to get up, two guards dragged the emaciated body to a carriage. The emperor’s words were to be obeyed, not questioned.


Gold coins exchanged hands, but before the trader tried to sell more slaves to the young Emperor, Donghae already left.

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hyukkie_chin
1455 streak #1
Chapter 8: Kept on going back to the epilogue. I just love this. 💙
Kethryveris
#2
Cette histoire est magnifique. Merci
Piranhae07
#3
Chapter 8: So happy they both found each other again after reincarnation ;-; I wonder why Hyuk died in the past tho... did someone attack him again? :< poor Hae had to endure all those years alone...
And I love that tiger so much like omg so adorable >< wish my own doggo would be so protective! Tysm for writing this ♡
Piranhae07
#4
Chapter 5: Now I want that queen dead ):< my poor bby Hyukkie ㅠㅠ
hyukkie_chin
1455 streak #5
Chapter 8: Here I am again rrading the epilogue! :)) one of the best epilogues for me and also on of my favs to read! :))
misshae227 #6
Chapter 8: Love the story and epilogue💙 One way or the other EunHae will always find each other. The loyalty and devotion are as real as in dne and in their friendship
inkartemis
#7
Chapter 8: Amazing story I really loved it. Thank you so much for writing this! ♡
eunhaewild
#8
Chapter 8: i'm curious about who killed eunhyuk & did donghae get revenge ? or he didn't know who killed eunhyuk
it's so sad but also realistic though :/
thank you for the update i like it ^^
nilsor #9
Chapter 8: I love this so much!! Thank you for sharing authornim, looking forward w your upcoming stories