"What are you doing?" The Crown Prince was approaching her with an umbrella.

"Crown Prince?" She was a bit bewildered. It was already late into the night, so what did the Crown Prince come here for? She erased the rest of the tears and adjusted her emotions before welcoming the Crown Prince. 

"You cried?" He was a bit confused as to seeing her tinted-red eyes. For what reason was she upset? For such a cold woman, what could make like this? 

"A rainy night alone is enough to make a person upset. As for Hye Ryeong, it's just that the scenery stirs up memories," she replied gently.

"So you could shed tears for a rainy night, then what could make you smile?" He knows that the scenery stirring up memories is her excuse only. He did not expose her, because he knows that what can make her shed tears must be of a difficult circumstance.

What could make her smile? She wasn't observing Noble Silence but did she lose her smile? Was the word 'smile" that far away for her? Since her mother passed away, this word disappeared from her. She seemed to have forgotten how to smile and and be happy.

Seeing that she did not say anything, he did not continue on asking. "Forget it. Prepare yourself for you're coming me to the temple to meet mother." 

"Yes." 

"It's cold, so don't stay out for too long. Rest early. I will wait for you in the front hall tomorrow morning."

"Yes. Crown Prince be safe on your way back." After said that, she only felt the Crown Prince take a deep look at her, and then raising his umbrella and disappearing into the night. 

***

Tonight seemed to be a special night. Moreover, on this night, these three people's fates were  tied together tightly. In the days to come, what would they experience? The King, the king's opposer and Gwi's life and death counterbalanced with her being his