[Story #4] A Different Ending {Side Story: Kim Sung Yeol}}
[Collection] Gwi & Hye Ryeong (Scholar Who Walked the Night)Hundred years instantly passed by. In the curtain of night, Kim Sung Yeol stood on the top of the palace roof and oversaw the sleeping country.
"You cannot leave," Lee Yoon said.
"Why not? Gwi has already left. This country and its citizens are freed. Isn't this enough?"
"It is uncertain when Gwi will return. Isn't it true that you didn't destroy him? At that timeif there is not enough resistance..."
"Your Highness, you want me to become the second Gwi?" Kim Sung Yeol became agitated.
"No. You are different."
"Your Highness..."
"I want you and Yang Sun to remain here together." Lee Yoon looked at Yang Sun's bulging baby bump. "The first daughter from every generation in your familyline will marry into the palace, as a secret treaty. This will serve to keep our mutual trust."
"Forgive me. For the country, for the safety of the citizens, I cannot not do this. I... need you!" Lee Yoon said earnestly.
***
In the beginnning, with a heart that loved his country with absolute sincerity, he agreed to Lee Yoon's demands, but now... He closed his eyes, trying to forget those scenes of the past that continuously leap before his eyes. In the palace garden, a small human shadow suddenly appeared before his eyes, and without the slightest hesitation, he flew down to greet said person.
"Great grandfather!" An innocent little girl happily ran towards him, and threw herself into Sung Yeol's arms coquettishly. This child had a pair of big rabbit-like eyes, just like the her in his memories.
"Good girl." He said as he gently caressed the child's head."
"Sir." A servant bowed.
"Where are you taking her?"
"Your Highness wants to see the child."
"See her? I am coming along."
***
In the meeting hall, an aged king sitting on his throne, turbid eyes gazed up and down at the little girl holding hands with Kim Sung Yeol.
"For what reason has Your Highness calls us here?"
"What else can there be?" He laughed. "This child is your family's only daugther, right? I have already or
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