Yeho by Anasis
Part 4
Part 4
“Yeho.”
He
turned around with his pale face. His small shoulders and skinny face made the Emperor feel annoyed.
“You
didn’t eat again.”
“I
wasn’t hungry. If I get that kind of fancy meal three times a day, even if it
was a healthy man, it’s too much. Isn’t it Your Majesty?”
“Then
you should’ve at least ate something I prepared, porridge with ginseng. I even
ordered them to put quail meat.”
“Hahaha.
You told them to do that? They will make fun of you. What kind of emperor takes
care of his meal?”
“I
don’t do that if it was my meal.”
“That
makes it even worse.”
He
joked around and coughed. The Emperor got surprised and put his hand on his
back.
“Ah,
I’m okay. It’s just a minor cough.”
“I
heard you watched the rain again yesterday.”
Yeho
just smiled.
“I
told you not to leave the window opened. Even if it’s spring, it’s too cold.
You just got better after being sick during winter. How much do I have to say
more?”
“I
was happy that it rained… Today is very clear because it rained. I feel great
looking at a clear sky after seeing dusty sky, and the air is very clean.”
“Even
so.”
“I
wore thick clothes. When will it shower?”
“When
will you stop asking me that question? That kind of strong rain takes more than 10
days to come.”
“I
heard that if the weather gets warmer, the magnolia flowers will bloom?”
“That’s
what I’ve been told.”
I
don’t care about the flower season. One day Yeho asked about magnolia flower,
so I asked a gardener. Now he is waiting for the flower to bloom. I looked at
him with displeased face and said.
“Do
you like magnolia flower that much?”
“Yes,
it’s like my sister.”
“You
always talk about your sister.”
“Hahaha.
She was always wet because of her rain-like brother. Every year I gave her a
hard time. She lost her mother because of my mother and because of me she was
pushed aside. Even so she never complained and took care of me. And when my
sister’s eyes were about to dry, it rained again.”
The
Emperor kept his stern expression. He doesn’t show lot of expression because of
his cold personality, but it’s also because he was trained to do that ever
since he was a crowned prince. Yeho knew that, and he smiled. The Emperor looked
at him and shook his head.
“Never
mind. Even if you smile, even if you talk about the rain and magnolia flower, I
won’t let you pass this time. I told them to prepare the porridge again. You
must eat that.”
“Oh
no. I should’ve at least acted like I was eating.”
He
had a perplexed face, but he smiled happily. Looking at Yeho like that, the
Emperor slightly smiled. This man is weird. The Emperor murmured inside of him.
I thought he was a weird man when I first met him. No, I thought he was a
woman that time. My father who loved woman gathered all the beautiful women
around the small kingdoms, and the last one he called was Princess Sooyoung
from a small kingdom where I don’t even remember the name. My father was so
thrill for her to come, but she always postponed the dates. Finally he threatened
them with his weak body and at last they were preparing for her to leave. But
even before she left the kingdom, my father died. I did the coronation
forgetting about Princess Sooyoung. I had organized the empire because there
were some business that he already started, and I had to go on a patrol to show
people their new emperor. Because of those busy days her existence disappeared
in my head. And after I got from the patrol, because of my father death, that
woman had to come in as my concubine. I heard the news that she was dying. She
was weak when they were coming, and she lived with cough ever since she came.
Nobody called her to greet. They said she just stayed in her small palace and
waited for her death day to come. I remember before my father died, he always
had her name around him, so I got curious and went to see her.
It was weird that no one came out from the palace when I came. There were no
servants who always had to stand there and wait, and no servants were running
around busily. I told the body guards to leave before I came here, and the palace looked like no
one was living there. It was gloomier because of that. There was nobody inside
of the palace also. Where did all those servants go? I should scold the head of
the servants. Then I heard a faint humming sound. It was strange but familiar
soft sound. I saw a woman sitting next to the window humming a song closing
her eyes. An awkward make-up clearly showed her pale complexion. Her long
hair was loosely tied, and her clothing wasn’t very neatly done. It was very
strange to me because I only saw women with nice make-up and neatly did their
hair with oil and decorate themselves with bunch of jewelry. When I stepped
inside the room, I felt the cold air right instant, so I closed the window
right away. Then I heard her voice saying leave it be. She probably thought I
was a maid because she called out her name. Her voice was little deeper than
any women, but I heard she lives with cough. I didn’t think it was weird. It
made me focus on to her more because of her low but strangely soft voice. But the
woman didn’t say anything anymore, and I purposely talked to her. She opened
her eyes with surprise and stared at me because she wasn’t expecting a man’s
voice. I was surprised that she had clear brown eyes. The color was like a baby
deer that I caught last time. And her hair wasn’t black either. It was like
dark wooden brown color. But her face wasn’t beautiful. The lines were very
thin but not beautiful. I never thought this woman was a man until he calmly
told me.
“It’s
heated. I’m fine with cold one…”
The
servant had a porridge on a tray. Yeho said it with perplexed face, and the
Emperor woke up from his day dream.
“It’s
not okay. If your lungs are weak, he said it’s not good to leave your body
cold.”
Yeho
smiled weakly and started to eat the porridge. The Emperor smiled looking at
him eating the porridge little by little. The body that was thin like a chopstick
now gained some weight. His complexion was better. He didn’t look like a
patient anymore. The Emperor felt strange that he felt happy about that. This
man is definitely weird. This man named Yeho made me happy in a strange place.
He
confessed being a male, but he neither made any excuses nor begged for his life.
He said that the sins he committed deceiving the Emperor, and with his
male body coming into the concubines’ palace are worth to die. Asking him to
kill him with that dying face didn’t make the Emperor mad or lose his word. Yes,
that was weird. He didn’t take out his sword like usual when he rudely talked
back to him. Instead he replied back with his word. Maybe I was bewitched by
his clear brown eyes that didn’t match with his boney face. Or maybe it was
because of the humming lullaby sound mixed with the rain sound. Anyway, I
didn’t want to use my sword on him. Just like he said, he deceived the Emperor
and came inside the concubines’ palace with a male body. It was obvious that I
should’ve killed him or send him away to royal army. But I didn’t want to do
any of those.
He
is weird. The Emperor thought about it again and touched his long hair. His
brown eyes looked at the Emperor as predicted. The Emperor smiled.
“Your
hair was about to get inside the porridge.”
Yeho
put down his spoon and collect his hair to the one side. He missed the feeling
of his hair sliding through his fingers.
“It’s
always like this. I can’t organize my hair. I’m not neat…”
Yeho
was little bit hastily and sloppily tied his hair. The Emperor was curious why
he was in a hurry. He organized his baby hair sticking out.
“What
about not being neat? It looks bothering you, but I like your hair. I don’t
like hair that’s organized with oil. It looks too greasy. The government
officials and concubines are all the same. Sometimes I feel like I'm looking at dolls.
You don’t put hair oil on your hair?”
“Then
I need to wash it out anyway. If I don’t wash it every day, it collects dusts,
and that causes coughs for me.’
“Is
it? That’s why you hair is always looks like a feather.”
The
Emperor touched his shiny but little dry hair. Depending on the side of light,
his hair looked red or brown. He carefully observed his hair and said.
“Your
color is unique.”
“Is
that so?”
“Yes.
It looks black, but it changes when the light hit.”
“My
mother was like that. She had a dark wooden brown color.”
Yeho
took out his hair from the Emperor’s hand.
“It’s
time, Your Majesty. You should go. It’s time for your government affair.”
The
Emperor frowned.
“It
seems like you know my schedule better than I do.”
“It’s
because I can see the eunuch wondering if he should come in or not from
outside.”
He
replied and started to eat again.
“If
you go for your work then I will finish this bowl.”
The
Emperor stood up.
“I’m
going to come and check after I finish my work. And I’m going to come little
late to check if you closed the window.”
“You
are going to be back?”
Yeho
asked with surprised look, and the Emperor nodded.
“Why?
I can’t?”
“It’s
not like that… You Majesty. I think you are coming here too often… Don’t people
say anything bad?”
Yeho
frowned because of worry.
“Why,
did you hear something?”
“No,
it’s not like that but…”
Yeho
dragged his last word, and the Emperor put his hand on his shoulder and shook
his head.
“You
worry too much. Finish your porridge.”
He
strictly ordered him and left the room smiling.
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Thank you very much for translating korean BL novels!
ReplyDeleteI have a question about this one: doesn't it feel, after reading this chapter, that there is a chapter (or more) missing?
I hope this novel has a happy ending!
There are more parts. This is not the end. I just made this post to organize the chapters
DeleteI know there are more parts (btw how many more?), what I meant was I thought there would be a chapter about what happened after Yeho told to the emperor he is a man. It seemed like a chapter was missing between chapter 3 and 4.
DeleteAnyway thanks for the new update! 2 days ago I posted a comment about your website on "mangago" to help you to find new readers. Hope it helped!
It definately feels like something was skipped. And thanks for translating this,I really love the story so far.
ReplyDeleteThe story just goes like this... I think Part 5 briefly say what happened..
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