Crackle- The cold underground dungeon of the imperial palace. At the sound of someone rushing over, Consort Suk, who had been crouched in a corner, flinched and trembled. Soon, the footsteps stopped in front of her iron bars.
"Your Highness. Your Highness…!"
Consort Suk lifted her buried gaze to look at the one who had come to see her.
Maidservant Giye.
She was the handmaid Consort Suk had placed at Choryeon's side when she first entered the imperial palace. Though captured as a criminal, she was tasked with monitoring Choryeon's every move—what treatment she received, where she stayed in the palace, what she did.
However, when the Emperor suddenly moved Choryeon's quarters to the Heavenly Purity Palace and cut off contact with the outside, they had lost touch.
"Sob… Your Highness. How did it… how did it come to this…."
Giye wept at the sight of Consort Suk.
"I am sorry, Your Highness. I was inadequate… I could not be of help. As you instructed earlier, right after the rebellion broke out, I sent that woman to the Central Harmony Hall…."
"So it was thanks to you that the wench came to the Central Harmony Hall."
She had thought she was betrayed when contact was lost.
"But that is enough. I have avenged my son's death."