Yoon Shik was hit against Do Yeong, who was looking angry. "Forgive me," Yoon Shik told Yeong and looked at him. "Why are you looking angry?" Yoon Shik then asked him.
Do Yeong shook his head. "Nothing. You were coming from the pavilion?" Yeong asked Yoon Shik, hiding the truth from him.
"Yes. Are you done studying?" Yoon Shik asked Yeong as the two started walking towards their dormitory. "Yes, I am done studying. Tomorrow there is a test and then we can go to the market. Do you want to go? You will get to meet your sister as well," Yeong suggested to Yoon Shik.
"I wish I could go but I had pending assignments. After my hands get injured, I got many pending works," Yoon Shik proclaimed. "Even I want to meet my sister so desperately but I think I need to wait for two weeks," Yoon Shik pronounced.
Do Yeong shook his head in agreement. "Did you write the essay on governing principles of our Kingdom?" Do Yeong with an inquisitiveness asked.
"No, I still need to complete it. In yesterday's test, I got less marks. I need to focus and study more else I won't be able to qualify the exam," Yoon Shik worriedly said.
"It is just the first month. You will cope with this. Just study daily and jot down the important points on the notebook so that you will not forget them," Do Yeong advised Yoon Shik who was nodding his head.
"Many corrupt activities also go on during the national examination. Nobles mostly bribe the Gwageo Department officials- Department related to civil services and future government officers. Chungin (middle class) has no chance to survive in that exam so, you can see how the level increases. You have good knowledge of everything so, just sharpen them more so that no official from Gwageo department can fail you."
Yoon Shik shook his head in agreement. "Do Yeong, what if someone from the department willingly fail me? I do not think I will be able to raise my voice or claim for anything. I am confused regarding this too- I hate this class system," Yoon Shik with an annoyance stated as he slammer his hand against the pillar.
Do Yeong stopped so was Yoon Shik. "Even I hate it but what can we do except accepting it. Do not let your confidence get down. Nothing would happen and you will surely be passed from here," Do Yeong gave encouragement to Yoon Shik.
"Hmm. Now, tell me why are you disturbed? Did something happen?" Yoon Shik asked Yeong. Yeong had averted his gaze from Yoon Shik and stood at the edge and got seated on the wooden bar made at the edge.
"I want to get free from everything. I want freedom," Yeong finally spoke, taking a deep sigh. "I am confused, somewhere terrified and many indescribable emotions are developing inside me." Yoon Shik put his hand on Do Yeong's shoulder.
"I am stuck from every single side. Why my life is being controlled? After two weeks, I will have to meet his majesty's daughter. Even if I want to run, I cannot," Yeong pronounced and deeply sighed.
"Do not run away from your problems. Just face them," both Yoon Shik and Do Yeong heard Lee Eunshi who happened to hear their last conversation. Lee Eunshi came near them. "It is time to bring a lover for you. This is the best possible way to do turn the things right for you. If you will not do anything now then do not even complain later," Yeong pronounced.
"Lee Eunshi is saying right. You must get rid of this as soon as possible. This is the matter of his majesty's daughter and if you will do late in this then things will be difficult to handle for you," Yoon Shik opined.
"I have a plan. Let's go to the room and then I will share the plan with you," Lee Eunshi told Do Yeong and the three left from there. As they entered the room, they saw Sunwo and Sung Tae were sleeping. "Wake them up," Lee Eunshi voiced in a commanding manner. Yoon Shik woke up Sunwo while Do Yeong woke up Sung Tae.
Lee Eunshi closed the doors behind him when Sunwo asked while rubbing his eyes, "Why did you wake me up? I was dreaming after such a long time," Sunwo muttered as he yawned.
"We need to help Do Yeong," Yoon Shik stated who was sitting beside Sunwo whose eyes grew bigger upon hearing Yoon Shik's statement. Sung Tae who was sitting beside Do Yeong asked him if everything was good from his end.
"After two weeks, Do Yeong will meet the princess and in the next meet we have to, by hook or crook, cut off the princess from his life. In short, we need to break their relationship without anyone's notice," suggested Lee Eunshi who sat on the mattress of his bed.
"Princess? We will be given death punishment if anyone will find about this," Sung Tae worriedly said.
"No one will find out unless it will be among five of us," stated Lee Eunshi.
"What's the plan, then?" Park Sunwo asked excitedly.
"We have to find a woman for Do Yeong," Lee Eunshi stated. Both Sunwo and Sung Tae began laughing. Holding his stomach and controlling his laughs Sunwo opened his mouth to speak.
"Yeong-aa, even I suggested you the same thing but you refused that time. Lee Eunshi, Yeong won't be able to act in front of a woman. If princess will find out this then we have to say goodbyes to our lives," opined Sunwo.
"Even I am thinking if I will do any mistake in this act, everything will be ruined. I cannot endanger your lives," stated Yeong.
"It is not about endangering. It is about your weak acting skills. But, we have two weeks to prepare you for this. Wait! Your father will be furious if you will take that fake lover that in front of everyone," Sung Tae opined. Frowns appeared on his forehead while saying all this.
"You all have got no brains!!" Lee Eunshi with a chuckle said. "Why would he take his fake lover in front of everyone?" Lee Eunshi queried them.
"I have got brains, brother," Sunwo said. "Basically, we have to make the princess understand that she should not separate the love birds and refuse for the marriage from her side," Sunwo proclaimed and smiled.
"But at the same time we have to keep in mind that Yeong's father will not get angry at him," Sung Tae suggested.
"I guess, we shall not do this. I will talk with the princess Shin," Do Yeong announced his decision.
"Haven't you talked with the princess many times? She has started liking you as well. I told you to get rid of her earlier," Sunwo scolded Yeong.
"What if the princess got angry seeing the fake lover of Yeong and asked for a punishment for her? I mean that could be a possibility. Above all, I have observed from the childhood days that status of a woman matters. It isn't like we will join hands with a Yangban girl just for this.
She is the nation's princess and if we will play like this then it could be dangerous. We have to make things where the princess herself refuse for this marriage," Yoon Shik finally spoke.
Lee Eunshi clutched his dress tightly. "Yoon Shik is saying right. If I will show her Yeong- aa with some other woman then, she will probably order to kill the woman.
This situation is really tough than I thought and I do not want my sister to be with a man who does not like her presence around her. She will never be happy. Shall I talk with father regarding this matter? Yes, it will be better to talk with father rather than making a plan which is riskier for them to handle." Lee Eunshi told himself.
"Let's drop the idea of a fake lover!! Yoon Shik is saying right. The princess will be furious to see all this. The plan will backfired at us," Lee Eunshi suggested to all of them.
"Then what shall we do?" Sunwo asked.
"Shall I tell them that I am the Prince and I can talk with my father? No, I cannot. I cannot trust them fully especially Sunwo who seems clever to me among them."
"What are you thinking?" Sunwo asked Lee Eunshi.
"Ahh, nothing," Lee Eunshi replied.
"Why do we not ask a woman regarding this? A woman's opinion will be far better than doing anything without any definite logic," Yoon Shik suggested which everyone liked.
"But, whom will we ask?" Sung Tae asked.
"Someome who is closer to the princess," Yoon Shik asserted.
"We don't know Palace people. So, give up on that," Sung Tae responded.
"There is one," Lee Eunshi pronounced.
"Really?" Do Yeong asked with a smile.
"Yes. I know her since childhood days and she used to tell me about the princess. I will meet her and ask for a solution," Lee Eunshi assured Do Yeong.
"But is she trustworthy?" Sunwo asked. "I mean she used to tell you about the Princess then it means she speaks about other secrets," Sunwo opined.
"You are getting her wrong. I used to ask her about the Palace and used to irritate her so that she could tell me as I always wanted to know about the Palace life," Lee Eunshi replied Sunwo who was still suspicious of Lee Eunshi.
"If he is saying she is trustworthy then she must be. Moreover, if she is a friend of the princess then she will desire better for the princess," Yoon Shik told Sunwo who shook his head in agreement.
"Okay, then I will talk to her and then tell you all," Lee Eunshi assured them and they all agreed with him.