(After the previous chapter)
Though I worked beside the Prince every day and spent most of the time with him, he hardly ever talked to me. I know I'm such an insignificant servant that I'm not worthy of his time. But I saw him talking to other people normally but he chose only me not to utter a word with though I saved his life! How ungrateful! Ah, now I wish I could let that ungrateful brat die! hey, don't get me wrong! You don't know how weirdly tense and awkward it becomes through everlasting silence when I stay all day in his study hall!
It's as if he tries to ignore my existence but ends up being very aware of it and in my case the vise versa!
(Prince Shen's POV)
It's been days since that new servant started working for me. I observed him these days but surprisingly, though he looks mysterious I couldn't find anything suspicious! but everything he does, no matter how insignificant I can't help but suspect him for having some motive. Maybe I'm getting paranoid!
But this guy has such soft features, just like a girl, but he can work hard! His eyes are framed with such thick, long eyelashes that only girls have. But doesn't walk like a girl or anything, still he reminds me of delicate females!
ugh, my head seems to have a glitch1
Also, he seems to be as observant as me. His walk, I noticed from the first day, like a trained warrior, careful yet strong steps without hesitations.
As I work on my papers and pretend not to notice him, he spends his time with books, higher-level books that a servant shouldn't be able to understand! And he also caught up with my attitude and dares to pretend not to notice my presence either!
I could say he was very knowledgeable and witty just by looking at his eyes.
His eyes were emerald green which sparkled and seemed so mysterious like he knows a lot more than people assumed! And that color is really rare. I don't know where I've seen it but only some certain ancient powerful family inherited that eye color. Those families are now extinct.
Anyways, Han is supposed to come any minute now. He went to arrange our rides for tomorrow. These days working with papers inside the study hall was so boring and stiff that it was suffocating me. I was always more comfortable on battlefields. My body is desperate for some actions. But my dear father(note the sarcasm), wants me to learn more about politics and those boring paper works!
So, Han as awesome as always made a fine plan. He arranged a 2/3 days hunting trip. Which brightened up my mood and finally gave me something to look forward to...
I would have drowned in those miserable paper works if I didn't have Han! But if that brat calls me by that name again, I'm gonna kick his ass! Skinny Young! Ugh!
Yeah, I was a bit skinny when I was 11/12 but how dare he calls me by that name now?! So embarrassing!
Yes, on this trip, I'm gonna beat him to a sword fight and make sure he never utters that name...
"Skinny Young!" Ugh, I was interrupted from my thoughts by that devil himself, who was now grinning in front of my table, I think he was looking for a good beating from me.
I gritted my teeth and said, "Don't you dare call me that again. Tomorrow in that trip you dear Queen Mother won't be there to protect you from me!"
Han snorted, "Oh? I don't need her highness to protect me from a fly like you. You should worry about yourself! How will you save your ass without her highness?!"
Oh, so you are challenging me?! I have already beaten this guy several times in sword fights. No matter how good he is at it, he is still nothing for me. No one has ever beaten me in a sword fight in my whole life, not even Han. So, you can say my arrogance in this matter is quite justified. But look at this idiot's smile, how is he still so confident?!! Did he hit his head somewhere?! I pretended to look worried as I pointedly looked at his head to emphasize it!
Then I smiled at him, very coldly. If it wasn't Han and someone else, their knees would have given out and they would have trembled just by sensing this aura I'm emitting right now. But Han being the annoying arrogant Han wasn't affected by it. He always brushes it off as nothing. He has this incredible ability to annoy me to death and smile like an innocent angel after boiling my anger!
I gritted my teeth, "You'll see!"
Then we both sensed someone coming, both of our expressions changed like a switch had been turned off. His taunting smile vanished and replaced by a polite and respectful posture and my 'I-wanna-murder-you-brat' expression turned to an unreadable one.
From the footsteps alone, I could tell it was the creepy dude, Kim Man Suk.
His face was almost like an elegant lady's but his walk was like a warrior. His aura spoke of power and eliteness. All his gesture was like a man.
I don't know how an insignificant servant could muster up such an aura! I always believed, what we see wasn't always the true side of a person but only his aura showed us the real color.
(Back to Su Mo Mo's POV)
As I entered the Prince's study hall, I felt a change of mood in the atmosphere. I felt it a few times before. They can change their expressions and hide emotions so well within a blink that I feel myself respecting them!
The mood in the room was as always formal, calm, and neutral. But I knew it was a facade and these two award-deserving actors loved to act in front of me as if I was so dumb to fall for it! But I was always more than happy to play along act dumb if it would help them sleep better at night!