After Hyuk finished having his breakfast exclusively served and fed by the General, Hyuk came out of the chamber happily, he hummed a song with a light heart as he walked towards the servant quarters to sleep peacefully after many days, he greeted everyone who passed by him and smiled at them, like he had finally found the truth of life and decided to live without any worries and problems, making the people look at him weirdly as they went to do their work.
"Gwang Ho", the General called as he saw Hyuk leaving, he finally let go of the fake smile and called sternly and his eunuch came into the chamber immediately after being called, bowing to the general he asked,
"My Lord, what is the order for your humble servant", he asked with his eyes glued to his feet as he dared not look at the General's face, which looked like he was about to east someone.
"Order all the servants to get in line I am going to skin them all today before cutting them into pieces", . The General roared unsheathing his sword.
"My Lord, please have mercy, don't do this", the eunuch pleaded as soon as the General's words fell into his ears and he fell on the ground, repeatedly asking for mercy.
"I said do it, I am going to kill all those pests with my hands today, they dare say those things,i will pluck out there tongues from their mouth".
"Please my Lord, have mercy, please tell your worthless servant, what crime they have committed, i will punish them, do not do this",The eunuch continued pleading on his knees, as a fearful feeling creeped up his chest.
"They have crossed their lines this time, they said things that made Hyuk fear me , he didn't want to talk to me and even though I was a monster, the only person who seese as human, all because of those worthless insects, I am going to chop off their heads with my own hands and drink their blood", ..
"My Lord, please calm down, you cannot do this", The eunuch said as bowed his head deeper.
"I said get them all here, can't you hear me, do you want me to kill you first", the General said in a rage as he put his sword on the eunuch's neck.
"My lord, please listen to this worthless servant first, I know Hyuk matters a lot to you but if you kill all those servants, Hyuk will hear of it, he was terrified of you just after listening to some rumours but if you kill those servants he will never forgive you or he might die because of fear and loneliness my lord he , my Lord he will hate you, please consider Hyuk before taking any action, please let me handle it,please my Lord,i beg you", The eunuch begged but he knew as long as he talked about Hyuk, the General will stop.
"Fine, but do it as soon as possible, I don't want to see Hyuk crying again, otherwise I will behead you first and then all those little dirty things", , the General said after a few moments of silence, The eunuch bowed deep and left the chamber.
After 1 hour:-
The eunuch came back and bowed to the general once again.
"My Lord, the rumours were started by a head maid who is also the wife of a soldier in your troop , everything will be taken care of about them till tonight and about the servants in the manor , I have taken care of everything, no one will open their mouth again and if they do I will kill them with my own hands, I have warned everyone and Hyuk is not very close to everyone, it's just one girl from the kitchen he is always talking with and I", .
"Get her here".. The General said looking at his book.
"But my Lord, I have warned her she won't".
"I said get her here before I get someone to drag her into this chamber", The General said in an awfully calm and dangerous voice.
"As you say my Lord", the eunuch said and left to get Jin-He.
After a few minutes Jin-He came inside the chamber, crying and trembling, she knelt in front of the General, her head hung low and her lips quivered as she looked at the General but then immediately looked down.
The General put his book down and held his sword in his hand, looking at it for a moment,
"What's your relationship with Hyuk", the General yelled making the poor girl tremble in her place, his voice was so loud that Jin-He could feel her eardrums ring, crying she wanted to talk but her voice was stuck in her throat, she struggled to utter her words and at last felt like she was going to die and started apologising to everyone in her head.
She felt like her heart would stop beating when the eunuch nudged her.
"Talk quickly", the eunuch whispered to her through gritted teeth.
"Hy... Hy..uk....i..s... L... I... K... E... My
... Lillllteeelll ... Bro.... Theeerre".. Jin-He uttered her words, but they were completely broken, making no sense at all.
"Then how dare you compare your worthless life to his precious life.. Do you think you and him are same, do you think your dirt like self is comparable to him, how dare you tell him how I treat him, it's true that worthless insects like you can be bought with a few silver coins but how dare you say he is the same as you, who are you to tell him how I treat him, what were you scheming you little cunning bitch".
As soon as these words fell in jin-He's ears she could not help but widen her eyes, *what was the general trying to say, Hyuk... Hyuk was actually*.
She touched the floor with her head while bowing..
"I am sorry my Lord , please forgive me, I forgot my position, I am sorry, I beg for your mercy I will never talk recklessly again.. Please forgive me, i will always watch my mouth, i will never tell Pete anything again, please pardon me this once".
"Of course, I would not kill you, how could I kill Hyuk's leader sister and , I still have a task for you that you need to complete".
"Please my Lord tell me , I will do everything the Lord asks me to, I will sacrifice my life for you" , Jin-He said trying to control her flowing tears as she uttered these words out, without thinking about anything.
"What use do I have of your worthless life, the only thing you need to do from now is to be hyuk's servant. You have to serve him, take care of him, protect him and look after him, don't let him do much work or exhaust himself , don't make him eat servants food, he will eat everything that I eat every single day and no one should get to know about this, just make sure he is living a good life without anything reaching Soyuen's ears".
"Okay, my Lord, i will do as you say and look after Hyuk like my master", Jin-He said in a low voice.
"Don't let him know anything that happened here today, otherwise, Hyuk can get a different older sister in just a few days", . He added befire going back to his book.
"Okay my Lord".
"Get out and make sure to do what I told you to without blabbering nonsense to anyone", He said and jin-He and the eunuch went out immediately, the poor girl wiped her tears away and started working like nothing had happened.
In the afternoon, Hyuk was at the entrance of the kitchen, when jin-He took the tray of food to him .
"Here, this is the General's lunch", jin-He said as she looked at Hyuk, but righ now she was terrified even of him and did not dare to say anything else.
"Okay, I will serve this to General and come back quickly to help you out here in the kitchen", Hyuk said, like his usual cute and obedient self .
"No, no need for that, just go and serve this to the General and come back only after he finishes eating his food, you don't need to do anything else".
"okay", Hyuk said and left, setting the food on the table, Hyuk noticed that the General was reading his book so he silently got up and was about to leave , when the General called him.
"Hyuk, where are you going?", The
"I will come back later you are busy right now, i don't want to disturb you", Hyuk said with a warm smile on his face.
"No, I am not, come here", the General said closing his book.
Hyuk looked at him for a moment and then walked towards him to sit in front of him.
"Come closer Hyuk, why do you always sit so far away from me". The General said as he patted the place in front of him with a smile on his face, making Hyuk stunned for a moment.
"Hmm", Hyuk hummed and got closer to him, the General leaned forward and softly touched his eyebags.
"The swelling is almost gone, your eyes will be back to normal after a good night's sleep", the General said smiling.
"Hmm , I slept a little after going back, is it still very bad?", Hyuk asked worried.
No, it's better then earlier, So what did my Hyuk do except hearing those bad rumours while was gone huh?", the General asked with curiousity as he wanted to know how much filth these people had to Hyuk.
"Ummmmm, I used to wake up in the morning eat my breakfast, help noona in the kitchen, then have my lunch, play with my friends then used to come back in the evening, help noona again, have our dinner and sleep" . Hyuk explained everything he had done in these two weeks, without keeping anything a secret.
"You have friends, who are they?", The General asked raising his eyebrow.
"I will tell you, but please don't tell your wife, okay", Hyuk said as he put his finger forward to General to seal the promise.
"My wife, what do you mean?", the General asked warily.
"Yes, your children they are my friends, no actually they are my best friends, your daughter is just like you but Hoon is very sweet", Hyuk said as he looked the General's face adorably.
Hearing his words the General became speechless, he was still trying to comprehend things when Hyuk held his hand.
"Are you lonely?", Hyuk asked.
"No, why are you asking me that?", The General asked back, not having an idea about what Hyuk was thinking at all.
"Because you are always sitting in this room all by yourself, no one visits you often and the people who come hardly talk to you for five minutes. Don't you have any friends?", Hyuk asked worriedly.
"No, I don't have any friends", the General answered truthfully, he had never had friends, only enemies, enemies everywhere that he could not even trust himself sometimes.
"Didn't you have them at least when you were younger?", Hyuk asked again, feeling bad for the tough man who sat in front of him.
"No , I didn't, I am the only son in my family so I had a lot of responsibilities since I was young, I never had time to play or make friends, i was always training and studying and going to places to learn different kind of martial arts since I was young , because of that I had a lot of enemies who would attack me everywhere I went, so I had to be vigilant of everyone,even my wife, so I never had anyone close to me", the General answered, looking at Hyuk as he recalled his painful past.
"It's okay, you are mine now, I will be your friend from now on and play with you, okay", Hyuk said and held his hand in his own.
Okay then in the afternoon, we will spend time together . The General said brushing off the memories of his younger days.
"No, I have to play in the afternoon but we can spend time together in the evening", Hyuk made arrangements as they suited him and told them to the General too.
"Okay, as you wish, i will do everything you say", .. The General said patting Hyuk's head softly.