Chapter 131
“I’m sorry.”
“…….”
“Though saying I’m sorry won’t forgive me.”
I looked at the woman kneeling before me, her head bowed in submission.
“I have given you a wound that cannot be washed away. I know that nothing can repay and nothing can heal, so…….”
“Then.”
I stare down at the woman and open my mouth.
“Then, if I ask you to repay me with death, will you do so?”
“…….”
The woman pauses at my words. The word death is the most primal of human fears. No matter how old you are, you can’t help but pause when you hear such a horror story.
But.
“If you really want it.”
Thump! Thump!
Without hesitation, the woman stabbed herself in the neck with the dagger in her bosom. No, she was about to stab.
“To have the courage to die.”
I caught it in my hand.
“To have the courage to live.”
Taking the dagger lightly from the woman’s hand, I returned it to its scabbard, then looked at her hair and opened my mouth.
“Is Hyuk going to leave without seeing her face?”
It was already disheveled. It wasn’t even a bob, it was a choppy haircut.
Dokhua Dangmiyon, the epitome of splendor.
She was the patriarch of the Tang family, the second wife of the Southern Palace.
She was not a woman,
“What can I do when I see my ugly mother’s face?”
She was facing me here as a mother.
“I don’t think Hyeok-yi would think so.”
“It would be a motherly duty to do penance, pay the penalty, and come back and stand. I don’t want to hold her back.”
That’s what I mean by a mother’s love.
