The Secret Night at Unyeon Palace (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 24

Leaving the Queen Dowager’s Palace, she walked with the Queen Consort through the rear garden. In their brief exchanges, the Queen’s gentle nature revealed itself—

She was warm and kind-hearted.

Yet, somehow, she also looked sorrowful. Stopping mid-step, the Queen Consort turned to Eun Seol and smiled brightly.

“If my first child had lived, she would be about your age now.”

“……”

“That wasn’t meant to hurt you. It’s just… had that child lived, she’d likely be your age now. The thought simply slipped out.”

So she had lost a child—not been unable to conceive, but suffered a miscarriage.

How lonely and arduous it must have been for the Queen Consort, holding her position without an heir.

Just imagining it made her breath catch and her heart ache.

She couldn’t utter a word. The Queen’s distant, indifferent gaze—fixed somewhere far away—was unbearably painful.

Looking at the Queen, she thought of her own mother.

That was why this moment with the Queen felt so precious to her.

“Your Majesty the Queen Consort, have you been here all this time?”

Just as they resumed walking and conversing, a nasal, affected voice cut in from somewhere nearby.

Turning toward the sound, she recognized its owner by instinct alone.

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