[HELIA]
So Hee knew she was risking a lot by doing this.
Agust would never forgive her, but still she felt like she had to go ahead and do it. It was either the stupidest thing she could ever have done, or it was the one thing that could cost her her friendship with Agust.
"Don't do it, So Hee. It's not worth it," the former king, Ho Jung, said.
So Hee stiffened.
She had always suspected that the king was alive and that things were not always what they seemed in the palace.
But to see the man chained up and stabbed and poked and still alive like he was alone hanging on a thread, worse than what had long been done to Jung Hyuk, was unsettling. This wasn't what life had become for them, right?
"Your M—" So Hee tried, but the former king just shushed her.
"Don't go through with it. He trusts you. If you betray him for this, Agust will burn everything down. He will never trust anyone, not even the pretty wolf in Kiyoto. He will lose every ounce of trust.
