Then, something seemed to occur to Sinyeong.
He studied Hwayeong with a puzzled expression.
“Wait. What do you mean you wouldn’t have entered the palace?”
“What do you think I mean?”
She let out a shrug before launching into her story.
“I was deliberately trying to delay my arrival. I even had my carriage wheel sabotaged to buy time. But then Your Highness just had to knock into me, and I ended up chasing after you all the way here into the palace. That’s how I ended up here with my own two feet.”
She finished with a pointed glare, as if declaring, ‘This is all your fault.’
Sinyeong stared at her, dumbfounded.
“...You really weren’t planning to enter the palace?”
“Was that not obvious?”
The thought of a crown princess candidate openly declaring in front of the crown prince himself that she had no intention of entering the palace made Sinyeong click his tongue in disbelief.
