“Prince, wake up!”
The man who pulled me out of the water slapped me in the face and pressed me on the chest.
“Stop it.”
I shouted, but no words came out of my mouth and just spat out water like a sea cucumber caught in someone’s hand
“Prince, please wake up!”
‘Stop it, I’m not dead!
Tears dripped down from the man’s eyes. He was heartily saddened thinking I died.
But I think I knew him. Was his name Jang Sam?
“Stop it, asshole.”
I threw up a bucket of water for all the meat I had never eaten.
It was not long before the fighters with knives arrived with the carriage, and they forced me into a ride and took me somewhere.
To begin with, I’m dead. No. I’m alive.
I was in someone else’s body, and the reflection I saw in the mirror was a handsome looking man.
Above all, my arms and legs were fine.
It was a great blessing for me, who died after suffering all my life for being a porter with a limp.
But the owner of this body was a fool to the point that everyone in Hangzhou knew it.
“What? I’m Lee Jung-ryong?”
“Are you finally awake?”
The owner of this body was indeed a great man of status.
Lee Jung-ryong, the sage of the Cheollong Pyo Kingdom, the biggest symbol of Zhejiang Province.
Lee Jeong-ryong was the son of a young and beautiful woman who served King Lee Jong-san from a young age.
The maid died after giving birth to him.
Lee Jung-ryong was the perfect example of a misaligned bloodline.
He had a handsome face and only arms and legs that worked, but he was a dull boy.
The physical movements of military training were stiff as wood, and the head itself was a stone itself when studying.
He was a walking proof that any teaching and a good teacher had no difference and he was to be an idiot.
After being left out of the race for succession, he only went outside to mess around.
Although he was a poor man of virtue in his family, his status as a minister of the Cheollong Pyo Kingdom was still powerful.
He was a big fan of many gambling houses and a money bag that never dried up in the whores that were parasitic in those places.
Then he jumped into the river one day. The reason is that the family of a woman who had a crush on him since childhood sent a letter for marriage to his third brother.
But all this was what happened 30 years ago when I was a new porter for the Cheollong Pyo Kingdom.
But I was reincarnated as Lee Jung-ryong,
“How old am I now?
“Wow, do you keep using honorifics? I’m scared, I’m Jang Sam, your servant”
“How old am I?”
“Twenty-two, it’s a flower-like age. It’s a waste to end your life just because you got dumped by a woman.”
It must have been. He jumped into the river 30 years ago and I was reincarnated as Lee Jung-ryong, who was about to die.
No, is it Lee Jung-ryong after his life was cut off?
Ha!
How can this happen
“If you’re feeling better, you should go to King Pyo as soon as possible. He wanted me to bring you back as soon as you come to your senses.”
An old man sitting on a tiger skin was looking down at me.
Despite his small physique, that old man, facing him was like looking up into a mountain. It was King Pyo Jong-san, the owner of the Cheollong Pyo Kingdom.
It was the father of this body I entered.
He only seemed five or six years different from my last age in my previous life, but it was a very difficult atmosphere to approach and his wise-looking eyes remained.
“How old are you this year?”
“I’m 52 years old.”
“2.., 22 years old.”
“Is the rumor true? You probably know what I’m talking about.”
He was asking if it is true that I tried to die because of a woman who is having a marriage with my brother.
“I’m happy to be reborn as a minister of Cheollong Pyo Kingdom. But this is how it gets twisted!”
“It’s a false rumor.”
“False rumor?”
“Yes.”
“Why would you try to end your own life if that’s not the case?”
“That’s not true either. I just walked out of the lake and lost my footing.”
“You didn’t have that girl in mind?!”
I can’t lie about this. If you want to deceive your opponent, you have to mix 10 percent of the lie with 90 percent of the truth.
Now, Lee Jung-ryong’s ” 90 percent truth was about the girl.
“I liked her”
“But it was in the immature days, and now I have no feelings. Even if I liked her, I’m not stupid enough to die for a woman. It’s not worth it at all”
That’s what I really want to say. What on earth did Lee Jung-ryong thinking to jump into the lake and die?
King Pyo’s eyes rolled with a sharp glance. But I had to do my best to keep it cool.
“I guess there will be no problem with continuing with your brother’s marriage then?”
“Of course, I will support them with their marriage as well. As you know, I studied in the same academy with him and spent good times with him, right? We’re people who follow strong rules, so I…”
The marble table, the size of the floor, cried like it was going to break.
“Dull!”
King Pyo stretched out his hand lightly in the air. Then the two-span sized dagger on the table bounced up as if it were alive, and suddenly flew toward my face.
The dagger stopped an inch from my face and suddenly fell off as if it had been hit by a hammer, and shook its tail at its feet. Surprised, I almost pissed my pants.
“A weak tiger is still a tiger. But a tiger who doesn’t fight is not. I’ve never heard of a tiger who ends his own life without fighting. It’s something that not even a dog or a pig does.
“What the hell is he talking about”
“Your age is now 22 years old. I don’t know how much longer you’ll live, but whenever you have a hard time, I’m sure you’ll embarrass me and the Cheollong Pyo Kingdom by trying to commit suicide.
If you die in front of me now, I’ll at least give you a proper funeral if you do it.”
I had cold sweat on my back as my voice cracked.
“This is not where I expected things to go.”
Me being a weak porter my whole life in the past, King Pyo felt like a monster to me
‘I have to be calm.”
Now that I have been reincarnated as a prince of Cheollong Pyo Kingdom, Lee Jung-ryong, I cannot avoid continuing meetings with King Pyo in the future.
I had to adapt. Furthermore, I needed to improve my relationship with him.
But how do you do that?
Should I get on my knees and beg? Should I cut off one of my fingers and swear that I’ll never do such a stupid thing again?
Suddenly, I saw the glow of the dagger under my feet.
The handle was made of finely crafted gold, a jewel that was like an owl’s eye in the middle of the handle.
I didn’t know why it was fancy like that when he was just a dagger. But the gold and jewels on the handle alone were great treasures.
“How much would that cost itself?”
At the moment, there was an idea that came to mind.
“yes, what am I to be afraid of after one death?”
The attack was the best defense for me.
“You know what? This is the first time in more than 20 years that you as a father have made orders to me. But what you want me to do is to kill myself”
I don’t know if it really was the truth. However, I looked around the funeral of Lee Jung-ryong once in my previous life and I remembered that the servants were whispering during the ceremony about the relationship he had with his father.
It seemed true when I saw his eyes twitching for a moment.
With one knee on the floor, I politely pulled out a dagger with my hands and tucked it inside my clothes.
“I will make good use of it one day when I kill myself thinking of my father who never acknowledged me as a son. Well, It’s a goodbye,”
After I finished speaking, I turned around without permission and started walking away as natural and fast as I could.
I ran away.
-Chapter 2 End-