Chapter 3
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Lee Sun Jin
“Everyone, move! They’re now in that jerks house!”-I said. I take off my bag and put on my bulletproof vest. I set my guns trigger and get down on my car. Detective Choi kick the gate and we entered in his house. We are searching everywhere.
“Here!”-detective Geum shouted. We saw a storage room. He kicks the door and we saw them. He is holding her neck and pointing his gun on her.
“Be careful! Inspector Ahn is in a bad shape.”
“Yes, Sir!”-they said.
“Back off! I’m serious, I’ll kill her.”-he said.
“Shoot.”-she said in a low voice. She must be under the influence of drugs.
“Kim Min Seok, don’t make things harder. Get down.”
I saw that she raises her feet and step his foot. He let go of her and she use her head to kick his crotch. He still shoots her and her shoulder starts to bleed.
“You!”-he said. Detective Guem shoot him but he uses that chance to escape using the window. He runaway. I look at her and grab her shoulder.
“First time, huh?”
“I’ll kill you.”-she answered. She rips off her clothes and wrap on her wound.
“Let’s chase him. I still need to kick his butt into the jail.”-she said. She stood up and walk outside. She gets inside the car and we started chasing him. Until we reach the Han bridge. She opens the car door and slowly lay down. I can see her undies but I guess she’s more aware in chasing that bastard’s car.
“Get closer. I will shoot his car tire!”-she shouted.
“Copy.”-I said. I step on the gas and when we get closer. She shoots the tires and that made him bump the railings. I stop the car and everyone who is following us also stops. We pointed our gun. Hye Sun and I went to his car and check if he’s there. He come out and blood is coming out from his head. We help him to get out. I am holding his hands on his back.
“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be use against you and in the court of law.”
“Agh.”-we both said. Hye Sun is supposed to handcuff him when he steps both of our feet and push us on the bridge. He pointed his gun to us.
“Die!”-he said and shoot us both.
“Inspector Ahn!”-detective Geum.
“Chief inspector!”-detective Choi. The bullet grazes my head and blood drip from my wound. While Hye Sun was shoot in her chest but she’s wearing her bulletproof vest. I raise my hand that is holding my gun. I shoot him for 7 times and I saw him falling back. The water embraces our body. I swim towards her as I saw that she’s still falling deeper. I think she’s already dizzied because of the blood that came out from her wound.
Ahn Shin Hye
I saw him swimming towards me. My eyes are getting blurry. I feel his warm body and he is shaking my body.
“Inspector Ahn! Wake up!”-he said. The blood from his wound are also serious. I can’t talk. My eyes are heavier and… What is this feeling? I think someone…
Everything went blank and I can’t even sense anything now. I’m too weak to…
“Your highness…please open your eyes, your highness!”
My head is spinning and maybe because of the medicine that’s why I’m hearing things differently.
“Your highness…your highness…”
What is that? I can here scream and people that are crying? Am I hearing thing or just because of the influence of medicines? I open my eyes. My forehead wrinkled when I first saw are ceiling made out of woods. Even the furniture’s. I close my eyes again to stable my vision. I think it is just a mistake.
“Your highness…”-I heard it again. I open my eyes and look around. I saw women sitting in front of my bed. They’re wearing hanboks. I sit down.
“What is happening here?”-I said.
“Your highness! Good thing, your awake now!”
“Call the imperial physician!”
“Understood, Lady Han.”-the girl said and leave the room. I look around and analyze what is happening here. I look on my clothes. What the heck! What am I wearing?! There’s no way that there is a hospital in Seoul in this kind of setting.
“Your highness? What is wrong?”
“Don’t call me that! What is happening here?! Where is detective Geum? Detective Choi? How about chief inspector Lee?”-I ask her.
“Who? De—detective?”
The door opens and I heard footsteps. A man who look like a doctor in Joseon dynasty sits beside me. He holds my wrist and check my pulse.
“How’s your feeling, your highness?”
“Just so-so.”
“Physician Jung, tell us the real state of her highness.”-the one they called Lady Han.
“She’s okay now. There are no internal wounds. Her highness is safe and we don’t need to worry.”
My eyes are blinking several times. I think something is wrong. I’m dreaming! Yes, this is a dream! I stood up and run away from that room.
“How wide this place is?! Don’t tell me there is a hospital in Gyeongbokgung Palace?!”-I said. I ran as fast as I can as those court lady faces are still tailing me. I look around. I think I’m in Gyeonghoeru pavilion.
“Your highness! Don’t run like that. Your barefooted and you still need to recuperate.”-that Lady Han.
“What year today? Tell me!”-I shouted. I can’t breathe also. I’m already exhausted.
“This year is the reign of his majesty, your highness.”
“Ahh… give me an appropriate answer! What is the name of that king? I mean the king. Tell me.”
“We don’t have the right to tell his majesty’s name.”
“Just tell me already! If not…”-I grab Lady Han’s jade hair ornament and pointed it in my neck.
“I’ll kill myself.”-I said. They panic.
“Please your highness. Don’t give us a hard time. Put it down.”-she said. I move the jade closer in my neck.
“We will tell you, your highness. We will tell you. It’s the reign of King Lee Sun.”
“King Lee Sun?! You gotta be kidding me. This is not right! I want to see the king! Let me meet him! Wait, how old is he?”
“The king is 19 years old, your highness. But your highness, he is also in a bad shape. They said that he caught a cold.”-she said.
“I will visit him.”-I said and run. They followed me. My eyes are blinking when I saw that there is a commotion outside the King’s chamber.
“Stop!”-a familiar voice ring in my ears.
“The queen is here!”-a man shouted. The eunuch looks on us and step on both sides.
“Your highness!”-they said and bow on me. He is wearing the king robe. I think it’s year 1712. King Lee Sun sits the throne in 1711 at the age of 18 and he pass the throne to his son in 1738. If I remember it right, the queen gave birth to the crown prince in year in March 14, 1713. In Jeju, he stayed there for 10 years and die. That man turns around.
“You! Chief inspector Lee Sun Jin?! Oh goodness, good thing that you’re here!”-I said and run to him.
“Shin Hye?! Is that you inspector Ahn Shin Hye?”
“I am! Look, I think someone is pranking me. I mean us. We are in Gyeongbokgung Palace. But I remember we are both fell in Han river and wounded. Why are you wearing the king’s clothes?”
“And why are you wearing the queen’s clothes?”
“They keep on calling me, her highness.”
“They also calling me, his majesty. I didn’t even know them. I have been running around calling detective Geum and Choi. No one is answering!”
“Don’t tell me we travel back in time? Time slip?”
We look on each other and both cross our arms. The eunuchs and court ladies are staring on us. The cold wind brushes our skin. I realize that dusk is here.
“Time slip? That only happens in dramas. It can’t be happening in real life.”-he said. We are laughing awkwardly.
“I’m also thinking the same way. This can’t be happening.”-he said.
“What weather it is now?”
“Yes? It’s the first week of Spring, your highness.”
“Spring?! Oh shoot. We need to find a way back!”
We are staring on the lake in Hyangwonjeong pavilion. We are staring on the lake. We both smirks.
“One, two, three!”-we both count and jump on the water. We are sign each other to punch our faces. But nothing is happening. We swim up and we still saw those eunuchs and court ladies. They jump to rescue us. We both sat down on the ground and we are dripping wet. I still feel the pain from his punch even if I know that he controlled it.
“Agh.”-we both said. Our lips are both bleeding. It is painful. It means this is not just a dream.
“What the heck is happening!”-I shouted.
“Your majesty, your highness. You need to change your clothes. You might catch colds.”-he said. He must be the head eunuch. I took a deep sigh.
“Let’s think about things again. If we sleep, we might wake up in this dream.”-he said. We went back in our own manor. Even night has fallen and I already eat the food. I still find these things unbelievable. How can I be stuck in this situation? I need to go back if I’m really in 1712 of Joseon era.
“Lady Han!”-I shouted. They came in.
“I need you to bring me things that I need to use. Paper and ink. Quick.”-I said.
“Yes, your highness.”-she said. When they bring me the paper, I started to ask questions on them. The basic about the life of this woman. They are staring on me in puzzled gazes.
“How many concubines did the king had?”
“There are only three concubines, your highness. The royal consort Min Eun Bi. Concubine Han Jun Mi and Gong Yu Mi.”-she said. I need to recall the history class that grandmother always told me. She said that we are a descendant of a great family in the reign of king Lee Won until King Lee Gon before Joseon dynasty fall. Later on, I was being summoned to the queen dowagers’ chamber. Oh shoot. How should I supposed to act like a virtuous queen?
“The queen is here!”-the eunuch shouted and they open the door. I bow down and waited for her to let me sit. The servants leave us after she signed them to step back. She looks at me.
“It looks you look fine, your highness.”
What did they usually say in Korean dramas? What if I end up saying curse words? I may put my life in danger!
“You don’t need to worry, queen mother. I am recuperating well.”-I said. She gave me that suspicious look. I have this kind of feeling that this queen dowager is someone that I should be wary. I can sense that she hated this woman.
“Let’s have tea. I have prepared that for you.”-she said. I smiled. I choose to drink it. But when she’s not looking at me. I spilled it on the sleeves of my clothes. I have this hunch that something might be on it.
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