The Crown Princess Faked Her Death and Married the Mercenary King novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Treaty
The Dowager Queen's envoy rode up the pass on the third morning with a sealed edict and twelve outriders.
He was a thin old eunuch in grey, and he looked at the heron banner on the gate for a long moment before he dismounted.
"Her Majesty," he said, "wishes it known that she has heard everything."
Ha-rin stood in the courtyard in her grey Company coat, with her jaw-length hair tucked behind her ears.
She had put away the gold robe.
She did not need it any more.
"Everything?"
"The pay memorial. The margins. The cup." He bowed, very slightly.
"Her Majesty said to tell the lady that she was sorry to have sent her to pray at the Gwandan temple each autumn."
"And that she sees now she was only sending her toward the door."
Ha-rin's throat tightened.
"Tell her I thank her."
"I will. She also bids me enter the marriage as ended in the royal record, on the Prince's fault."
"So that the lady is free to wed again."
"I have a husband," said Ha-rin. "He is standing over there, pretending not to listen."
"Then he is the one I am looking at, Madam."
They signed the treaty that afternoon on the war table.
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