Sent as the Alliance Leader's Hostage Husband novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: A Banquet Dagger
The whole hall saw the regent's cup go down, and a few hundred men followed his eyes.
"You," said Ma, pleasantly, and lifted one finger. "The young scholar behind the pillar."
Ju-won froze with chopsticks halfway to his mouth.
"Come here, child. Let me see you."
Ye-han had perhaps three breaths.
He stood up.
"Uncle," he said, loud and bright.
"You promised me a dance at the mourning supper, in the old Lord's honor.
"Surely the dead come first."
Ma turned his head slowly.
"Young Lord?"
"A dance," Ye-han said, "for my father, who never saw me do one.
"If the Leader permits."
He did not look at Gyeong-wook.
He felt Gyeong-wook go still beside him, and then he felt him understand.
"The Leader permits," Gyeong-wook said.
Ye-han walked into the middle of the floor between the tables.
Four hundred faces turned to follow him, and the servants stopped with their dishes in the air.
He slid the red cord out of his braid and shook his hair loose.
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