He’d been stunned by the sheer thoughtlessness of someone dozing off so carelessly beside a man in the middle of the night, in the rain no less—and by the unexpected warmth of her body as she leaned into him.
And then....
The more he remembered the events of that dawn, the more heat rushed to his face. His heart began pounding wildly again.
Perhaps the physician wasn’t far off.
It must have been shock. Because, somehow, in that fleeting moment, the girl he saw nearly every day—the one who irritated him to no end—had looked beautiful.
And that, more than anything, had left him reeling.
As the memory and the strange emotions that came with it crept back in, Sinyeong sat there in a daze.
The physician cautiously spoke.
“Your Highness, is there anything... that comes to mind?”
His tone was gentle, coaxing him to speak. And Sinyeong, acting on instinct more than reason, muttered under his breath,
“...I think I was... a little startled.”
“I beg your pardon?”
