All Your Fault

Then, something seemed to occur to Sinyeong.

He studied Hwayeong with a puzzled expression.

“Wait. What do you mean you wouldn’t have entered the palace?”

“What do you think I mean?”

She let out a shrug before launching into her story.

“I was deliberately trying to delay my arrival. I even had my carriage wheel sabotaged to buy time. But then Your Highness just had to knock into me, and I ended up chasing after you all the way here into the palace. That’s how I ended up here with my own two feet.”

She finished with a pointed glare, as if declaring, ‘This is all your fault.’

Sinyeong stared at her, dumbfounded.

“...You really weren’t planning to enter the palace?”

“Was that not obvious?”

The thought of a crown princess candidate openly declaring in front of the crown prince himself that she had no intention of entering the palace made Sinyeong click his tongue in disbelief.