"Heartless! Cold woman!" Wang Han shouted at the top of his voice, breaking into a wheeze.
The rain hit him hard in the face. His clothes were soaked through. The weather itself seemed to be trying to stop him from this visit. As soon as he set off and galloped through several groves, the sun, so pleasantly learning to flare up to full heat, disappeared behind fierce, thick clouds that floated in from nowhere, completely obscuring its timid spring radiance with their wide sides. The rain poured with all its might, bending even the strongest branches in the earth with its onslaught and smearing them with mud. The birds disappeared, forgetting their song duties to the inhabitants of the forest, who themselves fled in all directions in search of shelter. But Wang Han raced on. He had to see her — at least once, at least one more time before the wedding. Military insanity in the peripheries called him urgently, and until August, he had to be tied up with military affairs, and therefore — now or never was he to see Heonui. Now or never.
She turned around. How did he find her? How did you know that she was in a spruce forest? She herself was all wet to the skin, from the very morning, having not eaten anything, she went to collect cones and gave them to squirrels, woodpeckers, and drakes and then ran and collected them again.
"Prince Wang Han? What are you doing here?" she asked him, thinking that maybe he was a ghost that appeared to her through a wet veil.
"How can you bless my marriage?" he shouted to her, jumping off his horse, which was not comfortable with the downpour and the fish, and she shifted angrily from foot to foot, uttering a displeased neigh.
Heonui lowered the hem, from which bumps fell on the dirty ground. Brushing wet strands from her face, she went up to Wang Han and, blinking from the falling drops on her face, said:
"What do you want me to tell you? Not to be with her? That you do not have a right to happiness because Wang Tae did not? I am not as unfair as you know me. But yes, what to hide? My thoughts are not as pure as I imagine during prayer services in the temple. I have something to apologize for. I see, my soul is dirtier than you know. I hate your fiancee. Here, I told you that. Yes, I care so much about myself that I want to have you alone. I gave myself to your brother as a wife, but I did not even know what it was like to be a wife. And therefore, jealousy crept into my heart when your own happiness flashed on the horizon. I was so fascinated by your brother that love for him blinded me, and now, when he is dead, and my eyes began to see, I saw you too late... You... "
Heonui screamed and covered her mouth. Wang Han Wang Han, who had been standing and listening without a sound all this time, moved towards her, but she broke away from him with an exclamation:
"Get away! And do not look for me! Marry her, for your sake, for Wang Tae's sake! How glad he will be for your happiness — he loved you, I know!"
"Heonui!"
And she rushed away from the Prince, hiding behind the accomplice fir trees that were devouring her.
"Heonui!" I heard a whisper somewhere in the foliage. "Heonui!"