Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Forty-one

Hyungwon

I found myself laying down on the floor and there was no one around, Sana isn't here at all and I called for her a lot of times and she didn't reply to me at all. I went to search for her but she is nowhere to be found and so I decided to go to her room, her stuff is gone as well and there is only one possibility, her father was here to take her back home.

I rubbed the back of my head, it hurts and it seemed to be hit by a blunt object, if it was sharp, I would have died a long time ago. Nothing makes sense at all and I feel like I am in a dream, there is no way that this is real. Sana and I were still together up till last night and we were getting intimate with each other and Yoo Kihyun wasn't around to make us feel awkward and things were going to be going accordingly to plan and now the female lead is gone and I don't know where to find her.

She isn't Korean so she can't be here, her father is like some emperor of some big corporation or something and they are based in their hometown which is in Osaka, Japan and I don't know how to get there. I am some poor guy who doesn't even own a passport because I don't get the opportunity to travel overseas and I don't have the time to go for a holiday, and I can't go after Sana because she is probably in Japan right now and I am stuck here.

I called my best friend immediately, hoping that he would pick up my call at 4 am and he did, maybe he set his phone volume to the highest. "Hello? Are you nuts calling someone at this ungodly time?"

"Sana is not here anymore, she has been taken away by her father," I told him.

"What? How can this be? Did you even try to hold her back?" He asked me.

"They have an entire army of people and I am not trained to fight anyone so I laid down on the floor with one single hit to my head," I told him. "Do you think that she is in Japan?"

"Can you still call her? She might still be in Gwangju, I hope that she is." He said. "I will come back right now, stay calm and not try to do anything stupid beforehand."

He made it back to our apartment, with his luggage and his messy hair greeting me good morning. "Yiwon is not here and you can't go after her because you have no idea where she had gone to, it could be as near as a street away and it could be in Japan. Who would have known that the emperor would come all the way here to pick up his little princess?"

I stood up. "I just can't be sitting here and not doing anything at all." I ran out of the apartment and I got around the streets, I know that it is 4 am and not the time to be searching for a missing person but I have to do something about this. She must have felt so terrified as well and she can't tell me, her father is such a horrible man and Sana doesn't deserve him at all.

But the search for her was to no avail because it is just too early and there are no hotels around the area and the nearest hotel would have to be at the nearby shopping district which is 15 minutes away and I know that her father isn't that dumb to stay there for now. I let out a yell of agony and then found myself waking up on the bed the next time I open my eyes, I passed out in the middle of the streets and Yoo Kihyun brought me back home.

"You passed out right there and you were on the floor, you were lucky that I decided to follow you as soon as you went out." He told me. "I know that you are anxious and you want to find Yiwon but the thing is that you have no idea where she must have been and the only thing that we can do is to keep calm."

"But she might be in danger, she told me that how scary her father is and he might do the same thing to her." I let out a sigh. "I should've been more vigilant and have taken some self-defence classes."

He switched on the TV and I stared at him like he had gone crazy or something. "I am just checking the news to see if Woo Yiwon is going to appear on the TV, you know how things work in the drama, when someone famous or rich is being brought back home by their equally rich family, there must be something behind it."

He sat down on the couch and started switching all the news channels. "Woo Yiwon has been missing for almost a year but her father didn't try to track her down and it would be so easy for him to do that, remember the last time she got surrounded by her father's men and she beat up all of them? They didn't even bother chasing after her but why now? That is the question that you should be finding out about."

He stops at one news channel that mentioned the Minatozaki empire, the huge corporation that her father owns and there were the headlines, I took the time to read it and my heart immediately sunk. "See? I was right. He brought her back home to marry a rich heir, and he is like the prince of the Japanese empire, his father is the emperor so he is royal. Woo Yiwon is going to marry a freaking prince and she is going to be royal."

Of course, she would be married to a prince, she was already rich and even though I know that she is not going to obey her father but she is going to marry that royal. "Can you bring me to make a passport? I need it urgently to stop Sana from marrying that prince." I asked Yoo Kihyun and he nodded his head. I am going to end your suffering, Minatozaki Sana.