Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Forty-seven

Sana

For the first time, I didn't need an alarm clock to wake me up nor did I need to set the time on the alarm clock to wake me up early, I didn't even bother to set a timing because I didn't even fall asleep last night. I felt so sleepy last night but I just couldn't sleep, I can't fall asleep yet because I am afraid that everything will go wrong.

Prince Haruto is so insistent to marry me and my father is so happy that he can be In-laws with the royal family and that would mean that his empire will only get stronger with this marriage alongside his huge army of men that he had gathered from the other huge Yakuza groups in Japan, he had bribed most of them with shares from the company so that he can pull them over to his side and gain more power.

So it is going to be very terrifying if I get married to the crown prince and my father would be able to take over the entire Japanese empire in no time and everyone will have to suffer and I am not going to let this happen. I have made up a small plan with Prince Haruto and my father doesn't know about this at all, he probably thinks that yesterday was the first time that we ever met each other and it is not the first time that we have met.

The crown prince is not the type of person who keeps himself in the palace and he sneaks out of the palace most of the time when no one is asking for him and he would go out to the public and pretend to be a regular civilian and he would have the head of his bodyguard team to act as his friend and they would hang out on the streets on the weekends unless he needs to be in the palace but he is not the current emperor and he doesn't have many things to do.

He also loved visiting this cafe in the capital city and he would spend hours in there, just looking like a mafia boss and he would always be trying out their latest menus every single time he is there and I met him that one time and I happened to witness him slurping on some pink drink that doesn't even go well with his character and we clicked well together.

I know that I sort of have the status of a princess even though I am technically not a princess but because of the huge size of the company that my father is the CEO of, it is named the Kingdom of Minatozaki and if my father is the emperor of the empire, I would naturally be the princess but in reality, I am just the heiress to the company.

We talked all afternoon and we even exchanged phone numbers and even though his bodyguards told him not to because he is giving me his number instead of the number that he would usually give to the people that he does business with. We only met that once and he told me everything about his life even though I am just a stranger to him and I am barely that close to him for him to be telling me his deepest secrets and I was shocked to know that but he told me not to tell anyone and if we were to meet each other again sometime in the future, we are not to tell anyone about our friendship so that it would be safer for the both of us.

And that is why my father didn't know him and thought that it would be a foolproof plan for me to get married to him and I would be able to inherit everything once the current king had stepped down from the throne, little did he know that nothing is going his way and he is going to lose everything.

The styling team dressed me up in the morning ceremonial attire for the morning ceremony and my hair is done in a very traditional style because I am going to get married to the prince and this marriage will be broadcast live on television and the internet as well, I have to look my best and the makeup stylist is struggling to make my dark eye circles disappear under the thin layer of makeup. "Just do your very best, it is not like I am going to get married," I said and I realized that none of them is notified of this change and I quickly laughed it off, changing to another topic and they just went along with it.

I can't say anything to them because they are hired by my father and they wouldn't hesitate to tell to my father that I am planning to go against him and all I can do is to pretend to look excited about my wedding while waiting for updates from his side, I have no updates from his men for nearly a night and I have no idea if Hyungwon and Kihyun are already here.

They are just ordinary people and they are not heavily trained in martial arts, Kihyun might have taken some martial arts classes when he was younger but that doesn't mean that he is capable of taking down so many people at one time. But they are reckless people and they told me that they will do whatever it takes to protect me and in this case, they will come all the way here to take me back with them and I will be able to get my freedom once again.

And Chae Hyungwon would have applied for his passport as well, from what I know he hasn't travelled overseas before and he would have been so terrified of flying and going to some foreign country that he doesn't speak the language, but he is still willing to be here and I know that he loves me and I trust him in coming to get me because I love him as well.