Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Forty-nine

Hyungwon

I wore my blazer and I heard someone let out a sigh. "I can't believe that I have the chance to dress like a mafia." He told me that he is afraid of the bad side and he told me that he is going to do good things for the rest of his life and he had a thing against the mafia for the longest time. He even told me that he is just going along with the crown prince's plans for the sake of staying alive but I don't see any fear in him at all, he is feeling so happy that he could be the mafia for a day.

"He is not the mafia, Yoo Kihyun," I said to him. "He is the crown prince and we are acting as the crown prince's guards for one day and we will be back to our normal lives after this, with Sana."

"Do you think that she will be crying when she sees us?" He said, still staring at himself in the mirror. "I bet that she will be crying for 3 days and 3 nights once she sees us."

She wouldn't cry, you will be the one who will be crying your eyes out instead... Maybe I will be the one who is crying as well but I will only be relieved if Sana is back with us, there is only one night left and Sana will be able to return to Gwangju without any issues.

We would have spent the entire week just doing nothing if we hadn't got to meet the crown prince, we don't know how to speak Japanese and it is my first time travelling, I don't know my way around and Kihyun is a lazy person who doesn't like to be on his feet the whole day. He is the main reason why we didn't get much information and we were almost close to giving up and we happened to be kidnapped by the crown prince who brought us to the Royal Palace and involved the two of us in his plans to ruin his wedding.

No one would be that crazy to think of ruining his wedding for no reason, a wedding is a happy occasion and he should be happy to get married to such a stunning person like Sana but he is not happy about getting married to her and taking Sana in as his wife, he is so willing to give up on getting married that he would even ruin his wedding and he will not want to be married to anyone else.

I have heard the other guards talking about the crown prince as I walked past them and they don't understand the crown prince's intentions either, nothing makes sense at all and, weirdly, a crown prince is thinking of ruining his wedding instead of wishing that everything will go according to plan and he will be married by the end of the day. And he is making the entire country scratch their heads in confusion and wonder what is wrong with him, I want to ask him why but I might get executed right away.

Could he be-- Kihyun taps me on the shoulder. "Let's get going or we will be late." He said to me and I quickly put on the sunglasses that are part of the special guards uniform, I don't know if I look good in these sunglasses but I know that it makes me look like a bodyguard, specifically the crown prince's bodyguard.

That is my job for this particular mission and I am supposed to look my part alongside Yoo Kihyun who is finally starting to get serious, he has been playing around for far too long and he is doing his best to get Sana out of here. The crown prince told us that we only have 15 minutes to sneak into the waiting room and swap her out with the fake bride after everyone from the stylist team is out of the room, and we will have a chance for Sana to change into the bodyguard uniform as well and we will go through the entire wedding in disguise and by the end of the wedding, we will have a chance to get out of the venue and we will take the first flight back to Gwangju and everything will be over.

That is a very simple plan but it is not that easy when there is also a huge army of people from the Minatozaki empire and they are also from the mafia which means that they are extremely dangerous and we might get killed off right away if we get caught and we won't be able to get back to Gwangju, our bodies will be because dead bodies are supposed to be returning to where they came from and we don't want that to happen.

We looked around for people and walked around without any hesitation so that it would look more natural, keeping calm is the only way to succeed in this operation. We are nearing the waiting room where Sana is and there isn't anyone in the area as compared to the other places in the palace, maybe it is because they want the bride to have a piece of mind before the wedding starts but there should at least have a whole team who is moving around and making sure that the crown princess gets all the treatment that she needs.

We walked up to the waiting room and I knocked on the door gently to let them know that we are here to see the crown princess and we can do the swap without anyone knowing, there isn't any response from the inside and we knocked on the door once again only to get the same response. I opened the door and we entered, there is no one in the room and there is only one answer, someone grabbed the bride away and the bride is being kidnapped even though she is already held captive from the start.

"Your majesty, Sana is missing," I said in the intercom.