Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Fifty-three

Sana

I sat down at the real estate office waiting for the real estate agent to come to see me, and he is going to bring me around the neighbourhood and show me all the available apartments.

It is one of the days where I will finally get some time alone and I have recently turned in my resignation at the restaurant it was a huge decision for me to make because I do work there and I was doing well at waitressing and I don't mind doing it for a little longer but the reality is that it doesn't make sense for me to be working as a waitress when I am a multimillionaire and no multimillionaire works at her friend's restaurant at minimal wage and lives with her friends.

I am someone who has been living in luxury my whole life and I don't like that luxurious life that I was leading because I never got to do the things that I wanted to do while living my life as a princess, a princess who doesn't get any freedom and only be able to do everything that is being ordered by my father who is known as the emperor and he controlled most of Japan's economy and he stole that position from my mother whom he assassinated and later said that it was a tragic incident.

But the tables have finally turned and my father finally got his revenge by having a stroke he will be confined to sitting in a wheelchair for the rest of his life and his company torn to pieces because I have made the decision to sell it off and I have gotten a lot of money from it after donating it to charity.

And now with that company, I am still figuring out a way to use it to not run out of that money and the first thing that I have done is to quit the job that I am doing now and I am planning to work somewhere else which I still don't have any idea of but finding a place to stay is another huge task that I have to do.

Although there is no rush for me to move out and Kihyun and Hyungwon even told me to take as much time as I can before I move out and I am going to move out as soon as I signed the lease, they have been nothing but good to me and I owe my life to them.

Especially Hyungwon because he saved my life that day and he sent me to the hospital until I regained unconsciousness I happened to meet him again after 6 months and I began to live with him as a way for me to hide from my father, Kihyun also helped me out a lot by allowing me to work at his restaurant so that I could have some money to live by.

They are the reason why I have decided to come back here to Gwangju even though I don't have to, I have my home back in Osaka and it is a huge mansion with servants catering to my needs and I basically don't need to work and I would still have enough money to live my life however I want to.

That life is so miserable that I don't want to get back there again, although my father is not there anymore there is no way that I will be staying there again. At least I have people that care about me in Gwangju and I can depend my entire life on them, I mean that they were the ones who risked their lives to bring me back from Japan with their limited knowledge of Japan and the Japanese empire and we came back happier than ever.

So there is no way that I will leave them again, especially Hyungwon whom I love a lot and I won't forget Kihyun as well, he is the one who allowed me to stay on even though he didn't have to and he didn't mind if I were to continue to stay with them.

But it is a fact that my stay is a little overdue and I needed to move away so that I will feel better than staying with them, and I will still come back often to see them and it is not like I will not be able to see them again. I am buying an apartment 10 minutes away from them and it will be no difference made to our lives.

"Are you sure that you are going to sign the lease here?" The agent asked me when I told him that I would want to purchase the penthouse out of all the other apartment buildings that he had recommended to me. "It will be a little over your budget and I would recommend you reconsider your opinions first."

I put my hand up and I handed him my business card that I somehow kept in my wallet, I got a copy of it before coming back to Gwangju. "I believe that you would know who I am right? If you did watch the news, you would know who you are going to offend."

He looked at it and he immediately apologized, bowing his head and telling me how big of a mistake that he has made. "So do what you have to do and bring me the contract as soon as you can, I am taking that penthouse no matter what," I said to him. "And I don't care if someone else is living there, make them move away and show this name card to them if they refuse to."

"Yes, Miss Minatozaki. I will make sure that you will get this penthouse." I smiled and I looked up at the building, after selling off the empire and having a huge sum of money from it, I should at least be deserving to get the penthouse and live there without any worries. It would be better if you were here, Okaasan...