Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Fifty-five

Sana

I let out an annoyed sigh as I looked out of the window and I just wondered if I am just normal or if Chae Hyungwon is a very weird person and I don't understand him enough, it is obvious that we both like each other and we are considered to be dating each other but nothing has ever changed since we came back from the disastrous wedding that I was almost part of.

He risked his life going all the way to Osaka which is a foreign land to him and it is his first time travelling and he decided to apply for a passport for the first time because he wanted to get me back and that would mean that I mean something in his heart and I am his special someone, he rescued me from my father's clutches and I came back to Gwangju with him because he is the person that I want to spend the rest of my time with.

There will be no reason for me to be staying here for the long term, I am not even a citizen here and I am here on a long-term visa and I would have to renew it now and then, and I came here because of Chae Hyungwon and I thought that we would be staying together soon.

And I even bought an apartment so that we could live together and I chose a lovely penthouse to live in and it would be the perfect place for the two of us, the current place that we are in is lovely and well but it would be better to give Kihyun some privacy and I thought that it was time for us to finally leave his place.

It would work if Chae Hyungwon even realized that he needed to propose to me for us to be able to live together and he still hasn't said anything when I was telling him about the apartment and he just nodded his head. What exactly is wrong with him?

"I see that you have trouble sleeping." I turned around and it was Kihyun in his pyjamas and he is holding a can of beer in his hand. "I thought that you would be happy about moving out and you have gotten such a lovely apartment, and it is a penthouse. Are you planning on doing any renovations?"

"What is the use of having a lovely penthouse when I am going to be the only one living in there?" I said to him. "And have you taken your friend to a doctor? Because I think that there is something wrong with his mind, it has been 3 months and he still hasn't proposed to me."

He looked at me with a surprised look on his face. "So I wasn't wrong about it, the penthouse is one way to get him to propose to you. I thought that you were just moving out because you wanted some privacy." He sighed. "But you have to understand that you need to give him some time, he is someone who had nothing and he is used to receiving nothing from anyone and he doesn't dare to dream big."

I hate to admit it but Chae Hyungwon and I are indeed from 2 different worlds and we grew up in completely different environments, Hyungwon was born in poverty and he is taught not anticipate to not get his heart hurt and he doesn't dare to do anything much with his life.

He graduated from high school and decided to work immediately because he didn't have the finances to get to university and he had to feed himself, that was then he met Kihyun and who became his best friend and they started living together after a while, by then he is working in his restaurant and he eventually became the head chef.

I know that Hyungwon didn't expect all of this to happen and he is contented with his current life, he doesn't feel the need to move on to something bigger and he is fearful of his choices.

He is scared that he might be making a huge mistake and that is why he decided not to do anything else, he is scared that he would make me miserable and I would lead a horrible life if I am married to him but I am not afraid of that.

That is why he hasn't talked to me about it, I am sure that he has thought of it at least once but he just couldn't bring up the topic.

"Sana, are you going to wait for him to propose to you? What if you got tired of waiting?" He asked me.

"Then I will whack him until he does it himself." He let out a gasp, his hand covering his mouth. I shook my head, telling him that it is a joke. "I will propose to him myself."

"That's great to see you so eager to marry him, and you didn't choose him over that prince. That Prince is so much better than him." He commented. "It is just a shame that he doesn't have any interest in women or he would have been a great competitor and it would make Hyungwon do something about it."

I have not heard anything much from him ever since we returned him and all I know is that the entire Japanese empire is in shock over his statement and no one had expected it, he has never made his sexuality known to anyone and he would break some many women's hearts but he wanted it to happen someday and it did happen.

It would take a while for him to find happiness as long as he is willing to wait, and I hope that he would meet someone who will cherish him and love him with all their heart.

And I hope that Chae Hyungwon would suddenly get some motivation from somewhere and pop the question to me or I am going to do it myself, I have already prepared the ring and all I am waiting for is for him to say that he loves me and he wants to spend the rest of his life with me.