A Royal Arranged Married (English Fanfic)

The Alliance

Seohyun POV

"No! I'm not going to marry him." I immediately stand up. I couldn't believe it. They told me that an alliance was made between China and Korea. But, It's not that what bothers me. In fact I don't really care about the alliance. It's the solution that bothers me. Are you kidding me? Marriage? In order to have an alliance I have to marry the Prince of China? Hell no! Never in a million years.
"You have to. You have no choice in this matter." I looked at my father, the King of South Korea. His face is a bit tense but mine are worse than him.
"Why? There's got to be other solution, other ways to have an agreement with them. Why me? Why marriage?"
"You won't understand."
"Then make me understand!" I cut off my mother speech because I can't stand it. I can't understand? Me? She's startled but I couldn't care less about that. I'm too angry to have a logical and rational mind right now.
"I am 23 for God's sake. I am 'big' enough to 'understand' the complicated issue." I pleaded to them. I need to understand because for me marriage is a big step for me. I'm young and even though I'm a Princess of Korea, I have goals to achieve first and believe me marriage is down below my list.
"Okay. Please just sit first." My father continued as he saw me sit and he sighed as he was trying to calm himself.
"As you know, our country and China were not and still not in a good term. Even though there are no war threats between us but the tension is still exist. Countless of proposition between us were made but neither of us were satisfied. There is always a problem and it's hard for us achieve an agreement." He stopped probably seeing me yawned and he glared at me. I put my hand on my mouth and closed it. I nodded as my sign to let him go on.
"For the past few months, our diplomats and their diplomats have met and discussed about the agreement. And finally they achieved one. In order to ease up the tension and settles lots of problem, a marriage between both countries is needed. Believe me when they first presented the idea, I didn't favour it at all. But the more they explained, I thought the idea wasn't bad but I still couldn't agree with it and I also wasn't sure what their reactions would be. Last week, I had a meeting with their ambassador and they told me that the King of China approved of it. I was shocked and don't ask me why he agreed because honestly I don't know. But one thing I do know that even though he's a bit arrogant, he did want to have peace between us."
"And to finalize the alliances, they are coming here to discuss more and to know if we agree with some of the terms and outcomes of this marriage." My mother continued when my father stopped.
"They are coming here? In Seoul? They? As in THE ROYAL FAMILY?"
"Yes. THE royal family." My father said that last word and I just saw both of them stood and walked out of the living room.

Shocked was definitely shown on my face right now. They are coming? What? I'm not ready. Scratch that. I was never ever ready for that. God. Just 30 minutes ago, my life was happy and normal. But now? I am doomed.
Married to the China's prince was not in my list. I thought I would probably marry to some rich man or minister's son or something. I don't really hope to marry for love. Come on, this is 21st century. Love is overrated nowadays. And as one of the royalty, love marriage is rare for us even through hundreds of years ago, most prince and princess married for the sake of wealth, land and for heirs. None about love. They did in the end, cares for each other but love? I'm not quite sure about that.
Love is rare. I didn't say it NEVER happened. My parent's marriage was an arranged marriage but they unexpectedly fall in love when they first met and now even after 26 years and three grown up children, they are still in love with each other. Sometimes I just couldn't believe they are the king and queen of Korea because they are too romantic and some cheesy lines thrown at each other somehow makes me wanted to gag or chokes.
Let's face it; I am not a romantic person. I am a logical one but that doesn't mean that I didn't believe in love. I did but I wasn't sure if it was going to happen to me. And even if I did get married to him, in what language did I have to speak with him? He's Chinese and I'm Korean. Do I have to speak in Korean or Chinese? Or I could have just speaks in English for the rest of my life. I do know how to speak Chinese albeit not that fluently but still I can start a normal conversation if I needed too.
I groaned in frustration as my brother, the Crown prince Kyuhyun came and sit beside me on the gold-coloured sofa. "Why are you looking so frustrated about?" He asked me.As he saw me ignored him, he grinned.
"Let me take a wild guess. Is this about the marriage alliances?" He ruffled my hair as I looked at him and knew that he said that to see my reaction when I saw him grinning like an idiot.
"So it is about that, huh?"
"Oppa... You knew about it?" I saw him shrugged and suddenly my anger rising.
"You knew and you don't even tell me about it! How could you?" How dare he do this to me? We're close and we told each other about everything. And he didn't even tell me about this? He knew my feelings about marriage. I can't help but be disappointed by him.
"Don't be mad at me. I just knew a few days ago. And even though I so wanted to tell you, our father forbid me to even give you hints about it, let alone the whole thing. I'm saying the truth. You know that I can't lie right?" I saw his face and I knew that he said the truth. He can't lie. In fact he is a terrible liar. So instead he chose not to tell. My anger immediately gone.
"I know. I'm just shocked about this whole thing. I couldn't accept it yet." I sighed.
"I feel you. I'm sorry I couldn't do much about it. You know how our father is. When he's set about something, he won't let us interfere with it. He's stubborn but we love him."
"Yeah. But marriage? I'm not prepared for it. I don't even know him and his name." My brother smiles and there're a bit of sympathy in his eyes.
"I'm not sure who's your fiancée will be because as far as I know there are two prince. Kris and Luhan. I don't know which one is unfortunate enough to marry you." He laughed at his own jokes and I shook my head in amusement.
"Yahhh... how could you say that? I'm the one who's unfortunate to marry one of them. Wait... why I should be the one who's got to marry him? Why can't you? You are the Crown Prince after all. You are so much more important than me." I pouted.
"Because dear sister...." He stopped and saw me waiting for him to continue. Suddenly, his expression was serious.
"They don't have a princess. So I was saved by it." Kyuhyun laughed again seeing my confused expression.
I groaned. How could I forget about it? Stupid me. I was too caught up by this marriage till I completely forgot about the absence of a Chinese princess.
"Oppaaa!!!" He continued to laugh again.

Luhan POV

"Sorry. I'm late." I looked at my parents and my big brother and took a seat beside my brother. We were informed to be here as our parent wanted to tell us something. I looked at Kris, my brother and also the Crown Prince of China as I was silently asking him why we have a meeting right now. He shook his head as a sign that he didn't know about it. Somehow that makes me more curious. We looked at our father when he cleared his throat loudly.
"The reason me and your mother called both of you here is that we wanted to tell you something. Both of you do know that we have a love and hate relationship between our country and Korea?" Both of us nodded.
"Yes, father. And we do know that there have been a lot of proposition to at least have a slight peace between us. None were approved by us and them." Kris spoke and the King nodded.
"Yes. That's true. But now, we have a way to do that."
"What way is that, father?" I'm confused. A way to have peace between both countries? Really? As far as I've known our countries were enemies since hundreds of years ago. But as time moves on, we aren't enemies and yet we aren't friends either. We tolerated each other but the tense between us is still there. Probably because of our history weren't too good and also the tense were added by rejections of propositions of alliances by us and them.
"Our ambassadors and theirs have met and together they came up with a way that could be the solutions and the end of our dispute." He stopped again. It was as if he was hesitating to tell us. What could be the worse? If we have found a way then, it's a something that we need to celebrate.
"The way is that, one of you needs to marry the princess." My mother said that confidently, compared to our father's hesitation.
"What? Marry?" My brother and I spoke in unison and with the same word. Both of us were startled. Marriage? Oh my god. I feel like my jaws were going to drop.
"Why one of us? You didn't made up your mind on who's the going to marry the girl?" I heard Kris asked our parent.
"Yes, we couldn't decide yet. That's why we are here to talk about it." Finally my father spoke with the familiar tone. Confidence.
"Let Kris marry her. He's older than me and I'm still young. He's the Crown Prince and I'm just a spare prince..."
"Heyyy... Who's older than you? We're just one year apart. Not ten." Kris rebutted.
".... He needs heirs anyway and I didn't need that right now. He has a duty to the people and our country and I'm not that obligated to do that. Then, that's settled it. Congratulations brother on your marriage."
I turned to look at Kris with a huge grin on my face. I listed all the good points on why he should've married first. Well, he did interfere my speech but I just pretend not to hear it and continued anyways.
Our parent's laughed at our reactions and I bet it's mostly due to my list. I grinned wider.
"Well, if that's settled. We go by that. Do you agree, Kris?"
"NO! I don't agree. Why me? Luhan could marry her too. Just because I'm older by one year, yes ONE YEAR and as a crown prince doesn't mean that I have to be shackled by marriage this young. I need to have my single life before I take the responsibility as King for the rest of my life." Kris argued. My father looked like he was thinking of something.
"Well, that's true. When I was a crown prince, I spend my single life as long as I could before I met your mother and fell head over heels of her and married her two months after that. What a nice memories, right dear?" I saw my mother blushing and my father grinned like a teenager in love.
Yikes, my father has started it yet again. Talking about their love life is not really my favourite subject. I mean, which children wanted to know their parent's love stories. It's fine when we were kids but now I'm 24 years old. Too old for an overly romantic story.
"Okaaayyyyy.... father. Let's stop about that. You can reminisce your love story in your private time and make out after that, okay? We don't really need to hear that." That had done the trick. Now Mother's face was bright red and Father also blushing in embarrassment. I was laughing my off when I heard Kris said that. I looked at him and he just smirked.
"Fine. Both of you could discuss this by yourselves and I wanted to know the results a day after we arrived at Korea."
"WHAT?" Both of us spoke again.
"What WHAT? We're going to Korea to meet them and the princess of course. Maybe after you met her, you will make a decision. I'll wait for it. Come on, let's go dear." Both of the King and Queen walked away with mischief in their eyes.
We groaned after hearing that. Going to Korea to meet the princess? I am so not wanted to go. I bet Kris thought the same thing as me. As though he heard my thought, he turned and looked at me.
"You are so going to marry that princess, Luhan."
"Not me bro. You are the destined one, brother."

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Sooooo..... who's actually the destined one huh? >_<

And to clear something, I probably going to update most of the rest of the stories by phone as my laptop is no longer work. (It's actually fine by me.. lol)
So expect lots of misused choice of grammars as english is not my 1st language and my english dictionary in my head is not vast as the actual one. lol
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~INSEONITY