Royalty ||Choi Yeonjun✔️

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JIHEE'S POV

2 years later

I was sitting in bed, exhausted. I leaned my head back against the headboard, rubbing my eyes.

Jun came in, walking over to me. "Hi," he smiled, leaning down and kissing my lips.

"Hi," I mumbled.

"Do you want me to put him to bed?" he chuckled, picking him up and bouncing him in the air.

"I need someone to put me to bed first," I said sarcastically, lying down in the bed.

"Go to sleep. I'll put him to bed and then in the crib," he nodded.

Juyeon giggled in response. He is almost one year old, he will be in a month.

"I thought you would be heading for the council meeting?" I frowned in confusion.

"I canceled it," he replied, pressing kisses to her cheek.

"You said this was an important meeting, how come you canceled it?"

"It was important," he nodded. "But not more important than my wife and son."

He had his way eventually. We had a son last year. And what do you know, having an actual grandchild in his arms, made my father-in-law have a great change of heart. Well, he says he's working on it. That didn't stop Jun from wishing he was dead for a good eight to nine months after Juyeon was born. It took a lot of persuasion on both ends to have them talking again. Little by little.

Yeonjun still doesn't really like leaving Juyeon with him, he doesn't like having him around him. I remember when he was born, he didn't even want him to see him, let alone hold him.

"Where is your mother?" I asked, fiddling with the sleeves of his shirt. I don't think I have worn my own clothes in the palace since we had him. Only when we go out. The pregnancy wasn't too bad, but the mood swings were horrible. So since then, until now. Nobody has dared to tell me to dress or act a certain way. It felt nice to have the power.

We didn't plan the pregnancy, just like we didn't plan the scare we first had. It was another scare but the tests came out positive. I took three to make sure. Jun was very understanding, he told me I didn't have to keep the baby if I didn't want to, but I knew he wanted it and I knew I wanted it.

We were in no world ready to be parents. But we wanted to. When we got pregnant, I didn't study pregnancy or parenting at all. Yeonjun was way more nervous than me. I had my mother swing by often, she would explain things to me, tell me her experiences, I learned most of it from that.

Jun on the other hand was a ball of nerves until we were in a set routine.

And this baby. Juyeon. Dear God.

Jun and I would stay up a little before having him. Especially me. I would sleep often in the mornings and wake up in the afternoons, except for waking up to get something in my stomach. It became Jun's duty to make sure I was healthy, eating, taking care of the baby.

Jun fell in love the day we had him. He was the one who stayed up the whole night to watch him, not me. He was the one who did all the firsts. First bath, first nail clippings, first diaper change.

That isn't a pleasant memory.

I helped but the labor was very difficult and I took a little longer than most to recover.

Everything is good now, I suppose. His clock just happens to be the other way around. He normally sleeps throughout most of the day and he's wide awake throughout the night. Which leads to me staying up with him. I try letting Jun sleep at night because he's the one who needs to wake up early in the mornings and get to work, not me.