Years had passed since the Kingdom of Kot announced war. The war had lasted so long, and the kingdom of the Lapin Isles was almost about to give way. Its beauty had almost been destroyed by the abrupt invasions of the kingdom of Kot and their conspirators.
The people were community drastically and the royal fortress slowly diminished with their hopes. The figure who brought strength to the people and the army was their princess. The young twenty-two year old girl had taken the eternal beauty of her mother, producing a continuous harmony on her body, making it more and more beautiful to look at over time.
Her beautiful black hair grew longer over time, making it almost as thin as strands of peplum fabric. Her sweet and fragile body colored by her white always made her look like a little angelic creature adored by beautiful loving eyes.
Her cheeks were always colored a soft red and her pleasant hands were always placed above her lap like a celestial goddess. Her name was Pham Hanni and she was the only daughter of the kingdom of the Lapin Islands and was the only one she lost to the throne as well as being the only daughter with a power.
The lineage passes down the magic of the family from generation to generation and Princess Hanni as tradition had assumed the power of the family, as well as that of the beauty of the rivers.
The beauty of the rivers was the power of knowing how to control the waters and giving beauty to whatever got wet through the waters. Even the ugliest man could become a beautiful young man.
Such power was magnificent but frightening at the same time making it almost impossible to believe whether or not the beauty was real in the eyes of others. The man may have seemed handsome to everyone but in his heart he knew he had been ugly and still was.
In fact, it was said that the princess, before the queen could lose her power, had taken a bath in magical waters so that she could be such a beauty that she was believed to be surreal, but it was just a story invented to ensure that the magic of the kingdom of Lapin Islands were more powerful than the others.
Due to her wonderful beauty, the young girl was forced to live within the walls of the castle until she reached the age of marriage. For now the girl still had no proposal that she could taste her palate being that the first rule of the kingdom of the Lapin Islands was that the king had to be equal to the queen both culturally and physically, obviously.
Not for this reason had half of her life been spent among the books of her royal library and among the daily etiquette lessons with the boring professor Park Jihyo. However, speaking of current events, the war was still ongoing and the king didn't know what to do.
The king was driven mad by so many threats that the kingdom of Kot hurled at him. Every evening he found himself not sleeping for fear that someone might kill him in the night together with his inhabitants. He had diminished the harvest, the war and the worldly life of the kingdom was starting to crumble.
His wonderful domain was about to become a miserable cow farm. The woman sat on her throne as she watched her husband pace back and forth in fear that her people might rebel against him.
"I don't know what to do? My people are waiting for me to win the war but what do I do when I have nothing but ships and cowardly soldiers?" the man said, sniffling, almost intending to cry at any moment. The woman laughed at her husband's expression that he had always been so ferocious and violent when it came to war.
“Why don't you try a truce?” the woman asked placing her hand under her chin amused by her husband's shocked face. She stomped her foot on the ground causing her red cloak to flutter "I, king of the kingdom of the Lapin Islands, will never, ever ask for a truce!" The man said firmly, pointing with a pout on his face that the truce was not something he wanted.
The woman narrowed her eyes sourly as she saw how hostile the man was. “Do you want to let more people die?” the woman asked causing the man's pride to wither and he immediately bowed her head shaking his head from right to left as a sign of negativity.
"Then try to drop your pride once in a while for your people" said the woman crossing her arms unhappily while her eyes glared at her husband's behavior. The man sighed realizing it was the right choice.
"I will have one of my advisors write a letter..." the man whispered, walking dejectedly towards her wife who was now happily waiting for him to come near her.
"You know that I do it for your good and for that of our kingdom" said the woman, hugging the man with a smile on her lips. The woman rested her head on the man's chest feeling how her heart had become so weak with her beating, "I know, Jisoo" he said holding her wife in her arms as if she was about to abandon her.
“Chaeyoung, try to hurry with the letter” her wife whispered, hearing how the fleets came forward to go and fight. Wars had always been the things the woman hated most. She found them useless and silly that only caused death and destruction.
This war was only used to show their superiority and strength when the only thing they had to show was their political and ambitious power towards their citizens, and as far as the woman knew that wasn't how strength was shown for her.
Of course, the woman knew well that the war also served to stop movements or peoples that were negative for their kingdom, but still caused deaths and famines. Dead who are not only combatants but also innocents. She fully supported everything her husband did but she did not accept it.
"Think about your daughter" the woman said after a while, knowing that the only thing that mattered most in the world to her husband was her own daughter. For this reason, the daughter herself knew what was happening in her country and was clearly against it.
She too hated war and the strong forces of abuse of dominance over other peoples but her father had always been an ambitious man to bring her kingdom as one of the first powers of the Novus world. Every time she had class with the culture professor Park Jihyo, the old woman always told her that war in times of danger was the best thing, but she hated it when she said these things.
"So when your father, as well as your majesty, announced the war, he did the right thing, princess," the woman always said with a determined expression. Hanni was never happy with this answer but just had to nod since it was her father's decision.
Just as it was her father's decision to make her take Galateo lessons, or never to leave the castle even if there was an epidemic inside her, or not even to meet any people other than the maids who helped her dress.
"Sometimes I don't understand my father" she said as she looked out the window of her room. She had a rabbit stuffed animal with her in her hands. Sometimes she would take him in her hand and talk to him, telling him everything she hated about that kingdom and what her parents made her do.
"I hate him when he try to force me" she continued, placing her elbows on the wall railing of the window which gave a wonderful view of the Lapin Islands.
"I hope someone comes to save me.." she began to say, clutching the rabbit in her hands, while her eyes stared at those clear lakes that surrounded the towns of the kingdom.
"A beautiful prince who wants to marry me for who I am..." she said, placing her stuffed rabbit on her bed. “I could talk to him every day about books and know what goes on in his mind” she said again as she looked at the rabbit as if he were her true prince at that moment.
"I could hear his soft laughter between my ears and understand what my parents feel when they smile at each other" she continued, throwing herself on the bed, making the stuffed rabbit move next to her.
"I could dance with him every day and I would never get tired" she concluded, closing her eyes and taking the stuffed rabbit in her hands, hugging him to her chest. Dreams for Hanni had always been moments of hope.
Eliminating them would have made her collapse in a disastrous vortex of loneliness, at least this much about her her parents couldn't forbid.
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The Royal Wedding
FanfictionA long time ago, the world Novus was divided into different kingdoms, forming aggressive and long-lasting disputes between them every year, resulting in perennial hatred between populations due to the desire for dominance over entire empires. One o...
