When Beauty Destroys The BL World

Meeting with the Crown Prince

When Irene heard about the arrival of the crown prince, she was surprised.
She hadn't expect to meet him sooner. The duke is busy attending to the crown prince, as she is getting ready to meet him. Libby help her wear a dress. Thankfully it not a complicated dress to wear. Before leaving the room, Irene remembers something. She looks at the amulet on her wrist. As to not agitating the male lead, Irene decided to take off the amulet from her wrist. Leaving it in her bedroom.
After that, she left the room and walks towards the living room.
The door then opened, as she enters.
Irene harden her heart, suppressing the fear in her heart. For this sadistic male lead is the only way for her to succeed her plan. She saw a glimpse of the crown prince. Irene hurriedly look away as she then took a bow.
"I greet you, your highness." She said, respectfully.
"Well, don't just stand there, take a sit." Nickolai didn't said anything, whilst the duke then interfere.
Irene took a sit beside the duke.
"We are hono...." Just as the the duke tries to continue his conversation, the crown prince interject.
"I have something important to talk about with my fiancée. Privately." The duke was stumped. Still, he could only comply.
"Yes, your highness." He nods his head to leave the room. Leaving both of them alone in the room.
Feeling the tension in the room, Irene didn't dare to say anything. Her fear still consuming her. She grip her hand to stop her trembling. The man in front of her, is the man who hated her and wanted her death. She recalled every moment when she was almost die because of him. Her heart heavily pounding.
"You sent a letter and request my presence. Now that I'm here, you expect me to be the one to entertain you." Hearing the iciness in the crown prince tone, Irene had to forced herself to be calm. With all of her strength, she then kneeled down in front of Nickolai.
"Your highness, I come to seek helped from you."
"Help? From me?" Nickolai raises his brows.
"Yes your highness, I am humbly asking for your help."
Nickolai then chuckle.
"Miss Dacia, let's be frank here. As we both know, I wanted nothing more but to kill you. So why do you think I would help you in any way?"
"Because I have no other choice. You are the only one that could help me." Irene reply.
"Really now? What kind of help do you think I could do for you?" Nickolai wonders.
"Before that, your highness...I want to begged you for forgiveness."
Despite feeling wronged, Irene had to do this if she want to survive. She had to shows the crown prince that she's not an enemy of his.
"Please forgive for all my sins. That was because I don't know any better. But for these past fews months, I have grown to understand something in life. I am no longer the person who I used to be. For I...I almost lost my life because of my own stupidity. That I come to realise how poor my behaviour was. I realises that I could never be the crown prince fiancée. I failed my parents. Fearing such failure, I chose to ran away from the burden that was giving to me since I was a child. Like I said, I don't know any better. When I was outside the world, I learn a lot things. It opened my eyes to see the world, that I learned that life is not just about marriage and being a wife. That was all the education I got in this household. But outside world, make me realise I'm more than that. With that, please forgive me for all the mistakes and misconduct that I've done in the past."
Hearing her words, Nickolai then laugh as if he heard a biggest joke.
"Miss Dacia, you really surprised me today. To even degrading yourself as such. And even begging for forgiveness...hahahahaha!"
Irene only keep quiet as she listens that laugh of mocking. Soon the laughter subsided.
"But unfortunately....I don't intend to forgive you. Because you don't deserve to be forgiven." Nickolai looked at her sharply.
"Do you know why?" Nickolai walks up towards her. Irene could only stay still, even though she is genuinely terrified.

He then lean forward.

"Because I hate you. I hate your very being. There's no amount of words that can describe how much I despise you. It should have been you that got shot by my arrow." Nickolai said with a lower voice. It triggers her memory. Irene closes her eyes as the images of Arlo dying and the blood in her hand keep repeating in her mind. She grips her own hand, hard. To stay awake in reality and not consumed in the tormenting memory. Such behaviour is noticed by Nickolai.
"You even succeed into seducing one of my dog. And the best one at that....pity such potential has been wasted for the like of you." Nickolai mocked.
Irene had to calm herself down. Her heart is writhing with so much emotion. But she had to suppress her feeling.
"I...I've committed a crime to receive such hate from you, your highness. I'm willing to atoned my sin forever." Irene humble herself to bow down her head on the ground, like she is a biggest sinner. She didn't hear any response from the crown prince, so she had to stay in that position for awhile. Irene can hear his movement when he walks away.
"How do you suppose to atoned such crime, Miss Dacia?" He questions.
"I understand that our engagement is not in your favour, your highness. If it is within my power, I would have dissolved this union long ago. But as your humble servant, I do not have the say, influence, status nor ability to do so. Regretfully, this wedding will still persist. So within this marriage, I would like to propose...your highness to have a contract marriage with me." Irene finally said.