𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐠*𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬; 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘴

Soleia

This is a story that started with this one tweet of mine; "I kinda wanna write a story where it has that one character (not the mc) that's just so hopelessly, innocently in love but in the end finds out the men she fell in love with will never love her back."

I finished it from my private twt acc so i'll be sharing it here. And so it starts;

She mistakenly fell in love with the crown prince of her kingdom but the prince stated that he already has someone he was betrothed to, so she could only do what she does best and retreat.

The prince though was used to women swarming him with love letters, even after he rejected them, so he was appalled as to why she didn't pursue him any further like the other girls he rejected, so he became obsessed.

A banquet was thrown to commemorate the kingdom's founding. On the night of the banquet, news had spread that the prince had been stabbed and poisoned and had now fallen into a coma for almost two weeks.

Now the royal guards were tasked to find out evidence that could lead to the suspect, but all evidence led to her, who wasn't even there that night. A maid also came forward and said that she saw a hooded woman entered the crown prince's chamber after the crown prince. The maid also said she caught a glimpse of bright red hair and she could never be mistaken as there's only one person in the empire who has that kind of hair.

Of course she denied all of this but she was still detained until the prince woke up.

When the prince came to, he was ultimately asked whether he remembered what happened prior to the incident.

He was at first shaken and said that it was the nightmare of his life and that he never wanted to recall it ever again.

He was then asked, "Have you ever met Astea?"

The prince trembled and said, frightened, "Astea? Yes!! Astea! Where is she?! We must capture her at all costs! Execute her for attempting to kill the royal prince!"

With those words Astea was brought out of her cell, the royal guard bringing news of the prince's awakening. She was elated, of course, because now she can be free. But alas, her happiness was cut short when the royal guard told her of her execution date.

"What? But didn't the prince-"

"The prince woke up and has identified you as the sole perpetrator of the crime of attempting to bring harm or end to a member of the royal family." The guard cuts her off.

She couldn't believe it. It was nonsense. None of this makes sense, how could she?

On the date of her execution, it was revealed to the public of her supposed crimes; Sending death threats to the royal prince, harming a member of the royal family, attempted kidnapping of the crown prince's betrothed and many more crimes she was accused of but she doesn't have any recollection of executing the said acts.

"I WAS FRAMED IT'S NOT ME"

She looked to her side and there she saw her family, her great love and joy, they were brimming with sadness and guilt, guilt of not doing anything or rather they were powerless to do anything.

She looked up and there she saw the prince she once admired, he was trembling, scared and whatever more synonyms of fear there are. But when he saw Astea being guided to the guillotine, he smirked.

Astea saw it.

She went fuming, mad, angered, she was seething.

"HOW COULD YOU SIT THERE AND WATCH AS AN INNOCENT LIFE IS BEING TAKEN FOR YOUR BASELESS ACCUSATIONS?!" her voice rang across the plaza. "THIS IS FOR ALL OF YOU TO LISTEN AND COWER, BY THE TIME MY HEAD DEPARTS MY BODY I WILL BE CURSING YOUR ENTIRE BLOODLINE TO SMITHEREENS"

"YOU WILL ALL-" chop.

She was beheaded.

Silence.

And then.

"PERISH UNTIL THE TRUTH ARISES"

That was the end of the story that surrounded the Kingdom of Soleia. And for 20 years, no one has ever come close to knowing who was the real suspect of the crown prince's incident.