I Need A Queen?!

Chapter IX: "Four Years Ago, I Met..."

The Next Day

LEE ROYAL MANSION

JOOHEON'S POV

"Sir? Is there something wrong?"

I snapped out of my trance and looked at Yoonho. "Oh, sorry, I was just thinking about something..."

"Is it about what happened last night?" Yoonho asked before sipping his coffee. We were both down at the dining hall having breakfast. Mom hasn't woke up yet and we're expecting my younger sister and Hyungwon to arrive anytime right now after they cut short their visit to Thailand because of the attack on the Blue House last night.

"...no, something else..."

"May I ask what it is? I might be able to help you with it..."

"Um well... it involves something that happened four years ago."

"Two years ago... hold up, I'll check my journal." He turned on his tablet (which was his journal) and quickly checked the files for 2016. "So are we talking about official or unofficial events?"

"Er... unofficial?"

"On what date did it happen?"

"Let me think... Ah! It was the last week of September... The 26th I think?"

"The 26th... Oh? There wasn't any event that day, official or unofficial. "

"Really?! But I'm sure it happened on the night of that day..."

"The night of that... WAIT A MINUTE!!!!"

"Did you... remember it now?"

Yoonho banged his fist on the table and said: "HOW CAN I FORGET THE SHOCK YOU GAVE ME THAT NIGHT, SIR!!!"

"And so here we go..."

"YOU, OF All PEOPLE DECIDED TO JUST SNEAK OUT!"

"Look, I just want to..."

"THEIR MAJESTIES WERE SO WORRIED!!! NOT TO MENTION FURIOUS!!!"

"Yah..."

"COMMANDER JO EVEN SENT OUT SEVERAL TEAMS OF ROYAL GUARDS TO FIND YOU!!!

"I..."

"YOU WERE ALMOST ON THE NEWS!"

"YOONHO!"

"WHAT?!"

"I JUST WANT TO CHECK IF YOU HAVE THAT FILE ON THAT NIGHT!!!"

"Oh of course I do! But it's in another folder!"

"What folder?" I asked.

"This one." He showed me a folder named "The Prince's Escapades ".

"Yah, are you writing some kind of novel?!"

"I could very well write one with all the content in here. Now let me see, the 26th of September, 2016..."

I watched as he scrolled across his tablet's screen until finally...

"Ah! Here we go!" He said as he handed me his tablet.

I checked the file and read it.

File No. 1514

Date: September 26, 2016

Around 8:47PM, I went to check on His Royal Highness at his room only to find him not there. So I went to Princess Lee's room but she said her brother wasn't there either. We tried calling him but he wouldn't answer. I got alarmed so we went out (we planned to check if he was in the Queen's room or talking with His Majesty in his study) and saw Seokwon who said he saw the Prince strolling in the garden earlier. We all hurried only to find no one out there. Seokwon and I immediately went to the CCTV Control room where we found the guards asleep! I replayed the video feed for all the cameras in the garden and saw the crown prince half an hour earlier walking across the garden before climbing over the wall! The King instructed Commander Jo to immediately send out the royal guards to track and bring him back here..