Star-Crossed Lovers

PROLOGUE

200 YEARS AGO

The church was gloomier than ever with heavy rain and frightening thunderstorm outside. The damsel, Na Jaemin had been crying endlessly in her lover's arms, Lee Jeno.

They had been sweethearts for two years since they first laid their eyes on each other. They promised to spend their whole life together, but when Jeno went to the Na family to seek for her hand in marriage, he was rejected cold-heartedly, as both of their families were sworn enemies for whatever reasons they failed to understand.

"Let's run away together!"

Jeno tried to suggest a solution.

"They'll find us, Jeno! And when they did, who knows what they'll do to us? We might as well just kill ourselves now!"

Jaemin responded weakly, tears still streaming down her cheeks.

The current state of his lover was crushing Jeno from the inside but he was trying his hardest not to shed any tear in front of her. He caressed her soft pink hair and rocked her back and forth gently, trying to calm her.

Suddenly, the sobbing stopped. Jeno looked down at his sweetheart's face. He was quite shocked to see her emotionless face and blank eyes that stared straight ahead.

"Jaemin, what is it?"

Jeno asked, voice full of concerns.

Jaemin took out a small amber glass bottle out of her dress pocket. Her eyes slowly trailed to Jeno's.

"Let's just kill ourselves Jeno. It's the end anyway."

Her tone was flat.

In a split second, she emptied the bottle content into her mouth and immediately fell unconscious in her lover's arms.

"Jaemin, no!"

Jeno's voice echoed throughout the empty church, full of sadness and dismay. The tears that he had been holding in fell continuously on his cheeks. His hands were getting more and more vigorous shaking the girl in his arm trying to wake her up, but to no avail.

Suddenly, the church door was slammed open and Na Yuta stormed inside, soaked in rain. He was more surprised to see the lifeless girl lying on the floor.

"What have you done to her?"

Yuta screamed in Jeno's face and shoved him away from his sister. He tried to examine her and looked for any pulses or signs of life.

Jeno had lost his words, strength and also his sanity. The love of his life had left him. He had no reason to keep on living. He reached for the small dagger that was always kept close to him for self-defense purposes.

"She's still alive!"

Yuta yelled at no one in particular when he finally felt a weak pulse on his sister's neck. When he turned to exit the church after lifting his sister from the floor, he almost dropped her due to shock as he saw the deadly sight in front of him.

Right in the middle of the church floor, laid a lifeless body in a pool of blood, with a dagger stabbed straight through his heart.