This chapter also contains hints of rape and violence, though nothing much graphical. Please bear with me because this is necessary for the story to proceed further.
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Diya's eyes were burning, so painfully throbbing, but she could care less about them. Tears kept on cascading from her beautiful eyes as she laid helplessly on her stomach on the huge queen sized bed.
King V has spent the rest of the night with her, leaving only at dawn to attend the morning assembly at the court.
Diya continued to cry silently. She had not even got used to the fact that one fine morning while doing house chores, she got handpicked by Jeon JungGuk to become one of the royal concubines and forced to leave her family behind in such a haste. Now, she was given more reasons to grieve for her innocence, her tainted body and wounded soul.
The people in the royal palace were all messed up, so badly messed up that there was no way that they could be fixed back. Lady Hyuna, the guards, the servants, the other candidates who were aspiring to become concubines, even the king himself, were all messed up.
Thinking of King V caused Diya to shiver in fury and hatred. He should be acting as the shield, the shield who protects the weak, the one who should protect them from any sorts of harm and at the same time guide them along the right pathway. But how could he lead them into the right direction when he himself was on the wrong side?
Why? Were there not enough ladies in the palace? Were Lady Hyuna and other nameless concubines no longer capable of pleasuring him? Why must V do this to her?
Diya looked at her bloodied body. Most of the blood came from the multiple marks on her neck. The rest came from her torn vagina. Diya's lips trembled upon recalling what V had done to her... how the pleasure of King V came from the pain he inflicted upon her!
Feeling tattered, tainted and worthless, Diya stood up from the messy bed, her wobbly legs unable to support her fully. Pain was shooting through her entire body. She walked towards the table nearby and took the phoenix hairpin, earlier used to keep her hair in place which V took off during the course of the night. Noting how sharp one end of the hairpin was, Diya could bet one stab was enough to take her life.
God, she really wanted to die right now. She was feeling so disgusted, tainted and marred that all she wished was to die. Diya was now one of the many ladies whom King V had toyed with, except V did not really toy with her. He destroyed her.
Diya's hand shook in anticipation as the sharp end of the hairpin touched the skin of her neck. But then as if something ominous decided to intervene as the door bursted open and rushed in Rini as her saviour.
Wordlessly, Rini grabbed Diya's hand and snatched the phoenix hairpin from her. Diya dropped on the ground with a thud and started sobbing pitifully. Endless tears flowed out of her eyes and she mourned in a heart wrenching way. Rini wordlessly covered the girl in a silk sheet. Then, she brought the trembling girl into her embrace and rubbed her back in a soothing way. It took almost an hour before Diya's sobs died down and she pulled away from Rini's comforting embrace. Her eyes were puffy and red by that time.
"Why? Why did you save me?" Diya whispered, sounding absolutely broken.
"Dying is not always a solution, Diya. Your death will not bring this cycle to an end. V will find someone else and you will die as a miserable being."
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Labyrinth of Love
FanfictionLoosing his first love to his elder brother, JaeJoong, made TaeHyung cold and bitter. After he became the ruler of Bangtan, he used to choose concubines every year. He was quite a womanizer. However, one day everything changed when a girl named Diya...
