Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Six

Yiwon

"Are you sure that you are going with that guy? Are you nuts, Miss?" The doctor comes to my bed for the 5th time this morning, it is time for me to get discharged and he isn't up for it.

He thinks that it is still too risky for me to be out there at this point of time, the people from the empire are still around the area but they haven't come to the hospital for quite some time and I don't think that they will ever come back anytime soon to catch me. If they can't find me while I was unconscious, it would be the same when I am sober and plus I will be able to escape in this state.

"Just trust me, once I am out of this place, the Minatozaki empire will be the last thing that I should be worried about, they are based in Japan, they would take a long time to reach my whereabouts and I will be gone before they are there," I reassured him. "And plus, I am not the Sana Minatozaki anymore, I have a new name now."

"Miss, but still--"

I rolled my eyes at him. "This is not for you to decide, I have to do it. This is my life and I have the right to control it anywhere I want. I will do fine on my own, and plus there is Chae Hyungwon with me."

Dr Heo deeply sighed. "If that is what you want, then I can't tell you not to. You are higher than me in social status anyways, I am just a lowly doctor that happened to discover you here."

"Please, you are still human and that means that you are on the same level as me. Don't ever say that you are more inferior to me." I told him and he nodded. Why does the Minatozaki empire make people fear them so much? I just don't understand it.

I know about how Mr Minatozaki -who is also known as my father- runs the business and it is not in a pleasant way, he would sack off any employee that does not meet the minimum target for the month but that is just his way of managing his business to ensure that he has the best employees working under him. Other than that, there is nothing much to say about him except for the fact that he doesn't put me in the eye and would only treat me as a chess piece and it is used when it is needed.

The knock on the door signified a very important thing that we have to stop talking or the third person is about to know about my identity and I will be in deep trouble. He comes into the room, greeting the doctor and then looking at me. "You ready to go?"

I nodded, getting into character, becoming the Woo YiWon that I will be from now on. "Then I'll let you two alone, I hope that I don't see you here again." Dr Heo goes out of the room.

He placed a huge bag on the bed and I asked him about it. "What is it inside?"

"It is empty but it will soon be filled." I looked at him not knowing what he is saying. "We are going shopping later."

At the department store? Wait, he doesn't look like he can afford that kind of clothing, he works as a server and he waits on tables, there is no way that he has enough money to afford what I used to have a few months ago when I was still Sana Minatozaki. "Where are we going to buy them at?"

"You'll know when you get there and I would have to bring you to somewhere else before we get home." I nodded to everything that he said to me and it was perfect, I shouldn't be so curious and to ask every single thing that he has, I should act a little dumb so that he doesn't suspect anything.

We left the hospital and he immediately went to the shopping district where there are a lot of clothing stores nearby and the clothes here are much cheaper than I have expected. What material is it even made of that it is that cheap?

I looked towards the dresses at the shop that is directly facing me, it is exactly my style and it would look good on my body. I walked towards the store but I got dragged away by Chae Hyungwon before I could even reach the door of the store, he leads me to the store next to the one that I wanted to enter.

There were a distinct difference and vibe from the one that I liked, the other store is full of sunshine and rainbows, I even saw a unicorn leaping around the store telling me to enter but this store that I am in right now, it is so dull and uninteresting, the clothes are only one style and it is all tracksuits, can't there be something different?

I know that Korean dramas always exaggerate stuff a lot by portraying poor and unemployed people wearing tracksuits to show that they are poor and they can't afford much but it is way too much, how can it exactly the same? Even though I am now a normal person, I still expect to have colourful dresses and skirts in my closet but never have I expected to have a set of tracksuits to be hanging in my closet.

I looked towards the guy who is also wearing a tracksuit, a black coloured one paired with sneakers. How does he feel comfortable wearing that? "Why aren't you choosing? I'm buying it for you, just 4 sets would be enough for now." He smiled and then noticed that I wasn't moving at all so he took it to his hands and pulled out a bright pink tracksuit from a pile. "Does it looks good on you?" He took another one and gave it to me. "There is purple if you don't like pink."

I looked at the two tracksuits in my hands and I wondered to myself. Is my life going to be like this from now on? Wearing tracksuits and slippers, messy hair and no makeup? This is definitely not what I have signed up for when I decided to follow this guy, for the time being, I thought that he would be pretty reliable and he will be able to take care of me.

I eventually bought the two tracksuits, along with a light blue tracksuit and a white tracksuit and he packed all of the clothing into the huge bag that he bought earlier. "Now let's get you a job to sustain yourself."