Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Seventeen

YiWon

I knew what exactly will happen to me if I tell the entire truth to Chae Hyungwon and I am fully prepared of what he will say or do to me but I have never expected him to be this cruel. I have never thought that he would say a thing to me, he wanted me out of this place immediately and to never come back here again.

I know that it was a bad choice that I have ever made but I have no way of returning back again, I also don't have the desire to ever go back to the empire. The Minatozaki empire is the last one that I ever want to go, and going back there would mean that I will be imprisoned by my father for the rest of my life. It sounds very ridiculous and uncalled for but I know that it is possible for my father to do that, he doesn't have feelings for anyone and he is totally ruthless when it comes to things that anger him.

Going back there is worse than hell, it seems like the perfect place to live in because of the money and riches that are in there but other than that, it is a place where there is totally no freedom, you don't have a choice over what you want to do in this place. For the past 23 years of my life, I have never been happy because my father will not give me any love at all. My mother was dead since I was four and I have never gotten love from anyone from that day on, I am raised to be a heartless and emotionless heiress who is being used as a mere pawn to my father's business.

Chae Hyungwon's words made me think better of the world, his words make me want to make a difference to the life that I am leading now and I have a choice to make it better than before. And so I listened to him and left the empire in search of a better place to live in and far away from my father.

I thought that I was really able to live the life that I had wanted but it is really impossible to live the life that you wished, there is no such thing as a perfect life or being able to live the life that you wanted, life is harsh and it always has, there is no way that you can change your life around just because you want to. If you are born with a bad life, you will live that life until the day that you die.

And he was right, and I was foolish for believing his words. He was only saying all that because he was just joking, he is just a server and his words didn't matter much and it wouldn't help me in any way. I am so foolish for thinking that I could really change my life just by leaving my past life behind, that is called denial and there is no way of changing that unless I accept it.

And I can't accept my life that I used to have. "I can't leave, Hyungwon... You know that I can't leave this place at all." I told him with my tears streaming down my cheeks. "You know that you can't chase me out like that."

"I lied to you, you have to go now." He said looking down, not looking at me at all. "I don't want you here at all, I can't have a liar in the house."

"I did all that for a reason and I can't return back to where I used to come from, I will never have the kind of freedom that I am having now," I told him.

"You could've thought it a little better before abandoning your good life behind for this crappy life, why do you even want to live here? It is not good for you at all, and I can't provide for you. You know that I barely make my end's meet and I have to take care of you as well."

"I don't expect you to do that for me, I just need a place to stay, I can earn my own money and I already have a job," I told him. "I really have to stay here, my father's people are going to get me if they know where I am." I grabbed onto his arm.

"Woo Yiwon, my place is not the perfect place for you to stay, it is not safe at all. Choose someplace better and stop bothering me, leave this place by tomorrow morning and quit your job at the restaurant." He yanked my handoff.

He is really determined to make me leave but I can't leave, the chances of me getting caught by my father's people is going to be higher if I don't stay somewhere secluded and quiet. I don't care if I don't earn enough money to buy everything that I wanted but I want a life where no one has a high expectation of me and want me to do things at my very best, I want to stay somewhere that I don't really need to worry too much about getting married to someone that you hated. And that place is here, the place that I have been staying at for the past 2 to 3 weeks.

"Hyungwon, Yiwon! Are you guys home already?" Yoo Kihyun's voice made the two of us shut up and wait in silence as we heard footsteps all around the house and it stopped right outside my door, he is going into my door any minute and he opened the door, peeking his head inside. "Oh, you guys were inside. Why didn't you make any noise at all?"

"Aren't you supposed to be back a little later?" Chae Hyungwon asked.

"I was but something cropped up and so I had nothing much to do outside and I came home to have dinner with you two but it doesn't seem like you have prepared dinner." He pointed fingers at the two of us. "Don't tell me that you guys were playing around with each other too much that you--"

Chae Hyungwon pushed him out of the room and he got out of the room as well. "We were not doing that at all, let's get cooking, shall we?" He closed the door for me after shooting me a look, he still wanted me to leave no matter what.

But I will never leave, I am not ready to leave this place yet, I will when I have the ability to go against my father and order him to leave me alone for the rest of my life.