Crown Prince Byun Baek-Hyun and Kim Tae-Yeon were never meant to meet.
But one unfortunate accident brought them together when Kim Tae-Yeon became the Crown Prince's savior overnight.
Shortly after they parted ways, they didn't know that fate would...
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Taeyeon quickened her pace as she left the house.
She had hoped that no one saw her leaving her house as she wanted to avoid any sort of social interactions as much as possible, but the moment she stepped out of the house,
"Mi Yeon-a!"
Taeyeon looked over her shoulder at the sound of "her name" to see her neighbour, Doo Na, sitting in a circle with a few other women on the bench outside one of the neighbours' house.
Women in this village often gather around to weave baskets out of straws so that they can make some income when they sell them in the market later. It's an activity that Taeyeon always try to make up excuses to exclude herself for, because she simply hates getting splinters on her fingers.
"Where are you going this early in the morning? I was about to send you some stew I cooked later," said Doo Na as the other women around her waved at her, greeting her with a small smile on their faces before looking back down to continue weaving their baskets.
"Oh. I am going to collect some herbs!" Taeyeon replied, doing a quick spin on the spot to show the empty basket she carried on her back.
"Is your uncle not back yet? How many days have it been?"
"Six," Taeyeon replied as she looked up thoughtfully. "If you see him, please tell him that I went up the forest to collect some herbs!"
Doo Na nodded with a huge smile on her face, happy to help out a neighbour. "Don't worry about it, I will when I see him!"
Taeyeon beamed a bright smile at her and politely nodded towards the other women before walking away.
"Aigoo... I wish my daughter wouldn't turn out like her," one of the women said loudly without bothering to lower down her voice. "She should be getting married at her age. There is no future for her if she keeps obsessing over those herbs."
"What a pity for her beauty, she could even marry a noble man with those looks."
"She's just so peculiar," commented another woman.
Although she could hear them gossiping about her loud and clear, she pretended to not hear them and continued walking forward. She had to walk past two more houses before their voices finally died down and she could no longer hear them.
She has lived in this village for a year now, ever since she ran away from home.
The people in this village always talk behind her back as if she was deaf. Women would mock her for always having her head in the clouds, dreaming of becoming a herbalist and open her own pharmacist one day.
It was rare for a woman to practice medicine, let alone become a physician themselves. They often take on the role of assisting male physicians in the infirmary, that's why when Taeyeon said that she wants to open her own pharmacy one day, people thought she went mad thinking that she could really do that herself.
