The Crown Prince | BaekYeon

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Tae Yeon stirred awake from the commotion happening at the door.

She scrambled to get up from the chair and stretched her back to relieve herself from the sore pain in her back, glancing around the dark room to realise that it's already night time.

Yawning, she ran to the door to check who is knocking and shouting her name outside the door.

"Mi Yeon-a, I knew you were here!" it was Doo Na, her neighbour from this morning. "I brought some treats, you didn't come back home so I figured that you would be here."

"Oh, thank you Doo Na! They look delicious," she said as she grabbed the basket from Doo Na. "Is my uncle back yet?"

"No, but I will continue to keep a look out for you and tell him that you are here once he comes back."

"Thank you so much Doo Na, I have a patient here tonight so I can't stay out for too long. But thank you for bringing me some food."

"No need to thank me, after how you saved my son last week, I have been looking for ways to repay you," Doo Na chuckled as she started to walk away. "Take care!"

"You too!"

Tae Yeon smiled and closed the door as gently as she can. The sun is already down, she should light up some lamps to brighten up the room.

"Hmm... I wonder how he is doing," she mumbled to herself as she went back into the room. Putting down the basket on the floor, she started to light up the lamps in the room one by one.

As soon as she lit up all the lamps in the room, she jumped when she saw a pair of eyes staring back at her.

The man has woken up.

She was about to ask if he's okay when he suddenly drew out his sword, latched onto her arms and pinned her down onto the bed with his free hand, putting the sword dangerously close to her throat.

"Who are you?"

The voice that came out from him was croaky and Taeyeon almost wanted to offer him some water to drink if her life wasn't being threatened at the moment. Everything just happened so quickly that she couldn't even think straight.

She stared back into his eyes, not daring to blink in case he suddenly decided to slice her throat open. His eyes looked deadly, it sent her shivers down her spine by how different he looks now that he is awake.

"Answer me before I kill you," he threatened, his sword inching closer to her throat. Taeyeon squeezed her eyes shut, she could feel the cold sharp metal resting against the surface of her skin and that it was just a hair's breadth away from killing her.

"I, I found you, in the forest," she squeaked.

Taeyeon thought he would withdraw the sword after she answered him, but it appeared that he wasn't satisfy with that answer and continued to push forward. She let out a small cry of pain when she felt the sword cutting through the first layers of her skin.

"Who are you really?"

The man was very strong for someone who was barely breathing a few hours ago. Taeyeon knew she was weak, but she didn't know that she was this weak against an injured man.

"You, you were hurt. I saved you," she replied, trying to keep her cool. He looked her square in the eyes, as if he was trying to detect if she was lying. After a quiet moment, he slowly withdrew his sword from her neck, still maintaining eye contact with her, to make sure that she doesn't try to do anything to him.

Once he was off her, she quickly got off the bed to put more distance between them. Pulling the chair from behind her, she slowly sat down to calm her racing heart down. She watched him winced as he leaned his back against the wall.