Illusion || VMin

1- Decision

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Tae's POV

My eyes widened when I realized that she was a he, then I commenced to boil in anger. Are they mocking me? Did they give me a man? It is unforgivable. I turned and was about to leave, but I suddenly heard him fall to his knees.

''Please, don't go! Please, accept me!'' he said with a cracked voice.

I faced him again, ready to yell at him, but I couldn't when I saw his position. His forehead was on the floor, he was begging me with his trembling body. Is he that desperate?

My eyes softened for a second, but then I frowned. I can't accept something like that. I clenched my hands into fists, trying to swallow all of my mixed emotions and said,'' Look! To make things clear, I am straight, so it is a no. I don't hate you or anything but ju-''

"I know,'' he interrupted me and added while raising his head to look at me, "y-you can just accept marrying me and have fun with girls I don-"

I couldn't bring myself to hear more of his nonsense, so while resting my hand on my waist I said, "What are you saying? I don't want to be called the cold-heart husband or the cheater"

Yeah, I won't live with that shame.

He was about to speak, but I gestured for him to stop, saying "This conversation is over." I was about to turn and walk away, but he grabbed my leg all the while saying with his weak voice.

"Please, please, if you refuse me, m-my country will be destroyed. Being your bride was the only way to make your father accept peace."

I became disgusted by him. How can someone like him be called a prince! He is pathetic. I freed my leg from his grasp, then I looked at him with as calm of a look as possible. Till this day, I don't know why I did that, but I didn't want him to realize how pathetic he looked.

"Not my business. You can just give him some of your resources-"

"W-We offered that many times. My dad was ready to give him all of our resources to prevent the war, but your father refused, saying it wasn't enough, then my father tried to offer him money and women, but still, he refused, saying he has enough," he paused, lowered his gaze and added, "then he saw me and said that if I married you, the war will be stopped."

"WHAT?? F-Father knows that you are a man!" His words made me confused and had many misgivings, but he thankfully replied before my brain thought of strange things by saying.

"No. No, he doesn't of course. He will never do that to you," his tone showed some kind of panic, and with his reply arose another normal question.

"Don't tell me that your father doesn't know that you are a man?" I said while examining his expressions. I waited for a while to receive the answer.

"It is impossible to hide something like that. He knows," he said, not looking at me. His face along with his eyes showed some kind of sadness-

Taehyung, Don't let your sympathy towards him control you. I am a crowned prince, and he is a man. If I accepted, and it was revealed, it would be a scandal. I will stain my family name, and I will lose my throne and most importantly...

What about my craving?

"But I still refus-" My mouth was shut when I saw anger in his eyes as he raised his head to look at me.