I was more than relieved of the fact that the first day of work was peaceful and went smoothly. Although the last part was a bit weird to be honest, when the King entered and I just faced the painting . The painting, the garden. I had a feeling that the painting was something more than a simple wall painting.
I was heading towards the kitchen, mentally preparing myself for the day ahead of me. As soon as I reached, I took the orders from Mrs.Kim and got started with my work. ___________________________________________
(Author POV)
The Royal messenger arrived at the palace around noon. The King was having a discussion about the financial condition of the kingdom with his other fellow court men at that time. The court guards opened the door for him to come in as he entered the Royal court. Standing in front of the Almighty he bowed his head and said, 'Your Highness'.
The king nodded and answered, ' Lee, it has almost been a month now that you visited. Where were you? '
Mr.Lee a.k.a the Royal messenger replied,' My apologies your highness.The actual reason why i could not visit is that i was busy confirming a specific rumor which caught my attention earlier this month.' The king stared at him in confusion and asked, 'What was it? Was it something related to..', He did not continued further for some reason. Mr.Lee instantly caught on and said, ' Yes your highness, it was related to Edinburg. The rumor was that the one and only princess of Edinburg was getting married to your cousin.' The king replied while gritting his teeth, 'It's Seonghwaof course. It must be his plan to form an alliance with my enemy kingdom so that they can take over mine together. ' Mr.Lee replied, 'You're probably right my highness but as I researched I found some interesting information as well.' The king nodded giving him the sign to continue. As he continued he said,'The princess of Edinburg ran away on the day of the wedding itself. She was probably not happy with the decision of his father and rebelled.' The king asked, ' Did they found her yet? ' 'They are searching for her but still didn't found her. 'Replied Mr.Lee.
'Hmm i see, what was her name again?', the king asked with a sparkle if interest in his eyes.
' It was Hwang Y/n, my highness.'Mr Lee said.
At the moment the King had a smirk on his face but his mind? Right now, all he had on mind was Hwang Y/n. He thought, 'There must be a reason why the only daughter of the king of Edinburg decided to rebel against her own father....Interesting.' ___________________________________________
After having my lunch with Tzuyu in the afternoon, I was heading towards the storage room to take a broom as I was supposed to clean the kitchen then. Taking the broom in my hands I headed towards the kitchen only to find someone else doing my work already. It was one of the other maids I did not know about. I clearly remembered that cleaning up the kitchen area was my task which I was supposed to do after lunch. So I went to her and asked,' Excuse me, wasn't i the one who was assigned for cleaning up the kitchen area at this time?'
She stopped working for a brief second and replied to my words, 'One of the maids who usually cleans up the King's room is sick today, so she could not come to work today. I have done most of her work for the day on her behalf but the King's room is still left. So, Mrs.Kim appointed you to do that work.'
I asked with a confused expression on my face, 'If you did almost all of her other work for today, then why not this one?' To which she replied and said,' The King's Room is comparatively bigger in area than the kitchen is. So, since I did all the other work on her behalf Mrs.Kim said that i would be overworking myself if I went for cleaning the King's Room as well. That is why she gave you the task.'
At that very moment we heard another voice speaking, 'Yes that's correct. I don't want anyone of you to overwork yourselves so Y/n please clean The King's Room right now. Don't worry about the kitchen, it is almost done.'
.... And thats how I ended up in front of the room I am assigned to clean today. I don't know why i was hesitating to enter. Maybe because of the weird encounter with him which I had a day ago? Tzuyu showed me the way towards this room earlier and said that The King is out right now and he would not be returning before an hour and a half or so.
I finally made my mind up and entered the room. It was majestic, comfortable in its own way and luxury you can say. In short I wasn't surprised because it's the king's room after all.
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Without any further ado I started to do my work. The room was pretty much clean so it did not take me that long to clean it. So, after cleaning I decided to look at the paintings which were hung on the southern wall of the room. I was always interested in art and paintings since i was nine years old. So, these paintings naturally attracted me the moment I entered the room. Talking about paintings, I still did not forget the painting which I saw in hallway last day. I wanted to know the meaning, the reason, the purpose of the painting. Maybe someday?
Time flew away so fast that i did not realise that how much time I spent looking at the paintings and trying to figure out it's meaning. The sun was setting, a faded orange light was coming into the room through the window. Just then I realised that this is the time when the King returns. 'He won't return before the sunset, don't worry' Tzuyu said. Realisation hits me and I started to make my way out of the room with my belongings. As soon as I came out of the room, I heard a voice calling out to me, 'Hey you, what are you doing here?'
I stopped moving forward and turned around. There stood an illegally attractive personality looking at me or better, glaring at me. He had black hair, gorgeous light brown eyes, pink plump lips and a sweaty forehead. He looked like any other citizen of the kingdom, so I guessed that he works in the castle too.
Coming out of my trance I replied to him, 'I am a maid in this castle, I was here to clean the King's room', I said confidently.
He observed me carefully and said, 'Who are you?', He asked.
'Park Y/n', I said.
'How come I never heard of you Miss Park?', He asked again.
'Um- Well not everyone here knows me, I'm new here's, She answered Hesitantly and asked, 'Who are you though?'
'Park Jimin, King of Caledonia', He answered with an evident smirk on his face.
