Chapter 23

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the beauty of this picture cannot be described in words

or Siyeon in general, she is a goddess

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"Bora!" Siyeon was very suspicious. Why was Binnie smirking like that? What was she up to?

"Don't worry Singnie, I'll be fine. It's just me and Queen Hyojung." Bora squeezed Siyeon's hand. "Guards! Make sure that we are left alone." Bora led Hyojung to the royal garden that was closest to the throne room.

"Now tell me, Queen Hyojung, why would your advisor's wife be here in the dungeons? Are you hiding something?" Bora and Hyojung sat down on a stone bench.

"It's because Song Yuqi-" Hyojung started

"Yuqi?!?" Bora shouted. Not again!

"Hear me out, please! My kingdom is dying. Our economy is failing. I have tried my best to help, but there is nothing else that I can do. After Neverland Kingdom took us down those years ago and killed my parents, they had taken all of our money and riches, leaving us to die because our land wasn't the best for urbanization."

That's true. Father told me that Miracle Kingdom was full of farmland and lakes, which was why everyone was well fed there, Bora thought.

"They burned down our farms, blew up our coal mines, polluted our waters..." a tear fell down Hyojung's face. "I became queen and tried my best to rebuild the economy. It worked, for a while. Now, however, when Yuqi was still around, she noticed that our kingdom was thriving, which made her mad. She threatened to ruin us again if we didn't give her some things. The rebellion against your kingdom was in motion, and she needed more men and money. She went to our castle herself and took more than five thousand knights. If they didn't comply, they would get killed. We had to give all of our money to her. In return, she wouldn't destroy the citizens' lives like she did in the past."

Bora gasped. So Yuqi had taken control of the economy and threatened to harm Hyojung's people. I understand.

"And your advisor's wife...?"

"She is the Grand Master. Because of that, Yuqi wanted to use her for something special. Siah became a bounty hunter."

Oh. That explains why. But there is no bounty hunter in here that has a S locket... Bora thought.

"But the bounty hunters in captivity here do not have a name associated with Siah."

"She didn't use the name Siah. She used her nickname YooA."

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4 PM

"Why are they releasing her from the dungeons?!?" Gahyeon shouted. "She tried to kill me! She tried to take my life away!"

"Well, you have to admit, if it wasn't for her, I would've never met you," Yubin replied. "Besides! Didn't you read my news articles?!? About Miracle Kingdom?!? Queen Hyojung is here, right now! We don't want to be on bad terms with a whole other kingdom!"

"I didn't have time to read it today! I had to update documents about the knights who died in the war!"

"My bad, but why don't you read it right now? This is very important, so make sure to get informed."

Bora and Hyojung had spent an entire hour talking about their lives as monarchs. They empathized a lot with each other. They were both very young rulers, trying their best to help their citizens as much as possible. They were both victims to Neverland Kingdom. Their friendship was growing by a lot. Hyojung finally felt like someone understood her. Bora set Siah free so she could reunite with Mihyun. Because Hyojung and her advisors (and Binnie) traveled so far to get to the castle (and Bora wanted to strengthen their bond), Bora prepared guest rooms for them to stay in the castle. Bora would give some of her money to help Miracle Kingdom, and Hyojung would give more natural resources like iron and oil to Insomnia Kingdom, since the majority of it was urbanized.

A messenger knocked on the door to deliver a letter to Yubin and Gahyeon.

To Grand Master Yubin and Assistant Gahyeon

You two are invited to a party in celebration of the new bond between the two kingdoms of Insomnia Kingdom and Miracle Kingdom. We are very happy that the two kingdoms are at peace and are even developing a friendship! The party starts at 6 PM, so make sure to eat dinner early!

From Queen Bora

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6 PM

"Announcing the arrival of Grand Master Yubin and her assistant Gahyeon!" the guards let the two into the big room.

"Yubin! You came!" Handong greeted her friend.

"Dongie! Why are you here? You were invited, too?" Gahyeon asked her. Handong wasn't from the castle, so it felt a little unusual.

"I'm one of Bora's best friends! Of course I had to come!" Handong replied. "Notice that there are only a few people coming here."

She was right. Hyojung, Binnie, the advisors, Siah, Bora, Siyeon, Minji, Yoohyeon, Handong, Yubin, and Gahyeon were the only ones present.

"So we're all here! That's great!" Bora smiled.

"That reminds me! I never got to introduce the rest of my advisors! The blue haired one is Mihyun, though she prefers to be called Mimi. She's married to Siah, our Grand Master, who is called YooA." Hyojung said. Mimi and Siah did tiny bows in Bora's direction.

"The blonde haired one here is Seunghee!" Hyojung continued. Seunghee bowed down to Bora.

"Finally, the tall ones here are Yewon and Jiho!" Hyojung finished introducing her advisors as they bowed to Bora.

"It's nice to meet you all! You can also call me Arin, since I don't think Yewon sounds good!" Yewon told everyone.

"Today is the day where we shall strengthen relations between our two kingdoms! A toast, for our new friendship!" Bora raised her glass, and everyone followed. They all took some sips and walked around to chitchat with each other.

Arin walked over to Gahyeon and Yubin. "Gahyeon, right?"

"Yeah! That's me!" Gahyeon and Arin shook hands.

"It's nice to meet you, Gahyeon! Hopefully we can get to know each other better! Isn't it funny how we're both 21?" Arin told her, forgetting that Yubin was also with them.

"Ahem! And I'm Yubin, the Grand Master." Yubin said.

"Oh! That's right! Uh, nice to meet you too, Yubin!" Arin shook hands with Yubin. Yubin smiled in response, but in the inside she started to dislike Arin. The advisor didn't even acknowledge her presence.

"I like your dress, Gahyeon!" Arin returned to Gahyeon, causing an internal eye roll from Yubin. What is up with her?!? she thought.

"Oh! Thank you! That's rather nice of you! It's pretty simple-" Gahyeon replied.

"No, you're very pretty."

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A/N: well well well what is going on with arin? why is she ignoring yubin? who knows 😈

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