Today is haru's birthday and the rumors are still going on about the the exiled prince being alive. At the palace, they were preparing for a royal hunt
( a royal hunt is friendly hunt that involves, the king, prince, both young and old royalty men at mens side, and at the women side it's the queen and young royalty women,,,, sometimes they hunt animals , or use maids as baits, and whoever wins get a reward)
The prince in his chambers preparing, he got his sword, bow and arrows and put on his back, he went out to meet other young royalty, they bowed for greetings, he smiled at them" today we have a big game, and I trust my team, we'll catch every mouse here", he said and looked around, he wasn't seeing haru," where is guard dan" he asked the maids
" he's not feeling well, but he's off today "
Prince Ahn looked disappointed, but he didn't think about too much
On the king's side he also prepared, and went out to meet others, a spoken's man said " today we'll be hunting, and the winning team we'll get rewards)
On the women's side too, everyone was prepared, caas was on the team being hunted.
And the royal hunt began.
Someone was peeping around to see if there's no one around at the palace, he ran approaching kings chambers, there're no guards in that moment, he entered the king's room and closed, when he removed his face cloth, it was haru, he started searching around, and he saw a book * queen's diary*, when he opened he saw writings of the late queen, in that moment he heard someone, he tried to hide, but they were cleaners, cleaning around, after cleaning they went, haru too immediately went out.
On the women's side
While caas was hiding behind the tree, some royal girls passed by talking
" you know, I wouldn't be shocked if the exiled prince is alive" 1 girl said
" those are just rumors, he's already dead, he's better dead, if he was to come back he'd be suffering, no one would accept him" girl 2 said
" what if it's him,,, he's doing great though, he helped people from dying, maybe he's even handsome "
Caas got angry at how they're talking, she stood up trying to stop them, but Iris came" you shouldn't spread rumors, if anyone hears you, you'd be in trouble "
The girls quickly went, when iris looked she saw caas going, and she shot her with a rubber arrow " i caught you so you lost,,, go back to the palace" Iris told caas
While the king was hunting, someone was watching from a distance, he pulled out a bow and arrow to shoot the king,the king turned to look, and saw a person in a distance wearing black clothes and face hidden • why!why!, why did you not care, why did you kill her• haru's voice said, but when he was about to shoot someone attacked him, they started fighting, but haru quickly escaped, the man returned to the king " are you alright your majesty ", other guards came and found his majesty with someone, they removed their swords to attack him,but the king stopped them" no,,, don't attack him", guard shik told them to follow someone who attacked the king.
After the royal hunt, they went back to the palace, they had dinner, but everyone was talking about the attack on the king, prince haru looked concerned about the king, " father are you feeling alright ", he said, the king replied to him" am fine"
While others were eating, others were gossiping
" who could have attacked the king,,,,,luckily someone was there to save" man 1 speaks
" what if the rumors is true about the exiled prince" man 2 speaks
When man 3 cleared his throat, they immediately kept quite.
" your majesty I think we should increase your guards, it's too dangerous now for you to be out alone" sir mun said, but the king replied " it's alright now, that should be expected anyways, "
" about the rumors,,, you shouldn't worry your majesty,, we will work on it, and the person who tried to attack you," chief of army said, and they continued having dinner.
At the women's side
They also heard about the king being attacked and they were murmuring about it trying to connect it with the exiled prince , and her highness said to them" the royal hunt Is done, those who won we'll receive a reward, and also no one should be talking about things they don't know, or they'll be punished "
After that day, caas was home with seff
" what do we do now, we don't even know where he is, what if he's the one behind this,,, what if he gets caught " caas said to seff while panicking, in that moment haru came home, they all stood up, but haru didn't say a word, he went into the room and closed, seff and caas gave him a moment alone.
Haru was in pain and crying touching his chest,he started recalling all he read in the queen's diary,
( it was a diary written by the late queen, about her love with the king and her life in the palace , but after being exiled, she left it in the palace, and it had a letter to the king { king, your majesty my love, I know it's not easy for you, but I'll always pray for you, please take care of sila, and I'll take care of our child})
Haru was crying so hard• why did you kill her, she gave up everything and her life for you,,, I hate you king,,,,, mom,,,,mom why why •
Seff and caas stayed outside to be there for him, " he looks totally sad than before, what do we do for him" caas said
The same night, Lana was standing near the river while touching her jewelry jade " how does he look like,,, did the queen cherish him,,," she said to herself, harlim was standing behind, and beside him near a tree tied two black horses. Lana was lost in her thoughts. Harlim gave her a present, she looked surprised and looked at him" what is this" she said, Harlim replied to her " I got it before we left dangali, happy birthday ", she smiled at him, it was a scent in a bag ( perfume) " Harlim thank you for always being there for me,,,". They stayed there watching the water reflected by the rays of the moon.
After some days, haru decided to go to work.
When the prince saw him " oh guard dan you're back, it must have been hard for you,,,"
Haru told him he was fine " am fine now,,, thank you for the medicine you sent"
" your sister told me you were terribly sick" Ahn said, in that moment maid caas entered with tea, haru looked in surprise " your tea is here your highness" caas said while putting the tea down, the prince nodded at her while she walks out and he looked at haru " dan, i knew you'd be surprised"
" what is she doing here " haru said asking the prince
Prince Ahn said pouring tea " are you about to thank me,,, she's working for me now, when I heard she works at he royal laundry, I knew you wouldn't like it either, so I put her under my workers,,,, so don't worry here it pays good and she's safe"
At the palace conference room, after the meeting, the king invited someone and everyone was in shock and murmuring
' isn't he the bodyguard of the king,,, how is he alive,,,, why is he here'
In that moment the king said " he's the one who saved me,,, from now on he'll be working here at the bureau office". Everyone was surprised but they went a long with it.
Guard shik became a bodyguard again,working at the bureau office
(after the hunt night, guard shik came to see the king, and the king told him, something was missing from his things, and told him he was gonna give him power to find out more, and who would have broke into the king's chamber)
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*guard shik found out about seff*