Sakura's Petals
Reunite

As soon as the Crown Prince approached, the female servants who had since been guarding the palanquin, made a line to prevent the Crown Prince from approaching. “Excuse us, but we can't let you get close.”

The Crown Prince turned his head towards his guards. “Pull them away.” The Crown Prince's bodyguards also pulled the servants away easily.

Now, the Crown Prince and the palanquin are left. “Nona, excuse me if I'm presumptuous to open your stretcher and hurt your subordinates, I promise I'll check quickly.”

No answer from inside the stretcher. The Crown Prince immediately opened the window of the stretcher and looked into the stretcher. And as he expected, the face of the girl who was in the palanquin was the face of Hwa Ryong, whom he had been looking for all this time. His heart felt like it was beating again after a long time of freezing. A smile adorned the Crown Prince's face. “Hwa Ryong! Hwa Ryong-ah!” call the Crown Prince. But the girl didn't wake up either. “Hwa Ryong!” call, again. And in just a split second, his heart froze again. He was so panicked and immediately pulled Hwa Ryong out of the stretcher. He hugged Hwa Ryong who was still not awake as well tightly. “Hwa Ryong-ah! Wake up! Ryong Hwa! Its me. Yoon's. Ryong Hwa! Please, open your eyes.”

Shortly after, Hwa Ryong began to open his eyes. He was surprised to realize that he was being hugged by a man. “Why are you so presumptuous? Quickly let go of me!”

As soon as he heard Hwa Ryong's voice, the Crown Prince immediately took off his embrace and stared fixedly at Hwa Ryong's face. Hwa Ryong is shocked to find out that the man hugging her is Yoon Oppa. “O... Oppa? What is Oppa doing here? Not that I was..” He suddenly had an emergency. What am I supposed to do now? Yuntis? Yunti, where is it? His eyes search for Yunti's whereabouts, but he can't find her. What the hell's going on? Why isn't Yunti here? He also saw the guards and servants who had been escorting him, tied to the ground. He slid for a moment. What the fuck? Nope, no. Whatever happens, I can't let Oppa be in trouble. Anyway, I need to stay away from her, she thought.

The Crown Prince hugged Hwa Ryong again. “You almost made me die a hanger. Don't faint again like that.”

Hwa Ryong tried to laugh, The Crown Prince distanced himself to look at Hwa Ryong's face.

“Why are you laughing? Don't you know how anxious I was these three days? My heart stopped when I saw you unconscious.”

Hwa Ryong's laughter grew louder. “I didn't faint, Oppa. I didn't sleep all night, therefore I was sleepy and ended up falling asleep on a stretcher.” Hwa Ryong stood up and looked around. “Huh, why did they run the sign so long? My body feels pain all now.”

The Crown Prince looked at Hwa Ryong, in disbelief. “So, you're actually asleep?”

Hwa Ryong turned his head towards the Crown Prince and nodded. But unlike what he expected, the Crown Prince fell silent and frowned.

“But you're so pale, did something happen?”

“No, I'm just exhausted.”

The Crown Prince nodded, condoning. “You must be tired after a long run. Oh, yeah, about you running away, are you stupid? Didn't you realize you could have been fucked?”

Hwa Ryong sighed. “Don't scold me, Oppa. Others may do it, but Oppa obviously should not.”

The crown prince also caught a bandage in Hwa Ryong's hand. “Why did you get hurt?”

“I fell, that's it.”

The Crown Prince fell silent. He is so upset about Hwa Ryong's decision to run away from home, but he also feels guilty because this is all caused by himself. “You did it for me, didn't you?”

Hwa Ryong was confused as to what to answer, he just nodded. Nodding Hwa Ryong instantly made the Crown Prince sigh in annoyance. “Whatever happens, you shouldn't have run away. Do you have any idea how worried I was about looking for you these three days? You almost drove me crazy, you know that?”

Suddenly it rained. The Crown Prince immediately made an umbrella from his sleeve onto Hwa Ryong's head. “Already. Now, tell me where your house is.”

“About half an hour from here.”

The Crown Prince fell silent and thought hard, meanwhile the rain fell even more profusely. “We go to my house first, my house is quite close from here.”

Hwa Ryong nodded, assuring. He is still not ready to face his parents if he comes home later. What kind of face he put on and what he had to say in front of the old man who must have been very worried and disappointed in him. He really hates people who are not devoted to his parents and currently the figure he hates the most turns out to also include himself.

The Crown Prince mounted his horse, then pulled Hwa Ryong up as well. They also drove to the royal villa.

MEANWHILE

Yunti returned in a hurry. His eyes bulged as he saw his subordinates bound to a tree. He immediately got off his horse and ran towards one of the guards.

“What happened?” tanyanya, slowly after crouching in front of her bodyguards.

The guard looked at his master restlessly. “Nona Hwa Ryong taken away someone, Your Highness.”

Yunti immediately got up. “What?”

“Puni me, Your Majesty. We have tried everything we can to take care of him. But their numbers are too many.”

"Are they Mr Shim's consignment?"

"No, Your Majesty. The leader is a young man."

Yunti directly threw his punch at the tree. “Sial!” his yell. Blood dripped from his hands.

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" Cover the world and come back to me tonight. "

- NN

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