Yeon's POV
I can't believe it.
Three days in the palace, no sight of the fool that pulled me out of the river, no sign of the emperor, only errands.
I huff as I transfer the water from the large jar into a smaller one.
My omega is on edge and growling.
I need to get out of here one way or another, the people here don't realize they should be treated better.
I drop the jar on the floor and sit next to it in exhaustion.
Maybe I'll just have a little bit of rest…
"YEON!" the voice of the head maid calls and I get up as fast as I can with difficulty.
I'm tired.
What if I fake a heart attack and act dead?
"YEON!" she calls again and I press my lips together before stomping to where she stands holding a few clothes.
"You respond when I call" she says the second she sees me coming and I scowl at her.
"Yes your highness" I say sarcastically and she gives me a chilling glare, I fold my arms and she sighs.
"You will learn, it's only a matter of time" she said while shaking her head and pushes the clothes into my hands.
"What am I supposed to do with these?" I ask.
"If you continue this way, you'll be dead before the week runs out" she says with a straight face.
"These are the royal guard's clothes, take them to their quarter and return as soon as possible" she says, waving her hand to shoo me away.
She's lucky I like her very much.
I groan and take the clothes to the quarter, holding them to my chest and walking quickly.
Anything to get out of the hot sun, this life isn't for me, I should be lying on my bed with an alpha kissing my feet, not…this.
"Look it's him, the annoying new thing" one of the guards says as I barge into the room.
"I brought your clothes" I announce and walk over to the one who seems the most calm to dump them on his lap.
"He's crazy" someone whispers.
The guard whose lap I dumped the clothes on keeps quiet, looking at me with brown eyes, calm but full of stormy rage.
I think I overstepped.
'You think?' my omega asks inside me just before chaos breaks out and I am forced to my knees.
"Let go!" I shout, struggling to get the hands of the guard holding me down off me.
I really overstepped.
"Everyone has a complain or two about you…Yeon-ssi" the guard who's laps the clothes are resting on says with his eyes on me.
"I am a bit ill-trained" I say with a pitiful expression, but the guard does not fall for my trick.
He lets out a breath with force and looks to his fellow guards.
"What can I do to him?"
"You can set me free" I say but they start talking over my head.
"I'm tempted to break his face" the lap guard says and they all burst into laughter.
What is funny?
Breaking my face is funny? I can't wait to leave this new found hell.
"He's too pretty for his own good" one of them says still laughing at the idea of breaking my face.
"Don't touch him, he's the emperor's good" a familiar voice says and I look over my shoulder to see who it is.
Eye gouger-nim.
"Eye gouger-nim!" I say with relief.
"Ah fuck" he curses and turns his head away, "get up, you have other things to do" he says and the guard forcing me down lets go.
My legs are unstable when I get up, I was afraid and I am still afraid of them.
Without looking at them, I bolt out of the room with eye gouger-nim following behind me.
"Thank you for saving me, eye gouger-nim" I say and he sighs again.
"Wonwoo" he says.
"Wonwoo gouger-nim" I say, giving him my most dazzling smile and leaning into him.
Maybe if I seduce him, he will get me out of here and I can return ho- to my village.
"Don't even bother, I'm an eunuch" he says and I wince, letting my eyes drop to his crotch.
I accidentally imagine him naked and without his cock, that must be a hard life.
"Stop looking at my crotch like a pervert" he says and I blink twice to snap myself out of the silly imagination.
"It is the life I chose" he says, still walking with me beside him.
"Do you regret it?" I ask him and he doesn't respond.
Maybe he does.
Just like I regret this choice I made, who knows, if I had chosen the yakgwa, maybe I would be dancing with the celestials.
I might not get any special treatments from the celestials, I might have cursed them a bit too much, but it's understandable.
They have only ever given me the bad sides of life since my birth till now.
"Where are we going?" I ask Wonwoo, we have been walking for a while now.
"If you don't shut your mouth, will something bad happen to you?" he asks and I give him a polite smile.
My curse-you smile.
"I need to sharpen my blades" he says and we get to the gate of the palace.
The guard who had ordered me to be taken away the day I arrived is there with a staff in his hand.
"Ah, the proud one" he says when he sees me, "he's with me" Wonwoo responds to him and we both walk out.
Not without me giving the guard a menacing smile.
"Behave, if I have to run after you or shout for you, you will be killed on the spot" he says and I gulp.
Death. Death. Death.
So much death!.
"Do you understand?" he asks.
"Yes, Wonwoo-ssi" I say and he nods tersely before proceeding.
We arrive at the crowded and busy market place and a smile spreads on my face.
This is it.
I will run away.
I turn around to start my journey and I am met face to face with the bastard who made me end up here.
"You" I growl at him.
"Hello Gu Yeon" he says with a smile.
"Give me back my life you bastard!" I charge at him and grab his hand.
A big mistake.