Promise Me

"Accused? Stealing of?" She can't remember anything that she stole! Did Shiwoo... or Eunji framed her? "Jewelries and a hair pin." It feels like she was stabbed by a knife on her heart a hundred times. "Let her go!" Yoonwoo tried grabbing her but one of the guard held him. He had no choice but to shout in anger and disbelief.

"LET HER GO!" Hae Min looked at him with her pleading look. "No... stop, Yoon Yoon. I... I can handle this." She smiled although sadness and pain is visible in her eyes. She just can't believe that Shiwoo and Eunji will frame her up.

A tears fell down from her eyes. "Do not cry." Yoonwoo's voice from yesterday echoed to her ears. She can not help but to cry. In that way, the pain will lessen.

They finally came to the prisoner's cell... she laid her back on the bamboo stick. How can they do that to her? What did she do? She closed her eyes trying to digest everything until she fell asleep.

...

"Grab her and put her there." She can not help but feel so helpless. She kneeled on the wood full of rock salts. She's not used to kneeling on a rough surface. She immediately felt the pain and her sensitive skin started turning red.

She almost fell luckily the guards are holding her steadily so she will not fall.

One hour had passed. Currently, she should be eating by now... She breathed deepily, trying to overcome the hunger by breathing.

She can no longer stand properly... Hae Min's hands are tied. She is being hitted by whip on her back. Tears streamed down on her pale cheeks. Not because of the pain... because her two siblings betrayed her.

"Aw!" She groaned in pain. Her clothes are already tearing apart. She can no longer handle the pain in her back!

Later that night... she was back in her cell. A strong built body figure appeared. "Yoo..Yoonwoo." She said helplessly. He caressed her cheeks. "Ssh.. I am here. Just cry all you want."

She can not move her body anymore because of being whipped, because of kneeling on a rough surface and because she's starving to death.

"Remember... I love you, Yoonwoo. You are the only, one. Promise me that you will not suffer because I am suffering. I love you because you are Yoonwoo..." she closed her eyes, she grabbed Yoonwoo's face and pulled him near her. She placed a kiss on his lips. "I..." he hesitated before he continued. "I promise." He then pulled her on a kiss again.

A kiss full of love and longing...

...

Hae Min gasped for air. Her lungs is already full of water! For the fifth time, the guy in black pulled her onto the water again. She can't breath properly but she's trying... she don't wanna die in the hands of the enemy.

An hour later. She's back in her cell. She closed her eyes, trying to remember all the good times.

She suddenly missed them. She wants to say sorry to the Queen first before she dies. She wants to spend a moment with her siblings first. She wants to feel Yoonwoo's warm hug.

"How is your life?" A mocking smile is plastered on Eunji's face. "Better, especially now I know that you are a traitor." Her mocking smile faded, how did she manage to say those words? "I am now higher than you, Hae Min." Hae Min let out a laugh.

"The hell I care?! Why don't you just go?!" She yelled. Tears streamed down. She wiped it and shutted her eyes. She can't handle seeing Eunji nor Shiwoo's face.

After a moment of silence, she heard Shiwoo's voice. "Hae... listen to me, please..." Tears are falling down from his eyes. She stared at him, why is he crying? "I did not do that on purpose... Soo..Soobin asked me to hand you the hair pin."

She do not know who to trust anymore. "I... I... don't know, Shiwoo." She sighed. "I will now go... I am sorry."

The evening came. She saw a rope near her cell. She reached for it until she had it. She tied it on the ceiling..

"I am sorry. I can no longer take the pain. Yoonwoo, please do not be sad anymore that I will be gone. Be happy for me. My Lord, I am sorry but I do not know how to survive." She used the bamboo woods to lift herself... she entered her head onto the rope..