Okay, maybe, just maybe, Yeonjun underestimated how hard it was to find one specific room. Yeonjun had no idea how he was under the assumption that finding the crown prince's room would be easy. Maybe he expected some miracle to happen, like coincidentally seeing the prince walk back to his room with his glass of water, and then Yeonjun would wait until the prince was asleep, and then boom, he'd get to work, finish the job and leave like nothing ever happened.
Yeonjun seemed to have forgotten the small detail in his copium plan, which was the element of 'coincidentally'. So, now, not only was the said man utterly lost in an immense palace, but he also had no concrete way of finding the prince's room.
Oh, and he didn't know what the prince looked like.
Yeonjun was irritated beyond reason. First, what was the reason for even hiding the prince's face? So much suspense for what? It just made things harder for Yeonjun. Did the present king ever pause to so as much thinking about what these rules and regulations mean and whether it has any purpose? Clearly, no. If he had even bothered, maybe things would be much easier for the entire nation.
Yeonjun shook his head. Now was not the time to stop and leisurely think and criticize this kingdom. Yeonjun was sure he'd get plenty of time later to do that. Currently, Yeonjun hangs on a fine line between either being successful in his mission or going to jail. Oh, how everyone would kill to be him right now. Hah.
Yeonjun was interrupted when he saw an attendant walking around with another attendant beside him. Yeonjun quickly hid behind a fancy vase that was big enough to hide him. Thank god the palace had so much useless decor.
"I'm dead beat." said attendant number one, who yeonjun decided to name James.
"I swear." said attendant number two, who yeonjun decided to name Charles.
"We don't even have that many chores to do but navigating your way through this palace is enough to burn all that fancy lunch we get to eat," James said, sighing.
"Haah, I wish I was born as royalty. Look at the place they get to live in, the food they get to eat and the looks they're born with."
"For real. Oh you've seen the crown prince?" said Charles.
James nodded. "Yeah, today actually. For the first time. I had to give him his coronation outfit. I had a peek at that as well. And that was actually so well done. It had an expensive sapphire as well embedded into it."
Yeonjun flinched slightly, tempted to tell them that the sapphire may or may not be fake. But he wanted to listen to more and if he spoke out, there was a chance that some chaos would break out.
"Meh, who cares about the outfit," said Charles. Yeonjun narrowed his eyes. This man was going into his death note. Did he have any idea how much effort Yeonjun put into that outfit? "What did the prince look like?"
"Oh, the prince? He was so...royal. And so pretty that even I blushed when I first met him. The alpha pheromones coming from him were so strong that even a beta like me had to falter. Man, he was actually so hot. I can imagine all people in the kingdom fawning over him once his face is revealed."
James dropped into a whisper. Yeonjun strained his ears even further to listen to them. "I'd say the crown prince is so much more good-looking than the king."
Charles gasped and lightly slapped James's arm. "Are you stupid? What if someone heard that?"
James merely shrugged. "You really think there would be someone eavesdropping on our conversation in the middle of the night? Such a wuss."
"Well anyways, if he's as pretty as you say he is, don't you think Kang Taehyun is so lucky? I mean, for that promiscuous Taehyun who'll pretty much sleep with anyone, being able to marry the prince and sleep around with everyone is quite a plus don't you think?"
Yeonjun frowned. Kang Taehyun? If Yeonjun was not wrong...wasn't he the omega prince of Areteriaus? He was supposed to marry the crown prince? Well, now that Yeonjun thought about it, it made sense. The king must've been in a desperate state, trying to find an omega for his son to marry in order to carry forward the line. So Yeonjun figured, it wouldn't really matter if the omega was a male or female. As long as they can produce an heir.
But honestly, eavesdropping on this conversation was so pointless. He got basically zero useful information about it. Unless the fact that the crown prince is 'hot' counts.
"Oh by the way, where exactly is the prince's room? In case they ask me to do some errand the next time," asked Charles.
"Ahh, it's one floor above this. third room from the left. Remember these directions cause the room looks as ordinary as ever?"
"Why would they do that?"
"In case, someone decided to sneak into the palace and wanted to enter the prince's room. Well, first of all, they'd be stupid to do that and second of all, they're bound to be lost in a gigantic palace and third, out of all the rooms it'll be really hard to figure out which is the prince's or the king's room without knowing exactly where it is."
Charles shrugged. "Like anyone would sneak into the palace."
Yeonjun heard their voices fade into the distance but he didn't bother going after them to listen to more. He got more than what he asked for. Quite literally.
However, before Yeonjun made it to the stair, he gave a slight glare to the retreating figure of the two men. He gets it that he's stupid to sneak into the palace, but honestly, he had no choice really.
Well, whatever. Thanks to those two morons, Yeonjun at least knew where the prince's room was.
Though entering it was an entirely different story.
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Yeonjun climbed onto the next floor, slightly panting due to how much running around he had been doing for the past half an hour in order to find the prince's room
Yeonjun's nose twitched. Was it just him or was he getting some sort of sweet smell? Not really perfume but awfully sweet, enticing smell. Yeonjun blinked. Maybe it was some sort of incense.
The second Yeonjun stepped onto the fourth floor, a small voice in the back of his head immediately said to turn back, to retreat, to go away from here. The smell was getting stronger.
Yeonjun shut down the small voice in his head. He had to do this, he had no choice. Yeonjun's current plan was quite...risky to say the least (let's ignore the fact that Yeonjun literally snuck into the palace)
He thought he would knock on the prince's door and then once the prince opened, if Yeonjun's vibe check deemed the prince as kind and understanding, he would directly tell him the truth. If Yeonjun's vibe check told him that the prince was just a brat, he would simply knock him up.
Yeonjun pulled his hood over and pulled up his mask. He couldn't risk getting his face seen in case he had to go with the second option.
Yeonjun walked closer and closer to the third room. But as he walked closer and closer, the smell just became stronger. So strong that it almost made Yeonjun go dizzy.
That smell drove Yeonjun crazy.
Yeonjun frowned. What was with this scent? Was this some sort of defense mechanism set up by the palace? Yeonjun just couldn't figure it out.
Yeonjun inched closer and closer but the smell didn't subside.
A sweet lingering strawberry scent. It made Yeonjun want to meet the person with the scent, and know the person with the scent.
It made Yeonjun want to mess up the person with the scent.
Yeonjun froze as he stood in front of the prince's room where the scent was heavy, driving Yeonjun mad. It was only then that Yeonjun realized. Yeonjun instantly pulled his mask down and covered his nose with his hand.
There was an omega in the prince's room. And that omega was in heat.
Yeonjun knew. He knew at that very moment that he had to run away. He was an alpha and he knew he shouldn't be around an omega in heat at that moment. But oh the pheromones, they weren't letting Yeonjun move.
Yeonjun crouched down in front of the door, panting hard. He was dizzy and breathing hard. He could feel himself getting hotter and hotter. He could feel his sexual urges rising.
The door in front of him opened and Yeonjun immediately got up. In front of him was a tall man, with the most perfect face he had ever seen. Even in this state, Yeonjun wasn't stupid. He knew that the man in front of him was none other than Choi Soobin, the crown prince of Dominina.
But those titles didn't matter to Yeonjun. All he knew was that at that moment there was omega in front of him. And in heat.
Yeonjun pushed the man in front of him against the wall, as he crashed his lips onto the crown prince, the strawberry smell getting stronger and stronger. The man in front of him moaned slightly as he opened his mouth and Yeonjun slipped his tongue in, pulling them even closer if that was possible.
But that wasn't enough for Yeonjun. He wanted more. He put his arm Soobin's waist, grinding up against him as his other hand went for Soobin's shirt, searching for his buttons.
Just as Yeonjun was about to remove Soobin's shirt, he felt a small prick on his side, and then he slumped down.
Unconscious.
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