Chapter 27

"My lovely ruby." -J.
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Jung Hoseok has always liked jewelry ever since he was a child.

Golds, Diamonds, Crystals, and other jewelry, he has all of them.

He just loves the way shines.

But his favorite is rubies.

They remind him of Y/n.

When he still doesn't know what her name is, he simply looked at the red cloak she gave him and decided to call her ruby.

His ruby.

And you guessed it, his favorite color is red.

Not only does red remind him of her, but he also loves it because the color looks rich and has an enchanting beauty in it, just like Y/n.

He also loves it when he could feel it on his hands, his face, his lips, or all over his body.

Hoseok slits the man's throat and watches his blood dripping onto his chest, his sour mood quickly escalates after seeing his favorite color.

Red.

"Bring me one more." He ordered the guards behind him without turning to look at them.

Soon, he hears the sound of someone shouting curses echoing in the hallway as Hoseok's guards drag another man and they tied the man on the same chair where Hoseok killed the previous man.

"GET ME OFF OF THIS CHAIR YOU CRAZY LUNATIC!" The poor man spat, he is desperate to get free under the tight rope that is cutting his skin.

Hoseok smiles and tilts his head before walking to a table not far from him where he lay his precious toys.

"Tut-tut what a sinful mouth..."

"I DON'T CARE THAT YOU'RE A KING, LET ME GO!"

Hoseok starts humming a lullaby while the man keeps shouting curses at him.

He glides his fingers on the torture devices as he imagines different kinds of ways to torture the man with each item he lay his hand on.

"Ah, would you look at this, it's still clean," Hoseok said and held up a silver plier that is still not covered by blood, he walks in front of the man and humms.

"Hmm...what should I do first?..." He asked himself.

"LET ME GO!" The man continue calling him names after he said that.

Hoseok harshly grabs him by his chin and tilts it up.

"How about we cut your tongue first hm?"

The man's face goes pale, but instead of shutting his mouth he opens them again and pours out sinful words.

Bad mistake.

Hoseok use his strong force to keep the man's mouth open while he cut the man's tongue.

The man's screams of pain echo through the walls of the dungeon, the prisoners hear the man's scream which makes them scared for their life.

More blood splatters on Hoseok's face, but he doesn't bother by it, he likes it.

The man vomit the blood that was pooling in his mouth, his shaky eyes looks back at Hoseok's.

The man lost so much blood that his vision gets hazy and his mind is all blurred except for one thought.

Jung Hoseok is more sadist than what the rumors said.

"Why did you stop talking? Cat got you tongue?" He then laughs hysterically.

"More like I got your tongue." He said as he brings the man's tongue to his face.

"Ugh." Hoseok groaned in disgust and throws the tongue somewhere.

Hoseok sighs happily and looks around the gloomy prison that was once clean, but he already did the favor to change the color from grey to dark red, but he still thinks that he needs more things to decorate the room.

"You know..." Hoseok said slowly as he walks to the table.

"Maybe I could take out your intestines and use it as a party banner."

"Then I will hang it on the ceiling." He takes a blunt knife and walks back to the man.

"How does that sound?" Hoseok shows his lunatic smile before pushing the blunt knife on the man's tummy.

Hoseok is in his own world, having fun while watching the horror in the man's face whose eyes are almost bulging out of his sockets, his cries sounds like a classic music to his ears, the man's blood pours out of his flesh like a wine, the guards that are forced to watch the gore scene playing in front of them are keeping their legs stay on their spot so they wouldn't run out of their instinct, some of them puked or even fainted because they couldn't bare seeing how Hoseok tortures the man.

"Hmm...hmm..." Hoseok sings a melody as he hangs up the man's intestines on the ceiling just like what he said, even though it quite bothers him that he is holding the man's slimy intestines.

Regardless, Jung Hoseok is happy.

"Enough." Hoseok's lunatic smile drops after hearing his voice.

He slightly turns his head to the side and sees Jungkook behind him, and he looks pissed.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! KILLING MY PRISONERS AND MAKING A MESS IN ONE OF MY PRISONS WITHOUT MY PERMISSION, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE JUNG HOSEOK?!"

Hoseok scoffs and rolls his eyes and gets off the ladder "They're nothing to you anyway."

The next he knows he is being shoved onto the walls with Jungkook's hands tightly around his neck, his feet slowly leaving the floor as Jungkook holds him up in the air.

Hoseok only laughs as Jungkook squeeze his neck tighter, it would be a lie if he say that Jungkook's grip doesn't suffocate him, but no one would show their weak side to their enemy right?

Hoseok's face slowly turns blue while his neck turns red, his visions get blurry and he could only hear a ringing sound through his ears.

"THIS IS MY KINGDOM HOSEOK! I'M THE ONE IN CHARGE HERE." Jungkook stated with his loud, gruff voice.

"AND IF YOU DO SOMETHING BEHIND MY BACK AGAIN LIKE THIS, I WILL KILL YOU MYSELF AND I WILL DO IT IN FRONT OF Y/N!" Jungkook throws him back to the ground and walks to one of the guards standing behind them who almost past out.

"Tell the maids to clean this mess." With that, he walks off to who knows where.

Hoseok touch his neck with his fingers before he chuckles like he didn't just almost die, he then takes a white lily out of his tuxedo pocket and stares at it while he lays on the ground, he looks at the pool of blood under him and back to the white lily.

He sighs and sits up before pushing his hair back, eyes still on the white lily.

"I need a bath."

Y/n wakes up from her peaceful slumber and sits up before she stretches her muscles, her head turns to look outside the window and sees a couple of birds chirping on a tree's branch.

A light sweet-scented smell hits her nose and she looks at the table beside her bed, there, she sees a fancy cup of tea along with a red lily beside it.

Her fingers closed around the lily and she brings the delicate flower closer to her face, she feels something odd as she looks down at the lily but she couldn't find anything unusual at the lily, the smell, the color, all are normal.

She puts the lily back onto the table and she grabs the cup of tea, she blows off the steam before slowly sipping it, she is careful not to burn her tongue.

Her eyes widened after she tasted the tea, this is the best tea she had ever tasted, she looks back to the table but she doesn't see a note, so she thinks that it was Lana who made the tea, she makes sure to ask Lana for the recipe when she meets her and it didn't take Y/n long to finish the tea.

She hears a tapping noise on the window just after she puts the cup back onto the table, she looks at the window and sees a raven tapping his bill on the window as if he's asking to get in.

The raven stops tapping his bill when his eyes met with Y/n's, Y/n walks in front of the window and the raven tilts his head as he stares at her eyes, she opens the window and the raven flies into her room without hesitation.

The raven plops himself on the bed with his wings spread wide like he's owning the bed, Y/n chuckles at the cute scene that reminds her of Shela when she's still a baby.

Y/n carefully sits on the edge of the bed while she watches the raven is rolling around on the bed.

"What an odd bird..." Y/n muttered, but it seems like the raven heard that and he chirps like he's offended.

Her fingers carefully caress the raven's chest and she watches his eyes close, meaning he's enjoying her touch on him.

"You're the same bird that rejected my bread, didn't you?" She still talks to the crow even though knowing well that the crow can't talk back to her, that's one of the weird and also special things about her.

Their moment is interrupted by two knocks on the door and Lana steps into the room with her usual maid outfit.

"Oh, Lady Y/n? I was about to wake you up." The maid is quite surprised to see Y/n already woke up, cause for the past few days Y/n usually wakes up late due to her crying the night before.

"Good morning Lana." Y/n simply greets her.

"And thank you for the morning tea, it was very delicious, if you're not busy then can you teach me how to make it this afternoon?" She continued, she expected to see Lana's happy smile because she just praised her but what she gets is her confused face staring back at her.

"What tea? I didn't give you anything this morning."

"But-" her eyes went back to the fancy cup of tea on the bedside table then to the red lily.

"Nevermind, it was probably another maid." Y/n brushes off the weird feeling creeping in the back of her neck, thankfully, Lana doesn't ask anything about it.

Lana's attention is now on the raven laying gracefully on Y/n's bed, she's in awe of how cute the little creature looks, she squeals in excitement before asking Y/n.

"Is that yours Lady Y/n?"

Y/n shakes her head at her question, then she explains "No, this bird just asked to come in, now he's ruling my bed."

"Can I touch it?" Y/n nods, Lana walks closer to the bed and lifts her hand to touch the raven, but before she can touch him he already pecked her hand with his bill.

Lana hisses in pain and pulls her hand away from the raven, Y/n is shocked to see his aggressive behavior because she had never seen him do that.

"Lana are you okay?!" Y/n quickly walks to Lana and inspects her hand.

Lana laughs it off "I'm okay Lady Y/n."

"I'll go get you something for breakfast." Lana said after Y/n lets go of her hand.

When she mentioned breakfast, Y/n thinks about going out of the room and joining the Kings for breakfast because she kept rejecting their offers ever since she found herself in the Palace,

Not only that she feels bad, but she also wants to go out of her room for the first time and explore the Palace, which surprised her because before this she just wants to be locked in this room until she magically disappeared, and this new feeling of excitement is a little weird and kinda scare her.

"Lana." Y/n stops her before she could step out of the room.

"Yes, Lady Y/n?" Her reply soon came out.

"I want to...have breakfast with the Kings."

Lana's eyes widen as if she is asking if she's sure about it.

"I'm serious."

"O-okay...I'll go prepare a bath for you." Lana said and rushes to the bathroom.

Y/n looks back to her bed but she didn't see the raven, she looks to the window and sees the raven just before he flies off to the sky.

After Lana had done bathed her, she goes to choose a dress for Y/n, Y/n follows her to the closet and there she sees how magnificent the closet is, she gaped at how many luxuries items are in there, and she doesn't want to know how much all of them cost.

Her eyes wander to the design of the room, the closet has stairs to go up so it means there's still much more she hasn't seen, the walls and the floor are made out of good quality, crystals, golds, diamonds are used as a decoration.

This closet screams LUXURY.

But what's the most appealing is the chandelier, the chandelier was made out of rubies, it's not common for rubies to be made as a chandelier cause it's usually clear crystals.

"I know, I was like that too when I first came in here." Y/n closes her mouth after Lana's voice snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Yeah I mean...there's just so much stuff in here." Y/n keeps her hands on her back so she doesn't accidentally break something, and she wishes she could fly so she knows she won't be able to break the floor.

"What do you think about this dress?" Lana shows Y/n a fancy green gown in her hands, the design is beautiful but Y/n thinks that it's too much considering that she doesn't have a special occasion to attend.

"Umm...how about this one?" Lana almost faints when she sees Y/n pull out the most simple dress that's in the closet, seeing Lana's expression Y/n quickly puts it back to where it was and looks around the closet to find something to wear.

"This one...?" Y/n pulls out a medium soft pink strawberry dress and it has some ribbons on it but the dress isn't extravagant, much to her taste.

Lana sighs in relief "That's better."

After Y/n choose matching shoes to go with the dress, Lana makes her sit in front of the vanity to get her ready, Lana styles her hair into a high ponytail and she also add some blush to her cheeks even though Y/n insist, but at the end she lets her do it.

"You look beautiful Lady Y/n." Lana holds her squeals as she looks at Y/n's reflection in the mirror because Lana thinks that Y/n looks just like a doll, she has never seen anyone look so glamourous and pretty in just a simple dress.

"Thank you, Lana." Y/n shows her genuine smile and her smile compliment the light blushes on her cheeks.

"Let's go to the dining room, breakfast is almost ready."

Y/n gets some stares from people as she and Lana are on their way to the dining room, some people stop what they're doing and their eyes follow Y/n's form, the others just continue what they're doing while also staring at her, the stares boost her confidence a little.

Her eyes met with a butler who's also staring at her, he is startled when their eyes met resulting in him dropping the tray in his hand, Y/n is about to go and help him but Lana pulls her in another direction before she could help the poor man that is holding his embarrassment inside.

Right now they're standing in front of the dining's room doors, Lana could tell that Y/n is nervous by her body language, Y/n is scared of what the Kings would think of her, only Jin and Taehyung had visited her and they convince her that everything that had happened didn't change the way they looked at her, but she doesn't know if the other Kings thinks the same as those two.

"Are you sure you want to-" Y/n cuts her off before she could finish.

"I am." She said and push the doors open.
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A little cliffhanger there, let's see how far I can go😈

It's chapter 27 already?? But don't worry, this book is not ending anytime soon.

Sorry I don't often update sooner like I used to, and it's because of school, It's lame I know.

Anyways,

My goal is to have 40 votes for this chapter, so if you want me to update sooner, then vote👹.

Written:9/1/22
Published:22/1/22