When morning came, the twins were greeted cheerfully by their parents along with their birthday wishes. All the maids, guards and even knights went to greet the Prince and Princess a happy birthday.

Shinyoung was feeling very delighted as it was her birthday and it was going to be the first ever birthday party where all the people in the kingdom would come. However, it was different for her twin. He was fine and all when everyone gave them their birthday wishes, but Shinyoung could see something was bothering him. Twin insticts.

He seemed to be bothered by something every time Shinyoung tried to talk to him. He would just stare at her and replied nothing when she asked him, it happened thrice today. The Princess put all the negative assumptions away and just simply came to a conclusion thinking he must be nervous or exhausted from all those preparations yesterday.

"Good morning, Your Highness. Oh, and happy birthday"

Shinyoung turned away from her horse and towards the voice. She saw Seungcheol in front of her, she didn't notice his presence at all as she was busy brushing the horse. "Good morning to you too, Seungcheol." The Princess smiled at him and went back to grooming her horse. Out of the blue, she recalled the scene that happened a few days ago, the archery.

She shook her head and tried to re-focus on grooming her pet, but she couldn't. She felt slightly bothered by something she can't even identify. Shinyoung tried to shook it away and continue on brushing the horse, she picked up a bowl of water to give it to the colt. However, the bowl wasn't filled up with water, it was filled with blood instead.

Shocked, the Princess accidentally released her hold on the bowl and it dropped on the ground, shattered in pieces. She blinked a lot of times before finally seeing that water spilled on the ground instead of a red colour liquid. She finally realised how those shattered pieces could've hurt the colt, so she tried to pick them up.

Unfortunately, the horse stepped on one of the pieces and as a reflex it bolted and Shinyoung pricked her finger while picking up one of the pieces. She retreated her hand from the piece and held it close to her chest as blood was oozing out from her wound. She looked from her finger to her horse, wondering if he's okay. Just when she was about to inspect, someone came.

"Are you alright, Princess? I heard sounds of something breaking."

Shinyoung turned her head from the horse and towards the tall male next to her. He looked worried, as if something bad had just happened to her although cutting her finger seemed normal to the Princess herself.

"Ah, it's just this." Shinyoung said reassuringly as she lifted her index finger and showed it to the tall k