Jihyun waited for Chen patiently as he talks to his mother. She was in her own room, praying that Gabriel will agree to her request. But Jihyun had decided that whatever Gabriel’s decision is, she has to go to Baekhyun to talk.

Soon, she heard a knock on her door and she ran to open it. “Oppa, how did it go?” Chen, whose head was hung low, looked up to her and shook her head. “Sorry Hyunnie, my mother didn’t agree to the plan. For her, it seems too dangerous.” He said. “Well, on one point she is right, Hyunnie. It’s too dangerous.”

The two of them took a seat across each other and she sighed. “Oppa, that’s what you think. Unless we try…”

“No, Hyunnie. Listen to me, stop this. Just stop thinking that you’re going to meet up with him because no one will ever agree to it.” Chen raised his voice unknowingly and when he realized what he has done, he looked at her to see her face emotionless. “If right now, you guys don’t have any trust on what I think, what will happen in the future? Will you obey my commands? I don’t think so.”

“Wait Hyunnie, I—“ Before he could even stop her from leaving, she had left the room without any trace.

Jihyun went outside her room, only to find her father with Xiumin. “Father.” She bowed to him and his father looked at her with a pair of worried eyes. “Jihyun, did something happen?” Jihyun looked away. She wanted to say there’s nothing wrong but she just can’t bear to lie, especially if it’s to her own father. “I heard it all.” Xiumin butted in and the elder looked at him. “The conversation of Jongdae with his mother, I heard it all.”

“Oppa…” She looked at him with pleading eyes, hoping he gets the signal that she didn’t want her father to know her plan but Xiumin acted as if he didn’t saw the pleading in her eyes. “Chamuel, I heard a great plan made by the Princess but it was rejected by Gabriel.”

“What? Why?” Chamuel furrowed his brows, ready to stomp inside and look for Gabriel when Xiumin looked at Jihyun’s eyes before speaking again. “It was too risky. The plan was to talk to Baekhyun, a demon, to find out something that can stop this war and instead, let it become a peaceful talk between their Prince and the Princess but Gabriel didn’t agree on it because as I said, it was too risky.”

“But father, I—“ She was cut