Kris, It's Me! - Chapter Eighteen

The crowd gasped in shock. The current king and queen stood up in a flash. “Claire Lee!” Her mother exclaimed. “What in the world do you think you’re doing?”

Her father too angrily said “Get back up there this instant!”

Claire turned around. “Would any of you also like to marry a man you don’t know?” She asked. 

Joe stood in a corner; he could feel the King’s glare. He saw Joonmyun standing up there in shock, his parents too were furious.

“I refuse to marry a man I don’t know, the point of marriage is to find someone you’re in love with. I…am not in love with Joonmyun, I know nothing about him. And if anything, this marriage was arranged, I was forced to marry someone for the sake of my image.” She said.

The crowd gasped, and then silence broke through. The King boomed with his angry voice. “You bring shame to us!” He sneered angrily. “Shame, Claire Lee…Shame!”

“The Kingdom has been waiting on a new queen for years, they want change…I could tell you now, nothing good will happen if I married Joonmyun.” Claire snapped.

The Queen covered her face in embarrassment.

Claire continued. “There’s already someone I want to marry, and his named is Prince Yifan.” She said. “He’s the long lost prince of the Antarctic and the only reason why I am not allowed to marry him is because my father can’t a