Y/n looks at the grim tower, she knows Hoseok told her about it to distract her, and he kinda succeeds because Y/n is really curious about knowing what happened to Namjoon. She looked at the tower, it was just a tall building. She entered and stairs, it was a really slim tower with round stairs, there were alot of stairs.

Yuri was about to enter with Y/n. "Stay here." Y/n told her.

"But,"

"I think I will be fine." Y/n replied. She doesn't think anything would be there. And Yuri doesn't need to know everything about Y/n's life. She already thinks that Yuri knows too much. Y/n entered alone and there alot of stairs, she climbed them, it was filled with snakes and spiders. Somehow Y/n is not afraid of them. She has always been afraid of Namjoon Only.

She reached a door, she thought it would be locked but it wasn't. She pushed it open. And it was a room, a really old rusting room. There were chains attached to the wall, and then a small cage right in the middle of the room.

The cage was so small, Soju wouldn't even fit in it. She was thinking what type of animal was kept at this place, but it was not human. It was a human who lived here but when he left he turned into an animal.

She entered and she felt cold air touch her, the room was really cold, there was so much isolation, this was worse than the cells they keep the prisoners in. 

She noticed a wooden box, near the window, it look similar to the one Namjoon had in his room, where he locks Y/n when she lies to him or simply he wants to torture her.

She stepped closer to it, it was covered in dust, she walked near it and it was locked. It was not an ordinary lock, it looked like a riddle, the type which can't be broken, if you break it the lock will not open.

She turned to solve the riddle and open the box but it was not working.

"Y/n,"

She suddenly flinched when she heard a deep voice. She put her hand over her chest and She turned to see Taehyung.

"What are you doing here? You are not allowed here? And it's Your highness for you." Y/n said, she stood up and clapped her hands, trying to get dust off her hands.

Taehyung held her hand and cleaned it with a handkerchief, "Sorry, you promise you will see me, but you didn't."

He was involved in it. Y/n needed to grow the toxic herbs which she used to add in Namjoon's tea. But it was not possible, as she couldn't grow them, or buy them herself. So she told Taehyung to do that.

It was not difficult to make Taehyung do that, Taehyung hated Namjoon too. But she lied in the process.

"I was busy. Tonight is the meeting, they will decide who will take his place." Y/n said.

"They will decide? Should it not be you? You are next in rank after him right?" Taehyung asked.

"But I am a woman, Taehyung." She replied. He understood it. "Now those old men, I have to deal with them, I bet no one would suggest my name."

"Make them then." Taehyung said.

"Make them?" She got curious about what that meant.

"You are still the queen, keep their family hostage and threaten them you would k'll their family and loved one if they don't suggest your name in the court." Taehyung said. Y/n chuckled.

"I can't believe you are giving me this idea." She said, He shrugged his shoulders.

"I realized how the world works." He replied. Y/n looked out the window from the tower, and it had the most beautiful view of the whole palace.

"It's beautiful." Y/n mumbled, she sat on the window. Taehyung sat beside her on the window and stared at her face. She was smiling nonstop. She does look happier when she is not getting controlled by Namjoon.

"You know what I am thinking?" He asked.

"How would I know?" She shrugged her shoulders. What a stupid question to ask?

"I want to throw you out of this window, I want to see you covered in blood, lifeless." He replied. She was not expecting that answer.

"You know what I am thinking?" She replied to his questions, while looking at him and the view behind him. He waited for her to answer. "You are prettier than the whole kingdom."

Taehyung chuckled, "I just tell you how much I want to k'll you."

"Oh really? I thought you were flirting with me." She replied.

"You flirt like that?" Taehyung started laughing, he was serious a minute ago.

"My husband. Blood is his love language." She said.

"I can't believe this, I hate you. I really really hate you so much that I want to k'll you sometimes, yet," He paused.

"Yet?" She asked. He stared at her eyes, brown eyes with a hint of green, the green in her eyes is so unique, it feels like she admired nature so much that she captured nature in her eyes.

Beauty is a simple word, they need more complex words to describe her, her face, the way she looks you in the eyes.

"Yet, I want you. I never want you to let me go." He said.

"Let you go? I am not even holding you."

"You were Y/n, you were holding me, claiming me but then you let me go. It made me feel unwanted and useless, please keep holding me." He exclaimed, he leaned in and tried to kiss her.

She stood up. "I can't, I am busy right now." She said, Taehyung also stood up, he looked around now.

"What is this place?" He asked.

"I don't know, I need to go now. It's getting late, and I need to work on your plan." She said,

"You gonna do it?" Taehyung asked with a smile.

Y/n nodded her head and kissed his cheek. "Yes, because that is what I need most right now, I don't want to hold you or any man. I want to hold the power."

"Can I be the one you hold tonight?" He asked.

"Only if I am not covered in blood after it. I already have blood deficiency." She said it as a joke. Taehyung chuckled and saw her leave.

He was about to leave, but he stopped when he saw a necklace. It picked it up from the ground. He touched his necklace, he thought he dropped his necklace but no he was wearing his necklace. And the necklace he found is similar to the one he was wearing.

Taehyung doesn't know who gave him this necklace, he is an orphan, and always had this necklace. He never took off thinking it must be her parents who gave them.

He looked at the necklace he just found, it's weird. What are the odds that he found the same necklace at a place like this?

He put it in his pocket.

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When it was time to suggest who should be the one incharge, they looked at each other, but no one took Hoseok's name.

Y/n smirked, knowing exactly why no one was favoring him. Because she has told them all not to, she did what Taehyung suggested, she blackmailed them all and kept their families hostage, until she was selected as the queen.

She was quite disappointed, even after that it was delayed. They didn't decide who will be the one, because no one suggested Hoseok, or Y/n. Some were even saying Yesol should take the throne but Y/n and Hoseok didn't agree with it.

"Why are you doing this?" Y/n asked.

"What am I doing?" He asked.

"Blocking my way, I will crush you if you don't leave and step back." She said, and she was full on planning murder. There is no way, she doesn't want the throne to go to a third person.

"You keep forgetting your manners don't you?" Hoseok raised his eyebrows.

"The throne belongs to me, and I will not let you take it." She said,

"No one will support you, you can never become the one to rule. You know that, it's how it is. People don't like the concept of women being the ruler, they can't trust you with the kingdom." He said. Y/n clenched her fists. This is what she has been hearing since her childhood, the only job she has as queen is to give birth to a son. That is her duty, that's it.

"People are afraid because they know how much power women hold." She replied.

"No doubt, you are an amazing woman, and with no doubt you can handle the throne." He said.

"Then? Step back."

He smiled and shook his head. "No, marry me instead. I am not like him, I will let you handle the throne."

She can't believe he is saying this.

"No, that's the whole point I wanted to be free. And my husband is still alive. I can't marry you." Y/n said, "It's  just ridiculous."

"K'll him then."

"You acted like you cared for me, the way you treated Yesol, and me. I can't believe this."

"You can't believe that I am thinking about myself for once?" He asked. He stepped closer to her.

"It is not a bad offer Y/n. You will get what you want, I will get what I want."

"It is. I don't need your help, like that. If I wanted to marry and get the throne, I would have married Daegu or Busan, but for the Seoul throne, this is mine. I was born to rule it, the throne was mine even before I was born." She said and left.
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