{√}World Apart ||YiZhanFF||

21

At the palace, Queen Wang Tong had been pacing up and down, restlessly waiting for her son to come back and tell him where he had gone. For the past three days, his absence has been missing and she knows it was because of that thing he brought to his father's palace. 

She can't wait for him to come back and explain himself. She was lost in her thoughts when the king walked in on her and coughed to make his presence known to his wife. Queen Tong sighed and sat down on seeing her husband and the King also joined her sitting down. 

"My Queen, why are you like that? And, where is Yibo? I have noticed that he goes out alone these days without a convoy, or even a driver, not even his personal guard, Meng Yao. What is happening to him? Doesn't he know he is a prince?" 

Queen Tong sighed and shook her head in disappointment. "He goes to see that boy.."

"He did? Love is a strange thing. It can tear a family apart if not properly handled." The king reasoned.

"I wonder what makes him find love in that boy? I... I don't understand it." The Queen sighed and also gritted her teeth. And just then, Wang Yibo walked in with Meng Yao and was smiling while coming inside. 

His father looked at his wife who was as surprised as him, before looking at his son who was still smiling like a complete fool and cared less of the maids and servants looking at him in bewilderment. "Son, where are you coming from? And why are you smiling like someone who suddenly lost his mind?" 

Wang Yibo looked at his father and his mother and said, "Father, I'm coming from the same kind of visit you made to my mother when you met her and knew you wanted to marry her." 

His parents were stunned and looked at each other. The Queen snorted and nonchalantly said, "You went to see that boy, Xiao Zhan or whatever he is called, the house boy, is that not so?" The Queen asked, and Wang Yibo rolled his eyes.

"You already know everything about him? Well, yes, I went to visit him and guess what, he accepted my marriage proposal..."

"What? You did what?" The Queen lashed out and looked at her husband who was trying to digest what he just heard. "What did you find in that boy? Is it his clothes? His dirty body? Or his unkempt hair? What do you see in him that you don't find in the suitors presented to you?" The Queen asked, trying so hard to hold back her anger.

Wang Yibo looked at his mother and answered, "I've learned to love beyond the body. I love everything about him, the thing that you cannot see..."

These words shocked his father when he glared at him and intoned, "Yibo, go back to your room! Leave my presence!" His father ventured to him and Wang Yibo looked at the both of them and started leaving from there. 

"What can we do? He is truly in love with that boy? How do we stop this?" The king asked, looking at his wife.

Queen Tong smirked darkly and looked at her King and said, "Leave that to me. I know exactly what to do... That boy has dared me enough! I know... What...to do..."

The Queen fumed and raged in fury all night, especially seeing how happy her son was because of the proposal he made to someone from the gutters. 

Someone incapacitated to become the princess of Wang Kingdom and not even the future Queen. She had sworn to never allow such laughable embarrassment to be made right before her very own eyes. She will not be alive and watched her son bring the kingdom and throne to the mud. 

What the Queen still doesn't understand is what her son finds to love in such a wretched village boy. What exactly attracted him into loving him? Was it because of his dressing? He dressed like a complete beggar, a nonentity and someone as poor as him.