Spring Snowflakes

❄️ chapter 16: briefing with the prince

"Sooho-ssi..."

The mentioned man walked across the hall towards Youngro. He was wearing a set of grey suit and trousers, with black shirt and black tie under his suit. As if black was his color, Youngro had been noticing that he always looked even more dashing whenever he wore black outfits.

When Youngro saw the man was busy touching his tie, she was worried the man had another problem with his tie again, just like the other day when they had fitting session at the Crown Prince's mansion. If he needed help with his tie, Youngro wasn't the right person to give a helping hand...

Fortunately, the Crown Prince successfully fixed his tie shortly and Maeng gave her approval. His styling for that day had completed.

"Your Highness," Maeng took a polite bow as the Crown Prince slowed down his walks and the man replied with a curt nod.

"Eun Youngro, Maeng," he greeted both of the girls before giving them his apology. "It seems like you had finished your preparation much earlier than I did. My apologies, the morning meeting with the crisis management team took a bit longer than expected."

As she heard the word "crisis" mentioned, Youngro quickly asked him in response, "What happened? Is there something wrong?"

Maeng who stood next to youngro was keeping her head low, however Youngro could see the older woman trying to peek on Youngro and the Crown Prince once or twice. She couldn't hide her curiosity.

"A couple of issues," Sooho simply answered. His tone was serious and Youngro could notice a concerned look on his face when he landed his eyes on her face. Sooho was about to open her mouth and say something when he suddenly paused and gave a look to Maeng. He was signaling her to give them a private space to talk. With a nod, Maeng received his signal clearly and proceed to walk away.

"I'll see you later, Miss Youngro." Maeng tapped Youngro's shoulder before leaving both of them together.

After making sure that the other girl had walked away and gone by the end of the main palace hall, Sooho cleared his throat. He grimaced and his eyebrows furrowed.

"Your forehead, is it okay?"

Ah. Of course the news had spreaded.

She wondered how the media and press would create the headline of the morning news today— The Crown Prince's Bride to Be Was Clumsy Enough to Get Hitted by a Journalist's Camera Lens! maybe?

Right after the day when the royal palace announced the royal engagement, Youngro had been holding herself back from browsing through the internet and social media. Even when she had turned her social media into private mode, she could still get flooding notifications on her accounts... even her email inbox as well! How could these people reached out to her through personal accounts?

She swore she even saw one of the lecturers from her college emailed her a curious question to confirm if she really was the person they saw on the breaking news.

Not to mention the leaked personal pictures of hers that were shared everywhere. She was grateful the royal palace teams had an excellent job on taking them down. However, she still thought that she really needed to take a step back for a while and avoid the internet. She really had to protect her image from now on.

Youngro blatantly left out an awkward laugh while brushing her exposed forehead. She believed the foundation Maeng used had good coverage so people wouldn't see it getting blue sooner or later. Last time she checked, she didn't get any bruise because of the bump. Thanks to Boonok who helped her placing bunch of cold ice to the area that stinged the most.