Run Away ◆Seongjoong◆

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Warning: Mentions of Kidnapping, thievery, and death/blood.

Hongjoong

   Hongjoong finally got settled in to his new home for the next while when his new roommate Seonghwa walked in.

 "So Juyo why are you staying around here? This village isn't the safest."

 "It isn't? Why?"

   Seonghwa sits down on the bed and pats it, telling him to sit.

 "I don't know the full history but I picked up a few things... 

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19 Years ago..

 "King Choi San!"

   A man called the name of the newly crowned king as he rushed inside the castle.

   "There has been an outbreak of thieves! 10 minutes ago we received a report on a robbery at the lake house and another one 2 minutes later at the prized jewels museum."

   King San made his way out the door to try and get some help but much to his surprise the kingdom was gone...There were houses on fire, kids and families crying on the streets, thieves stealing everything, and then he heard it. A loud bang was heard all through the kingdom of  Yuyeonham.

   King Choi san went to his wife's bedroom, and there she was, laying dead in a puddle of her won blood with no trace of a murderer to be found.

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 "Fath- I mean, King San never talks about his children or wife how do you know all this?"

 "Like I said, just things I picked up travelling everywhere. And as for the kids, apparently they were adopted and the first one had a different last name so he cherished the child but they second one was also a Choi so he treated that one lazily as he always remembered his wife from him."

 Hongjoong looked down at his hands, taken back by the older males words. He had never known the reason why Jongho was treated differently, nor did he even know why he didn't have a mother like the people he read about in books.

"How did the kingdom change after that? Are they better now than before?"

 "Well I've only been here for a little while but I personally dont believe so, the King never comes out anymore, instead he sends out guards and there are still thieves and kidnappers it just isn't as bad as that month of suffering they went through."

   Seonghwa reaches off the side of the bed and picks up a picture frame. He shows it to Hongjoong and then smiles tenderly.

 "This was my Father, He was from Yuyeonham. Before it became Deoleoun of course. He had a lovely husband and my older brother and I as well. Everything was going perfect until that one week...

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   Seonghwa's father, Park Minseong, was sitting around at work just waiting for customers as he was a merchant in Yuyeonham. He had noticed something weird was going on at a shop down the road but decided to ignore it.

Just then a man came up to him and had told him to hide and go anywhere that isn't a thieves hideaway.

 "What do you mean!?", Minseong had asked, worried for the citizens.

 "Thieves, murderers, arsonists, they're EVERYWHERE!"

 Just then Minseong felt a sharp pain in his chest a he dropped everything and ran home. There he saw his lovely home, once filled with love, now filled with fire and debris. He had just then remembered that his eldest son and the nanny who took care of the children were in there.

   He attempted to get in the house but he stepped on a piece of debris and the whole place came crashing down on top of his child and his caretaker.

   Soon after his husband, Park Jisung, arrived with Seonghwa in his hands. But it was too late, His son was already dead. Minseong had to console his husband and get out of there quick but just as he tried to a man came up to him.

 "Aw a cute family you have there but we're going to have to take the child."

 "Why? Nobody touches my family without a reason to!", Minseong shouted as he stood in front of his husband and the toddler Seonghwa.

 "The baby can earn me lots of money!"

  Minseong stepped forward and glared at the kidnapper, "You are not touching me or my family!"

   Just then he heard the man chuckle and then a loud bang rang out and he couldn't hear anything except the sounds of his husband screaming.

   Jisung had screamed at the top of his lungs and dropped the young Seonghwa but didn't realize it. The other man had noticed him drop the baby and took him then dashed away as quick as he could. 

   Just as Jisung had turned around to realize the baby was gone he saw the other man hold a gun to Jisung, then he was dead.

  The thief took off back to his head quarters where he told everyone about what just happened and they all cheered. Then one lady came up to the man and had asked, "Sir? How much would this baby cost? I'm willing to pay anything."

 The man then responded, "I need a 100,000 won from you."

 "Oh that's not too much, I'd be glad to pay that."

   The lady then took in Seonghwa and the man had told her his past and everything that just happened but she did not know his name. She had thought to herself, 'I should name this young male, Seonghwa.' She did not know why but the name just clicked. She vowed to take great care of him until her dying days.

   Sadly, she did not know her dying days would come so soon. Around 15 years after everything she had gotten terribly ill and on the day she died she explained everything to her son, Seonghwa and then he had learned that the world was a cruel place and to earn its love you must make the greatest of sacrifices.

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 "My mother sadly died that day she told me my whole life story but it was good to know where I came from and what happened to my home country. After everything that the kingdom went through it was no longer a kingdom it could barely be called a village and they had to rename it since the name no longer fit the people."

 "I'm so sorry that happened to you Seonghwa I had no idea that is what the people in my country went through."

  He looked at Hongjoong confused, "Your country?"

 "Oh I mean um my family was from here but they uh moved when I was born!", He chuckled awkwardly and sighed.

 "Oh so we are both from here? How nice! Well anyways this was fun getting to tell my stories but I have to go get to my job in the village, if you want to join you are very welcome to."

 "No I will just go explore on my own."

Thank you so much for reading, I know this was a more serious chapter but I wanted to explain somethings that might not have made sense.

Also I have decided not to stick to an update schedule and just post when I can so I will post probably everyday but idk and I will definitely not post on the weekend