Chapter 2: The King's favor

Don Ferrer has two children who are as beautiful as his wife, Lucia. Jade is his eldest child, nineteen years old, beautiful, has a brave aura, smart and good at using a weapon in battle. But her most specialty of all is using a sword. With her courage and high confidence in herself, she dreams of becoming a warrior and becoming a general who will lead her own team.

That's why when she found out about the marriage agreement between her and the king, she completely did not accept it, and she could not agree to marry him even if the exchange was her own life. She knows that when she becomes the king's wife, she cannot freely do everything she wants, nor can she just leave the palace or go to a place without the king's permission or without her husband.

She will also need to study the proper etiquette of royal bloods, where she will be trained to be modest in every action she takes and be careful with every word she puts out of her mouth.

Furthermore, she has nothing else to do inside the palace but to serve her husband and follow everything he tells her to do. In addition to that, she also needs to produce a future king's heir to his throne, where she will be pressured to get pregnant for a son. Because it is a tradition for royal blood to have a son who will also be the next king of their kingdom.

If their child will be a girl, she must immediately marry to her future husband to immediately pass the throne to the one she will marry with. By the time she comes to her fourteen years age, she can marry any man by her father's choice or the king. And even if she doesn't want to, she can't do anything but marry this man, even if she doesn't like him or their age gap has a big difference.

That's why to avoid the chaos, it is necessary that the first one the queen gives birth to is a male baby to pass the throne to him and the responsibilities of the king to his people.

However, Jade has no intention to be a slave of the king, she also does not want to be confined to the palace for the rest of her life, and she feels no satisfaction in it. That's why, in order to break the agreement through his father and the king, she burned half of her face with a knife that she heated for five hours in the embers of the fire. She screamed loudly in pain, but she endured it just to avoid the marriage agreement.

That was the only way she could think of to prevent her marriage to the king from going ahead, and when she returned home, her parents were shocked to see what happened to the half of her face. Her mother almost sat on the floor when she saw that her eldest daughter's beautiful face had been ruined because of a deal she never wanted, and she didn't even do anything to stop her.

Even Don Ferrer was stunned and couldn't believe what her eldest daughter had done, but what scared him more was what the king would say to him when he found out what had happened to his daughter's face and when he said that the marriage they had agreed on would not go ahead. The king would surely be furious with him, and it could bring great chaos to their family. That's why he had no other choice but to marry his second daughter to the king.

“Do you hear yourself, Ferrer? Do you want to marry Luna to the king? Are you really the father they know and be with for a long time?” Lucia said angrily to her husband after Don Ferrer decided to exchange the names of the two, where he would introduce his second child to the king as his future wife.

“What do you want me to do? That's the only way I can protect you all and save this family.” Don Ferrer responded with a frown, and he was standing near the window.

“Are you sure you're only doing this for the sake of our family or because you just want to save your own pride?” when he heard what Lucia said, he turned to her and raised an eyebrow as if he couldn't believe what his wife said.

“Luna is only eighteen years old, what does she know about marriage? You see how innocent she is in this world, and I don't want her future to be ruined because of your selfishness. Don't you dare me, Ferrer. If you brought our daughter in the palace, I will not hesitate to divorce with you, and you will never see us again forever.” She added, and after she said that she turned her back on him, and then she left their room.

Don Ferrer let out a heavy and deep breath, and then he punched hard the wall where he didn't know what to do. He is already struggling with the problem he is facing now and even him was against the marriage agreement where it is also against to his will to marry his daughter to the king.

He did not want any of his two children to enter the palace because he knew that their lives would be miserable there and sad inside the palace. Furthermore, he even wanted them to marry simple men who did not come from noble families as long as his children are happy, he will not oppose them.

His only desire for his two daughters is to be happy and be free to do whatever they want in their lives. But the situation is different now, where he has to decide as the father of his children. He felt that he was standing at the top of the tower where he had to choose which of the two he would choose to save and protect, his children or his wife. But there is no other way to break the agreement between them and the king.

He has been serving in the palace for a long time, and he witnessed the growth of the king until he sat on his throne, so he knows all the things that happen inside the palace that the townspeople or outside the palace do not know. That is why he promised himself that he would not allow his two daughter to set foot in the palace, but he would keep them away from it and let them live quietly.

But it didn't go as he wanted it to. He knows what will happen to his family if he disobeys the king's order and if he abandons him. He also knew that he had no other choice because even if he objected or did not agree to the king's wishes, his desire would still happen.

The moment he utters a word, he will do it no matter what, even if he kills someone. He will use his throne as king and his power to silence those who stand in his way. That's why before that happens, before his family gets hurt and the king insults his two daughter and wife, he will be forced to take his daughter inside the palace. But contrary to Don Ferrer's knowledge that his second daughter, Luna already has another man in her heart.

It was Zeeb, an immortal and an Alpha. Luna knew what kind of creature Zeeb was, but she still accepted him wholeheartedly and for who he was. The two of them met when Luna got lost in a forest where her life was in danger and wolves were chasing her.

But unexpectedly, Zeeb suddenly appeared in front of her in the form of a wolf, and then he saved her where Zeeb was able to drive away the evil wolves that were chasing Luna. When the two of them first met, Luna never thought she would encounter such a creature. But she didn't feel afraid of him, instead she was awed by him, and she fell in love with Zeeb's beautiful blue eyes.

Zeeb also did not expect that he would fall in love with the girl and that his love for her would be so deep that he was ready to accept all the punishments that would be meted out to him when his whole family found out about their secret relationship, and neither he is afraid to face Luna's family because the moment he fell in love with her, he dedicated his whole life to her where he was ready to die just to protect Luna.

They love each other so much that they have committed a great sin that is strictly forbidden to both of them. That night, under the full moon, they didn't care about their surroundings, and it was as if the world revolved around just the two of them. Luna was happy with Zeeb and because she felt how much he loved her. She also can't wait to introduce her boyfriend to her parents, where she is not afraid that they will find out the truth of him.

Even though his family rejected her because of the relationship between the two of them, she is ready to go with him and live in a far away place where they can be happy together.

The day that Luna was waiting for came, where she is going to tell her parents the truth and about Zeeb. But even before she could tell them about it, a bad news suddenly reached her where she discovered the arrangement marriage of the two of them.

She could not speak, she was stunned, and it was as if all her dreams collapsed when she heard from her father that she was reconciled to the king to be his wife. She wanted to object her father's decision, but when she saw the half of her older sister's face with a burn scar, she just burst into tears and sat on the chair in disbelief.

Not only that, but she learned that Jade was supposed to be the king's wife but because of the damage to her half face, the king would no longer accept her anymore and the only hope of their family was her. Luna had an idea of ​​how strict and cruel the royal bloods were because she had once entered the palace and witnessed that they were not just ordinary people like them. So, she knew what the payoff would be if she refused and objected to that marriage.

They will probably die in a cruelty way or the king will cut off their heads. At that moment, she was struggling and had to choose between the two, her family or the man she loved the most? But eventually, she agreed to meet the king and the next day her father accompanied her inside the palace where that was the first meeting between her and the king.