Total Eclipse
Total Eclipse Part Two
Overview:Total Eclipse is written from a different angle, what if on that day Go Ha-jin in the body of Goryeo girl Hae Soo had first met with the dreaded 3rd prince, Wang Yo even before the other brothers had caught a glimpse of the beauty? How different had the story-line been if Wang Yo had started to fall for the new Hae Soo?
Genre: Romance, Mature themes, Angst, everything that’s pretty much there for a drama to be a drama :D
Part Two
“Ah, please wait a second,” Ha-jin let go of the woman’s hand as she rested herself against the cave walls trying to breathe as much as she could. Breathe girl breathe. Ha-jin felt the familiar dizziness hit her like the one from before.
“Miss, this is not the time, please try to understand. We must get out of this place before master comes looking for you!” Master? Ha-jin did not have an ounce of rationality left to question what was happening around her. She still believed she was in some kind of strange Joseon-era drama which had no head or tail to be made out of it.
It was for the first time since coming face to face with the man from before, Ha-jin finally took notice of the surroundings around her. The opening of the cave was visible, flickers of light were coming out of it bathing the entrance with a soft mellow.
“Where are we?” She looked at the woman beside her, quirking her eyebrows in the process. The woman looked shocked at the kind of question thrown towards her. “Miss?” Ha-jin was still waiting for her reply, sensing her irritation the woman replied anyway, “It’s the cave connecting the third prince’s quarters to the eighth prince’s.” Third prince? Eighth prince? Ah, my head is gonna burst into pieces if I don’t get out of this strange place.
“Water, water...” Ha-jin croaked as they came out of the cave out in the open. The light from the street lamps helped her gain her balance as her companion, god knows who she’s, helped her out. After downing some water in gulps from the nearby river Ha-jin sat down on the rocks to calm her beating heart. This is definitely some bat-shit crazy dream of mine, after all I drank so much this was bound to happen. The woman on the other hand looked at her mistress with pity and sympathy mixed with a tinge of curiosity. Ha-jin was in no mood to drag long something she was yet to figure out so the best thing it seemed was to act along. As she was busy trying to figure out who the woman might be an idea struck. I’ve read it in Isekai manhwas, hope this trick works! Please don’t fail me, she prayed earnestly.
“Ah, I can’t remember anything...” Ha-jin feigned utter misery at not being able to remember even her own name. Must clarify that name of mine, I mean the name of the person this body belongs to. What did that ruffian say back then? Ugghh! So-ah? Ha-soo?
“Hae-Soo, madam that’s what your name is,” the maid had a pitiful look on her face. Ha-jin could surmise from the woman’s age that she was a servant from the household where the owner of the body used to reside. Now let me see, that time I went down the lake trying to save the child and then I woke up, more like rose up in that pool belonging to that ruffian. Arrggh, I hate that guy’s guts, such handsome face and such utterly disgusting an attitude, shitty might I say.
“What happened to this person, um?” The woman looked incredulously at her as if she had lost her final strand of sanity as well. Ha-jin realized her mistake as she quickly replaced, “Ah, silly me! What happened to me? How did I even end up there, do you happen to know anything about it?” Ha-jin poked her nose like a tiny mouse about to sniff something interesting.
“Miss you were bathing here,” she pointed towards the river. What?
“She was?” Ha-jin shook her head again. “I was? In there?” Really? Ha-jin’s eyes widened as she realized a familiar trope she’d read in mangas. Did I transmigrate to a different time period? This definitely is Korea but nowhere near the time I am used to dwell in. Let’s be serious Ha-jin or else people might get suspicious of us! Alright, let’s get this straight.
“Yes miss, you’re bathing while I went to get a spare set of cloth to wipe yourself off, you’d vanished by the time I’d returned .” The maid looked distressed for some reason. “I couldn’t find you anywhere, your highness the queen had been distraught as well.”
“Wait a minute, who?” Who is this highness she’s talking about, I wonder.
“Your elder sister miss, she has been very worried ever since you went on missing. She hasn’t even had her dinner neither has our master. They’ll are looking out for you. We were all looking for you and that’s when I heard your voice, miss...Oh miss, you must have hit your head against some rock or something” The maid looked scared for some reason. Why, Ha-jin wondered?
“Who was that guy, ermm if you don’t mind me asking? That guy you just saved me from, who just kept coming at me for no good reason.” Ha-jin felt humiliated and angry for how she was treated by that ruffian.
“Is that how he treats a woman? More so, is that how a woman should be treated?” She could no longer keep her anger under check, it was beginning to spurt out in flames, but before it got out of hand she put a lid to that over-powering thirst to badmouth someone. Ha-jin was already aware of what disastrous consequences her anger could produce, like slapping her best-friend of a bitch for cheating on her with her own boyfriend at her back and then getting slapped by her boyfriend for being so judicious. That bastard, I don’t even know if this anger is because of that ruffian or my ex!
“Miss, please calm down. I shouldn’t have let you swim this far having known that there is an underwater tunnel that connects this side of the river to the prince’s palace.” What? Don’t tell me this girl Hae-Soo had swum to that place?!
Meanwhile at the prince’s quarters
The moon-light was falling upon the tatami mats in filtered specks of dust creating an alluring atmosphere soothing the prince’s senses. Ah, how long has it been since I’d been this excited? This excitement, feels familiar like one of those times when I went hunting. A deer, soft and innocent, far removed from the harsh reality of the world, that’s what she looked like, surmised Wang Yo. His body was hot and bothered from all the thinking he had done ever since the appearance of the girl. A mere girl, how in the world is she even able to make me feel this disoriented. He closed his eyes as he remembered how soft her lips looked, the peach-blossom graced her cheeks as well. How her chest heaved when he caught hold of her, her fluttering eyelashes resembling the dainty steps of a gisaeng dancing to the melody of the gayageum. His right hand that held a steaming cup of ginseng tea itched a burning urge to touch the skin of such innocence. He could see how untarnished she was, being a man desired by most women, that he could easily conclude. And that made him even more curious about her. Hae-Soo, huh?
The sentinel standing outside his room was summoned in. Wang Yo had never been this impatient before, apart from taking over the throne, he’d never been like this.
“Your majesty?” Even the sentinel could see his master was behaving somewhat different, it was a bit erratic and unusual. Wang Yo gripped the earthen cup harshly as he nearly scalded his tongue from the amount of over-thinking he was doing. Damn that girl!
“Send this letter to my brother Wook, will you?” The sentinel was confused as to why his master was interested in someone he had never shown interest before.
“It’s time I paid visit to my dear brother,” now that I have got a bird to catch.
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I deeply apologize for this late post.
