08 (1/2)

Taeyeon looked like she was on a do-or-die mission. She was tying her hair tightly, putting on her clothes in an almost cool, combat mode. Yet, her eyes betrayed her. They looked so heartbreakingly sad that Soo Young could only stare helplessly at her as she grabbed her car keys.

“It’s pointless you know,” Soo young said, watching Taeyeon sadly. They were dressed as waitresses in the banquet hall. Taeyeon was frantically looking for Tiffany in the big banquet room full of distinguished guests.

The entire place was beautifully set up in a classy greek style, yet it looked almost caged like. Security was tight and Sooyoung was pretty worried that their covers will soon blow over.

“I’ll have to try at least,” Taeyeon said firmly, her voice sounded hoarse. Even though, she never showed it. Soo young knew Taeyeon had been crying silently whenever she was alone. One. Her bloodshot eyes were tell-tale signs. Two. She would always force a cheery smile in the mirror after that as if everything was fine– it was almost impossible to watch and not feel sad for her.

“Really? Harassing the bride on her wedding day? In front of international TV?”

It wasn’t until Tiffany had left a few days that Soo young realised who the guy was… and who Tiffany’s ‘adopted family’ was….

They were the most influential and powerful ‘royal family’ of Korea who had business stakes in every important sector in Korea’s trading line. They even had the notoriously ruthless underground connections. And Tiffany was their chosen daughter-in-law that they had picked since young to groom. How could she possibly escape that kind of connections?

Even her wedding was going to be highly broadcasted… But instead of her real name Tiffany, she was known as Tiffy, the girl that was chosen to marry and help assist their business…

Not Tiffany, the money-saving freak and sole lover of Taeyeon.

Soo Young vaguely recalled that she was invited to the wedding as her father had some business connections with this family…. But she couldn’t really recall what had happened.

The exact events were very hush-hush, but all she knew was that the wedding never did happen in the end….

Something about the bride being missing…

“I’ll have to try at least, don’t I?” Taeyeon asked, looking ahead. She tried again, “I’ll have to try to fight at least, otherwise, I’ll never let this slide. It would end up as one of my life’s greatest regret… I would keep thinking back: hey, Taeyeon, what could have happened if I had tried to grab her back? What could……---?”

“---What are the two of you doing here?” One of the security guards stopped Taeyeon and Sooyoung.

“We’re waiting for the bride. We’re her personal assistants…” Soo young lied feebly, but amazingly the guard believed her and let her through into the bride’s preparation room.

The next thing she knew, they were standing inside the room that Tiffany was in, and Tiffany was staring in amazement at them.

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