Ice Prince: Rewrite The Star

Chleo's brow furrowed at this. What else is Max hiding beside his identity as the blue king?

Haven't they gone through a period of hiding secrets? Didn't they decide not to shut each other up and open up to each other?

Even though she was confused and puzzled by Max's sudden confession, Chleo was also curious about what Max had kept secret from her.

Therefore she chose to remain silent and listen to what her lover would say.

"Okay. What do you want to say?"

"Long before we met in this life, we had met before."

"We did. You saved me when I was kidnapped in Germany and brought me home."

"No, that wasn't our first meeting."

"It wasn't?" Chleo tilted her head to see his handsome face with a confused look.

"It started when a blue king found his true love right after when he decided to give up. Alas, his true love's heart already belongs to another man."

Then... he must be talking about another blue king, right, considering the current blue king's true love was her.

"Then? What happened to that blue king?"

Max smiled sadly at her and started to continue…

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The blue king who rules all the oceans in this world found his true love when he was ninety-nine years old. But his love did not go smoothly because the woman fell in love with another young man. This guy was none other than someone who held a grudge against the woman's father.

Therefore, the blue king took an alternative by forcing the woman to marry him by threatening the life of the girl's family. He even convinced himself that he did it because he wanted to protect the girl from the man's wicked plans.

But the truth was, the blue king didn't want to lose the woman. He didn't want to hand her over to another man. He knew he was selfish, and his way of snatching a woman was wrong. But he couldn't help it and used that lame excuse to have her. 

It didn't matter if the girl hated him because he believed he could get in her closed heart and love could grow with time.

But what happened was not as beautiful as he had hoped. The girl hated him even more and never smiled.

When he found out the girl he loved was suffering with him, the blue king made a tough decision. He decided to let her go.

He decided to let the girl return to her family and live with the one she loved.

To ensure his wife's happiness, he persuaded the man who had a grudge against the girl's family. He revealed all the truth about his father's murderer. Fortunately, the young man was willing to listen, and as he hoped, the man also sincerely loved the woman from the start.

But who would have thought the grudge man was still adamant in carrying out his revenge plan. The grudge he had harbored for a dozen years was far greater than his affection for the woman.

The blue king didn't know it at all. He was too melancholy and failed to see the young man's rotten plans against his beloved woman's family.

When he found out, it was too late. He found the young man poisoned to death in his apartment... along with the woman he loved.

The young man was dead, but the woman was not. She was still alive, out of breath. The blue king just found out that the woman put poison in her mouth to protect her family. As soon as she kissed the evil man, the girl took a bite of the poison pill and put a large portion into her lover's mouth.

The young man died on the spot from the dose of poison he swallowed. While the woman only ate a small part of the poison. Even if only a little, the toxin killed her slowly.

"Stupid girl. Why did you do it? Why did you sacrifice yourself?" said the blue king with tears in his eyes. His tears instantly became ice as soon as they dropped from his pale white skin.

"I'm sorry. I've hurt your heart." said the woman weakly as she raised her hand to the blue king's cheek to wipe away his tears.

The blue king shook his head, showing that he didn't blame her at all. He embraced the woman and quickly took her away to his astral world. He hoped the poison would stop flowing because time was not running in his astral plane.

Just like other rulers of nature, the blue king could also heal wounds. But no rulers had the ability to extract poison inside humans.

The blue king hoped that he could at least stop the circulation of the poison while he looked for a way to get the poison out. Unfortunately, the woman did not stop coughing up blood. The blue king hugged her tightly while continuing to call out the girl's name sadly.

"Looks like I won't last long." stated the woman between coughs. "Do you forgive me? I want to hear that you have forgiven me before I die."

"I forgive you. No. I never blamed you."

"You're stupid. Why don't you ever blame me?" then she coughed for a while. It was clear that she was trying to endure the pain. "Thank you for loving me. In exchange, I will answer the question you have always wanted to ask."

Question? Which question? Too many questions had piled up in his brain. Like if she ever opened her heart even for a second? Or did she ever feel flutters when she was with him? Or had she ever thought about his feelings for once?

But… it seemed that there was only one answer he was dying to know.

"If… if I were the one who met you first, would you fall in love with me?"

The woman smiled weakly.

"I don't know. I never met you first, but it was him. Cough... cough..." the dying woman tried hard not to vomit blood that was already inside her throat. "However... I..."

The blue king could never hear the continuation as the woman; his beloved wife was taking her last breath. His body didn't move as he noticed the gleam of her eyes had lost their lives, making the blue king cry with a roar.

The white eagle also mourned in grief and hopelessness. He could not fly at all and just perched limply on a tree branch.

The sky in his astral world darkened, and gloomy, dark clouds began to appear. Not long after, it rained very hard. Not only in his astral world, his home, which had a small portion of his life energy, also received a downpour of sorrow.

That day was the most backbreaking, the day when the heart of a blue king died following the departure of the girl who had filled his heart.

The day the blue king didn't want to move on with his life. The day.... he wished he wasn't born as a blue king in this world.