Years has passed, but the memory of seeing Klydeur in the flesh is still fresh. And wow, that's a rhyme.

As I walked down the stairs, I headed towards the garden, seeing the maids seated on the bench with a tray of cookies. But as soon as they saw me, I quickly approached them.

"Nanny!" I smiled at them, and the look in their faces is priceless. Half dying from my cuteness, half wishing to be in thesame age as mine. "Can Clydeur have some cookies too?"

The first maid, Mia, cooed at me as she reached out to pinch my cheek. "Our handsome prince, you want some of the cookies?"

I nodded with a smile. "Yup! Clydeur loves cookies, just as much as I love Mia!"

Mia cooed and almost melted, before handing me a cookie. But before I can have it, the maid beside her stopped her. "You can't give him too much sweets. You just gave him chocolates earlier."

"But Ria!" Mia pouted at her sister, Ria. "His highness wishes for it."

"But remember what Jamie said, too much sweet is dangerous." Ria countered.

I just boredly stared at them, but then I held Ria's hand, which made her startled. "Nanny, can I have a cookie please?"

Ria gulped. "Apologies, his highness, but I'm not allowed to."

I pouted. "Pleaaaase?"

And just like that, Ria and Mia enjoyed feeding me cookies before wiping my mouth. "Is it delicious, your highness?"

"Yup! Thank you nanny!" I leaned to give both of them a kiss on the cheeks. When I backed away, I saw their faces red like a tomato.

The perks of being cute and handsome as a 5 year old kid.

Time indeed flows like a rushing water. As I predicted, being the cute and charming prince will help me win over the maids. They still like Klydeur since he's like an innocent angel but I'm a different one.

We still meet each others, and he really is happy when I'm around. Sometimes, he'd beg for me to stay with him in his room. Since the maids are there, I acted like a good brother and accepted his request.

And so, I learned, not only my existence did the Empress neglected, but also him.

If she's going to ignore us for the rest of her life, why did she even bother giving birth to the both of us? And speaking of that, where is our father? It can't be the Emperor, I just know it's not him.

As far as my memories here goes, our father is from a noble family. Other than that, I had no other clue where he is but I'm certain that he's long gone. And by the way, his hair color is white. That explains Klydeur's hair color.

"Hyung!" Oh, speaking of the little devil. Turning my head around, I saw him running over to me. His mere presence makes me have a bad day, especially that we wear almost thesame clothes all day, sometimes it differs in color.

Jamie once said that we looked cute that way, and so it ended that way.

"What is it, Klydeur?" I asked, forcing a smile while patting his head. I thought twins should be thesame, but I guess we differ in our height which made me become taller even just an inch.

"Klyde wants to play with Clydeur hyung!" He pouted. "But it seems Clydeur hyung doesn't want to since he's busy."

Ho? I didn't even say anything yet, rascal.

The maids behind us looked towards our direction. "Oh my, Clydeur broke the prince's heart."

"Yeah, he's so cold to not even play with his own brother." Another maid agreed.

"Hey, don't say that." Mia decided to butt in. "His highness still haven't answered. And what's with you calling his highness just by his name?"

"Don't you know that it is included in the law to give respect to them?" Ria retorted. "Save your favoritism for some other day."

"Look whose talking." The other maid countered, before they walked off. Mia and Ria ran towards our direction with a worried look.

"Are both his highness okay?"

Klydeur and I nodded. Why wouldn't we be? Or more like him? I'm the one whose getting badmouthed here, but atleast my nannies are always to the rescue.

"Klydeur here wants to play with me but," looking up at him whose giving me a pleading eyes, I sighed. "Only for an hour, okay?"

"Yey! Thank you Clydeur hyung!"

And there begone.

I spent my precious hour playing with him. It wasn't that bad since I also enjoyed his company. When my time is over, he asked for me to tuck him to bed, and I almost scoffed at him.

What is he, a baby?

But either way, I did as what I was told. Tucking him to bed and waited for him to be asleep before leaving his room.

So, where am I heading again? Obviously, I'm going out for an adventure again. "Your highness!" I flinched as I saw Jamie running over to me. "Your highness!"

"Is something wrong?" I asked, confusion dawned on me as she looks like she was about to say something.

"N-nothing, your highness," Jamie forced a smile. "Does his highness want to go to sleep too?"

I figured out that she's hiding something, but chose not to tell me. Fine, I'll learn about it later. I smiled at her and nodded. She returned the smile as she held my hand and walked towards my room.

"Have a nice sleep, your highness." Jamie said as she kissed my forehead and took her leave. I counted twenty seconds in my mind and after that, I got up from bed and sneaked out of my room.

I silently walked downstairs, and there I saw the maids heading towards my direction. Panicked, I went up back again before hiding behind a huge vase.

"Did you know about the news?" One of the maids whom I don't know the name asked.

"What is it?"

"The Empress massacred the royal family of the Caner!"

Wait, what..?

"It's because they were also planning on killing the Empress and her children." The other maid sighed. "The life of the twins must be so hard, but I never knew the Empress is still concerned."

Maybe concerned for herself only.

"Anyhow, I heard she left her palace and transferred to a nearby palace." The maid told her.

The other maid gasped. "The palace near he-"

"Ssh! Someone might hear you!"

"Apologies!"

And the rest of their conversation fell into deaf ears as they are already walking too far from my hiding spot, but I'm quite confused.

Is that even true?