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Chaegyung, an ordinary girl goes to school one day to find out that the Prince of Korea and some other hot-headed students had transferred to her school. While she is into Design, the Prince, Lee Shin, is into photography and theatre. Chaegyung is on her way to empty a pail of dirty paint water when she accidentally bumps into Shin and then notices that she had spilled the dirty water onto his WHITE and clean shoes! She bends down to clean them or at least tries but Shin demands that she stops. He then takes them off and kicks them and tells her to throw them out. Our heroine then dreams of comfronting the Prince then imagines being kissed by the Prince, only to be awaken by reality and realising that the Prince of Korea is a total JERK. Her friends, who are absolutely obsessed with the Prince, come and start fighting over the shoes and while they’re bickering, Chaegyung grabs them and leaves. She finds out from her parents one day that she was betrothed from an early age to the cold-hearted Prince of Korea. She is absolutely against it, but because her family is in so much debt, she decides that if she marries the Prince she will be able to help out her family with their debts. So willingly she agrees with the marriage.

However, Shin proposes to his friend and secret Girlfriend, Min Hyorin in hopes that she’ll say yes and he won’t have to marry Chaegyung who he thinks is not up to his level and will never be. He had rather marry Hyorin who comes from a rich family and is of his “level”. To his surprise, Hyorin turns him down, stating that she didn’t want to live like a doll behind the Palace walls and not be able to do anything, and that she didn’t want to give up her dream of becoming a world-reknown Ballet Dancer. With Hyorin’s answer, Shin gives in and agrees to marry the girl who had overheard him, while eavesdropping, proposing to Hyorin, our Heroine Shin Chaegyung.

While Shin and Chaegyung are both dreading their upcoming marriage, Shin’s cousin Yul returns to Korea from England where he lived with his mother for the past 14 years. You see, Yul was originally suppose to be the Crown Prince of Korea, but because his father died while he held the title of Crown Prince, Shin’s father became the next in line and when Shin and Yul’s Grandfather died, Shin’s father became King and the title of “Crown Prince” then became Shin’s. After the death of Yul’s father, it is a law that the wife and children of the former Crown Prince leave the Palace grounds, hence Yul’s mom taking him to England. (Did that make sense?)

Shin and Chaegyung attend the same school along with all their friends and even Min Hyorin. Yul also joins them and this is where the story starts.

Before the Royal Wedding, Chaegyung moves into the Palace in order to learn etiquette and some Royal History. She has a hard time adapting and misses home terribly. Shin and Yul are in Shin’s quarters when Shin decides that they should go visit, but Yul declines and says that it would be better if Shin goes alone since Chaegyung is HIS (Shin’s) future wife. Yul notes to Shin that women like candy and chocolates, and noting Yul’s hints, Shin’s brings goodies to Chaegyung who is doodling pictures of her friends and on Shin’s shoes., the ones he had previously told her to throw out. He hands them to her and tells her they were from Yul but in fact he had bought them himself.

The day of the Royal Wedding approaches and all of Korea are watching whether in be on the streets or on tv, but also many others around the world.

As the wedding is taking place with all the different ceremonies, Yul watches on and for a moment he knew it could’ve been him in Shin’s position, it all could’ve been his.

The Royal Couple’s first night isn’t at all like the traditional first night where the husband and wife sleep together, but because Shin and Chaegyung are still in highschool and are young (they’re both 19 years old), the elders thought that they’d delay the “first night” till later so they end their night with some food, wine, and a little bickering and biting! Lol! While the Sanggoongs (Palace maids and servants) are falling asleep out side the room, Shin and Chaegyung have a few words with each other. Chaegyung asks that Shin help her to adapt to the Palace as she isn’t use to the surroundings and all, and while our poor Princess is asking for help, the Babo-Shin tells her that he isn’t the type to do that, but the best he can do is listen to her if she needs to talk and so forth. He then kneels and extends his out to her and Chaegyung takes it and bites him and tells him that she wasn’t asking for a friend and tells him how conceited he is in thinking that she wanted his friendship. She then lets go and Shin is angry and raises his hand but the Sanggoongs gain up and hold him back while our lovely Chaegyung is mocking her husband by covering her ears and saying that she can’t hear him. Shin is dragged away while Chaegyung is left alone in the room...on her wedding night, lonely and sad.

Chaegyung is taken to her quarters of the Palace and is introduced to life as a Princess. Her and Shin go for their early greetings to the elders and Shin then brings up the promise his mom had made him, that if he were to marry Chaegyung, he and his wife would then be allowed to move away from the main palace. This surprises the Great Queen, Shin’s Grandmother, and both his parents. He voices himself and then demands that his wife get up so they could leave, and without a word, he drags Chaegyung out of the room and they leave. They return to their Palace and Shin asks her what she thought of his acting? He then tells her that it is a part of his rebellion, lol! They get interrupted when the Eunich Ajusshi comes to introduce to our Bingungmama her new bodyguards. Chaegyung also learns of all of her assets that she’s acquired as the new Bingungmama, and learns that she’s now...rich!!!

Shin and Chaegyung return to school to find a whole crowd of fellow students snapping pictures of the two with their camera phones, hehe. Her classmates ignore her on purpose only to surprise her later with a little congratulatory party on her marriage to the Prince.

While Shin and Chaegyung are in school, Hyorin leaves to Thailand to compete in a ballet competition where she is given a scholarship to study abroad, but while sitting and chatting with the sponsers, on tv is a news broadcast of the Royal Wedding in Korea. She sees Shin and then Chaegyung and is filled with anger and bitterness and runs off to cry in her room. She then returns only to turn down the offer of studying abroad like she wanted to do in the first place and returns to Korea looking to fight and win Shin back...after she had turned him down.

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Episode 11:

Summary for Episode 6 by beautifulxmess:

At the palace Shin is doing customary food testing for his father. Chaegyung then arrives and is curious at what is he doing. When she finds out, she wonders if they’re worried that there’s poison in the food, hence the food testing, leaving shin scoffing at her ignorance.

Chaegyung then wanders outside to the patio and surprises Yul whom is already quietly seating there. Shin who happens to be walking by glances out of the glass doors to see Chaegyung and Yul happily conversing with each other, jealousy written all over his face. Yul and Chaegyung then go outside where Yul gives CG some pointers for her recital later in the evening, enjoying each other’s comfort.

When she comes back inside she is rebuked by Shin for not having propriety. He is still jealous over seeing CG and Yul together and starts irrationally belittling her ability to study. This angers CG, claiming that Shin is trying to make her look bad during the party by inviting Hyo Rin and ignoring her. She asks him why didn’t he marry her if he had the chance. He pulls up close to her face and is able to yell at her but refrains himself. He then cuts it off by saying they must attend the white lilies tea ceremony.

At the tea ceremony they all start to recite poetry. When it is Chaegyung’s turn she basically recycles the line saying ‘The scents of gardens fill the whole air” in every possible way that she could. This amuses the adults as the Great Queen and King starts laughing. Shin is anything but amused and looks at her in a shock manner. The Queen however is not pleased and orders that rapid progress needs to take place on the princess’s part.

At school, Chaegyung and Yul have more bonding sessions where Chaegyung and friends teaches Yul some Korean slang at the cafetia.

Later on at the palace, Shin and the royal stewards tries teaching Chaegyung ‘Gyuk Pa’, the Korean version of golf that was derived during the old imperial days as a popular leisure activity for the royals. Shin demonstrates his impeccable golf skills. He then exasperatedly teaches CG the proper way of standing and hitting the ball . The adults peer down from overhead and the Great Queen is overjoyed at seeing their interaction. When it’s Chaegyung’s turn, Shin smirks. However, to everyone’s disbelief, she actually hits it into the pit (accidentally that is). Yul later joins them because Shin had promised to teach him how to play ‘hitting the ball from the horse’ and Shin being a jerk, goes off to play leaving Chaegyung there by herself.

Over at the Horse Riding Club, Shin’s friends and Hyorin are riding horses. Hyorin is depressed over the fact Shin had promised to come along but did a no-show and suggests they go back. Kang In agrees and consoles her saying he’ll organize a club meeting later.

Now that Shin and Yul are together alone, Shin takes this opportunity and tells Yul to be more careful next time addressing Chaegyung especially in front of the adults as it’d arouse misunderstanding. Yul smiles and answers, “I got it. I’ll pay more attention.” The two cousins then go off and resume their game once more.

It is time for Shin and Chaegyung to attend their first public function together, the opening of a gallery exhibition. Being the first time under scrutiny by public, Chaegyung is extremely clumsy and makes mistakes here and there such as dropping her purse and overeagerly posing for the cameras with her signature peace sign, much to Shin’s chagrin. He mutters under his breath for her to ‘stop it, it’s lame’ in which she replies, smiling to the cameras, ‘no way’. Shin also wearing a false smile for the cameras pats on her back with great force as revenge for her insolence. Suddenly, out of nowhere, someone aims eggs right at Shin. This sets the paparazzi on fire. Chaegyung is horrified and tries to block the eggs and cover for Shin as the bodyguards quickly usher them out of the place.

Back at the palace, the king is furious as the flimsy security and the unfolding of such an embarrassing event. The Queen and Great Queen is also alarmed as to why someone would egg the Prince.

Scene switches to Yul’s mother and her friend whom is head of a news reporting team. They are conspiring and it turns out that the ‘egging scene’ was instigated by them in order to fuel the media and public’s attention over the Prince. Yul’s mother is determined to overthrow his position.

Back at Chaegyung’s quarters, she is sitting on the bench outside the deck talking to Yul. She confides her distress over why anyone would egg the Prince and how he must be feeling. She decides, she must go and see Shin and see how he is faring. Yul dissuades her, saying that given Shin’s condition now, he does not want anyone to pity him and more or less, would rather see HyoRin than Chaegyung. “You better not go.” Yul says. Chaegyung reasons, “But I can’t forget the expression on his face when he got hit by the egg” As Chaegyung is confiding about Shin, she feels a strange feeling lingering inside her. But when she tries to decipher it, Yul abruptly grabs her hand. “You feel lonely right” Yul asks. Chaegyung feleing uncomfortable, slowly pulls her hand away. Shin whom emerges out of his room wanders into Chaegyung’s quarters to seek her out…only to find that she is again, with Yul, chatting. He stares at them, turns around and walks away bitterly. Meanwhile, Chaegyung can’t stand it any longer. She stands up and tells Yul resolutely and that even if Shin rejects her and rather see Hyorin, it is her duty to see his condition.

As she walks out, Shin asks from behind where she is going. She quickly swipes her tears as he enters. Chae asks whether he is alright and he admits although the incident was shocking, he is okay. He also adds that at a time like this, he looked forward to her cheering up but instead, found her enjoying his cousins’s company instead. He says “Nevermind.”, waves dismissively and walks off. Chaegyung, without thought, runs after him and hugs him from the back, apologizing with tears in her eyes. Shin at first doesn’t react but gathers himself and slowly pulls himself out of her hug. It is an awkward moment for them as they realize what had just happened. So Shin lightens the situation but teasing her, which typically gets her worked up and angry again. The bickering resumes.

Shin later leaves Chaegyung alone to go to the Horse Riding club and meet his mates. There, his friends openly make fun of the ‘Princess’ again in which he defends her. Hyorin looks at him strangely. Later at the stables, they have a private talk where Hyorin states that she does not accept Chaegyung being with Shin simply because she is inadequate. Shin says nothing.

Hyorin and Yul’s mom later meets up for a yoga session, getting to know each other more. Yul’s mom knows of Hyorin’s relationship with Shin and decides to use her as a pawn in her game of uprooting Shin’s future king status.

At the palace, Chaegyung gets ready for a party function later on in the evening. She dresses up in her beautiful garments and admires it from a hand mirror. Shin steps into the room and is stunned at the transformation. Chaegyung looks across and they both make eyecontact to which Shin realize he is gawking at her and averts his gaze.

At the party, Yul and his mom suddenly makes an unexpected entrance. This attracts all of the media, taking pictures as they step into the room. The Royal family is shocked at the reappearance of Yul’s mother and while the Great Queen is thrilled, the Queen is far from it, eyeing at her suspiciously. During the party, Yul’s mother slides side glances to the uncomfortable king.

It is time to dance. After a couple finished, Shin steps into the center of the dancefloor to declare his dance. He walks over to Chae and offers his hand. Chae, flustered, refuses but after Shin grits his teeth and hisses threateningly, “Get Up”, she has no choice but to do so. Lights dim, the fast tango music begins. Chae is doing horrendously bad, trying to keep up with her husband’s moves. He spins her out and it’s her time to strut her stuff. Not knowing what to do, she spontaneously claps her hands and twirls around Shin in a hilarious manner. In the end, they manage to end the dance in a graceful manner with Shin pulling Chae into a dip. Once they stand up, the room erupts into applauses and Chaegyung is overwhelmed. Shin looks over to her and cracks a grin. Yul who is amongst the crowd watching glares at them bitterly.

Outside, there is a beautiful display of fireworks. Fascinated, Chaegyung pushes her way through the crowd to get a better view and finds herself next to the King. Suddenly, she looks down and realizes she had lost a shoe!! At that very moment, tones are hushed as the Prince emerges, walks up and picks up the fallen shoe and carefully wears it back on for her, Cinderella-styled. Shin looks up to Chaegyung’s disbelieving face as the crowd around them applauds and cheers.
 

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