Truth be told, there was nothing that could have prepared me for the way that my father reacted to Dae. It was almost like he knew that the only reason why Dae was stalling, was in order to upset him. But even so, there was no point in him getting upset and he knew it.
I couldn’t deny the fact that I felt rather empowered, being here in the Southern Kingdom. Especially when it came to arguing with my father, since he no longer had the authority that he had in the Northern Kingdom. It made it easier to challenge him, because he didn’t have as much entitlement as he had in his own Kingdom.
Dae wasn’t that way—it was something that I came to realise now, especially after seeing the way that my father changed his behaviour after coming here. I couldn’t deny the fact that Dae’s behaviour an
