“The father married his daughter, blind from birth, to a beggar… and what happened next shocked many people.”…-thaithao

She sat down, her legs too weak to support her. Her heart was torn between anger and love.

Why hadn’t she told him? Why had she let him believe she’d been discarded like trash? Yusha knelt beside her again. “I didn’t mean to hurt you.

I came to the village in disguise because I was tired of suitors who loved the throne but not the man. I heard about a blind girl who was rejected by her father.

I watched you from afar for weeks before proposing to you through your father, disguised as a beggar.” “I knew you would accept because you wanted to be rid of me.”

Tears streamed down Zainab’s cheeks.

The pain of her father’s rejection mingled with disbelief that someone could have come so far only to find a heart like his.

She didn’t know what to say, so she simply asked, “And now? What happens now?”

Yusha gently took her hand. “Now you’re coming with me, to my world, to the palace.”

Her heart leaped. “But I’m blind. How can I be a princess?”

He smiled. “You already are, my princess.”

That night she barely slept. Her thoughts raced: her father’s cruelty, Yusha’s love, and the terrifyingly unknown future.

In the morning, a royal carriage pulled up in front of the cabin. Guards dressed in black and gold greeted Yusha and Zainab as they stepped out.

Zainab gripped Yusha’s arm tightly as the carriage drove toward the palace.

When they arrived, the crowd was already gathered. They were surprised by the return of the lost prince, but even more surprised to see him with a blind girl.

Yusha’s mother, the Queen, stepped forward, her eyes narrowed as she watched Zainab.

But Zainab curtsied respectfully. Yusha stood by her side and declared, “This is my wife, the woman I chose, the woman who saw my soul when no one else could.”

The Queen was silent for a moment, then stepped forward and embraced Zainab.

“So she is my daughter,” she said. Zainab nearly fainted with relief. Yusha squeezed her hand and whispered, “I told you, you’re safe.”

That night, as they settled into their room in the palace, Zainab sat by the window, listening to the sounds of the royal compound.