Yourself

You have chose to be yourself. Very well then, in three...two...one!

Everything goes black

It was your dream to become a renowned baker, even intent in opening your own bakery someday, so to this day, you had been working as an apprentice at a local bakery in town, the town itself a few miles away from Shu's castle.

Also working there occasionally was Fang Mei, whose father ran said bakery. She was also your co-worker and acquaintance, though you found her loud attitude to be annoying at first.

Of course, there was only one thing she'd often bring up in conversations, and that was her future in marrying Guan Ping, whom she claimed was her fiancee and future husband, and that she often fawned over him. But to her surprise, you actually had met Ping before, even before he first met Mei.

With your father being a family friend of the Guan family, you would often visit Guan Yu and his children, and you even got to know Ping more often than Mei ever did, until she herself starting serving under Shu's banner.

One day, after finishing work for the day, you pondered over what to do tonight, and clearly, the one thing that was on your mind was to tell Ping about how much you felt about him. Problem was, if Mei found out about it, she would be very upset, so you had to keep it a secret from her.

Arriving at the castle grounds, you told the guards you were visiting Ping, and when you got to his bedroom, you knocked on the door.

"Hello?" he asked.

"It's me, John." you replied.

He opened the door and smiled at you as he said, "It's good to see you again. What brings you here at a time like this?"

"Well, I had been thinking about this for quite some time and...I think I might be falling for you." you replied.

"You're...You're in love with me? To tell you the truth, I had been thinking about it, too. Even though I care about Mei, I feel as though my heart belongs to someone else and not hers. You'd been an amazing friend over the years, and I want to take that next step." he said.

You smiled before wrapping your arms around him, embracing as you lean in to kiss him sweetly. He returned the kiss, and brought you to the bed, coming to the conclusion that one of you was clearly overdressed.