Getting close to that painful scene.

SPOILER:

So the ML runaway from the CP after his evil step sis said that the things that happened to the general would not happened or how the CP life would be better without him. It made the ML sad and his evil step sis helped him escape the palace. He went to visit the general first. The ML blame himself and told the general that it is his fault that the general is in prison and that he is sorry for everything. The general at the time had already accepted his fate that he would die and he simply wish to see the ML one last time and was truly happy when he finally came but he felt like something was off with the ML. The ML then walked away and left the dagger behind which the general then took to escape and follow the ML.

The next chapter then follows on about how the ML was hiding in a chest, in a carriage that is currently on its way to the mountains where it was said to be really dangerous due to the many cliffs and dangerous people/animals hanging around.

Now then at this time the CP had decided to asked about the whereabouts of the ML as he doesn't see the ML kneeling in front of his palace chambers anymore, the servant then told the CP that the ML went to prison to meet the general. The CP thought that the ML had decided to killed the general and the CP asked his servant how long the ML had stayed there? The servant then told the CP that the ML was in there for about said 30 minutes and that he had had came out of the prison without the dagger. After the servant said that the CP was now getting kinds suspicious and he asked the servants to look for the ML and behold the servants came back and told the CP that the ML and the General where both missing. So after the CP found this out he naturally assumed that the CP and the general had eloped which if coursenangered the him so much to the point that he personally decided to go and look for the both of them.

Now ML finally reaches the mountains and there were bandits and the bandits suggested that they shoud have there way with the ML before killing him, but before that happens the general shows up and saves him. Though this time they were surrounded by enemies and they where running towards down the mountain. The ML feeling defeated and feeling like he was a burden told the general just leave him behind and save himself as he is not worthy. The general of course didn't listen to him and decided to tie the ML hands on to a horse and told the ML that he'll came after him once he is done, the ML was crying and begging the general not to do this but the general didn't listen and he slaps the horse causing it to ran away. The general was then left behind to fight off the bandits, then the crown prince shows up at the mountain and at that time he was so focused on the ML and was thinking to himself that if he ever finds the ML he was going to chop off the ML legs so he can't runaway anymore. Then when he finally arrived to where the general was last seen fighting the bandit and he saw all the corpses he got scared that amoung the corpses would be the ML but then he saw the general and asked the general about the where abouts of the ML. The general then tell the CP of what he done and beg the CP to look for ML.

Now in the next chapter the ML was found by a merchant that travels around everywhere for his will trading business and the ML decided to join him in the hopes that he can get as far away from the imperial palace and the CP as he can. Though the ML does miss the CP during this time he question himself a lot wondering if he had done the right thing and if the CP decided to comenlooking for him, so during all this thought process the CP back in the imperial palace had started to slowly stop eating and doesn't always sleep, He was crowned as the emperor but he himself couldn't focuse on the role that was given to him. Now during this time of pain the CP found someone that looks like ML and the CP decided to make this lookalike his drinking buddy companion, but the lookalike is ambitious and was hopping to take the place of the ML and when the CP found out he grew angry at the lookalike and decided to give him a dagger and told the lookalike to will cut his throat. The lookalike after hearing this will also runs way which now would cause major issues because will ML and his lookalike now have the same dagger. At this time the ML went back to where the Imperial palace was because he misses the CP and wants to see him again, but the palace guards thought he was the lookalike and they chase him towards a cliff and shoots an at him which then hits him. The CP then arrives after he hears what happened then they have their reunion.

The CP then starts to care of the ML and during all this he finally released just how much he loved the ML and wants him by his side and confess to the ML about his feelings and the ML accepts them and there now together like officially if you will.

Anyway that's how the novel goes.