Prologue

It's already 9 o'clock, it's a good time for her son to sleep now.

"Alright, my knight, it's time for you to sleep." The mother said while gently stroking her son's hair.

Her son pouted as he moved his hands to tidy up his toys back into the toy box in his room. Her husband could laugh seeing his son still wanting to play with his new toy. After the child finished cleaning up, her husband took their child and carried him in his arms.

"Don't make that face..you want to be as tall as your father, right? Sleep is one of the causes.. well, sleep tight." Her husband said as he walked towards their child's bed.

Slowly, he put his child's body on that soft bed.

"But I can't sleep. Tell me a bedtime story. The story about the princess and the warrior." said her son while pulling his father's finger.

The mother just chuckled before coming and taking the book on the drawer next to her child. The husband and wife were sitting on their child's bed. His wife knows how much their child loves this book.

His wife opened the fairy tale book and cleared her throat first, "Once upon a time.. There was a beautiful princess like snow. Her skin is white and rosy like snow while her hair is very soft and white. All the princes want her. But her heart chooses someone...

... And the man is a respected royal knight in his country. Every day they meet at the flower garden. Slowly, the man also fell in love with the beautiful princess. Finally, the knight proposed to the princess. Although the princess agreed to his proposal, her father did not. Instead, the proposal also aroused anger in his father.

... The princess cries in her room, thinking of the knight every night. The knight was sent by his father on a military mission. Whether he liked it or not, the knight had to leave his country to fight for his homeland. The princess always prays to God every night, "oh God, save my beloved. Protect him every day."..

... But the man's fate had already spoken differently. He fell and died as he fought for his country." Suddenly, her child interrupted her mother's words.

"I still don't like that the knight dead."

Her mother chuckled softly before continuing the story, "the princess received that news from her servant."

"... The princess is crying again in her room, asking God, "oh God, why did you take him? I don't want to be left alone again." Because of disappointment and her love for the knight was too deep, she drank poison and died..." And now her husband is bothering.

"Why is the story so..deep? Is this suitable to be read to young children?" Her husband held the book cover, looking at its front.

"Listen to the story first, dear." said his wife. Her husband nodded and listened back to the fairy tale.

"And the news of the princess's death spread. Her father also fell into darkness, crying over the death of his daughter and realizing that his actions had brought about her death.

... The princess wakes up and sees the person she loves in front of her now. The knight is sad but he is not angry with the princess. He asked, "why are you here?" The princess giggled softly before hugging him, "because I love you." The answer really brings sadness to the knight's heart.

... And they are given the chance to live again. "Do you want to live together in another world or stay here?" Ask the angel. They both decided to be together in another world.

... The angel fulfills their hopes. They are brought to life in a different world. They meet again in another world and they are together forever."

"Happy ever after."

Her husband kept asking where his wife bought this fairy tale story book. How can this book be inside his child room. Their little boy clapped his hands joyfully.

"This story is actually not suitable for children." Her husband's said. And actually, his wife also nodded.

"After reading it several times, I also thought that this story is quite deep."

"And why my dear here still read it again to our child?"

"Because our son likes it."

The fairy tale sounds boring as well, actually.

" Mother, do you think I can also become a knight for someone?" The boy's question brought a smile to the couple.

"If your father can do it, of course you can do the same thing too." It made her husband feel ashamed and his face turned red.

His wife laughed as she looked at her husband before turning back to their child, "Alright, time to sleep." She pulled the blanket and covered her son.

She gently patted her child's body while singing something. In the end, the child fell asleep. The husband and wife slowly got up from their child's bed and left the child's room. Before they closed the door, they both said, "good night, sweet dreams, our knight."