How to Get My Husband on My Side

Chapter 1

 

“I’ve finally found a worthy groom for you, darling,” announced Father, as he wiped off his lips with a napkin.

 

Laying on the knees of my oldest brother Cesare, I felt the urge to run back to my bedroom and throw up all the food I’d just eaten.

 

My second brother Enzo, who had been busily chowing down on an awfully smelly quenelle, slammed his fork down and cried out in protest.

 

“Not again! Father, how many times has it been already?”

 

“Enzo.”

 

“It hasn’t even been three months since her last engagement was called off! Regardless of what our family would gain from this marriage, shouldn’t you at least try to consider her feelings?”

 

“What a surprise to see you side with your little sister. Then would you rather battle the barbarians yourself instead of accepting Britannia’s support?”

 

“What are you talking about? Those savage barbarians up north wouldn’t stand a chance against the likes of me, the greatest, most noble soldier to ha—”

 

“Shut your trap, boy.”

 

The great noble soldier took the rest of the quenelle on his plate and shoved it into his mouth, aggressively chewing in protest.

 

The marriage proposal wasn’t any surprise to me though. I knew that it would come sooner or later.

 

“Who is it, Father?”, I asked cheerfully.

 

My father, who had been staring disapprovingly at Enzo, looked back my way and smiled.

 

“He’s Britannia’s hero. The king’s beloved nephew and famous knight of the South. He’s very handsome, I’m sure you’ll like him.”

 

“What! Father, do you know how bad his reputation is?!”

 

“Boy, was I talking to you?”

 

Enzo became quiet again.

 

handsome knight would one day massacre their entire family.

 

“Ruby?”

 

head, called for me again. This time his long fingers groped the back of my head. I shuddered in revulsion. It felt like a

 

eyes, I shifted my gaze to Enzo

 

at least be of some service to

 

lips into a rare gentle smile and pressed them

 

as always, our sweet little angel,”

 

really wanted

 

more pressing matters to attend to than throwing up. After all, the handsome knight of the South was out to kill me

 

***

 

I’d known that I would be reincarnated as a lady in the Renaissance Era, and as a character in a novel that I’d read long

 

I was going to be reincarnated as a character in this novel, couldn’t I have at least been born into a decent

 

“Ugh!”

 

I’d gotten good enough at throwing up silently that I didn’t need to worry about being caught by the maids, but, nevertheless, it

 

my old and new life was anorexia, or as people call it nowadays, an eating disorder. Before I became Rudbeckia de Borgia—I mean before

 

very young age, I knew nothing about the so-called ‘Korean Peninsula’ where I was born. Like my adoptive siblings, I attended a prestigious private school in Madrid and lived a life full of ballet classes, tennis club, horseback riding, and charity

 

when a boy in my class laughed at me while pulling back his eyes. At first I didn’t understand what it meant, so I just laughed along with

 

time I grew numb to the racism that I faced at school, but as for my life at home, despite the sophisticated, welcoming facade of my adoptive family, there was always an unspoken rule that I was to be treated differently, that I was

 

for his promiscuous private life and drug addiction. The only one in my adoptive family who would sometimes treat me nicely was my

 

I ever brought the smallest bit of shame

 

when I looked in the mirror, instead of seeing my face, there was a beautiful

 

that I’d become Rudbeckia de Borgia, a character in the fantasy novel Sodom and the

 

a story about the

 

the title referred to the people of the northern Romagna region of Italy, and ‘Holy Grail’ was a metaphor for the holy site of the Vatican City. And as for lucky me, I was reincarnated as Rudbeckia—the pope’s

 

was destined to die, and to die no less than at the hands of my

 

on marrying off Rudbeckia, and after three unsuccessful

 

lose his mind and decide to murder his wife’s

 

Rudbeckia, who’d poisoned his little sister. Cesare had

 

killing his little sister, it seems like Izek just got fed up with his backstabbing b*tch of a wife and ended up killing

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