I stood there on my balcony in agony. I heard some maids gasping, screaming and others snickering. They covered the mouths with their hands pretending to be shocked. But I’m almost 100% sure they are hiding their amused smiles. I’m done with everything. I can’t do this anymore. Not only does my husband ignore me, the maids disrespect me. My needs aren’t fulfilled and my belongings are either left uncleaned, stolen or broken by my maids. I have a responsibility to attend tea parties and balls as the Duke’s wife. But I stopped going due to the harassment I had been receiving after they realized I was ignored by the Duke.

I recall all my bad memories of parties and balls…

“Oops! Sorry, Duchess! I accidentally spilled my tea on you. Oh wait, you’re not even a duchess.” A noblewoman said to me arrogantly. Everyone around me snickered at my humiliation. I stood there silent for a minute, speechless. Then I ran out of the room and escaped the tea party. Rumours started circulating the nobles fraction and even the maids starting whispering about me. The rumours caused me lots of suffering.

Not only did my husband glare at me, I got slapped by my father.

“You useless, stupid daughter! You should have never married the duke! Your sister should have married him!! You know what? You should have never been born in the first place!!!” I left my family’s mansion quickly. I desperately tried to hide my swollen face but the knight accompanying me saw.

I’m not loved. I want to end this now. This suffering! What did I ever do to deserve this?! Maybe… I should just jump off. Nobody will care if I died. I’ll just end all this suffering right now. I slowly stepped onto the balcony railing. At this point, I hear maids screaming at the top of their lungs and footsteps rushing through the hallway. Honestly, they probably thought I was pretending to kill myself to get attention from the Duke.

“Miss!” I heard a maid scream. I closed my eyes and slowly leaned back. I felt myself falling. There were screams of terror. And a loud deep voice desperately yelling my name.

“Amelia!”

Then I woke up in a strange room. My vision was blurry and it took me a minute to realize what was going on. I sat up immediately when I realized I wasn’t dead. I looked at my surroundings carefully. It was a small and plain room that was a mess and rundown. Huh?!?!? Didn’t I die? Why am I alive?! She ran into the bathroom and looked at her reflection. Who.. is this?! Suddenly I had an extremely painful headache. W-what is this?! These are… this body’s memories?! I slowly stood back up and peered at her reflection. I tried to accept the fact that I was reborn into a new body in another world. To reassure myself, I told myself confidently, “From today onwards, I am Seon Yeon who lives in college!”

    Referring to this body’s memories, the previous Seon Yeon lives in poverty. Her apartment is old and rundown. She ran away from home because she did not want to become a doctor. I checked her bank account and there were 50,000 won saved up. And she is transferring to a new college to learn about marketing and finance. This is good, with 10,000 won saved up I can live here for a while until I can afford a better apartment. I’m 20, with no work experience… I’ll need to get a job that requires no work experience. Thankfully, there was a library nearby and she could go there to use the internet.

    I arrived at the library. It’s not that big compared to my last life’s house but it’s a lot bigger than where I live now. I walked in and sat down at a computer. I wrote down a list of stores that were hiring that required no work experience. There were only two stores that paid a decent amount and was nearby. A cafe that was two blocks from my college and a small convenience store that was three blocks away from my house.

    After doing that, I surfed the internet. And I discovered that I could earn a small amount of money if I help people do small tasks. “This is convenient!” I thought to myself. I decided to come to the library every day and do small freelance tasks to earn more money. This is great! I can get out of that dump quicker than I thought. I skipped home happily.

    I hummed a melody that my grandmother used to sing to me as I cleaned my apartment. After an hour, I finished. It looked a lot nicer than before. It was already pretty late when I was done. And I did not eat dinner yet. So I jogged to the convenience store that was three blocks away and brought some instant noodles. “Let’s see….” I brought five. “I’ll eat one each day to save money! I won’t need to buy food for five days.” I walked home thinking of my time schedule. If I get both jobs, I can get out of that dump even faster.

    I will have school from 6 in the morning to 9 in the morning. I will grab an apple from the cafeteria and head out to the cafe. The apples at my school cafeteria are free! Then I can do a 3-hour shift and return to school until 4 PM. After that, I will go to the library to do my work or my freelancer jobs until 6 PM. Then at 6:30 PM, I will begin my night shift at the convenience store. Then I will return home at 11 PM. Eat, study, shower, sleep and then repeat this.

    “This is a great idea!” I thought to myself. I undress and walked into my bathroom. I was about to take a shower and I heard my phone vibrate and ring in my bedroom.

*RING RING*