‘What?’
Kanna stupidly blinked her eyes.
'What am I doing?’
The brain stained with blank paper worked slowly.
What the hell am I doing?
Why am I on the floor while crying, while pouring out all the tears and mucus.
‘Why?’
Why am I holding on to the man’s crotch and begging?
“Let go.”
A voice like a falling knife. Kanna raised her head in surprise. At a moment, she was met with a frim gaze.
A glacier-cold wall.
“Uh…’
Beautiful.
It was the first time Kanna saw a man who could be described as beautiful.
Delicate features like a transparent glass statue, and hair shining like a silver thread.
My eyes were dazzling as if they were soaked in light, and I frowned involuntarily.
The next moment, a cold smile formed on the man’s lips.
“It really bothers me.”
“...”
“I told you to put this down.”
Are you talking to me?
“If you don’t let go, I’ll slit your wrist, Miss Kanna.”
The tone he spoke calmly and surprisingly politely, and the content was unbelievable.
‘Kanna?’
But the man called her name correctly.
Sure. Now, that woman clinging to this dazzling beautiful man was herself.
Finally, Kanna’s hand slowly drained of strength. Only then did the man turn his back and walk away from her.
Bang!
The door is closed.
“Oh, crazy.”
Kanna, who was left alone in the room, only moved her lips after a while.
“Is this a dream? Huh?”
Why am I doing this in a palace like this?
Just a moment ago, Kanna, she was in Korea.
It was a world that Kanna had never known. She doesn't know how she ended up there or why.
Just when she opened my eyes one day, Kanna was Korean and possessed the body of a girl named ‘Lee Joo-hwa’.
At first she thought it was crazy.
Finally Kanna Addis was going crazy. She fell in love with alchemy and lived only in the lab, and finally went crazy!
If not, she thought it would be a terrible nightmare
She wasn't crazy. It wasn't even a dream.
‘Okay. I possess someone's body, and I was living as her.’
She denied it at first, but eventually had to accept it.
Kanna’s soul entered the body of ‘Lee Joo-hwa’, a girl from another world, and she didn't know how to get out.
If she doesn't intend to die like this, you have no choice but to live as her.
So she decided to become Lee Joo-hwa.
The panic came from the psychological shock, but there was nothing particularly difficult.
All memories and knowledge of Lee Joo-hwa remained intact, so there was no inconvenience in life.
That’s how Kanna lived a new life as Lee Joo-hwa for 12 years. From the age of seventeen to twenty-nine.
‘I studied hard and finally became an oriental doctor.’
After graduating early through the GED, she passed oriental medical school, obtained a doctor’s license, and recently was gaining experience as an oriental doctor.
She worked hard with the goal of opening an oriental clinic in her name one day. It was literally a life in the window!
‘Why are you doing this!’
After work, she ate chicken with her family at home. After drinking a beer, she took a shower and lay down on the bed. She was looking up at the ceiling and smiling happily.
‘I really like the life I live as Lee Joo-hwa, I am so happy. I have to live well in the future…’
And,
“Damn it.”
She woke up as Kanna Addis, who was hanging at the man’s feet.
She jumped up from my seat and went to the mirror on the wall.
The moment she saw her face in the mirror, she collapsed.
“What is this?”
Dark hair that hangs down eerily. And dark eyes hidden by shaggy bangs.
The face she tried to forget, relaxing, I would never see it again, eventually forgetting it.
Was the last time she saw this face when she was fourteen?
Compared to then, she's matured a lot, but,
‘It’s my face.’
My real face.
“This, what the hell…”
Kanna rubbed her cheek and closed her eyes. And she realized, I’m back, with my original body.
“Ah…”
The diary in Kanna’s hand trembled.
A diary written in Korean, a language that no one in this world can recognize except for Kanna.
This made it clear.
Over the past 12 years, Lee Joo-hwa and Kanna Addis have changed bodies!
“You stupid bitch!”
But Lee Joo-hwa, this goddamn jab got married with this body.
Silvienne Valentino - So, with the man I grabbed by the crotch of his pants earlier.
“It's crazy! Why is it Sylvie Valentino! That person is insane!’
What do you do if you just look good? What do you do if you are polite on the outside?
There’s no one who doesn’t know that he’s like a ticking time bomb who doesn’t know when it will explode! How dare you use what you saw in the novel against such a dangerous person. He’s proposing a contract marriage!
“I will be your wife.”
“Yes?”
“Use me.”
“What does that mean?”
“It is a contract. If you marry me, the duke will be able to escape from the hands of the imperial family. You don’t want to marry Her Highness, The 2nd Princess, do you?”
A contract marriage aimed at dating after a pre-marriage!
“Lee Joo-hwa, you ugly this! Life is real life!”
Kanna went mad and wanted to cry.
Why not? The ugly things that Lee Joo-hwa did with her body remain intact in this diary and in her head!
Joo-hwa did everything to win Sylvien’s heart.
A large cloth reading ‘I love You Duke Silvienne’ is hung on the street, and a hundred roses are sent to hum during a meeting.
Even taking off her clothes and crawling into bed, he was unwilling to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Of course, the only thing she got each time was Sylvien’s contempt.
This is the last diary entry of Lee Joo-hwa.
In the end, she started holding onto his pants crotch while crying, which she had never done before, and just at that moment.
Kanna and Lee Joo-hwa body swapped.
“Whoa. Calm down, calm down. Think.”
Kanna slammed the diary written by Lee Joo-hwa on the desk.
“Twelve years have passed. This is my real body - Kanna Addis, and this body is twenty-six years old.”
If so, Lee Joo-hwa should be back in her body by now.
Joo-hwa must have been quite embarrassed now. Burning her whole soul, she clings to Sylvien, but she must be on the verge of going to work.
‘Could Joo-hwa be able to go to work and see patients like me?’
However, seeing that she has memories of the 12 years of ‘Joo-hwa’ that she used her body, she must also have memories of ‘Kanna’.
In other words, it is said that she remembers everything she studied with the body. If so, at least there won’t be any difficulty in working as an oriental doctor,
‘For a moment. What business did I do? The oriental clinic I used to go to will work fine even if I take a break, but what about my internet shopping mall?’
Since college, I have been making natural handmade soaps, natural candles, and natural perfumes as a small hobby.
While learning herbal medicine, my interest in plants grew, so I started to try this and that.
After living like that, I happened to open a small internet shopping mall.
‘Just don’t ruin my shopping mall, Lee Joo-hwa.
Sadness and anxiety crept in.
In fact, for the past 12 years, Kanna has been living a very satisfied life as Lee Joo-hwa.
At first, she had enough panic, but life was fun with mom and dad, a younger brother and a cat named Tto-tto. Recently, I even got a boyfriend, so I just started dating.
‘Ha, I even thought of getting married.’
And I returned to the body I thought I could never go back to.
“No, calm down. Now is not the time to panic.”
I have to stay alert. There is nothing that can be solved by getting depressed for no reason. Let’s fix this crazy situation for now. Let's sort it out somehow.
“Sylvienne Valentino.”
Kanna brushed away her gloom and muttered the name.
“You treated my body like dog shit.”
My head was so complicated that it seemed like it would explode, but it was clear what to do first for now.
“Let’s start with divorce.”
When the duke returns in the evening, let's talk about divorce. Perhaps Sylvie Valentino would welcome it with open arms.
‘The question is, will my father allow divorce?’
The rights of women in this world are so low that they can not be compared to those in Korea, and women could not even divorce without the consent of her biological father.
‘Will my father really approve of a divorce?’
If he is the father of ‘Lee Joo-hwa’, if he know that his daughter is being neglected like this, he will do what you do and lead the divorce.
‘But my biological father is different.’
The father of ‘Kanna Addis’ is different.
It is clear that he will oppose it with all his might, considering it a disgrace to the family. Even if I die, the Valentino family will tell me to die.
‘I don’t know. Let’s go to sleep. Let’s wake up and think about it later.’
Maybe it’s a dream.
***
Kanna Addis.
The eldest daughter of the Duke of Addis, the second-generation guardian family that protects the western continent, and an illegitimate child.
Kanna didn’t know who her birth mother was.
Was it around the age of six? Undaunted by her curiosity, she cautiously questioned her father.
“Father, who is my mother?”
At that moment, the father’s face contorted like a monster, maybe it will kill me. His expression was so stern that even such a thought could pass by for a moment.
Luckily, her father didn’t kill her, didn’t even hit her. However with her murderous eyes, she chewed her up and spit it out.
“Kanna Addis, never ask again.”
“...”
“Never speak of that woman in front of me again.”
Only then did Kanna realize.
“Father - Duke Alexandro Addis hated her and her mother.
It was only then that he realized the cause of her father’s hatred, which had been as natural as air since childhood.
‘I see. My father hates my mother. That’s why I am being hated too.’
It wasn’t just her father who hated her.
“Sister, why don’t you shave your head instead? Black hair, black eyes. Do you know how much people gossip?”
“Hey, Isabelle. What kind of habit do you say to your sister?”
“Yeah, but mom,”
“But you are not wrong, As you know, Kanna, we look at the black color as unlucky. Please behave well so as not to be seen by people.”
Half-sister Isabelle, and step-mother Chloe.
“Hey, filth! You covered your face with your bangs!”
Orsinido, her half-brother, who used violence by slapping her on the cheek without mercy.
“Sister, my hat fell down the window. Go ahead and pick it up.”
And as expected, the second younger brother, Kalendo, who pretended to be polite, had a knife in his tongue and bullied her viciously.
Everyone does.
Without exception, everyone in the family hated Kanna.
It wasn’t just her family who despised her.
“Oh, is that the eldest daughter of the Addis family?”
“My God, her hair is black! Besides, the eyes…!”
Black hair. Black eyes.
Those who were born with both were considered a symbol of inauspiciousness. Because of it, everyone avoided her and despised her.
“Hey, filth! Who wants to meet you outside!”
Once I ran into Orsini on the street.
It seemed that Orsini’s friends were making fun of Kanna’s existence.
“You filthy bitch! If it’s filth, hide like filth and live!”
Chow!
Kanna’e eyes widened at the cold sensation that poured over her face.
“My lady, what are you doing without getting up?”
It's a dream. Kanna woke up from her dream and narrowed her eyes.
The first thing I see is the height and splendid ceiling, and the pure white silk canopy.
‘I’m really back.’
This is not Korea. It was the bedroom of the Duke of Valentino’s family. Damn!
‘By the way, what’s spilled on my face?’
It was her. I knew what had happened when I noticed a maid holding a vase by the bed.
That maid has been waking up Kanna - that is, ‘Lee Joo-hwa’ - by sprinkling water in a vase, pulling off the blanket, and sometimes even slapping her cheek.
So far, Joo-hwa has not been able to resist anything and has been meekly accepted to look good to the Duke.
The maid had been working for Valentino's family for a long time, and she thought that if Kanna looked wrong, she could spread bad rumors.
So Lee Joo-hwa endured it all.
‘Lee Joo-hwa, you’re such an idiot.’
Kanna wiped her wet face with her hand.
“What is your name?”
Is this an unexpected reaction? The maid is startled.
‘Of course I know the name.’
According to the memory Lee Joo-hwa bought with this body, the maid’s name is Mary. She is about 40 years old. She was a respected maid who had been with the Valentino family for a very long time.
“My name is Mary Goldian, young lady. Did you suddenly forget? Isn’t that what happened to your hair?”
Mary promptly responded vigorously.
“Stop the nonsense and wake up! It’s time to go say hello to the madam!”
In an instant, an intense headache split my head.
‘Okay. Come to think of it, Valentino’s stepmother lived with me in this mansion.’
The current duke, Sylvien’s stepmother, Josephine.
She asked her daughter -in-law, Kanna, to send her greetings three times a day, morning, noon and evening.
‘It’s crazy. This makes no sense not only in Korea, but also in this world. But Lee Joo-hwa has been faithful so far. Expecting to catch Sylvien’s attention someday.
But now I have no intention of doing that.
“I’m not going.”
“...Yes?”
“I'm not going. Damn regards.”
“My lady, what is that!”
“Who is the lady? I am the Duchess of Valentino and the hostess of this mansion. So call me Madam.”
Mary’s face froze. It was her sign of doubting her own ears. She was different from ‘Kanna’ who always had a forced smile and tried to win other's love.
‘What? Did you eat anything strange?’
But soon Mary’s lips went up. She seems to be a noblewoman and wants to pretend to be a noblewoman.
But no one treats Kanna as an aristocrat.
Who is Kanna? She is a duchess who is treated as a non-existent person by her husband, Duke Valentino. And that wasn't all.
Kanna had black eyes and black hair, a symbol of the ‘Black Mist’.
A long time ago, a black must that suddenly appeared one day and engulfed the entire southern continent and destroyed it. Because of its ominous color, Kanna has been pointed at by people since childhood.
No wonder her parents treated her as a lump of filth!
“The hostess of this mansion is Josephine. My only mistress is Josephine.”
Even if others openly insult you like this, you'll be laughing and scratching your head. As she had been for the past few years. Sure enough, Kanna didn’t say anything. She just stared at her blankly, then thrust out her hand.
“Give it to me.”
“Yes?”
“That vase. Does it still have water left?”
Kanna picked up the vase Mary was holding and checked how much water was left inside, and…
Splash!
“Like this cheeky squire.”
Drops of water fell in Mary’s face.
Even though her face was soaked, Mary did not realize what had been done to her.
No, I couldn't believe it.
“You’ll come to your senses only when you’re properly scolded. You there, go get the cane.”
Kanna spoke to the maid who was watching from outside the door. She raised her voice when the startled maid didn't know what to do.
“What are you doing if you don't bring it? Do you want to fit in too? If you don’t bring it right away, I know you’ll be beaten first!”
“Hey, wait!”
Moments later, Kanna said to Mary, who still had a puzzled face after accepting the cane brought by the maid.
“Roll up your calves.”
Mary’s face turned blue.
How dare someone like Kanna do this to herself, who has worked for Valentino for a long time!
“What are you doing, lady? Have you forgotten who I am?
“...”
“I have his highness’s trust, and I worked in this mansion for a long time…!”
“A maid.”
Kanna coldly cut her words off.
“The crazy maid who dared to splash water on her master’s face. That’s you, Mary.”
“That…”
“And I am Duchess Valentino, the mistress of a family who deserves to discipline such a maid. I will give you an order with that authority. Kick your calves.”
“Ha, but.”
“If you don’t walk, I’ll beat the other maids as well. Furthermore, we should hold the butler accountable for not properly educating the maids.”
“...!”
“Are you going to be alone? Or will you fit with all the hirelings in the mansion?”
Mary’s face went pale. Even the other maid who had brought the cane to Kanna was frightened and looked at her. After a while, Mary lifted up the hem of her skirt with trembling hands.
‘I was so scared.’
Hey, it must be scary to suddenly change into someone else and try to whip her with a cane.
Kanna tilted her head and looked at Mary.
This is enough, so let's see…
“When you punish someone, but sure to punish them, Lee Joo-hwa.”
I’ve never lost money by listening to my mother, so let’s do that.
Kanna raised the cane and stuck it straight down.
Slap!
It was one.
But it was a very strong beating. In one breath, a red line ran down Mary’s calf, and her body staggered. A shock in the first beating.
Slap!
“Aargh!
Pain on the second. And in the third slap,
“Okay, I was wrong!”
Beg for your fault.
As Mary prayed, rubbing her hands together, Kanna put down the cane.
“Wrong? What are you doing wrong?”
“I-I dared to sprinkle water on the lady…!”
Kanna smiled softly.
“Not only that. Have you ever woken me up by slapping me?”
Lee Joo-hwa, people look at this fool laughing all the time. No matter how much you get bullied, you just laugh. If you step on an earthworm, you have to wriggle, but you just get hit without any resistance. Just like the old time. Just like me before possessing you.
“Okay, I was wrong, lady.”
“Lady?”
When Kanna tilted her head, Mary was startled and shook her shoulders,
“On, no! Lady! No, Madam! I won’t do that again.”
“You will have to. Because next time you act so arrogant again, it won’t end with just three.”
Kanna tossed that cane and gestured.
“Get out.”
Mary sniffled and stood up.
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