Chapter 1 (Shelly X Andrew)

Shelly runs away from home to escape an arranged marriage instead of her older sister to an old, powerful, rich man.

Her dad arranges a marriage for his daughter to a powerful family to get back up in business. But her stepmother argues to change her daughter to Shelly because according to them this is best for her future.

[The Duke of Rodriguez is looking for the Duke's lost sister.]

Shelly stared at the leaflet that John and Alice the bakery man and her wife brought with them in a hurry.

If it was the Duke of Rodriguez, wouldn't he be the richest man in the kingdom?

It was a noble family with a noble bloodline that would never get entangled with someone like Shelly for the rest of her life, since she was a commoner.

But the moment she saw the flyer that John had brought, Shelly changed her mind. If she does this well, she might end up fatefully entangled with Duke Rodriguez.

“The woman in this portrait. Shelly, doesn’t she look a lot like you?"

"I know……. Even I would be fooled.”

Shelly nodded slowly. The woman in the portrait in the leaflet really did look a lot like Shelly.

A young woman with dark black hair and amber-purple eyes was smiling brightly at Shelly.

The difference was that in the portrait, she was wearing a silk dress that resembled greenery. She also had a beautiful pearl necklace hung around her slender neck. In comparison, Shelly's outfit was nothing but rags.

Adwin Rodriguez, the former head of Duke Rodriguez, lost his beloved second wife and daughter 20 years ago in a carriage overturning accident.

It was said that his wife's body was found in the carriage, but his daughter disappeared without a trace, as if she had evaporated on the spot.

A huge number of soldiers were mobilized to search the area, but his lovely youngest daughter, sadly, disappeared forever.

Adwin tried for 20 years to find his missing daughter Helen, but it was all in vain.

Losing his precious youngest daughter, he grew visibly emaciated from day to day, became addicted to alcohol and gambling, and eventually neglected the family.

People murmured that even if she was dead or alive, she would have become a street prostitute and tarnished the family's name.

The Former Duke, Adwin Rodriguez, who longed for a reunion with his daughter for the rest of his life, died without ever seeing Helen's face, and his eldest son, Andrew Rodriguez, became the head.

Andrew, who had inherited the position of the Duke, was also desperate to find his step-sister. Until the moment of his death, his father urged Andrew that he must find his sister.

Over tens of thousands of flyers had been distributed across the country so far, but this was the first time that a portrait of Helen, who would have become an adult, had been released.

This was a painting based on a portrait of her as a child, a fictional painting that imagined what Helen would have looked like has she become an adult. With the determination to find his sister, Andrew made a clever move.

“It’s like looking in a mirror.”

But Andrew's large flyers were rather poisonous. He made a rat-like Shelly twist. At this point, if Shelly had another woman, she would have had false expectations that the Duke's lost sister was really her.

However, Shelly knew her reality. The woman in the portrait looked remarkably like herself, but she could easily tell that she was not Duke Rodriguez's lost sister.

The secret of her birth, which can only be seen usually in new dramas and skits, was a distant story to her.

Born in an old cottage on a cold winter day, Shelly knew who her mother was.

Her mother was lying with her legs spread apart, drooling, and high on drugs. A prostitute had to suck a married man's penis through her lower hole while breastfeeding her child.

After being destroyed by his legal wife and commits suicide in front of her. Her so-called dad gives her the name Shelly. It was a name that didn’t even show a single word of sincerity, let alone love.

She didn't even have a last name. Because her stepmom doesn't accept her.

As soon as Shelly was ten, her stepmother tried to put the child on the slave market.

Her father was already addicted to drugs, and he did not even recognize her daughter and child. So Shelly fled for her life. From the disgusting brothel.

And now in the present time they want to sell her again, then she decided to leave for good and away From her damn father.

After that, she wandered the streets, and meet her childhood friend John and his wife. Recently, she was delivering bread to customers and she finds this flyer.

Holding the flyer in her hand, Shelly licked her lips. She no longer wanted to lead a life like this. Her purple eyes twinkled with joy.

“Helen Rodriguez …….”

The name of a woman she has never met before, but it stuck to Shelly's mouth as if she had been Helen Rodriguez from birth. Having finished the calculation, she rolled up the corners of her mouth.

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And a week later. Shelly knocked on Duke Rodriguez's door. To be Helen Rodriguez, a woman so sought after by the Duke.

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