Vol. 1 Chapter 3- Wedding

I was hoping to have a child to bond with, but instead, the first child was Yi Seo.

She was laid low with a seizure before she was two years old, and since then, she’s been a little girl who never knows when to expect her death.

She was so young that neither her mother nor her father would look at her anymore.

Since then, she’s been thinking that she’s going to die someday.

Marriage seemed to be a distant memory, and the day of the offering was near.

“Anyway, don’t worry about it, miss, and go to sleep.”

“How can I not care if it’s about me?”

“It’s not about you, honey. You haven’t even had your first period yet, so what are you talking about?”

It was common for people to marry when they were ten years old, but the marriage ceremony was held at the age of twelve. For Yi Seo, she was still young.

But even though it was obvious, Yi Seo’s mother’s words didn’t go unnoticed.

“Will I still be alive by then?”

“…”

That’s how much she’d been raised, and her eyes moistened at the words.

She felt like she’d set herself up for failure when she didn’t know how much longer she’d live, when she could have just said nice things.

Yi Seo’s heartfelt heavy, so she deliberately grabbed her hand and asked her.

“I’m just curious, Nanny. This is the first time I’ve heard of him, but I don’t know if that great lord will be my groom. Which lord is he?”

Despite her innocent question, she didn’t expect to be able to do so.

‘If somehow things got twisted and turned, and I ended up getting married…’

I felt sorry for the groom, the young man who would get stuck with a wife who would die at any moment…

Like her mother, who ended up with something like herself as her first child.

Several days have passed since Father returned home.

As I lay in the unyielding summer heat, I had almost forgotten about my tale of woe. I suppose because I thought it would never happen in my life.

So when I went to my mother and father in the morning, when the summer fever was almost gone, I was puzzled by what I heard.

“There’s some bad news about you.”

At his father’s words, Yi Seo glanced at her mother, who seemed reluctant to hear what had happened, but did not object.

“I am weak…”

“It’s a medicine. The ceremony will take place before winter, so make sure you don’t get cold in the meantime.”

That was the end of it. He never even told her if she was getting engaged or married.

When her father, unwilling to say anything more, led her out of the room, as if she were being driven away, her mother, who stood beneath the stone, embraced her.

Her small body buried itself in her arms.

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