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.

 

one day

 

“Ruby?”

 

his long fingers groped the back of my head.

 

gaze to Enzo who was frowning discontentedly, and then to Lady Julia and my father beside her, both seated upright, poised

 

Father. I’m grateful that I can at least be of some service to you with

 

his lips into a rare gentle smile and pressed them

 

sweet little

 

I really wanted to

 

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

 

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

 

this novel,

 

“Ugh!”

 

to water. I’d gotten good enough at throwing up silently that I didn’t

 

and new life was anorexia, or as people call it nowadays, an eating disorder. Before I became Rudbeckia de

 

Like my adoptive siblings, I attended a prestigious private

 

didn’t understand what it meant, so I just

 

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

 

was publicly exposed for his promiscuous private life and drug addiction. The only one in my adoptive family who would sometimes treat me nicely was my older sister, and she committed suicide at

 

ever brought the smallest bit of shame to my family or offended them in the slightest, there was hell to pay. And when I woke up here,

 

first I thought I was just hallucinating before l passed away. But when I looked in the mirror, instead of seeing my face, there was

 

to realize that I’d become Rudbeckia de Borgia, a character in the fantasy novel Sodom and the Holy Grail I used to read

 

tale of a vile, corrupt pope who abused his power to subjugate others. It was a story about the countries of the North and the clergy bravely rising

 

‘Holy Grail’ was a metaphor for the holy site of the Vatican City. And as for lucky me, I was reincarnated as

 

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

 

influence, were hellbent on marrying off Rudbeckia, and after three unsuccessful

 

would lose his mind and decide to murder his wife’s entire family after only being married for six months, it was Rudbeckia who made

 

made him lose his mind, it was hatred—hatred of Rudbeckia, who’d poisoned his little sister. Cesare had miscalculated the severity of

 

seems like

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