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.

 

had any idea that this handsome knight would one day massacre their entire family. Oh

 

“Ruby?”

 

Cesare, who had been stroking my head, called for me again. This time his long fingers groped the

 

azure eyes, I shifted my gaze to Enzo who was frowning discontentedly,

 

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

 

smile and pressed them up

 

our sweet little

 

really wanted

 

throwing up. After all, the handsome knight of the South was out to

 

***

 

I could finally rest. But if I’d known that I would be reincarnated as a lady in the Renaissance Era, and as a character in a novel that I’d read long ago, and, to make matters

 

reincarnated as a character in this novel,

 

“Ugh!”

 

up silently that I didn’t need to worry about being caught by the maids, but, nevertheless, it was still excruciating every

 

between my old and new life was anorexia, or as people call it nowadays, an eating disorder. Before I became Rudbeckia de Borgia—I mean before I died—I was an adopted daughter of an upper-class family

 

where I was born. Like my adoptive siblings, I attended a prestigious

 

think the first time I felt different than the kids around me was sometime around 4th grade, when a boy in my class laughed at me while pulling back his eyes. At first I didn’t understand what it meant, so I just laughed along with the rest of the kids in my class. I thought that my eyes were round like everyone else’s, so I had no

 

my life at home, despite the sophisticated, welcoming facade of my adoptive family, there 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 age twenty-one. As for my oldest brother,

 

cheerful, and obedient daughter, since if I ever brought the smallest bit of shame to my family or

 

But when I looked in the mirror, instead of seeing my face, there was a beautiful western girl

 

become Rudbeckia de Borgia, a character in the fantasy novel Sodom and the Holy Grail I

 

about the countries of the North and the clergy bravely rising up and banding together to overthrow the wicked pope, his family, and

 

Romagna region of Italy, and ‘Holy Grail’ was a metaphor for the holy site

 

die no less than

 

and oldest brother, in an attempt to gain even more political influence, were hellbent on marrying off Rudbeckia, and after three unsuccessful engagements and another

 

to murder his wife’s

 

was hatred—hatred of Rudbeckia, who’d

 

his little sister, it seems like Izek just got fed up with his backstabbing b*tch of a wife and

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