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.

 

knight would one day massacre their

 

“Ruby?”

 

pretended to hesitate for a moment, Cesare, who had been stroking my head, called for me again. This time his long fingers groped the back of

 

and locked eyes with Cesare. After glancing at his eerie azure eyes, I shifted my gaze to Enzo

 

least be of

 

and

 

sweet little

 

I really wanted

 

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

 

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crash that my tiresome life had at last come to an end and 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 worse, forced to survive in an environment that was

 

to be reincarnated as a character in this novel, couldn’t

 

“Ugh!”

 

to water. I’d gotten good enough at throwing up silently that

 

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 in Spain. I guess you could say I was a

 

nothing about the so-called ‘Korean Peninsula’ where I was born. Like my adoptive siblings, I attended a prestigious private school in Madrid and lived a life full of ballet classes, tennis club,

 

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

 

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 I was

 

my adoptive family who would sometimes treat me nicely

 

play the role of a smart, cheerful, and obedient daughter, since if I ever brought the smallest bit of shame to my family or offended them in the slightest, there was hell to

 

But when I looked in the mirror, instead of seeing my face,

 

that I’d become Rudbeckia de Borgia, a character in the fantasy novel Sodom and the Holy

 

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

 

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

 

die no less than at the hands

 

influence, were hellbent on marrying off Rudbeckia, and after

 

someone as noble and austere as Izek would lose his mind and decide to murder his wife’s entire family after only

 

of Rudbeckia, who’d poisoned his little

 

being mad about Rudbeckia killing his little sister, it seems like Izek just got fed up with

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