Chapter 2

<I’m in another woman’s body. Everyone calls me Canna. This is crazy.>

<I don’t think this is even Korea. It’s not the world that I know.>

<A month has passed since I enetered the body of Canna Adice. I couldn’t believe it at first, but now I’m getting used to it.>

<I can’t believe I possessed someone…… I possessed a character from a novel I’ve read……>

<I’ve stumbled upon the most handsome man in this world today. Duke Sylvien Valentino–. Ah, isn’t he beautiful?>

<I’m marrying Duke Sylvien Valentino tomorrow. I felt happy for the first time since I came into this world. It’s a contractual marriage, but it doesn’t matter. His heart can be captured slowly.>

<After marriage, love will develop! Thanks to the informations I’ve read in the novel, I’ve gotten hold of Duke Sylvien!>

“Ah……”

Canna’s hand, which was holding the diary, trembled.

In this world, there’s a language that no one but Canna can recognize, and the diary was written in that language.

This confirms it.

In the last 12 years, Lee Joo Hwa and Canna Adice have changed bodies!

“That stupid bitch!”

Lee Joo Hwa got married with her body.

Sylvien Valentino – now she realized, was the man whose pants she was clinging to earlier.

‘This is crazy! Why does it have to be Sylvien Valentino?! She’s out of her mind!’

What’s the point of being handsome?

What’s the point of being well mannered on the outside?

He’s like a ticking time bomb, and no one knows when he’s going to explode!

How could she propose to such a dangerous character from a novel? She can’t believe she offered a contractual marriage!

–I’ll be the Duke’s wife.

–What?

–Use me.

–What does that mean?

–I’m asking you to sign a contract. If you marry me, the Royal family will will leave you alone. Your Grace, you don’t really want to marry the second princess, do you?

A line was drawn right after the contractual marriage. There was no love!

“Lee Joo Hwa, you foolish thing! This is real life!”

Canna was mad and wanted to cry.

Why not?

The stupid things Joo Hwa did with her body are not only in the diary, but also in her memories!

Joo Hwa did everything to win Sylvien’s heart.

‘I love you ♡ Duke Sylvien’, he was away from her at that time, so she sent him 100 Roses with a note while he was in a conference.

She even took her clothes off and crawled onto the bed, ready for a small war.

Naturally, all Sylvien did each time was to look at her with scorn.

<He said to me, ‘If I had known that Miss Canna was this kind of woman, I wouldn’t have accepted the offer from the start.’ His words broke my heart.>

<But I’m determined. I’ll win his heart somehow. I’m not giving up!>

This is Joo Hwa’s last diary entry.

Eventually, she cried and tried to cling onto his pants, something she never did before.

At that moment, Canna changed her body.

“Phew. Calm down, let’s calm down. Let’s calm down and think.”

Canna fanned herself with Joo Hwa’s diary.

“12 years have passed. This is my real body– Canna Adice, and this body is 26 years old.”

Then by now, Joo Hwa must be in her real body too.

Joo Hwa must’ve been embarrassed just now.

Clinging to Sylvien with all her might when he’s about to go to work.

‘Joo Hwa, can you also go to work and see patients like I did?!’

But judging from the 12 years of ‘Joo Hwa’ using her body, she will also have the memories of ‘Canna’.

In other words, Joo Hwa will remember everything that her body studied.

In that case, there won’t be many problems with her work as a Korean doctor.

‘Wait a minute. What about my business? Her job as a doctor will do well even if she takes a short leave, but what about my online shopping mall?’

Ever since she was a college student, her hobby is to make natural handmade soaps, natural aroma candles, and natural perfume.

As she learned herbal medicine, she became interested in plants and tried many things.

She happened to open a small online shopping mall.

‘Just try to screw up my shopping mall, Lee Joo Hwa.’

Bitterness and anxiety surged in.

Over the past 12 years, Canna has been living a life of great satisfaction as Joo Hwa.

She was flustered at the beginning……

But the life with her mom, dad, younger brother, and her cat was fun.

She also started dating recently……

‘Ha, Mister. I even thought of getting married.’

Everything was lost in an instant.

And she returned to the body she thought she could never go back to.

“No, come back to your senses. This is not the time to feel down.”

She can’t let her guard down.

Nothing will be solved by being depressed.

She has to settle this crazy situation first.

She will sort it out somehow.

“Sylvien Valentino.”

Canna mumbled the name, disregarding her melancholy.

“You treated my body like shit.”

Everything in her head is a tangled mess that it felt like it’s about to explode, but what she has to do is still clear to her.

First.

“Let’s get divorced.”

They will talk about divorce when the Duke comes back in the evening.

Maybe Sylvien Valentino will welcome the idea with open arms……

‘The question is, will my father allow me to divorce?’

This world’s rules were so unfair compared to Korea that women could not even divorce without the consent of their biological father.

‘Will my father approve of my divorce?’

If ‘Joo Hwa’s’ father knew his daughter was being neglected, he would be furious and suggest the divorce himself.

‘But my father is different.’

‘Canna Adice’s’ father is different.

He will surely oppose it, thinking that it would be a disgrace to the family.

He’s the type of person who will tell her to die in the Valentino family……

‘Whatever. I’ll just sleep for now, then I’ll think about it later.’

Maybe this is just a dream

Canna Adice.

The second generation protecting the gates of the West is the Duke of Adice. Canna is his eldest daughter.

And illegitimate child.

Canna didn’t know who her biological mother was.

Was she about six years old at that time? Unable to overcome her curiosity, she carefully asked her father.

“Father, what is my mother like?”

In an instant, her father’s face became horribly distorted.

He might kill her. He looked very furious that even such an extreme thought came to her mind.

Fortunately, her father did not kill her. He didn’t even slap her.

However, with a ferocious look, he spat out.

“Canna Adice, never talk about that again.”

“……”

“Never again, in front of me, will you ever bring that woman up.”

Only then did Canna realized.

Her father – Duke Alexandro Adice, hated her mother.

It was hate.

Her father’s hatred, which has been as natural as air since childhood, she realized the cause then.

‘I see. My father hates my mother, so I must hate her too.’

Her father was not the only one who hated Canna.

“Sister, why don’t you shave your head? Black hair and black eyes. Do you know how much people talk about it?”

“Oh my gosh, Isabel. What are saying to your sister?”

“Ehhh, but mom.”

“But it’s not wrong. Canna, as you know, Black is an ominous color.”

Her half sister, Isabel; and her stepmother, Chloe, hated her too.

“Hey, trash! I told you to cover your face with your bangs!”

Orsini, her half brother, who doesn’t hesitate to use violence, slapped her without mercy.

“Sister, my hat fell out of the window. Please go and pick it up.”

And of course, Callen, her younger half brother who always harass her, is pretending to be polite.

Everyone.

Every single member of the family hated Canna.

It wasn’t just her family who despised her.

“Oh my, that’s the eldest daughter of the Adice family?”

“My god, her hair is black! Also, her pupils……!”

Black hair. Black eyes.

A person born with these two characteristics together is regarded as a symbol of ominousness.

So everyone avoided and despised her.

“Hey trash! Who said you could go outside and play?!”

One day, she ran into Orsini in the streets.

Orsini’s friends made fun of Canna’s existence.

“I-I’m sorry, Orsini. I was wrong. Don’t hit me.”

“You filthy bitch! You should just hide yourself in the water like the filth that you are!”

That day, she was slapped five times on the cheek by Orsini and her lip was busted.

And her father sat on the sidelines the whole time.

No…… Perhaps he took the lead.

The abuse wouldn’t have started if he didn’t neglect her in the first place.

Canna was mutilated like a flower whose leaves were ripped off day by day.

Until that one day when her fourteen-year-old body was possessed by a seventeen-year-old girl – Canna’s life was terrible.

It was even hard for her to meet other people’s eyes.

But by living as Joo Hwa, Canna changed.

“Our Joo Hwa. Mommy will always support Joo Hwa no matter what she does.”

A prominent doctor and a mother who loved her more than anyone else.

“Joo Hwa, would you like to go for a walk with your dad? Hmm? Hmm?”

A father and a CEO that becomes a fool when it comes to his daughter.

“Sister! I left you some chicken so you can eat them too.”

An affectionate younger brother.

“Meow.”

And a lovely cat.

Everyone was warm to her. They taught her what love is.

That’s how 12 years passed.

During her life as Joo Hwa, Canna became a completely different person.

A woman who cares about herself; a woman who realized her worth.

A different person from the past.