Forget My Husband, I’ll Go Make Money

Episode 1: You must be very shy(1)

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‘I’m finally free!’

Aristine barely stopped herself from cheering out loud.
She had finally gotten away from her sickening country and  even more sickening father.

‘He is definitely crazy.’

Her father, the emperor, tortured her in all sorts of ways, using the justification of turning her into a ‘success’.

‘I really thought I died in that fire.’

The first thing she felt back then was the burning air, not the heat.
Aristine had woken up to the sensation of something scraping her lungs and throat.
If she had woken up just a little later, she would have died in her sleep.

When she opened her eyes, she was surrounded by flames and the windows were blocked off.

At the time, Aristine was only six years old.
A normal person would have died.
But Aristine survived.
That is if you could call that survival.

She was charred black like a chunk of meat, yet her father looked at her young self and asked.

《How did it go? Did you awaken?》

Aristine, who was blankly staring at her father in confusion, realized.

‘Ah, father was the one who set the fire and blocked the windows.’

That realization hurt her more than her scorched lungs and the blisters that had begun to form on her legs and arms.
It hurt so much that she wanted it all to burn.

‘I don’t think it will hurt anymore when my heart turns to ashes.’

And now, more than 10 years later, Aristine’s heart had burned completely into ashes.

After ‘the incident’ with her half-sister, Aristine had even been confined.
Since she was locked up as a young child, she lived on her own for more than 10 years so it was strange to feel her heart beating with excitement.

‘Then again, I was able to see my past life thanks to the confinement so maybe there was one good thing about it.’

Aristine’s mind unlocked its potential to protect herself.
She became able to ‘see’ her past life otherwise she would have gone mad.

‘…It’s nice to finally leave but it will be a little annoying later.’

Aristine gave a faint sigh as she thought of her older blood-brother who wasn’t in the palace right now.
Either way, now wasn’t the time to think about the place she was leaving, she should be thinking about where she was heading to.

‘I wonder what kind of place Irugo is .’

The land of barbarians.

《The Irugo barbarians mate with both beasts and humans, you can’t even call them human.》