I Picked Up the Trash Others Threw Away - Chapter 1.1

Chapter 1.1

Even if I became possessed by a novel or a movie, saying that I was possessed as the opening line was too cliché, I thought.

Reverse harem, tragedy story, and even zombie apocalypse… no matter how brutal the story was, the possessed female lead would always find the male lead and marry him, so I thought it would be the same if it happened to me.

Even if I was in danger of marrying this perverted old man, I thought there would be at least one man who would save me.

I should have been suspicious when my father suddenly asked me to have dinner with him, given that we lived in the same house and rarely had a conversation with each other.

The person who came to this infinitely shabby dinner was an unusual guest. He was an old man with a haggard face and a mean impression, and the way he looked at me and smiled gave me goosebumps.

I had an ominous feeling and wanted to retrace my steps and return to my room even before I sat down.

When I looked at my father, asking what kind of situation this was, he spoke in an improvised friendly voice that he wouldn’t normally use with me.

“Audrey, this is Viscount Lowell, who will be your marriage partner. Give your greetings.”

“Wh-what did you say?”

“As I told you, this is Audrey, my daughter. She’s a little shy and afraid of strangers.”

“Hm. She’s not that much of a beauty, but she’s still worth looking at if she’s dressed up. She’s also in pretty good shape…”

What was he saying about my body now? Was he starting with a review even before we exchanged greetings?

And wouldn’t it be better to call me his remarriage partner? I hoped I had heard wrong, but it was impossible.

The political marriage partner that my father got for me was an old viscount who had been married twice.

Even if it wouldn’t be strange if our family fell at any moment, wasn’t this too much? He sold his only daughter for a few pennies to make a living. This was enough to show that this life was hard.

“I, I…”

“You only have to answer once.”

“Why should I do that!”

I ran out of the dining room in astonishment and went up to my room.

I heard my father’s shouting and the viscount’s embarrassed call behind me, but I ignored everything.

This was crazy, seriously!

***

「Ariensha Under the Spring Sun」, a romance fantasy novel about the heroine’s growing years and beautiful love.

It was a pure romance novel with a Western setting that mainly focused on the stories of characters that took place outside the royal palace, and it was a typical Cinderella story with a female protagonist who came from a commoner family and a male protagonist who was the crown prince.

Unlike spicy and provocative novels, it was a novel that I enjoyed reading because the two protagonists were gentle, and their relationship development was exciting.

I thought that if I was ever possessed, I would like it to be in a novel like this. I didn’t think I would be possessed by a character who didn’t even make an appearance and whose name wasn’t even mentioned.

Sitting in front of the dressing table, I sighed and fiddled with the ends of my blue hair.

‘With navy-blue hair and vivid yellow eyes, this face is too good for an extra.’

I was the daughter of an insignificant baron, a family that was too shabby to be called aristocrats. Audrey Delphonie, an only child who was not much loved by her parents.

It wasn’t a fancy fresh start, but it was okay. There were also works where the person was possessed and lived as a maid in someone else’s house and was beaten, or lived as a slave and died, so it was okay to have a dysfunctional family where the father would sell his daughter when she was in her early twenties, her prime years, without caring about her, and the mother wouldn’t return home after having an affair with another man.

This kind of setting was not only common in romance fantasies but also in k-dramas.

Since it was a beggar’s house anyway, I just needed to catch the male protagonist, get married, and then break up with him. Why? Because the male protagonists have a lot of money.

However, the problem was that I was possessed as an extra of a work that was completed with a happy ending that left no room for doubt two years ago. It was already a situation where the female protagonist and the male protagonist had achieved true love, and I could not interfere in the relationship between the two.

In that case, I needed to find another candidate, but the problem was that the second male protagonist of this work went to the battlefield and died. I remember the author firmly stating that he had died without leaving any subplot so that the perfect happy ending could be achieved.

I had no idea that the mindset of throwing something away if one couldn’t have it was so vicious.

I covered my throbbing head at the reality that was only hopeless no matter how much I thought about it.

“This damned…”

My fate was to end up marrying a man who couldn’t be any older than this and had been married twice.

It would be better to try to find a way back to the real world. How is it that there was no such magic in this worldview?!

On the day I met the person who was to be my marriage partner without even my consent, I decided to escape this fate at all costs.

‘It is said that every cloud has a silver lining. I can find a way.’