~Areum~Areum. That’s my name. Areum Means “beauty,” the second I slid out of my mother, still covered in blood and screaming, she took one look at my face and laughed like a crazy person. “Look at this one,” she told the midwife, “he’s prettier than half the girls in the village already, call him Areum.” My father just stood there drunk and nodding like, “Yeah, sure, whatever, the kid’s fucked anyway.” So that’s me. Areum. Beauty. The joke that never stops being funny to everyone except me.***I woke up to Hyejin’s heel grinding into my stomach like she was trying to juice me like one of those damn peaches.“Morning, my queen,” she sang, twisting harder. “Whole palace is taking bets on how many days you will last. I put money on three, don’t make me lose. You know, given on how life's so cruel to you, I bet you betrayed your country in your past life, cuz trust me, there's no way someone will write another's destiny and make them suffer this much.”"Haha tell me about it." I couldn'
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