When the Truth Leads Me to Patricide
Eggtart
A curse is cast upon everyone in this village, reducing us to mutes. But once a villager's lover takes three laps around the back mountain and marries said villager successfully, the curse on that villager will be broken.
My childhood friend, who's the same age as me, has already gotten married and embraced his life as a regular person. Even my cousin, who's just turned 18 years old, has her curse broken as well.
I, on the other hand, am about to turn 30 years old soon, and yet I'm still a mute.
Whenever I'm about to get married, all of my ex-fiances, who kept telling me that they'd love me with all their hearts, would do anything just to terminate our engagements right after they came out of the back mountain.
In order to proclaim his deep love for me, my tenth fiance, Isaac Jameson, tells me confidently that he'd definitely marry me once he's done with his laps around the mountain.
But as soon as his words fall, his expression changes the moment he sets foot into the mountain.
To my horror, Isaac picks up an axe from the ground and begins hacking at me with it.
"Why are you still alive in this world? Why can't you just die already?"
I can only lie on the ground while suffering from intense pain.
I have no idea what's in the back mountain and why the same outcome will happen every time.
Why is it that the entire village can break their curse so easily, and yet I can never get married despite having gone through it ten times in a row?