NOVEL WEB Chapter 1
Chapter 1
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A day with good bread, my luck was terrible.
The chair leg broke, and my body fell backward.
The moment the cliché phrase, ‘This is a familiar ceiling,’ flashed through my mind.
“Miss Ellie!”
“A doctor! Call a doctor!”
Ellie remembered her past life.
‘I can’t believe my blood flows through that pig-like wench.’
‘She’s just like her mother, foolish and doesn’t know her place.’
‘I only have one daughter. Anyone can see that it’s not that wench, right?’
Whether they thought a child wouldn’t understand, or they were saying it for me to hear.
Ellie, having regained her memories, could understand what her father’s voice, speaking to someone, meant.
‘Ellie?’
If it’s Ellie, that’s her.
The heroine’s stepsister who harasses the protagonist and gets kicked out.
Not only does she curse and berate, but she’s also a bad bitch who even hits the protagonist!
In the end, she’s a pathetic nobody who starves to death!
*
She was only eight years old.
Lying in bed, Ellie counted her age and squeezed her eyes shut.
‘To have achieved this level of morbid obesity at just eight years old.’
At this point, it seemed like something that could be called an achievement.
She remembered the many delicious things she had brought to her mouth, grabbing whatever was within reach.
‘It’s all my karma….’
Who could she blame, for having eaten it all with her own hands?
However, pretending not to know when seeing a delicious thing was truly a sin. It was too pitiful to let it go stale without eating it when it was at its most delicious.
Ellie quietly acknowledged this and raised her hand.
It was plump.
Her flesh was nicely filled out, like a sausage, and honestly, it only looked cute in her eyes.
‘To adults, all children are cute, I guess.’
Now she was eight years old, but in her past life, she was 24.
She wasn’t a famous detective, but her brain was that of an adult.
The memories of her past life that washed over her like waves coexisted naturally with the present Ellie. Ellie was the past life’s Sojeong, and the past life’s Sojeong was Ellie.
Perhaps because she was still young, there was no confusion about her identity.
However, the more she recalled her memories, one thing became clear.
‘What am I going to do….’
The world she had been reincarnated into was the world of the ruined romance fantasy novel
It was a romance fantasy genre, but it was a ruined story where the heroine rolled, rolled, and only rolled.
Born as an illegitimate child, she rolled on battlefields, was kidnapped, beaten, and the person she loved died before her eyes. While cursing it for writing a novel just to torment the protagonist, she ran through it until the end, wondering how it would even end.
Saying the heroine was pitiful, asking if she would ever be happy.
‘No. I’m the most pitiful. I die….’
Even rolling in shit is better than this life!
Ellie recalled the role she was given.
The heroine’s stepsister, the daughter of the legal wife.
The heroine was the Duke’s illegitimate child, a half-sister who was born six months before Ellie.
Naturally, their relationship couldn’t be good, and unlike herself, Ellie was madly jealous of her half-sister who was cute, pretty, and… received her father’s love.
She childishly tormented her, cursed her… and hit her.
‘Even if I was a pig, I didn’t hit people!’
Then, the heroine, unable to bear Ellie’s torment, left the house as if she were being kicked out, and after rolling and rolling again, became a national hero.
‘Easy to say.’
Ellie, who knew all the hardships she would go through in that process, couldn’t help but pity the heroine.
However, Ellie, herself, would have everything taken from her by the returned heroine and those who loved her, and be kicked out to starve to death on the streets.
Starve to death. (Important)
Starve to death! (Important)
“They could’ve just killed me in one go, why are they starving me to death…this is too much….”
Tears were already clouding her vision.
In both her past life and her present life, Ellie valued ‘food’ the most among the basic necessities of life.
Of course, everything was important, but how could life be enjoyable without the pleasure of eating?
It was said that life was only enjoyable if the mouth was happy, and generosity came from a full storehouse.
But of all things, they were going to starve her to death?
‘You, you god-damned author!’
Why did you have to use such a cruel method to kill off a pathetic villain?
How terrible was starvation? A day? Even just skipping a meal made her feel dizzy and like she was going to collapse!
Even if she was going to die, she had to avoid starving to death. Absolutely, absolutely….
“……I’m hungry…….”
As she thought about food, her stomach rumbled.
Ellie slowly raised her body.
Her plump flesh was carefully enveloping her small body, so even small movements took a lot of effort. So that’s why she didn’t hurt when she fell backward. Her expensive meals had protected her organs and bones like armor.
This flesh was actually a high-grade physical shield.
‘Is there anything to eat?’
There was a bread basket on the table next to the bed.
Ellie, who was naturally excited, grabbed a piece of bread with her plump hand and took a bite.
Crack!
“Ugh, spit!”
Her front tooth broke.
*
Ellie, that is, Ellie McClure, was the Duke’s only daughter.
Officially.
However, no one regarded Ellie McClure as the Duke’s only daughter.
It was because of the heroine and the Duke’s illegitimate child, Ellie’s sister, Irene McClure.
Not because of, but thanks to her.
‘I can’t be seen in a bad light by the heroine, of course. I didn’t even say bad things in my thoughts.’
Despite being an illegitimate child, Irene’s name was only listed in the family tree, but everyone recognized and treated her as the Duke’s eldest daughter.
‘Honestly, my father is a piece of garbage.’
It wasn’t that he shouldn’t have an affair.
But at least he could have waited until the legal wife had her first child, couldn’t he?
Ellie’s biological mother fainted when she saw the baby her husband brought home before her due date.
Although she safely gave birth to Ellie, she couldn’t endure for long and died of an illness.
Ellie became very twisted because her father only doted on Irene, who was supposedly his first love’s child. She was neglected in the midst of indifference.
‘Honestly, I’m the one in an unfair position, right…?’
Well, a child who lost her mother would be pitiful. He would have been fond of the child of the woman he loved.
However, both Irene and Ellie lost their biological mothers, but Ellie didn’t even have a father, in her case.
The young Ellie relieved her alienation with food.
Thanks to that, she became so morbidly obese that even a chair leg broke at the age of 8, and the more someone pointed fingers at her, she would release her unresolved stress on Irene.
Fortunately, Ellie remembered her past life before it came to physical violence.
Ellie still only ignored and turned a blind eye to Irene.
‘I almost became a child abuser.’
She frowned whenever she met Irene, but she was still fine. She didn’t even curse.
From that day on, Ellie thoroughly avoided Irene.
She would never think about cursing at or using violence against a child, but she didn’t know how the role she was given, and her inherent destiny, would play out.
Accidentally, really unintentionally, a result that could cause misunderstandings could occur.
If she didn’t meet her at all, there would be no chance for misunderstandings.
Ellie avoided not only Irene but also her father.
Since he wasn’t the type to look for Ellie unless he intended to meet her in the first place, it wasn’t a difficult task.
Perfect timing.
If things continued like this, an asphyxiation ending awaited Ellie.
It wasn’t detailed how Ellie lived after the heroine left home.
It must have been a bad situation.
The father, who was glaring at her as if he would kill her just because she didn’t act kindly toward Irene, would never have let Ellie live well.
He would have reluctantly allowed her to live due to the elders of the family, as she was the heir and the only bloodline.
Therefore, as soon as the heroine returned as a hero, he would kick Ellie out and let her starve to death on the streets.
‘Let’s leave the house. Let’s stand on my own!’
Fine, I’ll abandon it before I get abandoned.
Clearly, letting this child eat until she became morbidly obese was abuse.
There was no adult in this household who loved and protected Ellie McClure.
However, even if Ellie didn’t have an adult to trust, she did have something to rely on.
In a world where there was only this disgustingly bad-tasting bread!
‘I’ll make them all addicted with modern baking techniques.’
I’ll make it so they can’t live without me.
*
“In the end, what keeps people alive is something so insignificant.”
But it does seem too insignificant, doesn’t it…?
It was the beginning of Ellie McClure, the national baker.
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