Chapter 5 (1/2)

Her cries gradually subsided, but her eyes were slightly swollen in pain.

Navia’s fragile body was exhausted from all of this. She laid on the bed weakly.

Rattle!

A strange sound was heard outside the door. Rattling sounds echoed outside the room followed by a peal of laughter.

She stared emotionlessly at the door. By now, all her feelings had dried up. She didn’t even need to try and guess the person who was trying to prank her. After all, she had experienced this prank numerous times in her past lives.

‘Wood.”

Wood had often locked Navia in her room.

“Please unlock my room, brother! If I am late again this time, I have to starve for three days. Please….!”

“Only three days? I thought you’d starve for a week if you are late again! Geez, so annoying.”

Navia had to starve for more than three days a week because of Wood. It became a routine for her to soothe her hunger with water.

She didn’t want to die of starvation, so she used to stand outside her room and wait for the head maid to fetch her for her lessons. This way, she wouldn’t be late or punished.

However, contrary to what she expected, she was still punished for acting unladylike by standing outside her door.

‘As a result, she escaped her lock room through the balcony.’

In order to reach the first floor, she tore apart her blankets and tied them together like a rope. She would hand the rope on the balcony post and then climb down.

It was a dangerous thing to do.

Unfortunately, the bedding she had was made from poor quality cloth. The fabric couldn’t bear her weight and immediately ripped apart when she tried climbing down. She fell and almost died.

Luckily, she managed to survive the fall.

“Hahaha! What a moron!”

Wood laughed and pointed at Navia, whose clothes were all torn and bloody.

“Why do you hate me?” she asked impatiently.

“Your inferior status has caused my family’s social status to drop. If it wasn’t for you, then I would’ve never been humiliated in front of Sarah…!”