My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 2

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Chapter 2
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【Am I losing my mind?】
【I’m inside another woman’s body. Everyone calls me Kanna Adis. I’ve gone insane.】
【And this doesn’t even seem to be Korea. This isn’t the world I knew.】
【A month has passed since I possessed Kanna Adis’s body. At first, I couldn’t believe it, but now I’m starting to adapt.】
【I’ve actually possessed someone… I never thought I’d experience possession, something I’d only read about in novels….】
【Today I discovered the most magnificent man in this world. Duke Silvien Valentino— how could he possibly be so beautiful?】
【I’m marrying Duke Silvien Valentino tomorrow. For the first time since arriving in this world, I’ve found happiness. It’s a contractual marriage, but what does that matter? I’ll capture his heart gradually.】
【Marriage first, love later! Thanks to the plot developments I’d read in novels, I’ve managed to captivate Duke Silvien!】
“Ah….”
The diary clutched in Kanna’s hands trembled violently.
A diary written in Korean—a language no one in this world could decipher except Kanna herself.
Now it was certain.
For the past twelve years, Lee Ju-hwa and Kanna Adis had switched bodies!
“This stupid wench!”
And Lee Ju-hwa, this damned wretch, had gone and married in my body.
To Silvien Valentino—the same man whose pant leg I had been clutching just moments ago.
‘This is insane! Why Silvien Valentino of all people! That man is completely unhinged!’
What good is being handsome? What good is maintaining outward courtesy?
Everyone knows that man is like a time bomb waiting to detonate! And she dared to apply something from a novel against such a dangerous person. Proposing a contractual marriage, no less!
“I shall become your wife, Your Grace.”
“Pardon?”
“Use me.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Let’s make a contract. If you marry me, you can escape the Imperial Family’s grasp, can’t you? You don’t want to marry the Second Princess, do you?
A contractual marriage aimed at marriage first, love later!
“Lee Ju-hwa, you incompetent fool! Life is about taking action!”
Kanna wanted to scream and weep with fury.
How could she not? Every pathetic thing Ju-hwa had done with her body was recorded in this diary, burned into her memory!
Ju-hwa had done everything to win Silvien’s heart.
She’d hung a massive banner reading “I love you ♡ Duke Silvien Valentino” in the streets, sent him a hundred roses during a meeting.
She’d even resorted to stripping naked and crawling into his bed.
Of course, each time she’d earned nothing but Silvien’s contempt.
【Duke Silvien Valentino said, “If I had known Miss Kanna was this sort of woman, I would never have accepted the proposal in the first place.” His words tore my heart apart.】
【But I mustn’t lose courage. I’ll capture his heart somehow. I won’t give up!】
This was Ju-hwa’s final diary entry.
In the end, she had done something she’d never attempted before—weeping, clinging desperately to his pant leg—and in that very moment.
Her body had switched with Kanna’s.
“Breathe. Calm down, calm down. Let me think this through clearly.”
Kanna Adis slammed the diary Lee Ju-hwa had written onto the desk with a sharp crack.
“Twelve years have passed. This is my real body—Kanna Adis—and this body is twenty-six years old.”
Then by now, Ju-hwa must have returned to her own body as well.
Ju-hwa was probably quite bewildered right now. She’d been clinging desperately to Silvien Valentino, burning with passion, only to suddenly find herself moments before work.
‘As if Ju-hwa could go to work like I do and see patients!’
But seeing that I possessed twelve years of memories from ‘Ju-hwa’ living in my body, she must also possess my memories as ‘Kanna’.
In other words, I retained everything I’d studied in Ju-hwa’s body. So at least practicing as a Korean medicine doctor shouldn’t be impossible.
‘Wait. What about my business? The clinic I worked at could manage with a temporary leave, but my online shop?’
Since my university days, I’d been making natural handmade soaps, natural aromatherapy candles, natural perfumes—small hobbies at first.
As I studied herbalism, my interest in plants deepened, and I began experimenting with various things.
And somehow, in the process, I’d opened a small online shopping mall.
‘You better not ruin my shop, Lee Ju-hwa.’
Bitterness and anxiety crashed over me.
In truth, over the past twelve years, I’d been living quite contentedly as Ju-hwa.
Though I’d panicked terribly at first, nearly suffering a panic attack…
Life with Mom and Dad, my younger brother, and the cat Toto had been joyful. Recently, I’d even found a boyfriend and just started dating…
‘Damn it. I was even thinking about marriage.’
Lost in an instant.
And I’d returned to a body I thought I could never reclaim.
“No, get a grip. This isn’t the time to panic.”
I need to stay sharp. Wallowing in despair won’t solve anything. First, let me handle this insane situation. Organize it somehow.
“Silvien Valentino.”
I muttered the name, pushing back my gloom.
“So you treated my body like garbage.”
My head felt so tangled it might burst, but what needed to be done was clear.
First.
“Let’s get a divorce.”
When the Duke returns this evening, I’ll bring up divorce. Silvien Valentino will probably welcome it with open arms…
‘The problem is whether my father will permit the divorce.’
Women’s rights in this world were so abysmal compared to Korea that a woman couldn’t even divorce without her father’s consent.
‘Will Father truly permit the divorce?’
If Ju-hwa’s dad knew his daughter was being treated this way, he’d move heaven and earth to push the divorce through.
‘But my real father is different.’
Kanna Adis’s father is different.
He’d certainly oppose it vehemently, viewing it as a family disgrace. He’d demand I die in the Valentino Family rather than leave…
‘I don’t know. Let me sleep first. I’ll think about it after I wake up.’
Maybe this is all just a dream anyway.
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Kanna Adis.
The eldest daughter of the Adis Duchy Family, one of the two great guardian houses protecting the Western Continent.
And a bastard child at that.
I didn’t know who my birth mother was.
I must have been around six years old when, unable to contain my curiosity, I asked my father hesitantly.
“Father, what kind of person is my mother?”
In that instant, my father’s face contorted like a monster’s.
Perhaps he might kill me. His expression was so vicious that such a thought flickered through my mind.
Fortunately, my father didn’t kill me. He didn’t even strike me. Instead, with eyes blazing with murderous intent, he spat out his words as if chewing me to pieces.
“Kanna Adis, never again.”
….
“Never speak of that woman in my presence again.”
Only then did I understand.
My father—Alexandro Adis, Duke of the Adis Duchy Family—hated me and my mother.
Perhaps it was hatred, pure and simple.
From childhood, my father’s contempt had been as natural as the air around me, and only now did I grasp its source.
‘I see. Father despises my mother. That’s why he hates me too.’
I was not alone in being despised.
“Sister, why don’t you just shave your head? Black hair and black eyes—do you know how much people whisper about you?”
“My goodness, Isabel. What kind of language is that to use with your sister?”
“But mooom…”
“But she’s not entirely wrong, is she? Kanna, you understand as well as anyone that we consider black an ill omen. Please conduct yourself carefully so as not to draw people’s attention.”
My half-sister Isabel despised me, and so did my stepmother Chloe.
“Hey, filth! I told you to hide your face behind your bangs!”
My half-brother Orsini, who struck my cheeks without mercy and subjected me to violence.
“Sister, my hat fell out the window. Please go fetch it for me.”
And my second half-brother Kalen, who pretended to be courteous but wielded cruelty with a silver tongue.
All of them.
Every single one of my family members despised me without exception.
It wasn’t only my family who looked down upon me.
“My, is that truly the eldest daughter of the Adis Duchy Family?”
“Good heavens, her hair is black! And her eyes too…!”
Black hair. Black eyes.
Those born with both were regarded as symbols of ill fortune. Because of this, everyone avoided me and scorned me.
“Hey, filth! Don’t you dare cross paths with me outside!”
Once, I encountered Orsini on the street.
It seemed his friends had been mocking my very existence.
“You filthy wretch! If you’re filth, then live like filth and stay hidden!”
That day, Orsini struck my cheek five times, and my mouth bled.
And my father watched all of this happen without intervention.
Or perhaps… he orchestrated it all.
After all, without his contempt to begin with, none of this abuse would have ever started.
Day after day, like petals torn from a flower, Kanna was shredded.
Until that fateful day at fourteen—until I inhabited Lee Ju-hwa’s seventeen-year-old body—Kanna’s life had been nothing short of a nightmare. I could barely manage to look another person in the eye.
But living as Lee Ju-hwa, I changed.
“My dear Ju-hwa. Mother will support you in whatever you do.”
A renowned herbalist and the wisest mother anyone could ask for.
“Ju-hwa, would you like to take a walk with Father? Hmm? Hmm?”
A CEO and a complete fool for his daughter.
“Noona! There’s some chicken left over, so eat it.”
A spiteful younger brother, yet brimming with affection.
“Meow.”
And an adorable cat besides.
They were all warm to her. They taught me what love truly meant.
Twelve years passed like that.
During those years living as Lee Ju-hwa, I transformed into an entirely different person—a woman who cherished herself, who understood her own worth.
Someone utterly unlike who I had been.

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