Chapter 122 - 96 Difficult Woman (Additional - for Recommended Votes)
Asina had a rather tragic past; she was the daughter of a baronial family, and because she was born beautiful, her parents used her as a tool to climb the social ladder.
Her family was not wealthy, but her parents placed great importance on the façade of nobility, even if it meant going into debt to furnish their home with expensive furniture, paintings, and porcelain they knew nothing about; they insisted on using delicate silver plates, silver forks, and silver spoons for dining; and although their finances were stretched thin, they still employed a large number of maids and attendants, because in their words, only such a display was befitting of their noble dignity, otherwise they would be the laughingstock of others.
She also had a younger brother; for a poor baron in a remote area, it was common for the heir to choose a suitable woman from a knight family within their domain as a wife, but her parents believed the daughters of knights unworthy of a baron’s son; they wanted an equal match and sought to marry their son to a baron’s daughter in order to maintain the purity of their bloodline— they even dreamt of marrying the third or even the second daughter of a viscount’s family... which would bring greater glory to their own.
And this required a substantial amount of money!
At the age of seven, her parents had already chosen for her a sixty-year-old earl, waiting for her to reach the age of sixteen to become his seventeenth concubine. This earl had given two hundred thousand mana as a betrothal gift.
It was a pure transaction.
This was probably the fate of a daughter from a minor noble family.
Asina did not struggle against her fate; she knew it was futile.
Her pure and delicate body would be at the mercy of that disgusting old man, who was rumored to be a pervert; several young and beautiful girls had already died by his hand.