Prologue: Zero

“You little sh*t! Can’t you do something properly?!!”

The man in elegant clothes shouted, grabbing the weak arms of a 13-year-old girl endlessly retaliating.

As he dragged her along the mansion’s hallway, with ceilings and walls made from gold, decorated with chandeliers.

The man was her father.

“Esteemed father! I regret my actions! I will definitely correct it next time, so please let me go just this once!”

The girl begged for mercy hoping that she would be pardoned for her mistakes, but her father only tighten his grip, making her shout with agony inside her head.

She didn’t let a single tear escape from her little eyes, believing that crying will only make her suffer more than she does right now.

As they arrived at the basement, they then walked down the flight of stairs, revealing the place she considers her bedroom as far as she can remember.

A prison cell, surrounded with pitch black darkness and cold air and smells like rotten bodies.

“You’re totally useless! I finally have something to use a worthless piece of trash for, but trashes are all useless after all!”

“If it weren’t for that damn woman, your brother would’ve been the only child, why the hell were you even twins?!”

He said, throwing her to the cell bars, hitting her back against it.

She stayed their looking at the ground while bearing the pain she feels at the moment.

Even without showing it, anyone would know that the impact would cause unbearable pain, but the man was not satisfied and punched and punched her. Throwing her body all over the place.

He was relieving stress that was built up because of her.

There were many times when she thought that, why was she born so useless?

That if she were born a boy, would she be loved by her father?

The door suddenly opened, and a boy was standing there, dressed elegantly. He has an emerald green hair with his eyes, sparkling silver just like her.

He’s the girl’s twin brother.

“Oh! My dear son! What brings you all the way down here?” Their father asked, now ignoring her as he approached her twin brother.

“Father, I don’t like it there! It was really suffocating!” her brother complained to their father, not even batting an eye at his own sister’s pitiful appearance.

“So, I came looking for you since you should definitely raise my pocket money. I can’t even treat my friends with it.”

“And speaking of treat, we’ll go right now” Her twin brother demanded, and their father quickly agreed.

“Of course! Anything for my son”

Her father and brother left while conversing so happily. Leaving her inside the cell, sitting at the corner, with the cold and hard floor against her skin.

The pretty dress that she was temporarily given by, was now torn up and dust was all over it.

When she was given that dress earlier, she thought that she was finally being acknowledged by her own father, and couldn’t help it but be filled with hope .

But it turns out that she was only looked at, as a usable trash that time.

She only laughed at the thought of it.

The mansion she was living in, was like a castle straight out from a fairytale story book. But the love and happiness she should have , like in the stories never did appear.

“Hahahaha” Her laughter echoed through the room

“I guess in end, fairy tales are only fairy tales…..And such things as love and happiness can only be acquired through power and authority, which would be just a pipe dream for us who were born unfortunate”

“What luck I have” she murmured, and finally fell asleep, embraced by the warmth of darkness.

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