Adapting to Reality

A few years back:

When a girl who had never even considered thinking for herself suddenly found herself inside the body of a 17-year-old girl, she quickly accepted the fact and thought, "I guess god wanted me to live a normal life, so he sent me to the body of this young girl in this peaceful time."

That's the first thing she thought after properly getting those sad memories of the original owner.

She didn't question the unbelievable reality that was happening to her. It was thanks to her experience as an assassin in her previous life that she was able to quickly adapt to the new change.

From her memories of Mira, she found out that she was not on Earth. The best proof was that, unlike Earth, there were seven moons in the sky at night in her current world.

When she saw her reflection in the old mirror of that broken room, she nearly killed herself. She was not taken care of properly. Her face was yellow, and no meat could be seen on her cheek. She looked like a hungry ghost. If one were to see her in that condition, they would say she is malnourished.

Mira was found by a family on the mountain road 15 years ago. She was wrapped properly in a very high-quality blanket. The only thing that was with Mira's younger self was a pendant, which looked very old and dirty.

The family had recently lost their child, so after discussing it properly, they talked to their village head about the child and decided to adopt her. At that time, there was chaos everywhere. Many families had thrown their children into the mountains because they lacked food at home. So no one thought of inquiring about Mira's origin.

In the male-dominated society, mainly daughters were directly killed after birth and recorded as born dead. Officials would close one eye on these cases after taking some money or food from them. Human trafficking was also at its peak at that time. Many families would buy brides for their sons.

So, in that situation, Mira was adopted, loved and taken care of by that kind Cole family. She was considered a truly lucky child because when families would even kill their own child to get more bites of food, she was brought up properly, even as an adopted daughter. She had basic things given to her. She would have to help with housework, but she was not sent to work in a field, unlike other kids in the village. This continued until she was 10 years old. Say it fortune or misfortune, the Cole family gave birth to their own biological child that year.

There was a scarcity of food everywhere. Even if they were farmers, they had to give more than half of the grown crops to the government as tax for using the land to cultivate so, there was barely enough food to fill their stomachs.

Dolores Cole was a very kind mother. Even if she loved her son more than Mira and very tasty food was given to him, she would still give some food to Mira.

William Cole, her adopted father, never really interfered in anything. All the decision-making inside the home was given to his wife. It was truly admirable that a guy was letting his wife make decision-making in that patriarchal society. He was very honest. But the worst part of being overly honest was that even when his parents bullied Mary, he would not interfere, just because questioning the decision of elders was not something an honest person would do.

Her so-called grandparents, Mr Cole and Mrs Cole, were beyond saving. They were more than patriarchal. They never interfered in the upbringing of Mira until their biological grandson was born.

Their biological grandchild was a boy, so as they were patriarchal, they would give everything to their own grandson.

They began to keep a record of every little food at home, fearing that Mira would eat everything that belonged to their grandson. And the food only barely enough for her to survive was given to Mira.

Mother Cole and Father Cole would never question their parents as they were very honest. They were very happy when Grandpa and Grandma Cole, staying with Uncle Cole's family, decided to come live with them.

That's right, even if they were the eldest children; Grandma and Grandpa Cole lived with their younger son because they loved their younger son more.

Anyway, Mira's true nightmare began. It was as if all her luck had dried up in those eight years. She did not have to help with many things at home and was even sent to school in the past. She was given food and clothes in the past. But the winds changed slowly.

Mira was ordered to do everything inside the -house and was even sent to work in the field. Of course, if Mira had been working from a young age, it would not have been too hard for her. If she had even complained about everything to her parents, she might not have had to do that much work.

But she was grateful that they had taken care of her as their own child for all those years, so she would do everything her so-called grandparents asked her to do as repayment for their kindness.

Even when the little ancestor Daniel bullied her, she would stay quiet. Slowly, their living condition was improving, but they still barely had enough food on their table. Now Grandma and Grandpa Cole had also come to live with them, so in order to ease her parents' worry, Mira volunteered to quit school. She never complained about anything and did everything at home.

As a result, for seven years, she was bullied in the home by her grandparents and little ancestor brother, but she never complained about it.

She had not eaten for a few days, and it seemed like Mira had died in her sleep when a nameless agent came inside her body. ~