My Fiancé Keeps Trying to Raise Me (16 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 17

“Hmm.”

Anet, recalling Kardin’s earnest plea for her to truly listen, let out a soft groan and clutched her head with both hands.

‘To act freely, without permission, and do exactly as I please.’

For Anet, who had lived her entire life imprisoned in a secluded palace under the king’s decree—suppressed and confined since birth—those words were far too difficult to accept.

Until now, her only act of rebellion had been impetuously going to the king and begging to join the monster hunt.

Yet, looking back, she wasn’t even certain that had truly been what she wanted.

Perhaps the nanny’s old words—that one day she would accomplish something extraordinary—still lingered in her mind.

Or perhaps she’d merely hoped that by earning recognition through such valorous deeds, her situation, or the way others treated her, might finally change.

‘No, that’s not it.’

She had simply believed that was the only way out of her suffocating confinement.

‘Yes… what I truly wished for was…’

To walk proudly out of the secluded palace.

But even though she’d fought monsters, Anet never dared to imagine stepping outside the palace walls alone.

She was convinced that her fiery red hair and crimson eyes were so distinctive that anyone, anywhere, would instantly recognize her—and just as the maids who once served her had done, the whole world would surely fear and despise her.

Thus, Anet had never even dreamed of living an ordinary life.

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