I Thought It Was a Common Transmigration - Chapter 63

Adolescent girls’ emotions run the gamut several times a day.

They can be overjoyed and saddened by the slightest trigger.

But at the time, I wasn’t in a position to be swayed by small triggers.

“Oh, it’s leukemia, Mr. Hai. I don’t have any money in the house, and my daughter’s got this weird disease.”

The day I came home from the leukemia diagnosis, my dad was irritably talking to someone on the phone, right in front of me.

I was suffering from unexplained headaches and dizziness, so I went to the clinic and the doctor told me to go to the hospital, where I found out I had leukemia.

I was in pain all over, and my mom and dad just sighed heavily with grim faces, which didn’t ease the fear and anxiety I was feeling.

Feeling like a sinner, I was depressed and sad the entire time I was hospitalized, undergoing treatment, and receiving my brother’s bone marrow transplant.

To be honest, I can’t tell you how many times I wished I could just die.

Even when I found out that my brother’s bone marrow was a match for me, I wasn’t happy.

“Oh, no, that’s gonna fucking hurt!”

“But she’s your sister, you have to do it.”

“Oh, just tell her to go to hell!”

“Ha…… Soo-chan, if you do this, I’ll buy you that laptop or something you’ve been wanting……”

“……really? Really?”

“Of course.”

My brother’s voice, telling me to go to hell even though I was right there with him, would come to life in my head every time I looked at him.

After a bone marrow transplant that was traded for a gaming laptop, I was exhausted from several procedures and no one was by my side.

My parents were standing by my brother who donated the bone marrow, complimenting him on a good job, and I was lying alone, staring at the white ceiling.

I felt so sad and depressed that tears streamed down my face, and I realized that I was crying to get their attention.

‘It’s all for nothing, so why are you crying?’

I cried, but they didn’t look back at me. I was lucky if they didn’t call me a crybaby.

Once I realized that, I was able to get out of depressive moods quickly because I knew it was pointless.

That realization from my previous life has come in handy now.

‘It’s not the time to be depressed. It’s dangerous to rely on Killian when I don’t know if he’s going to give me his heart or not.’

I’d been doing my best to say hello to the extras, and I’d gotten a few servants to know me, but I needed to do something more practical.

‘Money! I need to raise more money!’

I still only have nine million sennas in my safe at the Mallen Central Bank.

That’s not a lot of money by the standards of this world’s commoners, but it’s far from enough to prepare for an unknown future.

I scrambled to my feet and began pulling out the jewelry I could sell.

‘Let’s sell everything that came off my dress, and the accessories I brought with me when I got married…… hm, let’s sell everything that’s not my style.’

I went through all the drawers and accessory cases to see what I could sell, but there wasn’t as much jewelry as I thought.

The large gems adorning the dresses are colored minerals that look like rubies or sapphires, and while they are considered jewelry, they don’t fetch much money.

‘Let’s sell the dresses I don’t wear!’

Noblewomen’s dresses are also expensive.

I wonder if anyone would buy my dresses if I sold them, but it turns out there’s a thriving second-hand dress market because some people don’t wear their dresses again after one or two wears.

I sorted through the dresses I’d brought with me when I got married, the glamorous, provocative ones that I was afraid would look out of place if altered.

There are only three of them.

“Anna, can you find a dress buyer for me?”

“Sure.”

I was glad she didn’t ask.

I didn’t have to rush to make up a lame reason.

Anna, a paragon of a competent maid, brought a man in late that afternoon.

He is the owner of a very popular dress shop on Le Belle-Marie Street.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, I laid out three dresses in front of him.

“I’d like to sell these three dresses.”

“Oh, they’re in great condition, how many times have you worn them?”

“This one maybe once, the other two I’ve never worn.”

“Sorry? You’re selling a brand new dress? Why don’t you wear them at least once before you sell them? Even if they’re brand new, they’ll always be second-hand when I buy them, isn’t that a waste?”

He seemed to have a conscience for a merchant.

“It is a waste…… but I don’t want to wear another dress that might offend the dignity of House Ludwig.”

“What do you mean, offend their dignity? I’m sure these dresses will look very good on you. This amount of revealing is nothing these days.”

I know. I know these dresses would look amazing on me.

It was a design that Count Riegelhoff would have chosen with great care to make Edith look her best, though how she would do it was the question.

“That’s very kind of you to say, but I’ll probably never wear it, so I’m selling it before it goes out of style.”

“If that’s what you want to do, okay, then…… I’ll pay 300,000 sennas for this dress, 400,000 sennas for this one, and 180,000 sennas for this one.”

The dresses, which would have cost close to one million sennas to make, dropped to less than half price.

“Can’t you give me a little more? I’ve only worn this once, and the other two are brand new……”

“Actually, I’d be happy to do so, but there are only a few people who are willing to pay for a dress with such an unconventional design, so it’s difficult to sell them……”

The merchant’s words made sense. There aren’t many people who can wear such a design.

In the end, I accepted his offer and sold three dresses.

The next day, I took Anna to a jewelry store on Darsus Street.

This time, I didn’t bother to compare a few places and went straight to Amabile.

I thought they would be more accommodating since I had done business with them before.

However, when the jewelry store owner took a closer look at the jewelry I brought in, I was nervous inside.

“Hmm…… I’ll pay you 10,000 sennas each for the diamond beads, 30,000 sennas for the topaz, 50,000 sennas for the tourmaline, and 30,000 sennas for the garnet……”

He sorted through the gems with a stern face, calculating the total with an abacus.

Apparently, the price of semi-precious stones dropped a lot the larger they were, and the diamond beads I’d saved just in case fetched a good price.

I was a little disappointed, but the jewelry store owner’s voice brightened slightly as he checked out my accessories.

“That’s a nice emerald. Hmm…… I think I can buy it for 3 million sennas.”

A necklace of emeralds and diamonds that was so dazzling that it made my eyes hurt went for 3 million sennas, a pair of ruby earrings that were equally dazzling went for 1.5 million sennas, and a bracelet of diamonds and semi-precious stones went for 1.8 million sennas.

“That makes a total of 6.91 million sennas, then.”

He turned the statement toward me, showing me the calculations.

I tried to haggle some more, but the jewelry store owner repeated that he couldn’t go any higher.

“Okay. I’ll sell them all.”

“Thanks for coming back every time with good stuff.”

The store owner looked satisfied, put the jewelry away, and handed me straight cash.

The money from the sale of the dress and jewelry totaled 7.79 million sennas.

‘Combined with the money in the safe, it’s still only 16.79 million sennas.’

That’s not enough to live on the run, and it’s not enough to bribe the people around me.

I don’t know if I’d be able to escape the flow of the story or not, but I’d need a lot more money to try anything.

‘Even as the daughter-in-law of a powerful man, a woman can’t get much money.’

Of course, I am grateful that I wasn’t reincarnated as a poor commoner, but I am still a little bitter that I don’t have as much money as I had hoped.

When I got home and was resting, Killian came to visit. Judging by the fine lines between his brows, he is here to scold me.

“Killian. I’m a little tired right now, so I’m going to–”

“What are you up to?”

“What?”

“I heard you sold your jewelry and dresses.”

“Oh……”

That was fast.

Anna kept her mouth shut, but less than a day later the news reached Killian’s ears.

Then again, maybe he’s keeping a watchful eye on me.

“I was just getting rid of some useless stuff.”

“Even if it was useless, haven’t you thought about how it would look in the eyes of others if you sold off your things?”

Oh, is that how it goes again?

Killian seemed to think I had disgraced House Ludwig.

But I couldn’t help it.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t think of it that way, I only sold the useless stuff because I didn’t have any cash to spend……”

“No cash?”

“Yeah.”

Killian looked puzzled.

“You have a monthly allowance coming to you, don’t you?”

“What? I’ve never heard that before.”

“Obviously when we got married…… ah!”

As if to clarify, Killian suddenly put his hand to his forehead.

“Oh no…… I’m sorry. I’m supposed to be the one who’s responsible for your monthly allowance, but I guess I just forgot.”

“Huh?”

Are you fucking saying you didn’t give me the money you were supposed to give me? God, my blood pressure is rising!

Killian, you idiot! How could you forget, I thought you were so smart, but you forgot……!

“I’m so sorry. I’ll give you everything I haven’t been able to give you so far, all at once.”

As expected Killian. You are still a human.

I quickly regained my peace of mind.