Chapter 1
Chapter 1
The man stopped his wandering hands.
He let out a derisive, fed-up sneer. “Trying to play One Thousand and One Nights, you useless little girl?”
The anesthetic left me paralyzed, sinking into the plush mattress as I let the old man stroke my cheek.
“I’m beautiful right now, aren’t I?” I asked.
I followed up with another question: “With a face like mine, even if my father wanted to make money, he’d have plenty of ways to cash in. Why would he be in such a hurry to sell me to you?”
“You’re a businessman. You know that anything someone is desperate to get rid of comes with risks.”
Suspicious, the old man flipped open my wallet. The photo inside showed me at sixteen, incomparably ugly.
Looking a bit repulsed, he began to scrutinize my face but couldn’t find a single trace of plastic surgery. “How did you do it?”
I knew I had piqued his interest.
“The reason… starts from when I was a child.”
“It’s also the first story I’m going to tell: The Beautiful Corpse.”