ALICE LAURENT Flashback. I came from a prominent and conservative family. My mother is a weak woman who likes to be puppet by my father. My father is a strict dictator. According to our servants, my parents are not married with love but in an arranged marriage. Nevertheless, I still love my mother and father. But I hate my life. I have no freedom. I’m not happy. And I can’t do the things like the usual teenagers like me does. I can’t hang out with my friends. I don’t live like an average person. My parents always hide me in the mansion. They kept telling me that my beauty was so extraordinary and that they had to take care of me. If I don’t listen to them, they’ll get mad, and danger will follow me. I can eat and get everything I want. But I don’t have my freedom. When I turned 18th

