ZERO’S FLASHBACK It was crystal clear and with that single statement, it was enough to understand why I am here. Ophelia, my father’s wife, did not need to explain anything anymore, but I could not stop listening to her as she told me everything from the very start. She and father started great. Since they were young, they already knew that the possibility of them being set up for an arranged marriage was high and they were not wrong. When Ophelia turned eighteen, father’s family went to ask her family for her hand in marriage. It was just for formality because it was already an arrangement made even before they were born. It was more of a partnership than a romantic relationship, Ophelia emphasized. Neither of them loved each other because, it was too obvious to say, they never really