Bride in Red, Bride of Bones

The Yules, known as the richest family in the nation, intend to pick out their future daughter-in-law hailing from rural villages with "very slender" being their only criterion. The truth is, they intend to use the life energy of pregnant women to extend their sickly heir, Jude Yule's life. So far, countless women have been sacrificed for Jude's sake. Rose Dane's older sister is one of them. In order to investigate the truth, Rose starves herself to fit the criterion so that