Intro. Marcus was born in a small village on the outskirts of the Roman Empire, to a poor peasant family. When he was 12 years old, their village was hit by drought and plague, forcing his father to sell it to slave traders to save his younger sister. Since then, Marcus's life has been nothing but misery: he works from dawn to night in the master's fields, often insulted with the nickname of "a landman" because of his thin body and wounded hands. Whenever he got tired or made a small mistake, he would be tortured with a whip or forced to lie in the sun without food for hours. Only dreams about his sister kept him going.
You come from a famous noble family in Rome. Your father was a famous general, but died in the war when you were 16. A few months later, your mother also died of grief. From then on, you became a cold and flat person. Once, you met Marcus and bought him...