“Would you mind taking a look at the laundry too?”
“Check if the food is set up well!”
Hearing the voice calling me, I stretched my neck like a giraffe, I was sweating profusely.
Even though we were fellow maids, the maids at the Grand Duke's Estate looked for me as if they were competing, as if they felt reassured by receiving my OK sign.
In short, even though I'm lacking even ten bodies now, it was too early to rest.
My dream is to be a head maid, and there's no place where I get paid as much as the Grand Duke Estate.
‘Our Grand Duke. Even though he is known to the public as a bad guy, but he is generous to the people who work for him.'
“Ciel! Help me quickly!”
My name was called here and there, so I had no time to think about our Grand Duke.
Dozens of employees, including me, were walking around the luxurious hall.
Only after tying the ivory curtains and decorating with roses was I able to catch my breath.
“Ciel, what about tea?”
“Oh, right. Look at my mind. I’m almost forgotten about it. The white tea leaves were in the basement, right?”
“You have to prepare the one from Loren.”
I was busy checking the hall and preparing tea for dinner.
I hurried down to the basement, prepared some finely dried white flower petals, and returned alone.
Before serving tea for dinner, I had to boil it in advance and taste it.
Sure enough, a butler’s scolding was heard not far away from the hallway.
It was an old butler with a long mustache and glaring eyes.
“No matter how busy you are, you should check your attire!”
Instead of lifting the car, I glanced to the side.
The long and narrow mirror in the hallway reflected my appearance. When I turned my head, I saw a figure with light blue hair tied in a ponytail.
I tidied up my bangs that were matted with sweat and brushed away the wrinkles from my crumpled apron.
Unlike usual, my expression in the mirror looked really serious.
Today is the day my salary was raised, so my other colleagues looked excited despite their busy schedule, but my expression was a little dark.
‘How could today be the day when the great Grand Duke dies?’
It wasn’t even because the Grand Duke was old.
Enormous wealth, great power, and optional honor.
In addition, the handsome Grand Duke, who was born with it, came of age this year. To die at the age of 20, it was a more pathetic fate than me who opened my eyes as a maid.
As a maid, I didn't encounter the Grand Duke very often, but as one of the Grand Duke servants, there was only one reason why I could foresee his death.
Because, this world was inside of the novel that I had read until the end in the past.
And the villain who faced the miserable end of the novel was my master, Ferze Yekart.
There is a saying that if you want to survive, you should lick the feet of villains.
This world is from the novel <Random Box> that I read, but after 5 years of living here, I can’t help but agree.
'What is the probability that you will be in your favorite novel?'
Originally my name was Yeon Si-eun, an orphan.
There must have been parents who gave birth to me, but no one raised me.
I grew up in an orphanage, but I never felt it was home.
Even that, I had to come out before my adulthood, so I went to various shelters.
‘A strong child who doesn’t fit his age.’
It was something I’ve always heard from adults.
As time went on, I graduated from college and got a job as a store manager at a famous clothing company through a 237:1 competition.
A workaholic that even her co-workers were quick to criticize.
I was an office worker who heard that I might die while working.
I worked silently like a cow for about three years and was promoted to a team leader.
‘There’s been no part-time job I haven’t had since college.'
Even though I had a part-time job, managed my grades, and even got a certificate, I never felt at ease even for a single day.
Even a difficult appointment with a friend is immediately canceled if the slightest problem arises at the store. Additionally, working overtime was standard.
‘It was great to be a team leader even before three years.’
I was on a plane on a business trip, spending more than half a day in a narrow plane seat.
After I finished reading my favorite novel <Random Box>, I stared down at the sky blankly through a round, narrow window.
<Random Box> was different from other novels with good protagonists. I liked it more because it was a novel in which the wounded female protagonist did whatever she wanted and became a wicked woman.
It was an early morning flight, so the dark night sky was filled with only black and dark clouds. It’s like my life with only work left.
‘Is this how people live? Isn’t it the modern version of slave?’
Excellent credit rating. The only luxury I have is picking up this and that at a store that costs 1,000 won. I was a natural worker ant who only saved what I had collected.
— Sieun, what’s the fun of living? Don’t you get tired of working every day?
My boss, who was three years older than me, said that if you only live once and live such a boring life, what will be left?
It didn't feel good, but it wasn't really wrong, so I was thinking of going on a vacation to an island when I got back from my business trip.
'I died of overwork at my business trip...... '
I was on my way back from the meeting a day before I returned home.
- Huh, huh. who......
I couldn't even ask who was there.
My heart stopped like a lie in front of the hotel door arranged by the company.
Who knew that I would die after working like that? If that were the case, I wouldn't have held back and would have done whatever I wanted to do.
“Ciel, you damn bitch!”
This is what I heard the moment I came to my senses. A harsh voice containing malice penetrated into my blank ears.
“If I had known it was going to be like this, I would have sold it at a bar!”
“Damion! What are you saying to the kid!”
A ferocious voice scraping metal spread throughout the room. Hearing that sound, I cautiously opened my eyes.
A busty woman approached the middle-aged man who was very angry.
After I collapsed, I woke up in the body of a 12-year-old girl, Ciel.
Since then, I have naturally lived with Ciel’s memories, forgetting the past when I was Yeon Si-eun.
There was no last name for a commoner, and I didn't know when the old house in the slum would collapse.
The child had a drunkard father, Damion, and his mother died while giving birth to Ciel.
Next to Damion was a woman with timid personality.
Because he didn't have money, he couldn't get married, and since they weren't legally married, strictly speaking, I couldn't call her a stepmother.
In the novel, the stepmother was tormenting her to death, but who was tormenting her was Damion, not the stepmother.
The lady used to secretly steal scraps from nobles' clothes and make cloth bags and sell them.
Instead of Damion, who was lifeless and lazy, the lady took care of our livelihood.
One day, when I cried because I had nothing to eat, Demion grabbed my wrist roughly and dragged me to the street.
And shouted in front of others.
— Don’t just cry because you’re hungry. Beg and get something to eat!
As a twelve year old, there was nothing I could do. So I really begged and brought some unsold bread that the bakery lady gave me, but I got a slap in the face.
— Do you think we’re beggars? I was still the butler who served Baron Jun!
The bread I had worked so hard to get was lying on the floor.
The lady didn't come back, probably because she was afraid of Damion's behavior, and I was called a useless girl every day.
That day, too, it was when I came out to the streets to get something to eat.
Crash!
I collided with a carriage that was moving slowly backwards to stop.
I felt like my body was floating and then fell to the ground.
My skinny body, unable to eat, could not overcome the shock and fainted.
When I opened my eyes two days later, I looked up at the ceiling in a daze.
It was home. It was the same old house ceiling that I had seen yesterday, the day before, and a few days ago, but something was definitely different.
'Uh······?'
I raised my hand towards the ceiling. I was always used to small, fern-like hands, but today they felt unfamiliar.
— You’re such a waste of food! If you had an accident with a carriage that a nobleman rides, shouldn’t you have to take their money? That is called compensation…….
—…….
It wasn't until a year after entering Ciel's body that I regained Yeon Si-eun's memories.
The accident that happened that day saved me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to escape from that house.
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