“Your Majesty, the Empress. Have you arrived?”
As Rasilia entered, the maids quickly changed their expressions. If they had not eavesdropped from outside the door, they would have had no idea what was happening.
“What brings you all together like this?”
Since Rasilia had awakened in the Empress’s body, the maids’ position had become somewhat ambiguous.
Empress Cartagena always included her maids in everything. Eight noble ladies following her on both sides were a means to stand out and simultaneously a symbol of power.
The maids of the Empress’s palace were no different from the Empress herself and were quite accustomed to swaggering and acting unreservedly within the palace.
However, the situation changed completely after the Empress claimed to have lost her memory.
The Empress hardly sought the maids except for when dressing, and the maids spent more time idly sitting in the empty rooms of the Empress’s palace.
Since they had nothing much to do, their work had become sipping tea, playing games, and eating various snacks. As a result, they all gained a little weight.
This could not go on forever.
However, complaining directly to the Empress was too terrifying. Just this morning, Lady Pashad was chased out of the palace for attempting to voice her complaints.
So, all they could do was target a relatively easy victim, a maid who didn’t even seem like a maid, from who knows where.
“Did you enjoy your meal?”
“I heard Your Majesty greatly looked forward to dining with the two of you.”
Rasilia, instead of receiving the unusually polite greetings of the maids, looked at Ivette.
Ivette looked extremely pale, as if she had been displeased with her role from the very first day.
“……I ordered Lady Shraiden to change clothes.”
Ivette was still in her soiled clothes.
Ivette inhaled and bowed her head deeply.
“I apologize, Your Majesty. To change, I must leave the palace……,”
Unlike other maids who stayed in the palace with their belongings and servants, Ivette, a palace person, went home every two days.
‘This is really my mistake.’
Rasilia hadn’t considered this. But perhaps even Empress Cartagena wouldn’t have known.
Ivette was only different in status. Nothing that came with that status had been granted. To expect her to fulfill the role of the first maid without providing anything was too conscienceless.
“I will go and come back immediately if you permit.”
“That would be best, Your Majesty.”
Oddly enough, one of the noble ladies among the maids spoke up.
She was not doing it without reason.
‘She won’t be within my sight outside the palace. It might be easier to torment her.’
In the worst case, Ivette might not be able to return to the palace.
“No, there’s no need. If the problem is that she has no change of clothes, she can wear mine.”
This caused an uproar.
“You? You, Your Majesty? You?”
Ivette did not understand what was being said at first. The other maids, who had been cautious about speaking, raised their voices in anger.
“That cannot be, Your Majesty!”
“How can anyone wear the royal family’s clothes! A person of different blood!”
“Making a palace person a maid was already nonsensical!”
Perhaps the maids suspected that the Empress was different from usual since losing her memory. That’s why they could raise their voices without fear.
However, though her method was different, Rasilia’s character was not inferior to Cartagena’s. The whimsical Empress might have been more lenient, but the prophet was more strict.
“Go on, keep talking.”
Compared to the excited maids, Rasilia’s voice was very small. But that small voice felt like cold water soaking the skin.
“If raising a deafening voice in front of me, the Empress, is the dignity of a noble…”
“…….”
“…….”
The room became quiet in an instant.
Rasilia calmly looked at the maids, whose faces she hadn’t even bothered to remember. None of them stood out. They were probably all like Lady Pashad. Still, just in case, she asked.
“Is there anyone here who could be of help to my future consort?”
“What?”
Ivette’s eyes widened, but it wasn’t addressed to Ivette.
“Cheep!”
The response came from behind Ivette’s head. Ivette, who had thick hair, always wore it up so as not to look overly ornate, but Pipi seemed to be hiding somewhere in her lush hair.
I said there is no such person. Then there was no need to care any further.
“Princess Shraiden.”
“Yes, yes?”
“Have you read the royal etiquette book?”
“Yes? Ah, yes! I have read it.”
“Good. Was there an example in the etiquette book where the Empress must not bestow clothing to a Duke’s daughter?”
“Um……. No, Your Majesty the Empress. There was no such thing. On the contrary, it’s the opposite. It’s a great honor for the royal family to bestow clothing, and in such cases, it’s etiquette to wear the same clothes every time you face the royals.”
“Then my maids advised me wrongly. Did they try to make me an Empress who knows nothing about etiquette, using my lost memory as an excuse?”
The maids’ faces changed.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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