Illyeon’s disheveled hair touched her bare shoulder.
“Is this also a dream?”
Lona groped her memory.
She remembered being held captive by Illyeon and falling asleep in the bathtub while taking a bath.
“That’s right. I definitely fell asleep while bathing.”
Why am I waking up in the Duke’s bedroom?
Lona quietly lifted the white sheet wrapped around her body.
“……!”
She was completely naked. Lona swallowed a silent scream. Holding tightly onto the sheet, she carefully snuck out of Illyeon’s bedroom. As she tiptoed to her room, all wrapped in a sheet, she felt so ridiculous that she could cry.
“It feels like this, like a maid of the Duke’s family.”
Surely nothing had happened between Illyeon and her. But if someone saw her, she would be at risk of being fired from her good job. Plus, the shame is a bonus.
Arriving at her room, Lona hastily put on clothes. Only when she was fully dressed did she finally feel relieved.
While Lona breathed a sigh of relief, Illyeon was heaving a huge sigh in his bedroom.
“I’m really going insane.”
After dismissing the butler, Illyeon draped a large sheet over his body like a cloak. Having been in the Knights for a long time, rescue activities were essential. He had many tricks up his sleeve.
Because he couldn’t see.
Because of him, Lona would not face disgrace.
He had lifted Lona’s arm while she lay in the tub, draped it over his shoulder, and carefully wrapped her in a sheet before carrying her outside.
It was his ‘rescue operation’. Don’t doubt my sincerity, Illyeon endlessly muttered to himself. That part was fine, but what he didn’t think about was what came next.
He couldn’t wipe a naked woman’s moisture, nor could he dress her for the same reason.
After standing in the middle of the room for a while, holding Lona who was dripping water from her wet hair, Illyeon sighed deeply and headed to his bed. He brought a towel to prevent her from catching a cold, drying the moisture from her hair and carefully covering her with a blanket. Then, he spent the rest of the night listening to Lona’s breathing as she slept soundly, having stolen his bed.
“It was a rescue operation. Staying in hot water for too long is not good. You could catch a cold. Also…”
Illyeon kept justifying his actions, his face turning red.
It was all because of Lona, who suddenly embraced him.
His mounting dissatisfaction reached its peak when Lona brought breakfast.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“It’s time for breakfast.”
Lona placed the plates neatly in front of Illyeon.
Today, he looked particularly down. With a face as smooth as a sculpture, he was slightly darkcircled, which was uncharacteristic.
‘As expected, the finishing touch for darkness is the face.’
Looking handsome, the slight addition of dark circles gave him the appearance of having a big worry or deep thought.
“Lona, can I ask you something?”
“Yes. Ask me anything.”
It was no different from any other morning. No, it was a day that should not be different. Lona tried to treat Illyeon as usual.
After she fell asleep in the bathroom and ended up on the bed, unless Illyeon brought up the circumstances, she would never be the first to speak of it.
“Oh my, Your Grace. This is quite an awkward situation.”
In her mind, she simulated various apologies hundreds of times and reached a conclusion.
“What do you think of me?”
However, when Illyeon asked a question out of the blue, completely unrelated to yesterday’s events, she paused for a moment.
“Can I speak honestly?”
“……Yes.”
When asked if she could ‘speak honestly’, Illyeon seemed a bit shaken.
“Well, yes.”
“Phew.”
Lona breathed out heavily.
“Sir Illyeon, you’re truly a wonderful employer. Isn’t the world about give and take? You can’t imagine how much of an honor I feel working for you, Your Grace.”
The Duke of Klevend was a job that deserved a fivestar rating even if calculated only by the annual salary. Passion pay? Our employer does not know that. If he gives anything, it must be gold coins.
“That’s not what I asked. What do you think of me?”
Rona looked at Eleon with sympathetic eyes. If the employer asks the employee to tell the truth, would they? Eleon, having been in the military for a long time, sometimes did not understand the hearts of ordinary people.
“Sir Eleon is a wonderful and great person.”
Rona told a story from a different perspective.
“People who are superior to others, like Sir Eleon, often find it hard to endure when they have health problems.”
Maybe because of such dreams. She wanted to tell Eleon even now.
“You are faithfully living your daily life. I think that is really impressive. I admire you.”
Rona’s answer seemed to please Eleon, who became silent.
“Then, now have your breakfast.”
She put a spoon in Eleon’s hand.
‘If you ask what I think about Eleon… It’s like a big and cute puppy.’
But she dared not treat her master as a dog, and only thought so to herself.
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Throughout the meal, Eleon felt gloomy.
‘What do you think of me?’
He was in a considerably disturbed state just asking that.
He was conscious of Rona day by day, but she had no personal feelings towards him. The maid Bernar was a desirable maid who would generously give points for her work attitude. It was more of a problem if she behaved too intimately with her master or had affection for the young, unmarried Eleon.
However, that was just a day’s work in the ordinary employeremployee relationship.
If Eleon showed a lot of interest in Rona, her clean work and work attitude could disappoint her employer.
‘I think you are a really great person. I admire you.’
Eleon kept only the words he wanted to hear, cutting out the rest.
“So you think well of me, don’t you?”
He’s not disliked, after all.
“Not bad. Quite acceptable.”
He didn’t feel happy or anything when he graduated at the top of his school, but now he found it interesting that his feelings became soft and mushy.
“There’s no need to compare to that time.”
Life as a knight.
It was a position where much restraint was required and he had to be a model to look up to. As a result, Eleon often didn’t get emotional over small things. Now living like this, he felt he had been somewhat inhuman and too strict with himself.
Anyway, he was determined to take Rona to the dressing room today, so he informed her of today’s schedule as she was cleaning up the dishes.
“Me? My clothes?”
“Sorry about yesterday. I got too excited, not like me.”
“Oh, just give me the money, I can go buy it myself.”
“I don’t like that because it’s not rewarding.”
He didn’t feel like giving, so he eliminated that option.
“And if I give you money, I think you might not buy clothes.”
“Ahahaha.”
Rona laughed awkwardly.
“I guess you found out that I didn’t go to the dressing room.”
“The butler said so. You went to the park in winter outdoor clothes in that weather.”
“I have no reason to go outside. And the maid’s clothes at the Duke’s house are of good quality and pretty.”
“I thought if I bought a lot of things, they would pay me.”
Eleon said flatly.
“Can I ask where you went?”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
