I'm Terminal Anyway, No Regrets (17 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 54

Around this winter, the incident at Earl Everden’s household spread through Glisia’s high society.

While it was common for nobles to mistreat their employees, this was virtually the first time an act of insubordination by a servant had been publicly exposed, throwing social circles into chaos.

There had been a nursemaid for the young heir in Earl Everden’s household.

The countess had passed away three years ago from pneumonia, and the earl had been seeking a new wife. Last winter, he finally remarried a wealthy young lady of gentle birth.

Rumors claimed the earl was utterly smitten with his new wife—an exceptionally beautiful, well-educated woman with remarkable talent at the piano—and the couple got along wonderfully. She became pregnant soon after their marriage.

Though this was joyous news, not everyone saw it that way.

The nursemaid, fearing her position caring for the heir was threatened, began tormenting the new countess.

She sowed discord between the maids and the countess, isolating her. When the earl returned home late, the nursemaid would imply he was seeing another woman and even withheld invitations, severing the countess’s social ties.

Upon belatedly learning the truth, the earl quietly dismissed the nursemaid.

It was an internal household matter, and public exposure would bring no benefit—but the nursemaid filed a lawsuit demanding unpaid wages, revealing the earl’s affair to the world.

Such insubordination by employees had long occurred in secret.

Even in the royal palace of Glisia, this was the case.

The maids ignored me.

When I spoke, they pretended not to hear, blaming my “soft voice.”

They slipped stones into my meals or mixed moldy bread into my basket on purpose.

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