Maletta had been Isabella’s personal maid in the past, but Isabella didn’t help her at all.
This incident seemed to be settled for now, but Lucrezia could not simply let Ariadne go. It was a matter of the matron’s dignity.
“And you! If such a thing had happened, you should have come to me for resolution. How could you just hit a maid!”
She glared at Ariadne with fierce eyes.
“Violence is never allowed, no matter what!”
‘Violence is never allowed in any circumstance!’
Words she had heard after the tiara incident with Cesare in her previous life echoed in her ears. Ariadne smirked.
It wasn’t that violence was never allowed under any circumstances, but rather that those without the power to justify violence should not resort to it.
Then, wasn’t the violence perpetrated by the soldiers Cesare had led to the capital not violence? Was Cesare, who had killed Prince Alfonso and hung him on the city walls, as pure as white?
Was this Lucrezia pure?
Was there a fundamental difference between a fist she swung herself and a whip she had raised to strike with the head maid? From Maletta’s perspective, wasn’t it better to be slapped a few times by Ariadne than to be bound in a basement and whipped ten times?
Nevertheless, Ariadne respectfully bowed her head and knelt on the ground.
“I apologize for my thoughtlessness. I did not want to trouble you, so I tried to handle the matter myself, but I was wrong.”
She apologized again, her head still bowed.
“I will go to the Langbouye Refuge as a sign of my remorse. I will serve there for three days and nights to repent for my mistake.”
The Langbouye Refuge was infamous. It was established by Margaret, the wife of King Leo III, to help the poor of San Carlo, but it was ridiculously insufficient to feed and shelter all of San Carlo’s poor with the Queen’s budget.
Those who went in often came out dead.
“Since Maletta has also strayed from the right path due to my lack of virtue, I would like to take her with me and inspire her faith.”
Lucrezia seemed slightly taken aback. The Langbouye Refuge? Going to the hell of human life where blood and pus flowed, on her own?
But Isabella intervened.
“Wouldn’t five days be better?”
She said with an angelic smile on her face.
“The holy Asteya in the Papal Scripture also prayed for five days and nights after sinning and received forgiveness. Wouldn’t it yield better results if we strictly follow the Papal Scripture?”
Ariadne knew better than anyone else that Isabella had not a drop of faith. The person who had stained her hands with the blood of her flesh and blood to steal her younger sister’s man, what Papal Scripture?
Isabella was doing this purely to torment Ariadne.
However, whether it was three days or five days, it didn’t make much difference to Ariadne. She had a strong will to endure filth, cold, and danger.
“Your sister is right. I will reflect and return in five days.”
Isabella whispered into a confused Lucrezia’s ear. She was unmasked in front of her mother.
“Mother! When she returns from the orphanage, she may have fleas or lice, so let’s confine her in a small room for a month.”
“Would you say nothing if Ariadne was locked up for a month?”
“What would father say if we isolate her until she’s clean, in case she brings a disease from the orphanage?”
San Carlo was a place where plague and cholera periodically broke out. The Orphanage was a place in San Carlo where the poorest and sickest people go.
Isabella dropped a word.
“The new girl, she’s obedient but I don’t like her. We need to tame her. Let’s show her who’s in charge this time.”
Lucrezia nodded her head at the words of her golden eldest daughter.
That evening, Ariadne packed her bags and headed to the Orphanage early the next morning.
[This is the time separator]The carriage heading to the orphanage was a simple one, painted black.
There was a fancy silver carriage that the Cardinal usually rode, but she didn’t even think about riding it. He wouldn’t give it to her, and even if he did, she would have refused.
In one corner of the narrow carriage, the Mongolian maid, Maleta, who was messed up by the whip, was nervously sitting.
Ariadne smiled and drove. She needed a personal maid. A person of her own, who was not influenced by Lucrezia and Isabella.
“Maleta. Now it’s just you and me for five days.”
“……”
“How will you manage while Isabella can’t protect you?”
Maleta’s shoulders started to shake.
“No, would Isabella take care of you? Didn’t you see when mother shouted ten whips? If sister had said a word, you wouldn’t have been whipped.”
General Theodosius of the ancient Latin Empire said that people can be ruled by fear or love. In her previous life, Ariadne failed at both. She was ridiculed by those around her and did not receive love.
This time, she was going to try with fear.
“Even at home, you spend most of the day with me, not with Isabella.”
Ariadne leaned her upper body towards Maleta. Her tall height and straight shoulders pressed on the round and chubby Maleta.
“You can make a wrong judgment at first. You can make a mistake. But when you realize your mistake, you should quickly change your attitude, shouldn’t you?”
Maleta took a breath.
“I am a generous master. I can forget about the past.”
Suddenly, the carriage shook heavily.
Heehee!
“We have arrived.”
Fortunately for Maleta, the carriage arrived at the orphanage just in time.
Ariadne hissed, and got out of the carriage.
The Orphanage was one of the rare poor relief facilities in the continent not operated by the Holy Church, but by the country.
Under the guidance of the Queen’s management, Ariadne, who had unpacked in a cold room, asked the royal managers, who didn’t know how to handle the daughter of a Cardinal, to just give her volunteer work to do.
‘I have to go where the poor people are gathered. That’s why I brought Maleta here.’
[This is the time separator]“Get in line! One bowl per person!”
The place where Ariadne was placed was a soup distribution line. The soup pot was far away, but her arm hurt as if it would fall off because she had to ladle it nearly 500 times a day.
On the first day, and even on the second day, when she didn’t see anyone looking for her, Ariadne asked a subordinate manager who was working with her.
“I know that there are a lot more poor people in the orphanage, so why are there only these people for meals?”
“People who are very sick don’t have the strength to stand in the meal line.”
There was no designated manpower to bring food to the seriously ill patients, meaning they were starving.
“That child must be there.”
Ariadne decided to go find her. Up until now, Ariadne couldn’t even imagine meeting someone more important than the person she was looking for here.
Top Celebrity Younger Brother Bears Her Child (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Forced to live stream romance with a top celebrity in a female-dominant world.
Yan Jin transmigrated into a brothel, with a fellow transmigrated junior beside her.
Hearing the obscene words coming from outside, the unfortunate junior covered his ears tightly, his cheeks flushed red, and whispered to comfort her, “Don’t worry, I will definitely help you escape.”
“Don’t worry, I will definitely defend your chastity.” Yan Jin looked at the flawless and delicate features of the unfortunate junior and gently comforted, “Because we have transmigrated into a female-dominant world.”
※※※
Top celebrity Yu Shu suddenly fell into a coma during a concert.
Research scientist Yan Jin fainted in the lab after working overtime.
Two people with no connection were rushed to the same hospital.
Three days later, neither of them had woken up.
Suddenly, the entire nation discovered that a live streaming app had been forcibly installed on their phones.
Upon opening it, they heard the two discussing how to escape from the brothel.
The entire internet was in an uproar.
After the two successfully escaped from the brothel, Yu Shu’s fan group rushed to make a banner and sent it to the hospital overnight.
“Big sister bravely took action to defend the chastity of our idol!”
※※※
When Yu Shu was diagnosed with pregnancy, Yan Jin stared at his belly for a long time.
Covering his stomach, he muttered gloomily, “If you don’t like it, I’ll go get an abortion.”
“It’s not that I don’t like it.” Yan Jin hugged Yu Shu and said softly, “I just feel like I’m not human.”
Yu Shu comforted Yan Jin, “I was already an adult when we got together.”
Yan Jin hesitated, “But you won’t be of legal marriageable age even after giving birth to the child.”
At the same time, a flood of bullet comments appeared in the live streaming room that the two couldn’t see.
[Although it’s inappropriate, I also want a young and handsome boyfriend to have my child.]
①Male pregnancy (highlighted)
The female lead is five years older than the male lead, and the male lead is already an adult when he appears.
