“What brings you here?”
I glared at Duke Cledwin Maindland and asked, and Duke Rond was surprised by my sudden change in demeanor.
“Duke Cledwin Maindland.”
“Lady Roar. Duke Rond.”
Duke Rond greeted him respectfully, and Duke Cledwin Maindland spoke to me after acknowledging the greeting.
“Quite unexpected to meet you here, Lady Roar, while on a walk.”
Wow.
Anyone could tell that Duke Cledwin Maindland’s insincere tone meant, ‘Of course you’re here, where else would you be?’
This guy, really…
I didn’t want to acknowledge him, so I swallowed my saliva and glanced at Duke Rond.
However, Duke Cledwin Maindland continued to speak naturally.
“I heard you were appointed as Princess Milliora’s chambermaid?”
“I’m still in training.”
Hearing my reply, he slightly raised an eyebrow.
“You’re here even though you’re in training?”
“Training ended today.”
“Please give my regards to the count if you have the time. Bringing a family member into the palace causes a lot of worry. Well, you can write a letter if you like letters. What do you say, Lady Roar?”
Why doesn’t he shut up? That damned letter, letter!
“Absolutely not.”
I answered while glaring, and Duke Rond looked at me with a confused gaze.
But now was not the time to be concerned about Duke Rond. I had to stop Duke Cledwin Maindland before he continued his banter.
He seemed to consider me a rat in the pantry now that I was in the palace. No way.
I glared at him, thinking.
‘If you’re a human, show some consideration. Can’t you imagine my situation? Or do you not care?’
He chuckled with his eyes narrowed. The smile seemed to say,
“Don’t even dream about it.”
Duke Cledwin Maindland continued to smile.
“We’ll be seeing each other often, Lady Roar.”
“Ah… what a pity.”
I murmured it so sincerely that both Duke Rond and Duke Cledwin Maindland looked at me with confused expressions.
But I just gave a strained smile. It was the twisted smile Countess warned me never to make during manners training.
I couldn’t hide my true feelings in front of Duke Cledwin Maindland.
The good thing was that Duke Rond was a stick in the mud. He showed no sign of leaving his bench in this secluded corner of the courtyard, and Duke Cledwin Maindland couldn’t say anything explicit to me with a witness present.
“If you need help, feel free to speak up, Lady Roar.”
The manager’s face was streaming with sympathy as he asked for confirmation once more. The infamy of Her Highness the Princess had already spread throughout the palace.
He spoke awkwardly as he stirred a thick green liquid boiling over a low flame.
“Anyway, it means you can see Miss Lorisha in the royal palace. That’s a good thing. Um. Yes.”
Seeing Manager Roy trying to find a silver lining in my situation, I felt increasingly desperate.
Then he comforted himself with the thought that he had never lived with Misha.
“The Second Prince needs many people. So I must’ve thought carelessly. Being a maid to any member of the royal family is an honorable position. Congratulations, Miss Lorisha.”
‘I wish you would stop forcing a positive evaluation.’
I finally realized why Prince Greian had summoned me from the Zebron Hotel.
He had returned from the Amata battle and needed people in the royal palace. After all, the battlefield and the palace were distinctly different places.
But when the third envoy brought a daughter, he called for her, only to send her back as an illegitimate child.
When I said I was illegitimate, I clearly saw some light go out in Prince Greian’s eyes. Actually, I had said it on purpose.
Upon closer inspection, my birth was a thousand times more important to others than to myself.
I responded shamelessly.
“That’s right. Who would have thought such an event would occur by me daring to enter the royal palace?”
“Yes, yes.”
The manager did his best to respond hypocritically while vigorously stirring the green liquid.
“What is that?”
“I’m brewing leaves of a fern.”
“Someone must have a rash, then?”
Thus began our conversation. The manager never stopped talking if it was work-related, and I naturally became his assistant in the work.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
