“Ack! That old fox!”

Returning to her room, Dohanna couldn’t contain her anger and yelled, then began throwing things in the room indiscriminately. With a crashing sound, items broke and scattered.

Housekeeper, who had been quietly observing, approached Dohanna to calm her down. “Please stop. Such behavior is not good for prenatal education.”

Dohanna looked at the housekeeper blocking her path and grumbled, “Hey, do you find me amusing too?”

“What are you talking about?”

Dohanna’s gaze towards the mother-in-law was insolent.

She scrutinized the housekeeper from top to bottom and spoke provocatively, “Still find me amusing? Answer me, quickly.”

Despite appearing calm, her voice had an underlying sharpness.

Dohanna, who was considerably younger, fiercely glared at the much older housekeeper. The once gentle eyes were now filled with madness.

“When there were just the two of us, I told you to address me as the Countess, didn’t I?”

The housekeeper had no choice but to remain silent in the face of Dohanna’s unreasonable demand.

“Why do you keep provoking me? So insolent. If I set my mind to it, I could cut someone like you without hesitation.”

It was a threatening remark from Dohanna. She couldn’t afford to shrink back in the face of her livelihood.

Without responding to Dohanna’s bullying, the housekeeper only pursed her lips.

“Oh, what’s with that look in your eyes?”

Already in a bad mood, Dohanna seized on a trivial pretext and confronted the housekeeper.

“Why do you keep looking at me with those eyes?”

Thinking she needed to firmly put down the blameless housekeeper just because she was feeling bad, Dohanna pressed her flat shoe onto the housekeeper’s foot.

“Hey, answer me. Before I pluck out your eyes.”

Dohanna, wearing high heels of more than 10 centimeters, stepped on the housekeeper’s instep with determination.

“Creeping around is absolutely disgusting. Why do you keep provoking me?”

Watching the helpless housekeeper being stepped on her foot, Dohanna cackled.

With a bitter smile, Dohanna, who had displayed a faint smile, coldly glared at the housekeeper.

Compared to the light steps at first, the pressure increased gradually. The housekeeper, feeling pain in her instep, involuntarily wrinkled her face.

“I’m telling you. I detest things like you.”

Dohanna, with a faint smile, pressed down on the housekeeper’s foot harder and harder.

Once, twice.

Although her foot was being stepped on, it felt as if her head was being crushed.

“I mean it. People like you are absolutely disgusting.”

Dohanna’s gaze held contempt towards the housekeeper.

“Why even live? If I were born as you, I would have just died.”

She lightly flicked the housekeeper’s forehead with her index finger and pushed her away.
“Short, chubby, and moreover, ugly.”

Once, twice, three times.

Aligned with the phrases, the housekeeper’s head tilted backward.

Silent in the face of Dohanna’s words insulting her in front of her, the housekeeper only bit her lips without uttering a word.

“If you had money, you should’ve gotten plastic surgery. Oh, there’s nothing like plastic surgery here, right?”

Dohanna sneered at the housekeeper with a contemptuous look, ridiculing her.

Even though the housekeeper could do nothing in front of her, Dohanna’s mood was still not relieved.

Dohanna slightly lifted the foot that was stepping on the housekeeper. Then, with sharp heels in hand, she stomped on the housekeeper’s instep.

“Uh, agh!”

The housekeeper, with her instep pinched, made a painful sound and struggled.

Dohanna looked at the housekeeper sobbing in front of her with a satisfied smile.

The piercing voice of the housekeeper added joy to Dohanna.

“People like you who don’t understand their place and run wild—they only understand when spoken to with actions. You have to step on them like this once in a while to make them come to their senses.”

She looked at the housekeeper, who was wailing in pain, with her white teeth exposed and laughed. The sight of her struggling seemed ridiculous to Dohanna.

With a sadistic disposition, Dohanna enjoyed the housekeeper’s suffering. She chuckled with a childlike, innocent expression.

Unable to endure the pain, the housekeeper tried to push Dohanna away. However, even that was impossible due to Dohanna’s cold voice.

“Don’t lay a finger on my body! If you miscarry, the Count will probably kill you.”

Looking down at the housekeeper, Dohanna’s expression held a sneering smile.

When the housekeeper’s face became a mess of tears, Dohanna finally lifted her foot with a satisfied expression.

The housekeeper staggered and sat down on the floor. Then, looking at the bloodied foot, she covered her mouth.

Transparent tears dripped down her cheeks. The area above the blood-stained instep was soaked with tears.

Seeing the housekeeper in that state, Dohanna ordered with an expressionless face.

“Napkin.”

When the housekeeper didn’t respond and just crouched, Dohanna said again with more force.

“Don’t you hear? Bring a napkin.”