With considerable diligence and effort, Taylor could occupy the position of Reyna’s closest friend.

After Taylor visited Reyna about eight times and initiated the conversation, Reyna also spoke first to Taylor about twice when they met.

That was all, but Taylor liked it.

It was enough.

People who initiated conversations or spoke comfortably were almost always Taylor.

After a while, Reyna was promoted from a kitchen maid to a regular maid.

The day Taylor heard from Reyna that she had become a regular maid still remained in his memory.

It was a great thing that Reyna finally left the kitchen; her salary would rise, and her work would become easier. But more than that, Reyna, seeming a bit happy, shyly smiled and talked to Taylor about it directly, making Taylor the first person to hear about it.

The happy face at that moment stayed in his memory, and he couldn’t help but smile.

Not long after, news came that Reyna had been injured.

Running with his breath held, Taylor grabbed Reyna’s arm and turned her around.

“You’re hurt.”

“Huh?”

Reyna, as always, was carrying a bucket with both hands.

His gaze turned to the hem of Reyna’s maid uniform.

“Look here. How did this happen?”

Under the stained hem, the tip of a wound was exposed.

Reyna’s knee was neatly split.

There were also starting to show some horrific bruises.

Suddenly, his eyes went to the mop bucket she was carrying.

“Why are you doing this? Why would someone injured do this?”

But the kid, as always, blinked her clear eyes and, after a moment, said only this.

“Well, it’s not my hand that’s injured. It’s not even something you do with your knees.”

For a moment, Taylor’s words were stuck.

When my knee was injured, I didn’t do this.

When my knee was injured, you…
However, as Taylor’s gaze shifted towards Reyna’s wound, his mouth immediately opened.

“Show it to me.”

“I’m okay.”

Taylor bit his lips tightly.

Taylor forcibly pulled Reyna towards a garden bench and pleaded.

“Just wait a moment.”

Instead of turning around to run, he turned back towards Reyna and pleaded again.

“Don’t go somewhere else.”

Taylor tried to stand up again but hesitated.

“…….”

After looking around, he noticed people in the distance, so he took her hand, moved her to a less noticeable corner, and sat her down.

“Stay here. If you meet the maids, don’t mention that I asked you to wait.”

And finally, he turned and entered the mansion for real.

Taylor went to his father’s dispensary and brought down herbs, bandages, and antiseptic.

“…….”

It was something he had done many times before.

However, treating the injured knee of a peer girl, sitting her on a bench, lifting her skirt up to the knees, was more awkward, difficult, and confusing than he had anticipated.

But having told her to wait and bringing tools like this, he couldn’t suddenly back out, feeling awkward and uncertain.

If he became embarrassed and awkward here, the situation would become uncontrollable.

Taylor confidently placed the tools next to him, shamelessly kneeled down in front of Reyna, and said, “Let’s start with disinfecting.”

“…….”

Reyna subtly grabbed the edge of her skirt on her knee.

Taylor calmly said, “Lift it a bit more.”

“…….”

Trying not to look at Reyna, Taylor only stared at her injured knee.

Taylor thought, It’s a job, a treatment. Focus on the treatment. He did his best to concentrate and treated Reyna.

Pouring disinfectant, dressing the wound on her knee carefully with gauze, and then applying medicine separately to the severely injured areas.

After applying a healing ointment and preventing infection with a bandage, he finished.

Reyna smiled.

“You said you wouldn’t do the doctor thing.”

Suddenly, when he was about to say, ‘I didn’t mean to do the doctor thing?!’ feeling embarrassed, Reyna continued.

“You’re good.”

“…….”

Reyna smiled.

“…….”

Since that day, studying medicine didn’t seem so bad.

But the real reason came to mind later.