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She’s a maid who has worked in Julius’ mansion for over ten years. It seems she started working at the youngest age possible for a maid.

Normally she does cleaning, garden maintenance, laundry, and sewing, and sometimes she serves Miss. She’s one of the few who Lady Christina, who doesn’t have a dedicated maid, occasionally calls as a servant.

She stays in the Duke’s house 24 hours a day and rarely goes home. She seems to have a separate family outside, but no one knows about the family, so we’re still finding out.

The reputation among the maids is nothing in particular.

They say she’s a ‘wallleaning personality’.

It doesn’t seem that she has a bad reputation or enemies, but she often walks alone and doesn’t seem to have close maid friends.

The only person she seems to get close to is Taylor Lorenson, the son of her attending physician, Alvin Lorenson. Like his father, he’s a doctor and employed by the Duke’s house.

There’s a lot of talk whether they’re lovers or not, but it seems true that they’re close. Many people know.

Let’s get to that later, and back to ‘Reyna’…

She seems famous among the maids because she stands out, but she doesn’t talk much and there’s no noticeable aspect or presence other than her looks.

She doesn’t have friends and just a pretty silent servant, so there’s no further information available.

Even in the Duke’s house, it seems she tightens her lips as she doesn’t enjoy gossip about the mansion’s internal affairs.

Personally, I got the impression of a maid who stands out and yet doesn’t stand out.

It’s not confirmed, but there’s a possibility that she’s involved in the Duke’s unclean work because the rumors about a pretty maid are so quiet.

So she might be managing the rumors in the Duke’s house.

Let me tell you again, please be careful.

She could be a dangerous woman.

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During the brief stop of the carriage at a busy intersection, the murmuring noise from outside came over the carriage window.

“Really inadequate supplies?”

“Seems real. They said they’d deliver to us through supply letters, but nobody received it.”

“Oh my, really?”

“We also sent cotton clothes and a received necklace with the letter to my father, but he never received it. He didn’t say anything because he was worried we’d be upset… but this morning he said he didn’t receive it. It was really upsetting…”

“Ah…”

The sound of sympathetic exclamations continued.

“It’s okay, he said that my sentiment of sending it made him come back safely, but the whole family was crying.”

“…”

As the carriage started again, the voices of the people became distant.

Reyna’s face hardened.

Inadequate supplies.

She knew about it from the conversations within the Duke’s house.

But hearing the family of the returnees speak about it made it feel real.

It wasn’t just that the delivered items were meager.

The people’s sentiments didn’t reach.

They deceived the desperate people’s hearts.

Now that the conscripted soldiers had returned to the territory, it was only a matter of time before everyone knew about the inadequate supplies.

…What should I do?

Reyna, who had no relatives conscripted in the war, only thought that the Duke’s house and Sir Arthur were too hard on the soldiers,

But Reyna as ‘Christina’ didn’t know what to do.

“…”

Arthur must have surely heard the sound coming from outside the carriage.

He said nothing.

Once his attention was drawn, stories from the streets continued to come in through the carriage window.

“Don’t tell Hannah about this. Her husband died in battle two years ago. If she knows that he left without receiving all the letters and things sent to him, she will be too sad.”

“How can we hide it… she’s going to find out eventually…”

“Even if she finds out, we don’t have to tell her now…”

“…..”

His eyes met with Arthur’s.

He only smiled with an unreadable expression.

“We’ve arrived, My Lord.”

The carriage came to a stop.

After Arthur got off first, he offered his hand to help Leina alight from the carriage.

Leina, holding the hem of her dress, cautiously got down from the carriage.

Tristan was waiting a little distance from the mansion.

Leina stiffened without realizing it.

Upon seeing them, Tristan paid his respects and rushed over lightly.

“Have you arrived?”

“This is my wife.”

Arthur introduced Leina out of the blue.

“?!”

So suddenly?

Taken aback, Leina clutched her dress and awkwardly bent her knees.

“II am Christina.”

Tristan looked at her.

Receiving his gaze, Leina didn’t know what to do and became subdued.

Oh, you’re ‘Christina’?

It seemed as though he had written it in his eyes.

“…..”

However, Tristan respectfully bowed and kissed the back of Leina’s hand.

“I am Tristan, My Lady.”