I pretended to collect laundry, heading towards the training grounds where the knights usually were.
Just as training seemed to have ended, knights began to emerge from the training area.
Holding an empty basket as if to collect laundry, I loitered around the training ground.
Burly knights poured out.
“Can I put laundry here?”
“Yes.”
No sign of the knight I was looking for, only unnecessary knights approached with questions.
With the bulky men blocking my view, the training ground was out of sight.
I pushed out the empty basket, signaling them to quickly put in their laundry and leave.
“Then, please take care of this.”
Seeing my extended basket, a knight nonchalantly stripped off his dirt-covered training clothes.
‘What am I… seeing right now?’ I thought, as stars seemed to burst before my eyes.
“Here’s my top too.”
“My training clothes as well.”
As one knight started, the others standing in line suddenly all began to undress.
Their muscles bulged, seemingly swollen from just-finished training.
“Gasp!”
I inhaled sharply and bowed my head. I had never experienced such a situation before.
My heart felt like it would burst out of my chest from the shock.
‘Why are they suddenly undressing…?’
Despite trying to stay calm, my hands holding the basket trembled uncontrollably.
I was only there to find the blond knight.
‘Washing clothes in freezing cold water would be easier than this.’
Yet, this was the life I had to get used to as a maid. I gripped the basket tightly, trying not to show my trembling hands.
“Are you new here?”
“Ha ha ha. She looks so shocked.”
“Sorry for startling you. It’s everyday life for us. Being a monster hunter, we’re used to it. Please understand.”
“……It’s okay.”
I managed to reply, struggling to calm my racing heart, but I couldn’t bring myself to look up.
It was too distressing. Are all northerners like this? Stripping off in such cold weather as if it’s normal?
‘This is unusual.’
What sort of people are northerners?
“Thanks!”
The knights packed their training clothes into the basket methodically. I fixed my gaze inside the basket and took deep breaths.
‘Other maids wouldn’t act as foolishly as I am.’
Life as a sheltered noble lady was different, but this was the life I chose for survival.
I should face it instead of whining about my inability.
I had made up my mind when I turned away from ‘Lepherentia Nirel.’
Slowly, I lifted my head and stared straight ahead.
Then, I locked eyes with the man right in front of me.
“…….?”
“……Why are you here?”
Why had I assumed the training ground would only have knights?
The guardian who protects the north from monsters.
This man, too, must regularly train, not just confine himself to his study.
“……I came to collect laundry.”
Laches, who had been about to remove his training clothes, froze and frowned slightly.
Looking down, his exposed abdomen came into view, the muscles sharply defined.
“Do you want to look?”
His voice, tinged with humor, whispered temptingly.
I hastily reverted my gaze.
“I’m not looking.”
“You can look, though.”
“Please give me your training clothes.”
“You do want to look, don’t you?”
Teasingly, Laches didn’t remove his training clothes but instead pulled them down firmly.
He was pulling down the thin fabric so much it stretched.
“Everyone else has already taken theirs off.”
“……Already?”
Laches looked at the basket filled with training clothes, then surveyed his surroundings. I followed his gaze.
A spectacle of bare-chested, sun-kissed skin, not a training outfit in sight.
Muscular, bare, all around…
“Get dressed right now.”
Laches snatched the basket from my hand and slammed it down, issuing commands to the knights.
“Huh? Your Grace?”
The knights, who had removed their training tops, looked puzzled.
“Does this look like a changing room to you?”
Even with his usual arrogance and a dismissive smile, something about it was chilling.
His careless, street-thug demeanor was gone.
Here stood the guardian of the North, the head of the Violentus family.
“This place looks like an outdoor sleeping area, doesn’t it?”
“No, it doesn’t.”
“Usually, the person who comes to collect laundry has seen it all, having worked here for years… but today is different.”
Laches turned halfway and looked at me coldly, causing all the knights who had bowed their heads to look at me.
“Isn’t it improper to undress and act indecently in front of someone you don’t even know?”
“We will correct this immediately!”
He clearly drew a line.
As if to say, I may have given you a job, but you are not yet a Northerner.
An unmistakable boundary.
His black eyes, unfathomable, were emotionless.
A stranger.
If I wanted to be a Northerner, to belong to him, I had to show who I was first.
Was it my misinterpretation that he implied I should first prove myself?
Laches looked at me intently, then turned to the knights and chuckled.
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
