Chapter 3

I thought of life over there.

I remembered my nephew’s face Seo-yeon, who can’t stop loving me with her soft face.

I read the fairy tale book that she asked for until the book was worn out.

‘But no one would have read a fairy tale book to Larissa.’

What did Larissa think about while always being beaten like that?

Will she be waiting for a knight who will one day save herself from this hellish house?

‘No, I don’t think she had the basis for thinking about such girlish dreams…’

In the fairy tale, the female lead was trapped, so it was not stated what she was thinking.

In the book, it is written about how beautiful she was and how high the value of the jewels made of her tears.

She was simply rescued by a wonderful prince, and there was almost no such thing as a psychological description of her.

The only description was that she looked at the moon every night and said, ‘Save me’ and begged.

‘But this secret basement room doesn’t even have a window to look at the moon.’

I get closer with a bitter feeling. Without a word, I picked up the bandage from the medicine box and handed it to the nanny.

The nanny said in a panic.

“Oh, Lady. You don’t need to do this.”

“I’ll help you.”

“It’s okay. I’ve always been doing it alone. And don’t get your hands dirty like this.”

Like this? Don’t get your hands dirty?

‘That child must be the lady of this house too.’

I frowned my eyebrows.

The nanny, who hadn’t seen it, put down the medicines and bandages and raised her body.

“Now, go back to your room. Marcia lady’s body is uncomfortable, and the master told you to be careful. If you’re here for a long time, you will get sick.”

She pushed me out the door and quickly closed the basement door.

Even if I remained, it wasn’t helpful.

Without being able to do it, I slowly climbed the stairs.

The body in the wagon accident ached and creaked here and there.

‘I’ll have to recover my body first. That way I’ll run away or not.’

As I went up to the room, I heard a loud noise from the front.

I narrowed my eyes.

Two maids were approaching this way, chatting loudly.

And they were late to find me.

“Oh, my, ah… Young Lady!”

“Lady Marcia!”

As soon as they found me, they were very surprised.

They stopped their feet and stepped back towards the wall, holding their hands politely and bowing their heads.

The maids’ faces were full of blue.

Usually, Marcia was relentless to the employees.

Whenever there was a corner that bothered her even a little, she would immediately swear and slap them on the cheek.

Even if they have done nothing wrong, when she wasn’t feeling very good, she even got angry with the maids passing by.

It was natural that they were frightened because they were caught talking and gosipping.

‘Let’s not do that anymore, huh?.’

I muttered quickly inside.

It is to persuade another me who shows reluctance.

In the corner of my heart, I felt Marcia wanting to slap the maids on the cheeks.

I whispered to myself trying to subdue Marcia’s feelings.

‘Let’s just leave it alone. If the relationship is bad, you may have a gritty thing when you run away from this mansion later on.’

I don’t even need to be kind to the maids.

It will look weird.

Instead, I bowed my head and threw my gaze at the maids, and without saying anything, I stepped on the stairs to the upper floor.

-What is she doing? I thought she was hit hard. Do you think she is in a good mood today?

-It said that she had an accident yesterday, maybe she actually hurt her head?

The maids whispered in my backs. They seemed to think I couldn’t hear it.

Looking back, the maids hurriedly bowed their heads, pretending not to know.

‘That’s weird.’

I was already up the middle of the stairs.

‘How did I hear them whispering when they were far away?’

Did they say loudly on purpose?

The maids exchanged their eyes with each other, then quickly disappeared into the other corridor.

I shrugged and stepped up the stairs again.

Soon after, the leg that had an accident came back in pain. Because of that, I had to go up on the railing while in pain.

“Ugh. Why is my room on the top floor?”

It was when I finally reached near the railing on this floor with a grunt.

The entrance to the mansion opened with a loud sound.

It was still raining outside. A cold wind mixed with rainwater blew into the lobby on the first floor.

“Fuck it!”

Marcia’s older brother and the eldest son of the house, Villain Blick, came in with a blasphemous swear word.

(T/N: What? His name is Villain, lol)

Even today, he was drunk without a doubt.

‘No, it might be drug, not alcohol. ‘

If it were usual, I would have ignored it and went up to the room, but I was suddenly curious.

‘What would he look like.’

If you look into Marcia’s memory, you will know how he looks, but I still want to check it with my own eyes.

It’s my first time seeing him.

So I leaned on the railing and looked down quietly.

I didn’t want to say hello.

The fact that siblings were bad was quickly understood by the body’s response.

“Welcome, Young Master.”

The servant quickly approached and closed the open front door and bowed his back and said hello.

Villain took off his wet coat and threw it over the servant’s head.

‘What a personality.’

The blond hair was soaked upon his face and the green eyes glowed softly even though he was drunk.

He had a beautiful face, resembling his mother who passed away.

None of the three siblings resembled their father.

All three have excellent looks and green eyes. The most beautiful is Larissa, the youngest.

He annoyedly unbuttoned a few of his shirts, leaving the servant behind him.

Then our eyes met.

As I didn’t avoid my eyes, it was Villain who frowned first.

“What do you look at?”

“Nothing.”

I raised my chin and turned my head gracefully back to the stairs.

It was Marcia’s influence.

Then Villain groaned behind me.

“You walk well even after rolling in the wagon. How poor you are, had an accident right after your fiancé broke up with you.”

-Broke up? How dare you say that?

Marcia’s anger immediately felt.

Her blood ran into my head. At the same time, her memory came to me as well.

It was only a month ago.

Her father’s business sickness and her brother’s gamble caused her fiancé to break off the engagement.

She didn’t particularly like her fiancé.

‘She just met him a few times in the first place.’

It was just an engagement suited to the class of her family.

However, Marcia did not accept the fact that she is labeled a devastated woman who was abandoned by her fiancé.

‘Thanks to him, Marcia couldn’t go to the party for a while.’

The contempt that she felt the day she accepted the breakup was vividly felt to me.

I turned around, grabbed the railing, and shot Villain.

Marcia, furious, spits out her words.

“So you were beaten by debtors and you haven’t hurt anywhere? Seeing you rambling on so well, are you still all right? It must be great to take the money and destroy your family and even go out to gamble.”

Villain was three years older than Marcia, but she didn’t treat him as her brother.

When the insults were returned as they were, a tired expression as if fighting again emerged on the face of the servant who followed Villain with his coat.

Then the servant quickly stepped back from the distance.

“Fuck it. It’s because my side has more potential than the business of my father. Gambling is fun, but the merchant ship was drowned? Is he even capable of doing business?”

He spoke without hesitation.

‘By the way, the merchant ship was drowned?’

It turned out that Igor said that a while ago in the basement.

It wasn’t once or twice that Igor fell into business and ruined.

Something quickly ruined as long as he put his hand on it.

Whether he didn’t have eyes to see or he didn’t have the talent for business.

Marcia didn’t know, and she didn’t want to know.

Suddenly Villain stepped toward the stairs.

“Money comes out once you go to the basement. Why do you only swear to me? Didn’t you also use to spend money like water, huh?”

Wow, look at the way you speak.

I shrugged and spat out Marcia’s words.

“So you said that it’s just because father’s business crashed while your gambling has more potential? Nonsense! And do you only drink alcohol? You even put some medicine on it. Is your life long enough?”

Marcia, taking control of this body, spit out with excitement.

“What do you do if you purify it with the power of a fairy, and pour it out to the point where it’s useless. My mother also picked and passed down only really useless abilities.”

At that moment, I was amazed at what went out of my mouth.

‘My mother was a fairy.’

What Villain inherited from his mother is an ability that used to purify his body.

‘Then it seems that Larissa’s tears turn into jewels is an ability inherited from her mother.’

When the story about his mother came out, Villain’s eyes changed.

His face suddenly turned red.

“Shut up! Shut up and go back to your room right away.”

Villain glared at me once, then turned around and headed for the basement.

Wait, the basement?