Chapter 3

The other maid who felt the unusual atmosphere rushed to her fellow blue-faced maid.

“There seems to be a mistake. I’ll bring a new one.”

“No, summon the head maid.”

“Yes?”

“Bring in the head maid without preparing the food.”

The maid nodded unexpectedly and took her fellow maid outside as if running away.

Soon the head maid came in.

“I heard you called.”

The head maid already had a cold impression and looked at Seraphine with all ears.

After returning to the mansion looking like a human, it was a reaction to her that caused another incident.

Seraphine looked straight at the head maid and said.

“I don’t believe any of the maids who take care of me are worthy of working in this mansion. It’s proper to care for their master, but how did you educate them?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

As expected, the head maid brushes it off as if she didn’t know what had happened.

‘They’re all on the same page.’

The maids who went to call the head maid could not have said anything.

If that maid had confessed her sins, she would have a rough idea of the food in front of Seraphine.

However, the head maid was reluctant to ignore all the circumstances.

“What a disappointment. Can’t you see this with your eyes?”

As Seraphine pushed the spoiled food away, the head maid stared at it.

“There seems to have been a misunderstanding. I’ll tell the chef not to make this happen again.”

“A misunderstanding?”

Seraphine’s expression hardened as if she heard a not-so-funny joke.

Seraphine then got up from her seat and raised the spoiled soup.

And then,

“Ah, my lady!”

She poured it on the head maid.

The spoiled soup slowly dripped down due to the solid ingredients. Its stinky smell began to spread from the head maid’s head.

“Now what is this…!”

“Where is this gutter smell coming from?”

Seraphine copied the words whispered by her maids when she entered the mansion.

At that time, the maid’s malicious gossip must have been sufficiently heard by the head maid, who was by her side.

The prickly head maid met Seraphine’s scornful eyes.

The maid’s shoulders reflexively shrugged.

“I mistook you for a trash can. I think there was a mistake, but it was a shame.”

“……This is not a mistake, is it? You stood in front of me and spilled food openly, so how can you say you’re mistaken?”

The head maid was angry because her enemy had hurt her self-esteem.

“I can’t stand this either. I will report to Duke Rubia.”

“I know you did it on purpose. But how do you think the maids served this kind of food by mistake?”

Seraphine waved her empty bowl in front of the head maid. She then said,

“I can smell it.”

The spoiled food smelled different.

So she must have not come and served me by mistake.

“You said you’ll report to my father? I’m worried. I’m afraid that you, who can’t even smell properly, will make a mistake again and serve this trash to my father.”

“……”

“Yes, it seems like you and I have a little business, so why don’t we discuss it right here?”

Then, the head maid realized.

The Seraphine in front of me is not the usual noble lady who only knows how to scream.

“Oh, my lady.”

The head maid’s voice trembled.

But Seraphine only looked at her coldly.

“How long have you been working in this house?”

The chief maid had no intention of leaving the Rubia family yet.

When the situation is not favorable to her, she answers politely.

“I have been working here for three years.”

“”It seems that you were not just employed in this house; what is your overall experience?”

“It will be twenty years soon.”

“Twenty years is not a short time. It’s an experience that is fully recognized wherever you go.”

“……”

“Your skills aren’t up to par with your experience, and today’s work cannot be avoided. The same holds true for you, who looked after the maids.“

Up until now, Seraphine had blamed only the maid who had wronged her.

However, those people did that to earn a lot of money right away, so it won’t affect them in any way, even if they were fired.

But this head maid was different.

How did you get this position?

The duchess passed away early, and there was no other mistress to serve.

Due to Duke Rubia’s indifference, the chief maid steadily expanded her power. So she didn’t want to be kicked out in a situation like this.

“I am not going to tell my father what happened today.”

“…… Is that true?”

Seraphine’s opinion was surprising.

Before asking the question ‘why?’, the chief maid was visibly pleased.

“Instead, fire all the employees: the maids who talked about me today and the chef who made the trash. And, of course, you should include those maids earlier.”

It was a firm command.

“The new maid must be properly educated to serve me.”

Saying so, Seraphine waved her expensive jewel brooch towards the head maid.

“I’ll give you this brooch when you’re done.”

Seraphine grinned as she read the eyes of the head maid, who had forgotten her mistake and quickly became greedy.

Then she hid the brooch again in her pocket.

“It will be up to you to satisfy me.”

Now, Seraphine was an ideal figure of a nobleman.

Starting with the intonation, the eyes, the gestures — everything.

I’ve never seen something like this before.

The head maid nodded her head politely and gulped down her dry saliva.

My lady has changed.

* * *

The change came quietly and quickly. All the maids who belittled Seraphine were kicked out.

According to the head maid’s affirmation, they were kicked out bare. She hadn’t even get paid for their severance pay, which they would have received.

And Seraphine was silent by the head maid’s actions.

The maids’ disposal who ignored me was not a big problem.

The real problem was…

‘I didn’t wake up.’

Even after sleeping for several days, she was still Princess Rubia.

She had hoped that maybe she could wake up as the princess of the Tilmun Kingdom after sleeping.

It was because she couldn’t shake the thought that all this might have been her dream.

But her hopes were shattered.

Cough, cough.

“Lady, are you feeling ill?”

As soon as she started coughing, the new maid quickly looked at Seraphine.

As if the brooch was really coveted, the head maid did the job right.

Upon confirming the new maids’ polite attitude, Seraphine secretly handed the maid accessories other than brooches.

“I’m a little tired, so you don’t have to worry too much.”

I’ve been sick due to being wet while in prison.

I thought I would be able to shrug it off, but I didn’t seem to be getting any better.

Seraphine shook her head as if it were a habit and looked away.

So the maid turned her head and swallowed dry saliva and asked.

“Are you really going to dispose of all this?”

“Yes.”

Seraphine was now organizing the original owner’s closet.

Inside, her closet was reflected with glamor and luxury; many shiny clothes would make her blind just by looking at it.

“It’s all expensive; won’t you regret it later?”

“No matter how expensive it is, clothing is the one that people see first. Furthermore, it’s not worth it.”

She answered firmly, and she began to dispose of them one at a time.

As time went by, the memory of the owner’s body came to mind one by one.

And I could guess why I was able to enter this body.

The guard said she wouldn’t die if she threw herself into the fountain.

But she didn’t do it just to get attention.

‘She took poison and really died.’

She believed that she would be happy.

And the reason she committed suicide in the fountain was simple.

When an imperial family or a high-ranking nobleman is born, a christening is held at the fountain after 100 days of age.

It washes away the sin, promises a blessed future to the children, and they will receive a name.

For this reason, the owner of the body died in the fountain in hopes of being reborn.

‘A normal person would know that it’s foolish, but the owner of the body was suffering from depression.’

She grew up being told that she would not live long because she had a rare disease since birth.

Perhaps because of that, she was rude and sensitive.

She tried to have everything she wanted and felt better when all her people looked after her.

It was also safe to assume that her engagement to the crown prince was a gesture to appease her since she would soon die anyway.

And the owner of the body knew that too.

When her death was taking place, she began whining and crying for more attention.

‘Because she didn’t want to be forgotten after she died.’

Her liking the fancy clothes was also an act of wishing attention to the people around her.

If I wear pretty clothes, they’ll look at me at least once. If I spend money like water,  my father is likely to give me a word.

tl/n: It’s her rationalizing the og owner’s thinking process.

In the splendor of the material, she didn’t realize that she was being buried.

‘But not me.’

Neither the family nor the fiance of the body’s owner was obsessed with what interests Seraphine.

I didn’t even think about pretending to be the body’s original owner and getting along with them.

Usually, an influential person would be afraid of evil.

However, the  Duke of Rubia had neglected her entirely to such an extent that his subordinates ignored her or retaliated.

In the memory of the owner’s body, Duke Rubia had always turned his back on her.

The only love her father gave to his daughter was money.

Moreover, she had no desire to look good to such a person.

Seraphine straightened the lines of her lips and was startled when she found something.