YM778.TV Chapter 1
"Ciel, please do this too!"
"Can you take a look at the laundry?"
"The food must have been set up well!"
I sweated a lot at the call, but I stretched my neck like a giraffe. Even though we\'re the same maid, she was relieved to get my okay sign. And the servant of the Archduke visited me as if competing.
In a nutshell, even though I lacked ten bodies right now, it was too early to rest. My dream is to become the head maid, and there is no place where my salary comes out as regularly as Archduke Estate.
\'Our Archduke. He\'s a generous person to workers, while considering he\'s known to be a bad guy.\'
"Ciel! Help me!"
As they called my name here and there, I had no time to think about my Archduke. There were dozens of workers, including myself, were walking around the luxurious hall.
After tying the ivory curtains and finishing the decoration with roses, that I could catch my breath.
"Ciel, what about tea?"
"Oh, right. Look at my mind. I\'m almost forgot about it. The white tea leaves were in the basement, right?"
"You have to prepare the one from Lauren."
I had to check the hall, and preparing tea for dinner. I hurriedly went down to the basement, prepared finely dried white tea leaves, and came back alone. Before serving tea for dinner, I had to boil it in advance and taste it.
Sure enough, a butler\'s scolding was heard not far away from the hallway. It was an old butler with a long mustache and glaring eyes.
"No matter how busy you are, you should check your clothes!"
I stopped lifting the tea and looked around. I was reflected through a long narrow mirror in the hallway. When I turned my head around, I could see my sky blue hair tied in one strand. I\'m arranged my sweaty bangs and brushed off the wrinkles of my apron.
Unlike usual, my expression in the mirror looked really serious. Today is the day my salary was raised, so my other colleagues looked excited despite their busy schedule, but my expression was a little dark.
\'How could today be the day when the great Archduke dies?\'
It wasn\'t even because the Archduke was old. Huge wealth, powerful power, and honor as options. In addition, the handsome Archduke, who was born with it, came of age this year. To die at the age of 20, it was a more pathetic fate than me who opened my eyes as a maid.
I, as a maid, had not encountered the Archduke very often, but as one of the Archduke\'s servants, there had only one reason why I could predict his death. Because, this world was inside of the novel that I had read until the end in the past. And the villain who faced the miserable end of the novel was my master, Ferze Yekart.
There is a saying that if you want to live, you should play as the villain\'s minion. This world is from the novel <Random Box> that I read, but after 5 years of living here, I can\'t help but agree.
\'How likely are you to get into the novel you liked?\'
Originally my name was Yeon Si-eun, I was an orphan. There must have been my parents who gave birth to me, but no one raised me. I grew up in an orphanage, but I never felt it was home. Even that, I had to come out before my adulthood, so I went to various shelters.
\'A strong child who doesn\'t fit his age.\'
It was something I\'ve always heard from adults. As time went on, I graduated from college and got a job as a store manager at a famous clothing company through a 237:1 competition.
Other employees at work also stick out their tongues. I was an office worker who heard that I might die while working. I worked silently like a cow for about three years and was promoted to a team leader.
\'There\'s been no part-time job I haven\'t had since college\'.
I had never rested comfortably for a day because of a part-time job, credit management, and even getting a certificate. Even a difficult appointment with a friend can be canceled immediately if there is a slight problem in the store. There, overtime is common.
\'It was great to be a team leader even before three years.\'
I was spending more than half a day in a narrow plane seat on a business trip. After I finished reading my favorite novel <Random Box>, I stared down at the sky blankly through a round, narrow window.
<Random Box> was different from other novels with good protagonists. I liked it more because it was a novel in which the wounded female protagonist did whatever she wanted and became a wicked woman.
It was an early morning flight, so the dark night sky was filled with only black and dark clouds. It\'s like my life with only work left.
\'Is this how people live? Isn\'t it the modern version of slave?\'
Excellent credit rating. It\'s all about being swept away in a 1,000-won store. I was a hard worker ant that only saved what I had collected.
— Sieun, what\'s the fun of living? Don\'t you get tired of working every day?
My three-year-old boss used to say, \'If you live one life that is so boring, what is left?\' It didn\'t feel good, but it wasn\'t wrong, so I was thinking of going on a vacation to an island when I got back from a business trip.
\'I\'m overworked on a business trip…….\'
The day before returning home, I was on my way back from a meeting safely.
— Oh. Uh. Wha…….\'
I couldn\'t even ask if there was. My heart stopped like a lie in front of the hotel door arranged by the company. Who knew that I would die while working like that? If I had known, I would have done what I wanted to do without holding it in.
"Ciel, you damn bitch!"
These are the words I heard the moment I woke up. A harsh voice filled with malice pierced into my dazed ear.
"If I had known it was going to be like this, I would have sold it at a bar!"
"Demion! What are you saying to the kid!"
A ferocious voice scratching iron echoed through the room. Hearing that sound, I carefully opened my eyes. The busty woman approached the middle-aged man who was very angry.
After I collapsed, I woke up in the body of a 12-year-old girl, Ciel. Since then, I have naturally lived with Ciel\'s memories, forgetting the past when I was Yeon Si-eun.
Because they are commoners, there are no castles, and the old houses are located in the slums, don\'t know when it will collapse.
The child had a drunk father, Demion, and her mother died while giving birth to Ciel. Next to Damion was an old woman with a timid personality.
They couldn\'t get married because they didn\'t have money, and I couldn\'t technically call it a stepmother because it wasn\'t legally married. In the novel, the stepmother tormented her to death, but the lady was not a stepmother.
The lady used to make and sell cloth bags by secretly stealing the remnants of clothes left by the nobles. Instead of the lifeless and lazy Damion, she took charge of our livelihood.
One day, when I cried because I had nothing to eat, Demion grabbed my wrist roughly and dragged me to the street. And shouted in front of others.
— Don\'t just cry because you\'re hungry. Beg and get something to eat!
There was nothing I could do as a 12-year-old child. So I really begged and brought the unsold bread the bakery lady gave me, but I was slapped in the face.
— Do you think we\'re beggars? I was the butler who served Baron Jun!
The bread I had been looking for was thrown on the floor. The aunt didn\'t come back because she was afraid of Damion\'s actions, and I was cursed every day for being a useless girl.
That day was also when I came out to the street to get something to eat.
Puck!
I bumped into a wagon that was slow behind me. I felt like my body was floating and I fell to the floor right away. The skinny body couldn\'t overcome the shock and fainted.
I woke up two days later and looked up blankly at the ceiling. It was home. It\'s the same old house ceiling I saw yesterday, the day before, and a few days ago, but something was definitely different.
\'Huh…….?\'
I raised my hand towards the ceiling. I was always used to the small fern-like hands, but these days it felt unfamiliar.
— You\'re such a waste of food! If you had an accident with a carriage that a nobleman rides, shouldn\'t you have to take money? This is called compensation…….
—…….
One year after I entered Ciel\'s body, I regained the memories of Yeon Si-eun. The accident that I suffered that day saved me. Otherwise, I wouldn\'t have been able to run away from the house.