Episode 3

Episode 3

(TL/N: The novel seems to be mainly obsessed with the third-person point of view, so it will be unless mentioned separately.)

When Jenny cried and ran away, Sophia went in search of her stepmother, the Countess.

The mansion had several buildings for the countess.

Well-groomed gardens, exotic trees, ornate buildings, shiny roofs, gold ornaments.

'To give your daughter an annex attic in such a spacious place.'

Sophia looked around the mansion as if she was offended. Not yet familiar with the terrain of the mansion, she entered the large building in the middle.

When Sofia opened the main door wide, she caught the attention of the people in the lobby.

A reaction like a pierrot doll popped out of a surprise box.

But in their eyes the surprise soon disappeared and annoyed.

"What are you doing here?"

The maid frowned at her like a worm.

But Sofia asked, not noticing the cold attitude.

"Mother, where are you?”

"Mother? Your mother died, didn't she?”

There was a clear light of contempt in the maids ' eyes. But even this was so common that Sophia was not impressed.

"Not the dead mother, but the current countess."

"Here..."

"Sofia!"

Then a sharp voice sounded from behind.

At the same time, the maids, who were standing with the same momentum, leaned against the wall and bowed their heads.

That alone allowed me to know who the new person was.

'Lucifer's appearance in Satan's mansion...'

Sophia looked back, recalling the famous ambassador of a drama. Rosy red hair and a gorgeous dress in golden yellow. She was a beauty in her early to mid-30s.

'Countess Rubizella Fraus.'

Stepmother Jenny said.

And, according to the diary, she kicked Sophia into the attic.

If she had not raised her eyebrows and looked at Sofia, she would have admired her amazing beauty.

While Sophia was longing for a countess she had never seen before, behind her was Jenny.

'Did you tell her?'

A somewhat stupefied gaze, looking at her dissatisfied cheeks.

'I don't like mumbles, but thanks to you, I've saved you a lot of hard work.'

She did not wander through this huge mansion and found the Countess.

While Sophia was thinking, the countess opened her red lips.

"You're too sick to walk around, aren't you?"

Countess Rubicella came with a proud step. She was pulling down her long eyelashes.

She was a little taller than Sophia in high heels.

"Did Jenny pour soup?"

“It was more food waste than soup.”

"Food waste? Are you talking about my kindness that way?”

"Kindness... I think the words are wrong. I love this app but I can't wait to see if I have any problems with it.”

Rubisella's lips trembled at Sofia's profanity.

“And it's true that I was sick. How can a person's body be healthy by eating such food?”

"What?!"

"Oh, mixing worms in soup is something you can never do in this elegant mansion. Isn't it?”

Sophia said lamentably.

“He who indiscreetly defiles the name of the family must be punished. Did you ever bring Jenny here to scold her?”

Sophia continued to say shameless things. Then she wrinkled the face of the elegant and beautiful woman.

"How dare you..."

Oh, that ' how dare you;.

Sophia looked at the distorted Countess's face and took a deep breath as if she were bothered.

The pattern of the villain in the beginning is obvious.

"Don't you think you're going to slap my cheek in the name of education?"

Sophia's gaze was in the Countess's hands.

Then her hands, which she was about to lift, stopped convulsively.

'Villains...'

Sofia shook her head.

The countess's hand seemed to tremble. She felt helpless when the only way to express her anger was blocked.

Sofia, who moderately pressured her, again gathered the topic.

There was another reason why she came to her home to find the countess.

"Oh, and I'm thinking about changing that room because the romance of the attic is gone. Hot in summer, cold and noisy in winter,” he said.

Sophia stood quietly in the lobby and looked around the mansion.

"Fortunately, the house is quite spacious. There must be at least one room between them."

Then the countess twisted her lips and looked at him.

"My engagement to Duke Rivelon probably earned me a lot of confidence."

A lot of confidence?

"Someone from'Fraus' wants to use the room in the Fraus Mansion. No wonder...? Then she is the countess without the blood of Fraus."

"What? Does she want more once she's sick?!”

"That's right. She should have spoken before she was sick.”

"Your room is enough of an attic!”

The Countess's roar echoed in the corridor, and the air grew cold for an instant.

All the servants who had laughed at Sophia before kept their mouths shut and bowed their heads.

At the Countess's unanswered answer, Sophia heaved a deep sigh.

'Hey, it's impossible to discuss and agree with a villain.'

The countess said that no matter what happened, she would not give Sophia a good room.

The only choice left for Sofia was to save the room.

“If I come out like this, I'll tell people that I'm rude.”

As Sophia spoke, she made the count laugh at her pouting.

"Sofia. Are you calling it blackmail?”

The Countess, just angry, regained her composure and proudly raised her chin.

Sophia was a poor little girl with no connections. The countess also did not pay her debut fee under the excuse of illness.

In contrast, the countess was already active and influential in the social world.

Sophia will not be beyond the Countess's breath, no matter how she speaks.

However, Sophia looked up at the Countess with an elated expression.

"Do you think I can't?"

"Try it. Go out on the street and catch the beggar and complain.”

The countess laughed and swore that no one would listen to Sophia.

~*~

And exactly a week later, on the front page of the tabloid Weekly, the following article was published in large letters:

[Ladle! The Duke of Rivelon's fiancée is the Count's maid?!]

It took less than half a day for the rumour to spread to the system's social community. All Sofia did was send a letter. And the letter spread to hundreds of articles.

The headline article on the front of the weekly tabloid was the most subscribed article by the social aristocracy.

The countess was flooded with requests for visits from people who wanted to see if the rumours were true.

And there are rumours...

"Mr. President! from weeklies...! Haha, you've already earned it!”

Naturally, rumours spread to opponents.

The curly-haired knight, who ran to the office, stopped to look at Killian, who was staring blankly at the weekly newspaper with his forehead wrinkled.

A man sitting in front of a desk and pressing a pipe play.

He was the only grand duke of the empire and the head of the army, Killian Bipron Liberon, called the "Guardian of the empire" for the good, and the "Emperor of the Imperial Family" for the evil.

"Nick, why did my name come out in the weekly without me knowing?"

"Someone informed me anonymously.”

"Anonymously?”

Killian placed the weekly paper on his desk and opened his eyes.

The red eyes, hidden under long black eyelashes, slowly rose upward.

Nicholas, the commander and Killian's assistant, nodded and smiled an awkward smile.

"It's an unknown source, but why didn't Mrs. Shanelia come to check it?”

"Mrs. Chanelia ... loves trouble and gossip.”

Duchess Shanelia was a socialite queen who published a weekly newspaper. She was also fond of gossip and rumours that drifted to socialites.

She had an instinctive hunch that anonymous information would turn into a hot potato and attract public attention.

Thanks to this article, Shanelia's weekly magazine sold like fire.

"Spreading rubbish articles without knowing whether they are true or not."

"Haha... But when you read it, you have proof..."

"Evidence?"

What about this ridiculous bullshit?

At Killian's question, Nicholas bit his lip.

But what Nicholas said is not completely wrong.

If the rumour had been true, the Duchess of Shanelia would not have published it in a weekly newspaper.

Even if she put out the article, if it wasn't valid, it wouldn't have been such a problem.

But when I read the article, it was pretty plausible.

[It has been our long-standing question whether Count Fraus hid his first daughter from debuting in society.]

[My wife actually saw Sophia, and her looks were shabby and her eyes unnatural... ]

[The fact that Killian Bipron Archduke Liberon never went to see his fiancée proves this.]

No one remembered Sofia. People knew roughly that Sophia was the daughter of the eldest daughter of the count's ex-wife.

However, the countess did not see Sophia with her before the people under the excuse that she was weak.

So Sofia's existence was gradually forgotten.

Hazy presence in society.

Mysterious person.

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