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After Jenny ran away in tears, Sophia set out in search of the Countess, the stepmother.

The Great Count was divided into several buildings.

Manicured garden, exotic trees, splendid structures, glittering roofs, and gold ornaments.

‘I can’t believe you gave your daughter an annex attic in such a large place.’

Sophia looked around the mansion and smacked her lips with disapproval.

Not yet familiar with the geography of the mansion, she suddenly entered a large building in the center of the mansion.

As Sophia opened the main building’s door widely, the eyes of those in the lobby were drawn toward her.

A reaction as if a Pierrot doll had jumped out of the surprise box.

However, the surprise in their eyes soon disappears, and annoyance lingers in their eyes.

“What are you doing here?”

One of the maids frowned like seeing a bug.

But Sophia asked for something regardless of the icy and poor treatment.

“Mother, where is she?”

“Mother? The Lady’s mother is dead, as you know?”

There was a clear light of contempt in the eyes of the maids

But even this was such a typical development that Sophia was not impressed.

“Not my late mother, but the Countess now.”

“Well…”

“Sophia!”

Then a sharp voice was heard from behind.

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

That alone gave a hunch about who the newly appeared character was.

‘Lucifer appeared in Satan’s mansion…’

Recalling a famous line from a certain drama, Sophia looked back.

With rose-red hair and a golden yellow glamorous dress. A beautiful woman in her early to mid-thirties.

‘That’s the Countess, Rubisella Frauss.’

The stepmother that Jenny spoke of.

And according to the diary, she’s the mastermind who kicked ‘Sophia’ into the attic.

She would have admired her astonishing beauty if she hadn’t raised her eyes sharply and glared at her

Sophia gazing at the Countess for the first time spotted Jenny behind her.

‘Did you tell her in the meantime?’

A rather triumphant look and cheeks filled with dissatisfaction.

‘I don’t like snitching, but it saved me a lot of trouble.’

She thought she would have to go through all of the Frauss’s huge mansion to find the Countess.

While Sophia was immersed in her own thoughts, the Countess opened her red lips.

“You said you’re sick but you’re going around well?”

Rubisella, the Count’s Madam, approached with an arrogant step.

Her long eyelashes fell down.

Wearing high heels, she was a little taller than Sophia.

“Did you pour soup on Jenny?”

“It was more like food waste than soup.”

“Food waste? Are you talking about the kindness bestowed by this Countess in another way?”

“Bestowed to me… I think the word is wrong. It would be better if you correct it as ‘screw you.’”

Rubisella’s lips quivered at Sophia’s point.

“And it is true that I was sick. How can a human body be healthy after eating something like that?”

“Something like that?!”

“Ahh, mixing soup with bugs. That is something that should never happen in a mansion full of elegance. Don’t you think so?”

Sophia said deplorably.

“Those who disgrace the family name for their senseless acts should be punished. Maybe the Madam brought Jenny here with the intention of scolding her?”

Sophia went on to say something bold. Then the face of the elegant and beautiful lady crumpled.

“Dare…!”

Ah, that ‘dare.’

Sophia took a deep breath as she looked at the distorted face of the Countess.

The pattern of the villain, in the beginning, is obvious.

“If I am uneducated, aren’t you going to slap me across the cheek?”

Sophia’s gaze was on the Countess’s hand.

Then, the hand that was about to go up high halted and began twitching.

‘The villains are…?’

Sophia shook her head.

The Countess’s hands seemed to be shaking.

She seemed at a loss when the only way to express her anger was obstructed.

Sophia, who moderately pressed the Madam, recalled the main point again.

There was another reason why she came to the main building to find the Countess.

“Oh, and I’m thinking of changing rooms. I lost my romance in the attic. It’s hot in summer, cold in winter, and there is also a lot of noise.”

Sophia surveyed the interior of the mansion while standing nonchalant in the lobby.

“Fortunately, the mansion is quite spacious. There must be at least one of my rooms among them.”

Then the Countess twists her lips and glares at her.

“You’ve become so proud because of your engagement to the Grand Duke of Rivelon.”

So proud?

“A Frauss person who wants to use a room in the Frauss mansion shouldn’t be so proud…? If you look closely, the person who does not have the blood of ‘Frauss’ must be the Countess.”

“What? After getting sick, you’re talking nonsense!”

“I know right. I should have said something even before I got sick.”

“Your room is enough for an attic!”

The Countess’s roar reverberated across the hallway, and the air instantly grew cold.

All the servants who had snickered at Sophia until now closed their mouths and lowered their heads.

Sophia sighed deeply at the unanswered response of the Countess.

‘Definitely, it’s impossible to come to an agreement through a discussion with the villain.’

The Countess will not give Sophia a good room no matter what.

The only option left for Sophia to get a room is through force.

“I will let people know that I am being treated with disdain if you come out like this.”

As Sophia spoke, the Countess let out a smirk.

“Sophia. Are you calling that a threat?”

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

Sophia is a shabby Lady with no management.

Even the Count couple didn’t properly give her debutante under the pretext of illness.

On the other hand, the Countess was already active and influential in social circles.

No matter how much Sophia talks, one breath of the Countess will cover it, and she will face a backlash.

But Sophia looked up at the Countess with a triumphant expression.

“Do you think I can’t?”

“Try it. Go out on the street, grab a beggar, and complain.”

The Countess laughed.

Clearly, no one will listen to Sophia.

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And exactly a week later. The following article appeared on the front page of a weekly tabloid.

[Exclusive! The Grand Duke of Rivelon’s fiancée, its identity is the Count’s maid?!]

It didn’t take half a day for the rumor to spread throughout the social circles of the system.

All Sophia did was send a letter.

And that one letter became hundreds of articles and spread out.

The social nobles most subscribed weekly magazine tabloid front page, a headline article.

The Countess was flooded with requests for visits from people trying to confirm if the rumor was true.

And the rumor is…

“Your Excellency! Your Excellency is on the front page of the weekly magazine…! Huk, you already have it!”

Naturally, it also reached the other party of the rumor.

The curly-haired knight who rushed into the office of the Military and Police Force Chief stopped walking when he saw Killian staring at the weekly magazine with a wrinkled brow.

A man sitting in front of a desk and pressing his temple.

He was called the ‘Guardian of the Empire’ to the good and the ‘Imperial Dog’ to the evil ones, the Chief of the Military and Police Force, and the only Grand Duke of the Empire, Killian Viffrons Rivelon.

“Why did my name appear in the weekly magazine without me knowing, Nic?”

“It was reported by someone anonymously.”

“Anonymously?”

Killian raised his eyes as he placed the weekly magazine on the desk.

The red eyes that had been concealed under the long black eyelashes slowly lifted up.

Nicholas, the Commander of the Military and Police Force and also Killian’s aid, nodded and smiled awkwardly.

“She received a report from an unknown source, why didn’t Madam Chanelia come to check on me?”

“I guess Madam Chanelia… likes issues and gossips.”

The Duchess Chanelia was the socialite queen who published the weekly magazine.

She also liked the gossip and rumors circulating in social circles.

She instinctively sensed that the anonymous tip would be a hot potato that would attract public attention.

Indeed, Chanelia’s weekly magazine sold like hotcakes thanks to this article.

It was enough for him to feel burned out from the mouths of people talking about this article since the morning.

“Publishing trashy articles without knowing whether they are true or not.”

“Haha… But after reading it, there is a basis…”

“Basis?”

This ridiculous rumor?

At Killian’s question, Nicholas closed his mouth.

But Nicholas was not at all wrong.

If it were a groundless rumor, neither would the Duchess of Chanelia have published it in the weekly magazine.

Even if she published an article, it wouldn’t have been such an issue like this unless it has validity.

However, reading the article, there was written down some plausible content.

[The eldest daughter of the Count of Frauss, hidden and not making a debut in the social world, has been our long-standing question.]

[My wife has actually seen Sophia, the Count of Frauss’s daughter; she appears to be a shabby person and noticed reading her unnatural countenance...]

[The fact that the Grand Duke, Killian Viffrons Rivelon, never went to see his fiancée is evidence of this.]

Actually, it wasn’t that no one remembered Sophia at all.

People knew roughly that Sophia was the Count’s eldest daughter, the daughter of his ex-wife.

However, the Countess claimed that Sophia was frail as an excuse hence she couldn’t show up in front of people.

Thus Sophia’s existence faded into obscurity.

A blurred presence in the social world.

A person that is so mysterious.

tl: caroviee

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