I Thought It Was a Common Transmigration - Chapter 65

“I could tell that you were in love with the young master, and I was happy to see that you two had gotten along so well recently…… but today I saw that only Miss Lizé and Master Killian were going out together……”

“Ah……”

“Why did you let only the two of them go?”

I was more pleased to see that Anna was happy that things had gotten better between me and Killian.

But seeing Lizé and Killian out alone today must have made her uneasy again.

“What can I say……”

“But you are his wife, and no matter how much they’ve been like brother and sister, they’re still a man and a woman…… no, no, please pretend you didn’t hear that.”

I felt a little comforted that Anna cared about me.

“Killian is not a man who would do anything irresponsible, and while he may be in love with Lizé, he will not cause a scandal with her, at least not while he is still married to me.”

“It’s not that I don’t trust Master Killian; it’s just that I don’t understand you, miss.”

That’s understandable.

What a strange master I must be to Anna.

“I’m sure I’m frustrating and strange to you, but at the end of the day, I’m doing this to survive.”

I smiled.

Anna’s gaze at me was complicated.

“Do you love Master Killian?”

“……yes. I love him.”

It’s a line I can’t confess to Killian.

“How could I not love him?”

A man I can’t understand.

A man who spits out harsh and cold words, but secretly cares and protects me.

A man who is dazzlingly gorgeous, who awakens a spark in me that I didn’t know I had, and who calls me “my wife,” the daughter of a political opponent.

Perhaps if someone other than me were to reincarnate as Edith, she would inevitably fall in love with him, just like the original Edith.

“But why are you making concessions to Miss Lizé?”

“I’m not making a concession. A concession is a word you use when something is coveted by the other side.”

“Sorry……?”

“Lizé doesn’t want Killian, because if she does, she’d already be clinging to him when the subject of me and Killian’s marriage came up. If she showed a single tear in front of him, he would have fought off the Duke and everyone else to have her.”

But Lizé blessed Killian’s marriage to me.

Because his man is Cliff the male lead, not Killian.

“It must be Cliff……”

As if reading my thoughts, Anna nodded. But then she muttered under her breath, “Then why has Miss Lizé been seeing Master Killian lately……?”

“Huh?”

“Oh, no!”

“No, I won’t be angry, so tell me.”

It was obvious that Anna, who had relaxed, was now blaming her mouth.

But you can’t take back words you’ve already spit out, so she hesitated, then mumbled, “It’s just that Miss Lizé has been strangely nice to Master Killian lately.”

“That’s just the way Lizé is.”

“Well, yes, but she’s been visiting Master Killian especially often lately, and of course Master Killian  has never done anything dishonorable!”

Anna’s face showed a hint of frustration. Perhaps she realized that she had made a mistake in even saying this.

Maybe all the hard work I had put into the extras was finally paying off.

“Of course. By the way, when did the ‘these days’ you just mentioned start?”

“Well…… since the day you and the young master went to the opera, I believe.”

It’s kind of weird that it was the day after the second exception condition was met.

“May I ask why you thought so?”

“The truth is that Miss Lizé visited Master Killian’s room that night, and while she didn’t stay long, it was a strange thing for her to stop by at that hour, dressed in a slip……”

If she had something to say, she could do it the next morning. If it was urgent, she would have sent a maid.

It was a bit odd that she would bother to visit Killian at night.

“And since that day, I’ve seen the two together quite a bit. They used to see each other often, but unlike before, Miss Lizé has been coming to visit him lately.”

I wonder if something is going on.

Or is her setup, which requires her to have Killian as a second male lead, preventing him from escaping her fishery?

“I just thought that if you love Master Killian…… you’d prevent him from going out with Miss Lizé alone.”

I laughed a little at that. “Anna, as you know, I have no right to do so.”

“But Master Killian has been different lately!”

“It is true that Killian has been visiting me more often lately. But I’m not sure if it’s because he has a crush on me, or if he’s spying on me. Either way, I don’t care.”

I’m serious.

If he has a crush on me, I’d appreciate it, but if he’s spying on me, I’m fine with that. It just feels good to be able to see him.

“Anyway, thanks for telling me, Anna, I’m sure you were torn between telling me and not.”

Anna’s face quickly flushed red.

It means a great deal to me that Anna, whom I had always thought of as the Ludwigs’ person, has told me something that only she knows.

It means she’s finally going to be my maid.

***

Anna is the daughter of a fallen baron family.

Her uncle, Baron Sorel, is a man of decent character who took pity on his brother’s daughter and took her in after her gambling-addicted father died.

His good character and hard work earned him a monthly stipend from the count’s business, but the Sorels already had five children, so the money was hardly enough to support the entire family.

Anna, who had been raised by her gambling father to see the worst of everything, was an expressionless child, but she was quick on her feet.

“I’m sorry, aunt, but I was wondering if you could find me a position as a maid for a noble family?”

As soon as Anna turned fourteen, she applied for a job as a maid. She’d been doing household chores since she was a little girl, so she had no qualms about being a maid.

But Baron Sorel objected.

“No matter what, you have the blood of a baron. You are not a maid!”

Baron Sorel, who had taught his children the knowledge that a noble young lady should possess without discrimination, insisted that he would give Anna in marriage.

But Anna knew better.

This would lead them all into a quagmire.

She begged her aunt again, “Thank you so much for raising me all these years. I’ll leave a letter for my uncle, so please find me a position as a maid.”

“……thank you, Anna.”

That’s how Anna got the job as a maid to the count her aunt had introduced her to.

Her life as a maid was hard, but she quickly earned a good reputation for doing the hard work.

Sending part of her paycheck to Baron Sorel and saving the rest, Anna lived diligently.

Eventually, she became a maid of House Ludwig.

And the Duke and Duchess of Ludwig were quite taken with Anna, who was quiet, sincere, perceptive, and had good values.

“I want you to take care of Lizé from now on. She has a deeply wounded heart and may not be able to tell you if she is uncomfortable, but I want you to look after her and help her.”

When a dazzlingly beautiful girl named Lizé Sinclair came to live in the Ludwig mansion, Anna was chosen to be her first maid.

“Anna, you say? Nice to meet you. I’m Lizé. Lizé Sinclair.”

“It’s an honor to meet you, Miss Lizé.”

Lizé smiled like a ray of sunshine at her as she greeted her, and she was so beautiful that words could not describe it.

Anna had been the paragon maid she’d always been, watching over Lizé with a careful eye and preparing for her before any possible inconvenience.

But it was in this ‘careful eye’ that she realized Lizé was far too lucky.

No, it’s not just about an illegitimate child, abandoned by her own father, receiving affection from the Duke and Duchess, and living in the Ludwig mansion.

Lizé was, quite literally, really lucky.

The weather was always nice on the days she wanted to go out, the things she wanted were always there, and there were an unusually large number of circumstances in her favor.

‘It’s weird,’ Anna thought, ‘how can a person be so lucky?’

Just as she was thinking this, Anna was suddenly reassigned to a different position.

“I’m sorry to have to reassign you so suddenly, Anna, but you’ve done this before, so it shouldn’t be too difficult, right?”

“Yes, madam.”

Anna was assigned to work as one of the Duchess’ maids, just as she had done before becoming Lizé’s maid.

She felt no regret at the new position, but strangely enough, she felt somehow distant from Lizé.

It was an instinct of Anna’s, who had experienced various misfortunes from a young age. She had never known anyone as fortunate as Lizé.

After a few years in the Ludwig mansion, Anna was assigned as a maid to Edith, who was to become Killian’s wife.

“Anna, I trust you with this job. If Edith seems to be up to no good, if she does anything strange, come and tell me at once. If she is unkind to you, you must report it.”

The Duke of Ludwig spoke as gravely as if he were sending his favorite knight off to war.

Anna was unimpressed, but as always, she remained silent.

In contrast to the Duke’s fear, Edith was a very ordinary person.

Despite her flamboyant appearance and what must have been quite a raucous gossip, she was a quiet person in the mansion.