As the footmen who injected Mengele left the reception room, Odette's sobbing stopped.
'Acting while in pain is just a piece of gum.'
During the two years she was ignoring the male leads, she tried all kinds of acting.
Besides, she had been strangely feverish ever since she touched Night Glory, so there was no need for any great acting.
'First, the urgent fire has been put out.'
She sat up calmly and sat down in the soft reception chair. Her expression was unusually relaxed in the presence of Mengele.
When she infiltrated the underground warehouse, she didn't just steal the detonation delay drug. Since Odette was already infiltrated, she also swapped Mengele and the precious green beauty injection that her mother was getting.
'It's so expensive that even my mother uses it sparingly, but she gets five at a time.'
The color was the same, so it would have been impossible to tell with the naked eye that it had changed. But if her mother had ever been hit by this, she would have been caught right away...
'Well, when will my mother, who is confined to her room, be able to get this injection again?'
Odette smiled briefly. Things between Ferdinand and her mother could only get worse from now on.
She switched most of Mengele's injections with her mother's cosmetic solution, but she kept some in a secret passage so that she could administer them separately whenever the moment called for it.
'It won't be a big problem even if it doesn't fit for a while.'
It was only her father's illusion that Mengele's scent only lasted 24 hours.
In fact, during the two years she was being chased, the male leads could smell her artificial rose scent.
“They said she was a fake purifier. She really does stink.”
Odette heard those words even at the moment of her death.
'This mansion is going to get noisy from now on.'
The fact that her mother, who had a perfect grasp of the Count's family's affairs, was locked up was just the bait.
Odette's goal was to create an environment where Mrs. Becker could flourish in this house.
'The work that Mother was doing was absolutely necessary for the management of the mansion. Ferdinand himself would not be able to do it.'
Managing the big and small affairs of the household was no easy task. It was not an area where the amount of work was comparable to the amount of work done.
Ferdinand, being lazy and arrogant, will never do it. He will eventually pass the job on to someone he can trust.
'Ferdinand must give Mrs. Becker authority.'
Normally this would be left to the butler, but since the butler has already taken the mother's side, he is out.
If the housekeeper and the head maid did not take the mother's side and tried to please Ferdinand, they would be a more reasonable choice than Mrs. Becker...
Will they be able to tolerate her remonstrance? Odette smiled faintly.
She was so looking forward to cleaning the mansion after her short break.
Odette walked up the central staircase of the mansion to her room. Her limbs were heavy as the fever from the Night Glory reached a feverish level.
But her expression didn't really show it. There was a time when she had to run across the desert with a broken ankle, but this was nothing like that.
'But I'm not a Purifier, so why is my body reacting to Night Glory?'
There's no way a fake purifier like her would experience awakening fever. Would it be bad if a villainess, not the main character, touched it?
'It's so harsh, so harsh. They even discriminate against plants.'
Odette stopped in front of her room with a vain laugh. At that moment, the maids' laughter could be heard from inside the room.
Because the door wasn't closed properly, Odette could see into the room.
The sight of the maids lying leisurely and playing around in Odette's bed as if it were their own.
“Even you guys think Miss Odette is gloomy? Unlike Master Ferdinand, she’s a bit wrinkled, maybe? A bit vulgar, maybe?”
“I agree.”
“Well, you guys don’t know because you’ve never served her before. I served her myself. She's really bad. She yells and hits people.”
“I heard it from Paula too! She said her hair was pulled out dozens of times. Her body was covered in bruises.”
'How can it be so obvious? Isn't it boring?'
Only the higher-ranking employees know the secret that Odette is a fake Purifier and an adopted child.
But in this mansion, even the maids and servants who are unaware of the truth all ignore Odette.
This is because when hiring servants in the first place, the butler secretly checks to see if they have enough hostility towards the 'wicked Odette' before selecting them.
In the case of the servants, the butler Rolf was periodically brainwashing them, and in the case of the maids, the head maid Dolly was periodically brainwashing them.
Among them, only the most brainwashed servants were promoted to footmen.
Odette's misdeeds are said to be beyond imagination. There are heartbreaking reasons why the Count's family imprisons her in the dungeon or injects her.
What was unfolding in Odette's room right now was also an extension of that brainwashing.
A place to brainwash new maids who have just joined the Count's household. Should we call it the <Odette Mocking Party>?
Odette also understood why this event was held today. They wanted to vent their anger on her for being more rebellious than usual.
Odette sighed as she looked at the maid and housekeeper who were putting their shoes on her pillow and dipping cookies in milk.
'You're so rude, you came into my space without permission.'
The new maids actively sympathized with the head maid, not even realizing that Odette was watching them at the door.
“Well, who would like the villainess Odette? Why would there be any need to call her a purifier? She doesn’t purify at all.”
“Oh my, I thought I was the only one who thought that! Everyone hates Miss Odette.”
“You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hates her as much as I do. I just wish she’d die.”
There is nothing as easy to transfer as ridicule. The new maids, who had been just observing at first, began to mock Odette by imitating her.
In reality, the new maid has never even spoken to her, but she imagines Odette's misdeeds as described in some third-rate gossip magazine.
It's like a contest to see who can imitate more humorously.
Odette, who was watching that, laughed.
'Even if I am reborn, I will live the same life as Han Su-wan.'
This is the life of Han Su-wan, who was adopted to look good to investors.
“Mom, the maid doesn’t like her either. I eat in a refined way, but Han Soo-wan seems to eat in a refined way.”
“Oh my, that’s a perfect expression. Even though she has all the proper table manners, she always looks like she’s eating. If anything, she’s really talented at making people hate her.”
A life where you are ridiculed as fake and constantly compared to the real thing. A life where the more you try and strive to be loved, the more you end up being laughed at.
'I'm so sick of this. I'm about to lose my breath.'
Odette walked into the room, one corner of her mouth raised, and deliberately slammed the door shut with a loud thud.
The maid and the housekeeper, lying with their legs stretched out on the bed, and the maids who were joking around next to the bed looked in this direction with wide eyes.
“...! Huh, Miss.”
“Oh my God.”
Clang.
'Acting while in pain is just a piece of gum.'
During the two years she was ignoring the male leads, she tried all kinds of acting.
Besides, she had been strangely feverish ever since she touched Night Glory, so there was no need for any great acting.
'First, the urgent fire has been put out.'
She sat up calmly and sat down in the soft reception chair. Her expression was unusually relaxed in the presence of Mengele.
When she infiltrated the underground warehouse, she didn't just steal the detonation delay drug. Since Odette was already infiltrated, she also swapped Mengele and the precious green beauty injection that her mother was getting.
'It's so expensive that even my mother uses it sparingly, but she gets five at a time.'
The color was the same, so it would have been impossible to tell with the naked eye that it had changed. But if her mother had ever been hit by this, she would have been caught right away...
'Well, when will my mother, who is confined to her room, be able to get this injection again?'
Odette smiled briefly. Things between Ferdinand and her mother could only get worse from now on.
She switched most of Mengele's injections with her mother's cosmetic solution, but she kept some in a secret passage so that she could administer them separately whenever the moment called for it.
'It won't be a big problem even if it doesn't fit for a while.'
It was only her father's illusion that Mengele's scent only lasted 24 hours.
In fact, during the two years she was being chased, the male leads could smell her artificial rose scent.
“They said she was a fake purifier. She really does stink.”
Odette heard those words even at the moment of her death.
'This mansion is going to get noisy from now on.'
The fact that her mother, who had a perfect grasp of the Count's family's affairs, was locked up was just the bait.
Odette's goal was to create an environment where Mrs. Becker could flourish in this house.
'The work that Mother was doing was absolutely necessary for the management of the mansion. Ferdinand himself would not be able to do it.'
Managing the big and small affairs of the household was no easy task. It was not an area where the amount of work was comparable to the amount of work done.
Ferdinand, being lazy and arrogant, will never do it. He will eventually pass the job on to someone he can trust.
'Ferdinand must give Mrs. Becker authority.'
Normally this would be left to the butler, but since the butler has already taken the mother's side, he is out.
If the housekeeper and the head maid did not take the mother's side and tried to please Ferdinand, they would be a more reasonable choice than Mrs. Becker...
Will they be able to tolerate her remonstrance? Odette smiled faintly.
She was so looking forward to cleaning the mansion after her short break.
***
Odette walked up the central staircase of the mansion to her room. Her limbs were heavy as the fever from the Night Glory reached a feverish level.
But her expression didn't really show it. There was a time when she had to run across the desert with a broken ankle, but this was nothing like that.
'But I'm not a Purifier, so why is my body reacting to Night Glory?'
There's no way a fake purifier like her would experience awakening fever. Would it be bad if a villainess, not the main character, touched it?
'It's so harsh, so harsh. They even discriminate against plants.'
Odette stopped in front of her room with a vain laugh. At that moment, the maids' laughter could be heard from inside the room.
Because the door wasn't closed properly, Odette could see into the room.
The sight of the maids lying leisurely and playing around in Odette's bed as if it were their own.
“Even you guys think Miss Odette is gloomy? Unlike Master Ferdinand, she’s a bit wrinkled, maybe? A bit vulgar, maybe?”
“I agree.”
“Well, you guys don’t know because you’ve never served her before. I served her myself. She's really bad. She yells and hits people.”
“I heard it from Paula too! She said her hair was pulled out dozens of times. Her body was covered in bruises.”
'How can it be so obvious? Isn't it boring?'
Only the higher-ranking employees know the secret that Odette is a fake Purifier and an adopted child.
But in this mansion, even the maids and servants who are unaware of the truth all ignore Odette.
This is because when hiring servants in the first place, the butler secretly checks to see if they have enough hostility towards the 'wicked Odette' before selecting them.
In the case of the servants, the butler Rolf was periodically brainwashing them, and in the case of the maids, the head maid Dolly was periodically brainwashing them.
Among them, only the most brainwashed servants were promoted to footmen.
Odette's misdeeds are said to be beyond imagination. There are heartbreaking reasons why the Count's family imprisons her in the dungeon or injects her.
What was unfolding in Odette's room right now was also an extension of that brainwashing.
A place to brainwash new maids who have just joined the Count's household. Should we call it the <Odette Mocking Party>?
Odette also understood why this event was held today. They wanted to vent their anger on her for being more rebellious than usual.
Odette sighed as she looked at the maid and housekeeper who were putting their shoes on her pillow and dipping cookies in milk.
'You're so rude, you came into my space without permission.'
The new maids actively sympathized with the head maid, not even realizing that Odette was watching them at the door.
“Well, who would like the villainess Odette? Why would there be any need to call her a purifier? She doesn’t purify at all.”
“Oh my, I thought I was the only one who thought that! Everyone hates Miss Odette.”
“You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hates her as much as I do. I just wish she’d die.”
There is nothing as easy to transfer as ridicule. The new maids, who had been just observing at first, began to mock Odette by imitating her.
In reality, the new maid has never even spoken to her, but she imagines Odette's misdeeds as described in some third-rate gossip magazine.
It's like a contest to see who can imitate more humorously.
Odette, who was watching that, laughed.
'Even if I am reborn, I will live the same life as Han Su-wan.'
This is the life of Han Su-wan, who was adopted to look good to investors.
“Mom, the maid doesn’t like her either. I eat in a refined way, but Han Soo-wan seems to eat in a refined way.”
“Oh my, that’s a perfect expression. Even though she has all the proper table manners, she always looks like she’s eating. If anything, she’s really talented at making people hate her.”
A life where you are ridiculed as fake and constantly compared to the real thing. A life where the more you try and strive to be loved, the more you end up being laughed at.
'I'm so sick of this. I'm about to lose my breath.'
Odette walked into the room, one corner of her mouth raised, and deliberately slammed the door shut with a loud thud.
The maid and the housekeeper, lying with their legs stretched out on the bed, and the maids who were joking around next to the bed looked in this direction with wide eyes.
“...! Huh, Miss.”
“Oh my God.”
Clang.
A maid dropped a hot cup of tea in surprise, shattering on the floor. The tea spilled all over Odette's dress.
Odette knew that maid. A maid named Malea.
They were surprised, but they just winked and giggled at each other without even changing their posture.
It was because of the strong bond between those who had just laughed and mocked Odette.
'First of all, since the housekeeper and the head maid are acting so confidently, they thought it must be okay to do this here.'
The housekeeper and the maid stamped their shoes on the pillow as if they were sure that Odette would not make a fuss.
Since she has always been concerned about the maid and the head maid, they expect it to be the same this time.
But unfortunately, Odette planned to cause a real ruckus this time.
'It turned out well, actually. I had to completely change the habit of coming into my room.'
From now on, Odette will be using the secret passage in her room a lot. It means that there should not be anyone who suddenly barges into her room like this.
'Besides, it was Malea who spilled tea on me. I guess I should make as much noise as possible.'
She was a new maid now, but she would soon become her mother's close maid. Her mother had a poor eye for art, but Malea, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, had an eye for art and jewelry.
'With her outstanding insight, she quickly increased my mother's assets and quickly became my mother's close maid.'
After a brief calculation, Odette reprimanded her in a cold voice.
“You spilled tea on my dress, Malea.”
An opportunity had come rolling in that could have destroyed her mother's future financial future, but Odette couldn't turn it down.
Odette knew that maid. A maid named Malea.
They were surprised, but they just winked and giggled at each other without even changing their posture.
It was because of the strong bond between those who had just laughed and mocked Odette.
'First of all, since the housekeeper and the head maid are acting so confidently, they thought it must be okay to do this here.'
The housekeeper and the maid stamped their shoes on the pillow as if they were sure that Odette would not make a fuss.
Since she has always been concerned about the maid and the head maid, they expect it to be the same this time.
But unfortunately, Odette planned to cause a real ruckus this time.
'It turned out well, actually. I had to completely change the habit of coming into my room.'
From now on, Odette will be using the secret passage in her room a lot. It means that there should not be anyone who suddenly barges into her room like this.
'Besides, it was Malea who spilled tea on me. I guess I should make as much noise as possible.'
She was a new maid now, but she would soon become her mother's close maid. Her mother had a poor eye for art, but Malea, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, had an eye for art and jewelry.
'With her outstanding insight, she quickly increased my mother's assets and quickly became my mother's close maid.'
After a brief calculation, Odette reprimanded her in a cold voice.
“You spilled tea on my dress, Malea.”
An opportunity had come rolling in that could have destroyed her mother's future financial future, but Odette couldn't turn it down.
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