I Became The Servant Who Received The Crown Prince’s Obsession

Chapter 6

Translated by Lara
Edited by Lara

Clyde curled his lips and smiled delightfully, and she felt a sense of déjà vu.

She saw that smile in the office earlier.

Just before the paper summary test, she remembered that smile.

Could it be a precursor of something unusual? It looked delicious like a poisoned apple, but it felt like it was oozing with evil energy.

Unsurprisingly, he pulled a string hanging like a decoration from the corner of the wall.

“I’m sorry to make you bored. I know how difficult it is to hold back sleep. I’m here to give you a job to alleviate the difficulties.”

Several courtiers immediately responded to the call as if they were waiting outside the room. They carried a bunch of heavy boxes and arranged them neatly near the desk.

She could guess how hard the contents would be for her without checking it out.

The boxes kept coming in. The courtiers made several round trips and stacked boxes to fill one wall.

“Your Highness…. This–”

A complaint about whether it was too much ran up my throat.

However, no sound came out of her pouting lips. Because at that moment, an evil, polite smile passed from him.

What would Clyde do if she grumbled? The conspiracy behind that smile will probably never help Edith’s peaceful future.

Should she ask, pretending to be deceived, even with an ominous feeling? Like a fish in front of her bait, struggled to bite the earthworm swaying before her eyes, then she forced her fluttering heart to calm.

“What am I supposed to do with all these papers?”

She was unable to suppress her curiosity and ask.

The corners of his fantastic lips curved even more, and the sleek, lean man’s cheeks made a nice curve.

He looked so damn cool. What the hell was he doing?

“We should review it first.”

“… all of them?”

“Is it too much?”

‘Are you kidding me now?’ She couldn’t bear to say that even if she gave up on being extremely respectful to the Crown Prince.

However, she worked hard to create big eyes like a kitten hoping that he would let it go if she looked pitiful.

“Your Highness….”

But she seemed to have met the wrong person.

“You’ll get tired of working with only these side tables and hard chairs, so I’ll have to bring in Edith’s desk soon.”

There was no concern in his gaze as he looked around the room. He was determined that there would be no such thing as going easy on her.

“No, a desk is not enough. Rest is as important as work, so I will provide you with a place to rest.”

“Uhm, I appreciate what you said, but I think I should work moderately and go home.”

How hard were the works to the point of having a place to work and rest?

“Did a bed… a little too much? A couch big enough to sleep on would be fine.”

Edith stopped her poor, ineffective expression and frighteningly took a step forward to the crown prince.

She raised his gaze up a lot because of the enormous difference in height as they stood close together.

Eyes that widened spontaneously were staring at him.

“Why am I sleeping here?”

She asked seriously, but he casually answered, which she didn’t know whether it was a joke or a serious one.

“Are you considering it? Just a moment ago, you said you’d finish quickly and go home.”

“That–”

‘Does that make sense? You’re joking too much.’ These words also had to linger in her mouth.

She didn’t know how many days it would take to open and review just one of the boxes that stacked up like a barrier.

Even if she read that amount of novels, she would have to count the period by a year, much less review all the painful and densely written official documents were the same as living here.

It was very likely. Clyde might keep her in this Crown Prince’s palace and serve him as a slave.

Naturally, the original work didn’t mention the commuting problem of a minor role.

How Edith got a high-speed promotion in two years was left to the imagination. In this way, if she stayed in a separate room and buried her flower-like youth in a pile of documents, the circumstances fit pretty well.

What kind of luxury did you want in a possession world?

This time, she looked up endlessly at Clyde with a pitiful expression from the bottom of her heart.

She couldn’t express my true feelings carelessly, so she shouted only in her heart.

‘Let me just feed on day to day, please…. My life goal is to be a salary thief.’ 

Unlike his head, her mouth spoke emotionally.

She used her wits to make up a false idea that immediately came to mind.

“Your Highness, actually, I have a bad back. I’ve been studying at the Academy Library for too long.”

Clyde was intrigued.

“Library?”

Oh, he ate her words.

Looking at his tilted head, he was obviously interested in her hasty excuse.

That’s great.

Edith picked it up and served him with stories about this and that.

“I couldn’t attend the academy if I didn’t get a scholarship because of my family’s financial difficulties. So I’ve been studying hard to live….”

It sounded pretty plausible. Even though she just made it up, there was a subtle detail in it,

It was true that she desperately needed a scholarship, and she indeed visited the library often. However, the books she read from the library bookshelves were like this world’s various cultures and customs.

The original Edith’s brain was thankfully so brilliant that she didn’t even have to sit for long in the reading room.

Clyde, who had no idea of her academy life, recalled a sad expression for a moment and then erased it.

What a heartless prince. Shouldn’t he be more compassionate with this kind of story?

Immediately determined, he raised his elegant chin high.

“I can’t help it. You’d better start working after I create a proper working environment.”

“Really?”

It was a success. She could escape for now.

“My first service attendant is aching. I have so many days to spend with Edith in the future.”

Who wanted to spend many days with you?

Please use that expression for the main bottom.

As he overused such romantic words with his dazzling visuals, her heart pounded for no reason even though she knew it meant to work hard.

But her own position sounded a little odd. It was a name of a nuance that didn’t seem to exist.

“Service… attendant?” 

She asked back, imagining herself as a haughty royal family’s caregiver. He never behaved arrogantly, but she just imagined it anyway.

“In other words, it can be said a servant who conducts public affairs.”

In the end, he just emphasized that she was a caregiver who took a position that looked the same as a servant.

She couldn’t express her dislike and only grumble inside.

Clyde chose a term that would be misleading enough as a name and ruffled his hair coolly without hesitation.

She thought it was kind of weird. There was no way Edith could be entrusted with the small errands, such as pouring water and cleaning up the mess. The person in charge of serving the Crown Prince was subdivided, and there was even a courtier who held a duster and dusted off the ornaments.

However, Edith didn’t understand his intention to leave dozens of imperial staff members belonging to his palace and set aside a person to take care of his official duties.

Even in the previous office alone, there were a lot of servants watching the imperial family’s affairs. Not only in Clyde’s private space, but the long hallways were lined with rooms for servants and officials.

“But–”

“I know what Edith is thinking. But I want you to trust and follow me first. There’s something I have to do by forming a team that I want.”

Organizations were all about the ones at the top, so at this point, there was no other way but to follow his opinion.

She was worried about working in a separate room next to his bedroom and also worried about not knowing what his intentions were. Still, the situation was completed using the know-how of work-life that she has honed in the real world.

She also added a lot of positive comments such as ‘You have a deep idea,’ and ‘I’m really looking forward to it.’

* * *

Edith took a few days off and stayed in the empty house for a while.

Her father had never seen her face. The only people she could meet in the spacious mansion were a few servants who managed to clean her room and take care of three meals.

Edith’s maid has not been around since the beginning of her family’s slump.

The father wasn’t very interested in his daughter’s convenience, so he fired high-paying people first to reduce the mansion’s maintenance cost. The daughter’s maid became the first target among the butler, servants, and maids.

Thanks to this, Edith learned to do everything alone. This was a habit that Edith learned and acquired in the original story.

Before she possessed her body, the woman was likewise not very fond of borrowing other people’s hands, so she was fortunate among her misfortunes.

For example, when she was told that she didn’t have enough people to attend the bath today, Edith said she would rather be alone. So after her servants left her bathtub full of water, she washed herself with her own bath tools.

She would normally wear a chemise and go into the water, but no one watched, so she got in the water with her bare body. 

It was said that people bathed twice in their lifetime in the Middle Ages, but it was set that people here washed quite often because the original author liked to be neat.

After washing, eating, and playing around all day, she suddenly remembered.

‘Oh, right. If I don’t want to be roasted by Clyde, I need to put Adrian as soon as possible.’

Soon after, she thought of herself with dark circles covering her cheeks as she was suffering from a heavy workload, he had the driving force to lift her body that had sagged between the bed and the couch.

Edith was an old acquaintance with Adrian.

As students from the same academy, there were several classes that overlapped.

Every time she bumped into him, she pretended not to know Adrian. Just as she didn’t want to be involved with Clyde, she tried to distance herself from the main bottom.

Still, Adrian probably knows Edith by name. He would most likely remember her name on the bulletin board because she was a scholarship student for all semesters and was the top student for every exam period.

She had been ignoring him for all three years, but his reputation on campus would have come naturally to her.

He was very famous for his looks that radiated beauty in a style different from Clyde. His warm-hearted personality and a good sense of understanding other people’s feelings also fueled his popularity.

His followers were to the point of having more than one large lap around the Great Stadium.

She even knew Adrian’s nickname was Adri.

Later she even thought he was her friend because ‘Adri, Adri’ was sung everywhere.