The man, whose eyes were burning, was pointing his sword at the woman in front of him without hesitation. There was hatred in his eyes. Compassion... It was as if those eyes didn't even know that feeling existed.

The woman lying on the ground raised her chin proudly. There was pure anger and disappointment in her eyes. But there was absolutely no hatred in her eyes. Maybe she didn't hate this hateful man, who would soon take her life with his own hands.

However, she felt anger towards him. The anger she felt was as hot as the lava in the volcano, but cold enough to penetrate one's bones.

"Why?" She asked.

The man frowned in response.

“Why her and not me?” The woman was so beautiful in her thin white dress on the cold ground that neither the bruises under her eyes nor her skin that had faded from hunger could harm her wild beauty. “Why, your majesty! Answer to me! Why her and not me!”

“You are not even worthy of breathing!” answered the man.

The woman started laughing. But it was painful laugh. “So I'm not even worthy of breathing,” she slowly turned her blue eyes to the people watching from afar. At that moment, another man held the beautiful blonde-haired woman she was looking at behind his back to protect her. The young man acted as if she could curse that woman with her eyes.

“Is she worthy?” asked the woman suddenly. “Is that wretched woman worthy of your love?”

“Don't mention her name!”

“Hah! Even if you command me, I will never pronounce that wretched woman's name, your majesty!”

“You are the monster!” said this time the majestic man with black hair and gray eyes, moving his sword closer and continuing the conversation, "You are sentenced to death!"

The woman slowly closed her eyes. The corners of her lips slowly turned upwards. She thought about what she had experienced so far.

No, that woman was not the culprit. That woman was not guilty of what happened. If it wasn't for that woman, the man in front of her would love another woman. The only one to blame was this man. In front of him was this man who had put his sword to her and was about to take her life.

She had been in love with him since childhood. He knew about it. And even though he knew this, he had ignored her for years. Even though they were engaged, he went into the arms of another woman. Yet how much she loved him.

He didn't even try. If he had tried to get to know her, maybe he would have loved her. But no… He had never even spoken to her properly. He didn't even look at her face. Other women were more interesting to him.

Why?

Why was he so cruel?

However, she was so beautiful. She was rich. She came from a respectable family. Her status was high. Why had he done this to her? She didn't deserve these. She deserved better than this.

She clenched her fists.

"You will regret it, your majesty," she whispered softly.

The young man's black hair was waving because of the cold wind leaking in from the large windows in the corridor.

“Will I regret it?” he said in a cold voice. "My only regret is that I didn't kill you in time!"

For the first time, the woman's eyes were filled with pain. Tears like pearls appeared in her blue eyes and slowly flowed down her cheeks. Suddenly she held the sword with both hands. Before the young man could understand it, she plunged the sword into her heart. Blood began to flow slowly from the young woman's chest, including her palms.

“I curse you, your majesty!” She said while smiling painfully, she was crying, she was in pain, but she was still smiling. "No matter how much I want to hate you, I curse myself for never being able to do it!"

The man wanted to draw his sword towards himself, but the woman, who was holding it tightly with both hands, would not let go. On the contrary, she was thrusting the sword deeper.

“Did you hear me! I curse you! You will love me! You will fall in love with me! With all your heart! With all your being! I curse you for falling in love with me! You will have to love me with such strength that you won't even notice!”

The woman suddenly vomited blood. Her palms were stained with her blood. She relaxed her hands. She was thrown backwards slowly and her back met the cold ground. She whispered her last words before closing her eyes.

“I curse you, your majesty… You will suffer the same pain… You will only love me…”

...ΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ...

The woman suddenly opened her eyes. She was covered in sweat. She couldn't believe she was having the same dream again. Now this was getting really annoying.

She got up from her bed with her numb body. She took a glass of water from the jug on the side table. She had been having the same dream for a week. Now she was really starting to get scared. For God's sake, every time she saw a beautiful girl being killed with a sword stuck in her heart because of the same guy. Was this possible? What evil man could kill such a beautiful woman!

The saddest part of the dream was the pain in that woman's eyes. It was like the eyes of a little girl who had never seen love.

Oh whatever! She couldn't think about that now. Diana shook her head. It would be more accurate to call her ridiculous and frightening a nightmare, it was not the time to think. Today was a special day. It's been exactly two years since they met her fiancée. Who knows what surprise he has prepared for her. She immediately started to prepare.

Diana Steel was a normal girl with a normal life, who worked in a library at the age of twenty-five, lost her parents in a traffic accident when she was fifteen, and grew up in the hands of her uncle.

After finding her own job, she moved to a separate house, met the man who was the love of her life two years ago, and got engaged four months ago. Her only wish now was to get married and live happily.

She always wanted a man who would protect her and support her. Diana was not a woman with legendary beauty. She was actually a rather short woman with short red hair, very fair skin, and brown eyes with freckles. But this still did not deter her. She was a strong and caring person who always managed to stand on her feet.

Two hours later, Diana arrived at her fiancée's apartment. She was wearing a powder-coloured light pink dress and white loafers underneath. She also sprayed her favorite rose-scented perfume. She left her hair as usual and applied lip gloss to her lips.

Diana knew that she looked more like a high school student than a young woman. Her breasts were too small. Her body lines were not that plump either. She looked more like a teenager, so she was always angry with her body. She looked like she was seventeen, not twenty-five. But her fiancee loved her even in this state. He was the most perfect man who accepted her as she was.

With the cake box in her hand, she slowly opened the door with her keys. She also had a spare key to her fiancee's apartment. She could make a nice surprise for him.

As soon as Diana entered, she immediately went to the kitchen with the cake box in her hand. She took out the cake decorated with strawberries and placed it on the table. She immediately took out the wine from her bag. Although it was a little early in the day to drink, she still thought she should keep it on the table for visual effect.

Diana looked around with excitement. She tucked her hair behind her ears and slowly headed towards her fiancée's room. It was stirring inside. Let's see what he will do when he sees her.

“Good morning, my sleepy lov..”

As soon as Diana opened the door, she was left standing there, freezing. It was as if time had stopped. She couldn't move. She didn't know what to say when she saw the sight she saw. She was speechless.

"Damn!"

"Damn!"

The naked man quickly got out of bed and was trying to put on something. Of course, he could not have predicted being raided like this in the early morning.

“You… You…” Diana still didn't know what to say. “How can you do this?”

Her fiancee was cheating on her. And with whom? He was cheating with her best friend. He had done it while he was with her!

“How could you do this to me?”

After putting some clothes on, the man immediately grabbed Diana's arm. At that moment, Diana withdrew her hand in anger.

“Don't touch me, asshole!” She shouted. Then she looked at the other woman, who was still grinning sheepishly on the bed, and shouted again: “How could you do this to me! You were my friend! Have you no shame!”

The woman didn't even answer.

“I hate you both! You are disgusting! Disgusting!" Tears began to flow from the young girl's eyes. She couldn't help it. How could they do such a thing? Diana angrily took the ring off her finger and threw it at her ex-fiancée's face. “You and your new lover will be devastated! I hate you both assholes! Don't come across me again, Josh! You are a complete bastard!"

"Enough Diana! Are you done with what you have to say!”

Diana was breathless. The guy didn't regret it at all... In fact, he was almost glad he was caught.

“As if I adored you too! I've been thinking about how to break up with you for a long time anyway. Of course, I didn't want you to know like this... I'm sorry. But we are with Ember-”

Before Josh could finish his speech, Diana slapped the man in the face.

“And you talk shamelessly, you disgusting bastard!” shouted Diana with angrily. “You are disgusting son of bitch!”

Josh angrily grabbed Diana's hair and threw her. “What do you think you are doing, idiot!” he shouted into her face, “I don't love you, don't you understand? I never loved you! Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror? Huh? I'm telling you Diana! How can you think I could love you?”

Tears continued to flow slowly down Diana's cheeks. She wiped her cheeks. She had just fallen to the ground because of that disgusting guy's brutal swing. When she slowly sat up, the woman on the bed wrapped the white sheets around herself and sat up laughing.

“Josh, my love, you shouldn't be so rude. What has happened to the girl?" She said with amusement.

Diana looked at the woman who used to be her best friend. There would be no honor in a person. How could she talk after doing such a disgusting thing?

Ember suddenly looked at Diana with hatred and said, "Don't look at me like that! I never liked you anyway!" Diana is shocked. She is continued “You have always been everyone's favorite girl! All of my friends! Aunts and uncles! Even the cats on the street love you! You play the role of a cheerful, good-hearted, innocent girl who spreads smiles to everyone! I've always hated people like you!”Ember approached Josh and hugged his arm. "Did you really think that Josh could love someone like you? You are very naive, Diana, very naive."

Diana wiped her tears. She wasn't crying anymore. She now looked with hatred at these two people who had entered his life and who had once been the most valuable people. When she turned her red eyes to Josh, he looked away for some reason.

Diana sniffed. “What can I say,” she said slowly, “I wish you happiness. You suit each other very well."

Josh suddenly said angrily: “That's right!” he shouted, “You don't suit me!”

Diana turned back. She clenched her fists. Josh was a handsome man. He was a tall, attractive man with a good physique, dark chestnut hair, and burning black eyes. Diana knew that he always attracted the attention of women easily. That's why she had stayed away from him at first. A handsome young lawyer could make any woman's heart flutter. That's why she always chose to stay away from that man who knew her place. However, Josh himself always followed her. Didn't she forcefully jump into his arms? Why was he talking now as if she was the one who forced him?

Diana turned back for the last time and when she said, "I curse you," a strange mixture of emotions appeared in Josh’s eyes. "I curse you... I hope you love someone who doesn't love you... Let this be my curse on you."

After saying her last words, Diana slowly left the place.

...ΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ...

Diana put the empty bottle in her hand aside. She took another bottle but later realized it was empty. She picked up another bottle, unfortunately it was also empty. In anger, she threw one of the bottles towards the wall with all her strength. The ominous sound the bottle made when it shattered echoed in the corridors of the empty house. She covered her ears. Maybe this action would stop her ears from ringing.

"I hate myself for being so blind," she muttered to herself, her voice hoarse from crying. She could barely stop herself from bursting into sobs. The tears she thought were over were escaping from her eyes again. She pulled her knees towards herself. She leaned her head on her knees and wrapped her arms around her legs. She was in a miserable state. There were three empty bottles next to her. It was as if the alcohol she consumed made the pain worse instead of relieving it. Why did heartache hurt so much? Her heart was pounding and her breathing was becoming difficult. No matter how deeply she breathed, there was not enough oxygen in her lungs...

Her heart ached for being ridiculed and for the words she heard. Why did they hate her so much? However, she had always admired Ember. She was so beautiful, so feminine! All the men around her admired her. They could fall in love with your smile. However... She was just Diana. A freckled red-haired woman who is not very attractive, looks like a high school student, is 1.54 tall and has small breasts. So Josh had never loved her. Nasty bastard!

She stood up from where she was sitting. She had come to the farmhouse she inherited from her grandmother. She wanted to be alone, to rest her mind. She couldn't digest the events. The disgusting sight she saw and the disgusting sentences she heard still made her sick to her stomach.

She went upstairs.

This small library room, where old books on the shelves were covered with dust, held many of her childhood memories. Diana loved this room very much. As a child, she spent all day reading books with excitement on the old armchairs of this room.

When she entered the room, she was surrounded by the intense smell of mold and dust. And of course, the priceless unique smell of those old books.

Diana loved the smell of those old pages. She took a deep breath. She looked around at the books on the shelves. The light of the moon was leaking in through the large window, so there was a dim light around. The full moon was illuminating the surroundings tonight.

A sad, bittersweet smile appeared on her face. She was slowly examining the books with one hand... she had learned from these books...

These books taught her what love was... Those pages told her that unique feeling.

Those dark pages told her about the uniqueness of Love.

Diana had always dreamed of that love. Her greatest wish in her life was to experience a great love. But the result: real Love existed only in books and fairy tales. True love was only found in those old, musty pages. There was no such thing as love in this life.

People who broke the rules, broke all the exceptions, experienced true love and experienced that feeling became an epic, a legend, spread from word to mouth.

Diana bit her lip to avoid crying again with her painful smile. She became the third person in her own life story. Maybe all this time she thought she was the leading character in her own story, but in fact she was always the third person.

She continued to walk around the room. Her body was numb due to the alcohol she drank, and she couldn't even think clearly. Suddenly she noticed that there was a box at the top of the bookshelves. When she stood on a stool and picked up the box, she suddenly lost her balance. When she hit the shelves and fell to the ground, the box in her hand fell right in front of her. She rubbed her eyes and took the box in her hand. It looked like a pretty old box.

She put the box on the table by the window. Diana was still dizzy and couldn't stand still. When she carefully opened the box, a bitter smile appeared on her face.

“Love and Madness,” she murmured.

Diana laughed painfully. This was her first and last book that she wrote by hand. I think she wrote it ten years ago. Ah, she was a really crazy girl back then. She lost her family at that time. She couldn't even remember whether she had finished her book.

What was it really about? She thought for a while.

Hah! She remembered now!

Once upon a time, there was a duke who was very handsome, but also cruel, feared by everyone, and whose heart was frozen. And one day, this callous duke fell in love with a poor aristocrat's daughter!

Diana laughed again, even though she didn't want to.

Was this really the subject of the book she wrote so excitedly when she was little? She must have lost his mind! Was this the love story she wrote with her own hands? Is this a ridiculous topic? Diana guess she was pretty stupid as a teenager.

Is such a person... Such a rich, arrogant man falling in love? Impossible!

She couldn't believe that she had written this impossible story herself. How stupid she acted. She should definitely burn this book. She didn't want anyone to read it. It would literally be a laughing stock.

She opened the first page of the old leather cover book in her hand. She remembered, she was very excited when she wrote this. She always told her mother that he would be a writer. That's why she bought such a thick, book-like leather cover notebook. She thought it would be a manuscript book.

"It's just childhood," Diana smiled.

How old is the book? The color of the pages changed to yellow. As soon as she opened the box, the strong musty smell was quite evident. After all, the book had been waiting in this box for ten years.

Diana wondered what was written on the first page. Maybe she wrote it with her own hands, but she didn't remember much of the story. What happened in the end? She didn't remember at all. She wrote down everything that came to her mind as a child.

Diana wondered for a moment if it really had a happy ending. She couldn't even remember the names of the main characters. She just wanted to write a love story because she loved the novels of old English literature.

She read the sentence on the first page out loud:

“Maybe we are people from different worlds... Maybe I am the earth and you are the sky. Maybe there are mountains and oceans between us that cannot be crossed... Remember, if we cannot be WE, then this world would not exist without us... Remember my love, wherever you are, I am always a breath away, my darling..."

What a ridiculous declaration of love that was.

Did I really write this?

This was the first thing Diana thought of. Maybe if she had read it a few days ago, she would have thought, "Oh, did I write this, how cute is it?" She might think. But now for some reason she wanted to vomit.

Suddenly Diana noticed something shining inside the box. This was a very beautiful, elegant ring. She carefully took the ring in his hand.

“I didn't know my grandmother had such a ring,” she said to herself, beginning to examine the ruby ​​ring on her hand. Finally, she couldn't resist and put it on her ring finger. “I thought it looked nice too…”

Diana was looking at her hand with a half-hearted smile. Her head was still throbbing. She sat on the armchair next to her. She began to silently look at her open book on the table... The table was bright thanks to the moonlight, and there was a lamp right next to it.

“Maybe I can read what I wrote, I was just wondering,” she said to herself.

She could have pushed aside the unsuccessful love story in her own life and read the love that consisted of this fairy tale.

“I wish,” she said suddenly, taking her book again, “I wish… If it were like the pages in this book, my life. If I were one of the beautiful women in these stories. I'm willing to suffer at first. As long as my ending ends with a happy ending. In the end, let me reach happiness,” She smiled to himself “I am still in the pursuit of dreams… I am so a pathetic person. Are you going to fall in love with the character you created yourself? she said to herself.

After smiling again, she opened the first page of the book and started reading it aloud.

“Once upon a time there was a young duke whose heart was rusted, who did not believe that love existed...”

Suddenly, the ring on his finger began to shine. Diana looked at the ring in surprise. Somehow she was getting scared. It was like the ring was starting to burn your skin.

"What's going on?"

She tried to take the ring off her finger, but the ring was very warm. Could not touch. The ring, which was warming up, started to burn her skin. There was no fucking ring. It was stuck! This time, the pages of her book, which she had left on the table, began to open one by one.

Diana instantly got up with fear. She was going back. The book began to shine. A great fear appeared in it. She had to get out of here. She had to run away. The damn book continued to shine and was getting stronger. Her eyes were beginning to dazzle.

Diana tried to close her eyes with her hand. She tried to go to the door, but an invisible force was holding him.

"Ah!"

Suddenly, she began to be drawn by an invisible force. The surrounding objects were toppling, and some of them began to fly in the air. Diana started screaming. What was going on in this damn room! Then it was taken again. It was pulled onto the book that was shining light on the table.

No way! This could not be possible!

Diana screamed for the last time and left herself in the void.

“My lady... My lady, are you okay?”

“Agh… Damn! My head!”

“Look, she's waking up!” A young girl's voice shouted with joy.

“Forward it to His Majesty immediately! Tell them that Lady Valeria has come!”

Diana heard a man's voice with a deep and strong voice. She still had a headache. What was going on? There was a commotion around her that she could not understand. She tried to open her eyes, “Ov, ov, ov… Hell! My head! It hurts so much!” she said angrily. One of her hands went towards her head.

“My lady, how are you? Are you feeling well?” A young girl was standing curiously at the edge of the bed. The concern in her eyes could be seen from a hundred meters away.

“I-I'm fine, yes,” Diana said, barely opening her eyes. She was in a strange place. She closed her eyes and opened them again.

Where was this?

She didn't know the girl in front of her. And who was this strange man?

"Where am I? Who are you? Are you a doctor? My head is about to explode… Agh!”

The girl in front of her was looking at her in surprise. “My lady, are you okay? I’ me, Jane… Your housemaid my lady," the girl spoke with a trembling voice.

Diana sat up a little from the bed she was lying on and leaned her back against the headboard. She had regained her composure a little. She didn't quite understand why this girl kept calling her lady. When you see it, it looks like it is in the Renaissance period. Moreover, what was wrong with these strange clothes that this girl was wearing?

At that moment, two more men entered. Diana carefully looked at those who entered the room. Was she seeing correctly now? She looked around, unable to understand. How did she come to such a strange place?

This was not a hospital, she understood that.

She closed her eyes and opened them again. Who were these people? And why were they all dressed like old English aristocrats? Is there a theater or something and she doesn't know about it?

She suddenly grimaced and put one hand to her head. When she touched her head, she felt a swelling. She was wrapped in a big cloth. Did she hit her head somewhere?

“Valeria! My dear daughter, are you okay? You scared your father so much, my beautiful princess!”

Diana was looking at the man who approached her in surprise and took her hand in his. He was a vigorous, strong, imposing man who was no more than fifty years old. He was wearing a strange wig and the clothes worn by old English nobles. This situation reminded Diana of the pictures of Napoleon Bonaparte in old history books.

“Oh… Emmm, excuse me sir, but who are you?” Diana slowly pulled her delicate hand from the man's hand towards herself and said, "Do you know me Sir?"

“Oh!”

This voice came from another young girl waiting on the other side of the Diana. She was looking at the lady with concern and stepping forward she said; "My Lady... His Majesty is your father!"

“Sir... I think Lady Valeria is suffering from memory loss,” The man with the deep voice who had spoken before spoke again.

“Lady Va.. What?” said Diana in surprise. “I think you are confusing me with someone else? I'm not the person you think I am."

“Oh my poor girl! God Save us!" The old man spoke again: “I was really afraid that something would happen to you. My delicate Valeria! Please never scare your father again... William!” The imposing authoritarian man suddenly looked back at the man standing.

“Yes, your majesty!” said William.

“Call the doctor. Let there be an immediate solution to Lady Valeria's situation!”

“Of course your majesty!” The man nodded and left the room.

Diana still didn't understand anything. She got up suddenly from bed. She stumbled because she was dizzy.

“Oh, be careful, my lady!”

Diana stopped the servants coming towards her by showing her palms.

“Valeria, what's going on?” asked old man.

“I said who are you Sir! And why does everyone call me Valeria! Why are you dressed like this!”

Diana’s voice suddenly rose. She began to walk, staggering backwards. When she approached the window, she turned her head back and was left speechless with the view she encountered.

"Oh shit… Where am I..."

She was speechless. Because she was at the top of a huge tower. She shook her head, touching the stone walls. This couldn't be real! She was in a castle now. It was in the highest tower of a large castle. And the view in front of her… It was incredible!

“Valeria… My dear daughter, are you okay?” said the man behind her.

Diana looked back, stunned. With her last hope, she asked the imposing man who was looking at her with concern;

"Who are you Sir?"

“I am your father, my dear. Your father."

"Oh shit… I can not believe this…"

♣♣♣

Exactly 12 hours and 9 minutes had passed.

Diana was counting every hour, every minute she spent here. She still couldn't understand it.

How did she get here?

What was going on?

Did she jump back in time?

What was this?

Isn't such a thing impossible?

It is so crazy!

She was a duke's daughter! She was officially the daughter of a duke from the old Historical nobility!

She was ruffling her hair in the chair she was sitting on. On the other hand, she was trying to make sense of what was happening.

"Okay!!! Let's think about everything again," she said to herself. At that moment, the housemaid girl standing next to her just nodded. “You're Jane now, aren't you?” asked Diana.

"Yes my lady. I am Jane,” she nodded.

“And I am…”

“And you are Lady Valeria Herold, daughter of Thomas Arthur Herold, Duke of Wyndham.”

Diana laughed. This wasn't one of those laughs out of fun. It was a mocking laugh.

“Now,” she said, pointing at herself, “this is Valeria… that is, me! I fell down the stairs and had an accident, didn't I?"

Jane shook her head.

“And as you say, I did not come to my senses for exactly twenty hours. I'm unconscious, right?"

“Yes, my lady! We were all really scared! God has forgiven you to us!”

Diana let out a big sigh. The last thing that comes to her mind when she remembers herself: the moment she started reading the book she wrote herself and suddenly lights coming from nowhere and then finding herself here.

At first it felt like she was going crazy. Sh couldn't understand how such a thing was possible. But pretending to be crazy didn't help anyone. She had to live in this damned place as Valeria Herold until she found a way to return. That's why the best solution was to pretend to have lost her memory.

One thing Diana knew best was that great importance was given to the upbringing of young aristocratic daughters living in these periods.

As the daughter of a duke and the sister of a future duke, she had to behave like a daughter who was a symbol of honour, duty, chastity and a well-bred, perfect lady of high society.

It was always like this in the books she read. Even a small mistake could become a huge scandal for high society. So the only solution was memory loss. That way, she could return to her own time without getting into trouble.

So what would she do now?

How long would she stay here? In fact, this could even be fun in a way. On the other hand, Diana couldn't stop thinking about it. After all, she was the daughter of a duke. She must have been pretty rich. She could buy as many dresses of this period as she wanted. Although when she wore them, she felt like she was wearing a wedding dress. And she could barely breathe because of that damn thing called a corset that she had to wear in that dress!

“My lady... Are you okay?”

Diana blinked and looked at the girl who had been waiting next to her for almost an hour.

"I'm fine, Jane," she said, smiling a little. "Sit down. You've been up since the morning. You must be tired.”

Jane's eyes widened. She was looking at Diana in surprise. “My lady, servants cannot sit next to their master. It's against etiquette!” she said while her eyes were on the ground. At that moment, the Jane’s stomach was rumbling. She held her stomach in shame. Her face was red.

Diana smiled. There were lots of cookies, desserts and pudding on the table in front of her.

“Forget about your stupid etiquette, come on and sit down. Eat some cookies. You haven't even eaten anything decent because of me. Come on,” she said.

If there was one thing Diana knew very well, it was the class discrimination of this period. While people in high positions lived as they wanted, people in the lower classes were miserable.

“I said come on Jane,” she stood up, grabbed Jane's arm, who was looking at her in surprise, and made her sit down. “What do you want to eat? Look, that strawberry pudding doesn't stand out too bad. Try it and see if it's good."

“But my lady...”

Diana gave Jane the pudding bowl without accepting her objection. The girl's eyes were filled with tears. Finally, she couldn't resist and took a spoonful of that wonderful taste. She was smiling happily.

"Is it nice?" asked Diana.

Jane nodded and took a spoon again. “Thank you very much, my lady. I am grateful!"

“There is nothing to make a big deal about. You can eat whenever you want,” said Diana, sitting right across from Jane. “How old are you, Jane?”

"You really don't remember, my lady... Although you've changed, that explains it..." Jane said her last words in a mumble, but Diana heard what she said.

“Yes, Jane, I really don't remember anything...” said Diana in a soft voice. “Besides, can you tell me, this is Val... I mean, the old me... What kind of person was I before I lost my memory?”

Jane paused for a moment. It was obvious from her facial expression that she was undecided.

Diana smiled reassuringly at her. She had no intention of scaring Jane. And for some reason, a voice inside her was telling her that the woman she was trapped in this body used to be a scary woman.

“Please don't shy away from me, Jane. I'm not the old me anymore. Please say it clearly. Was I a bad person before?”

Diana felt this from Jane's gaze. That's why it might be useful to know Valeria Herold better, whose body she had to live in. She had to know what kind of person she was.

“Well… Actually, my lady,” said Jane, a little hesitantly, “You were a bit of a… tough person. I didn't mean a bad person! I'm sorry… I was rude, my lady! Forgive me! I don’t mean you are bad lady..!”

Jane wanted to talk for a moment, but when she remembered Lady Valeria's old self again, she got scared and started to apologize. Lady Valeria could be quite cruel when she was angry.

Diana understood the situation. The woman whose body she was trapped in was probably one of the upper class, arrogant people who thought they were very important people. That's why she didn't talk too much.

“Okay, I understand, Jane, calm down,” she said, smiling. “There is no need to apologize. I hope we can be good friends now.”

“But my lady! I am a maid! This is not possible!"

“Okay, okay Jane! Then we can be friends when we're alone, okay? Please do not hesitate and be afraid of me! You're looking at me like I'm a fucking cannibal eating human flesh!”

Jane was looking at Diana with her mouth open.

“What? Why are you looking me like that? Is something on my face?”

“Ma'am, what happened to you? You never spoke like people of the lower classes!”

Diana took a big breath in and out. This job was going to take longer than she thought. She was smiling and looking at the girl in front of her. It would take a really long time.