Chapter 1

“I love you.”

“Please let me go… Please, this isn’t like you, young master.””

“Please understand. Don’t you think that there’s a reason for everything? You’re always like this.”

Osses stroked Yuria’s cheek. She shrugged her body away and leaned back. What touched her back was a cold iron bar.

To think Osses, who used to be a gentleman, aided in the confinement of people was shocking.

No, I think they might already know. As they were only servants, maybe they just kept silent to hide their masters’ bizarre hobbies.

Yuria held her trembling hands and looked to the wall on her right.

“Don’t even think about running away, Yuria.”

Leaning against the wall, Arthur spoke as he flipped through the pages of his book.

“Even if you run, I have the confidence to catch you. We aren’t a ducal family for no reason.”

The boy’s eyes gave off a warm energy unlike usual, but the words he spoke were cold.

There was nowhere to run. How can a commoner like her rebel against the nobles? Yuria had nothing else to do but lower her eyes and tremble.

Seeing that, Isley burst out laughing. The chair he sat on swung left and right in accordance with the flippant movement of his body.

“Rabbit, we are going to live together for the rest of our lives from now on. What do you think? Don’t you like that?”

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The Secret of the Rose Mansion was an R-19 novel that I was very excited to read.

The story begins when a beautiful commoner girl, Yuria, and her sister, Lyla, were hired together by the Ducal Family of Emerson, where roses bloomed all year round.

Full of charm, dignity, and kindness, the three young masters fell for Yuria’s beauty.

The love was poison.

In the name of love, the young masters were obsessed with Yuria and imprisoned her in the basement, committing all sorts of terrible things to her.

So what I’m saying is… Uh, once again, this novel is R-19. I’ll just say that.

Some will wonder how I know this. Of course, I knew! Yes, I am someone who lived and died in Korea and was reborn in The Secret of the Rose Mansion!

“… L…!”

Ahem, anyway… So Yuria becomes exhausted both physically and mentally, which resulted in her to try and take her own life several times.

The young masters treated Yuria’s wounds, but they never opened the doors to the place that locked her in.

In the end, Yuria goes crazy and comes to accept the reality…

“L… La!”

Who is that being so noisy?

“Lala!”

My eyes snapped open.

My friend Marie was looking down at me, crying. My forehead was swollen red. I stared blankly at her and touched my head.

“Why are you crying…”

“Sniff!”

My head… Why does my head hurt so much? Why am I lying down? I got up with Marie’s help.

And the sight in front of me… was a mess. It was as if a bomb had exploded. In other words, the faces of the maids were messed up.

“…? Why are your eyes so puffy?”

What. Their faces were full of bruises as if they had been beaten up.

Out of the three maids of the same age who were struggling with pain, one of them, with lemon-like hair, wiped away her nosebleed and shouted loudly.

“You did this! Hey, you fucking bitch!”

“Ah right. I did!… Hey! How dare you insult my sister?!”

I grabbed her yellow hair right away. My hands were fast.

“Ack-!”

“Lala, calm down! She’s maybe a snobby, annoying, and an ignorant person, but you can’t kill her!”

Now I remember everything. Today marked the first month since I came to the Rose Mansion.

The employees of the mansion were generally nice, but there were a few who were particularly annoying. Those few were Lemon and her friends.

They spread strange rumours in the mansion out of jealousy because my sister was pretty and received the attention of the young masters.

What did you say, you bastards? Who is the fox, and who wagged her tail in front of who now?

There is a saying that a good-looking person is treated like a cornerstone, and that’s exactly what is happening here. But unfortunately, they were caught by me and and were being beaten to death.

That was the story of what happened before I passed out behind Marie after being pushed by Lemon and bumping heads with her.

Just then, someone rushed to the laundromat.

“I can’t believe this… Lala, you can’t hit others!”

It was sister Yuria, my only family. Her beautiful light brown hair fluttered gently behind her as she moved.

The maids at the laundromat, including Marie, who was trying to hold me back, and Lemon, who was trying to force off my grip on her hair, all turned and looked at my sister with a blank expression.

Heck, my sister truly was pretty. I felt proud for a moment until she looked at me with her blue eyes, ready to reprimand me.

“Let’s stop, okay?”

My sister loosened my hold of Lemon’s hair.

When I looked at that white face, it reminded me of the scene I saw in my dream.

Yeah, that’s right… My memories begin to become clear.

From the moment my head collided with Marie’s, I remembered everything. After I had reincarnated, I had lost my memories of the past!

Tears poured out.

Sister… The young master-no, those bastards will imprison you in the future and do terrible things to you. Since we are commoners, we couldn’t do anything but suffer. They even said they would kill me if I got in their way, since I was the one sister said you liked.

No… Thinking about it, this is unfair! It’s not my fault that they couldn’t take sister’s heart, so why did they kill me?!

As I sniffled, my sister looked flustered, and she seemed at a loss for what to do.

“I’m sorry, Lala. I’m sorry for just stopping you without understanding the situation first… But hitting others is wrong. Sister just thought…”

“That’s not it!”

“Yes…?”

“Sister… Let’s change our job…”

No, we have to change jobs!

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