At that moment, a smirk spread across Karen's face.

"You are naive. Do you really think your fiance doesn't know? Do you think it would have been just me and my father doing this?"

"... ... what?"

It was the first crack in Nadia's expression.

The father and half-brother had no expectations in the first place, so there was nothing to be disappointed about, but the fiance was different.

Did that person also agree to such a low-level scheme? I can't believe it.

As her expression faltered, Karen was even more delighted.

"What is so shocking? Shouldn't you have expected it?"

"I do... ... Lee... ... ."

"Things are different from when you got engaged to him. He will now be one of the most important figures in this country. The fact that the inner person of such a man is Seochul... ... It's a bit like that from that point of view."

Lee Ji-ho was no longer just a stranger who had been summoned from another world as before.

Through the war with the demons, his value went up to heaven.

Karein, who once ridiculed her half-sister's wife, coveted the position.

'therefore... ... Haven't you come to see me since that day?'

Instead of blindly denying reality, Nadia's head was thinking of the possibility that it could be.

He often recounted the hardships I had gone through when I was first summoned here, and promised to make sure that no one ignored him.

That must have been the reason why he had put up a ball like crazy in the battle with the demons.

Nadia couldn't have known that the man was far from the image of a 'hero' spoken of in the world.

The power of the wife's family is also important for ascending to a higher position.

It was unlikely that he would turn down the opportunity to get a better wife.

No, maybe he thought that he was engaged to Seo-chul Young-ae from the beginning as 'discrimination experienced as a stranger'.

'He was a man who prioritized getting ahead in this world.'

If I had said that we should rather break the marriage, I would have quietly stepped back... ... .

No, did he not want to become a coward who abandoned his fiancee after becoming a career man?

Karein continued speaking to her, who was frozen like a statue.

"What kind of man would refuse to exchange a low-quality product for a high-quality product? Ahn's identity also represents a man's face. This is the difference between you and me. Do you understand?"

"... ... ."

It was funny. Everything was ridiculous.

The most selfish fiance, the father who used his daughter to play chess, and the half-brother who ran to this shabby place with excitement.

Nadia asked, holding back a laugh.

"therefore... ... Did the noble red-haired lady come all the way down here to talk like that?"

"No way."

Karen's eyes widened.

How annoying it was to be treated like a concubine's child with the blood of a duke.

She had to be the only one to be treated as the daughter of the Duke of Ballazit.

Seeing the half-sisters, who had been bothering me for the rest of their lives, become miserable, I can't help but laugh.

Now is the time to make the highlight of this marvelous maneuver.

Karen continued speaking as if singing a song.

"I came to help you. Which noble family would accept a woman who broke her marriage while hanging out with an outsider? Besides, it's even a Seochul... ... It would be unreasonable to get married unless you are a common man, right? Wouldn't it be better to die with honor than that? I'll help you just this one time."

clap clap. After she clapped three times, the basement door opened and the male servants entered.

What they held in their hands was a thick rope. A rope thick enough not to break even if one person hangs on it.

Even looking at the object, he was not so ignorant that he could not predict the future situation.

Goosebumps welled up on Nadia's back.

"you... ... !"

"Father tried to embrace even an ugly daughter, but you couldn't overcome your embarrassment, so you killed yourself. Kyung Ji-ho lost his fiance unintentionally. If this happens, won't the honor of our family and that person be protected? The only thing that gets dirty is your name. Still, people will remember me as a woman who knows shame."

The movements of the servants followed Karein's relaxed gestures.

Sturdy men press Nadia and tie her arms and legs.

He resisted desperately, but there was no way he could overcome the strength of several men.

"Let go of this!"

"It would be of no use to resist."

Soon after, a knot of rope was caught around his neck.

There was no hesitation in the hands of the men hanging her from the ceiling.

"Big!"

My throat is tight. I can not breathe.

He struggled with his tied feet, but there was nothing to touch.

Even though I was confused, I felt sad.

'Really like this... ... Are you done?'

It was a life of obediently crawling and obediently doing what my father told me all my life.

When I was a child, I never took a moment to breathe easily because I was watching my stepmother.

Everything that was always good was taken away by my half-sisters.

To be used like a bridesmaid for the rest of your life, and then get framed and die until the last minute. It's such a cruel fate.

Through the blurred vision, the figure of the half-brother smiling happily was reflected.

Karen smiled, closing his eyes and waving his hand.

"Goodbye, Nadia. For your last, I'll watch you till the end. But are we still sisters?"

Nadia Balajit's life was killed by the sound of laughter.

It was when she was twenty-three.

* * *

The first thing that came to Nadia's mind the moment she realized she had returned to the past.

I will betray you before I am betrayed in this life.

* * *

3 years before death. when she was twenty years old.

Nadia murmured as she stroked her neck, which was tied with a thick rope.

"I'm back... ... ."

Is it really a return to the past, or is it just a long dream?

'It can't have been a dream that was so vivid.'

The feeling of that moment when my breath was cut off seemed to be alive even now.

A half-brother who smiled happily in the sight blurred with tears.

Nadia had to listen to the enemy's laughter until the moment she lost consciousness.

The misery of being ridiculed and dying. Feeling helpless in the face of death. Strength entered the chin.

'This time never... ... .'

"Get out of the way, miss! What are you doing standing there while cleaning!"

puck!

Someone shoved Nadia's body in thought. Her delicate body staggers like a reed.

"Stay out until the cleaning is over. It just gets in the way."

It was Amber, the cleaning maid of the Balajit family, who pushed Nadia.

She moaned the shelf behind Nadia with a duster, pouring out her complaints.

"If it sounds like you're cleaning, can't you just walk away on your own? Yes? How many times do I have to tell you?"

"... ... ."

Originally, it was a principle to clean the room when the owner was away.

Had this been Karein's room and not Nadia's, Amber wouldn't have dared to step in.

'I guess I'm not afraid of a bastard who doesn't have a back.'

The housekeeper's father is indifferent to housework.

He tended to think that getting involved in housework, which was the responsibility of the hostess, would reduce his face. So there is no reason to treat me kindly.

Especially in the case of Karen, there was no reason to treat her even more well, as she used to take special care of the maids who were rude to her half-sister.

Still, most of the maids felt sorry for her pitiful situation and kept the line that had to be kept.

Except for thunder-naked ones like Amber.

' Then I saw that boy... ... It's the face that brought me the cocktail on the day of the masquerade.'

To lose consciousness after drinking alcohol brought to you by Karen's limbs. It was too crafty to be called a coincidence.

Nadia's eyes turned cold as she looked at the rude maid.

"What is it? What would you do if you looked at me like that?"

"... ... ."

Amber, who was staring at her, trembled and opened her eyes horribly.

As if he didn't want to admit that he was scared of the first girl, whom he had considered easy.

How do I deal with that child? Nadia thought for a moment, then smiled brightly.

"Nothing. I'll just leave Clean up hard."

"Ah... ... ."

Amber's expression, which seemed to be frightened for a moment, relieves tension.

Then yes. There's no way the sweet first lady would be angry.

"Hey, what were you trying to say... ... . get out now I'll call you back after cleaning."

Amber sighed briefly and turned around.

That's why she couldn't see it.

Watching the lady passing by me tuck something shiny into the back pocket of her apron.

click.

Leaving the room, Nadia sat down by the window in the hallway, killing time.

This is a hallway where people often come and go. Sooner or later another will come.

"Oh my, lady? Why are you here?"

Not surprisingly, less than 10 minutes later, the maid appears at the end of the hallway.

It seemed that he had come to tell her something.

"The bedroom is being cleaned."

"Yes? You don't have to wait in the hallway... ... ."

"Because Amber said you wouldn't be able to rest while cleaning, and you'd be better off. I really don't care... ... ."

"There is also a living room next to the bedroom."

Nadia replied with a shrug.

"I guess you just care about me. I can't help it."

"Hmm... ... ."

A suspicious look appears on the maid's face.

The maid kicks the master out of the room for cleaning. It was a case of neither hearing nor seeing.