Transmigrated as the Villainess Fake Young Lady, Please Spare Me, Female Lead Sister - Volume 1 Chapter 19

Chapter 19: A True Warrior Dares to Face…

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Lily is a maid who newly arrived to serve at the Grendel mansion this year.

The courses that maids need to master are numerous, complex, and intricate. The requirements are even more demanding for those seeking employment with the Grendel family.

From etiquette and posture, foreign language reading and writing, wine tasting, to cleaning and sanitation, mending clothes, home baking, infant care…

The variety is endless, dazzling. In one sentence, everything that can be learned must be learned.

Moreover, there are exams for every course, personally overseen by the head maid.

Only after passing all exams can one have the chance to be hired as an apprentice maid…

Although the threshold is frighteningly high, correspondingly, the cost-performance ratio of this job is also very high.

First of all, the Grendel family is a very famous noble family, with high hourly wages, room and board provided, this goes without saying.

Secondly, working here itself is very respectable, with opportunities to interact with many of the kingdom’s upper-class figures. If fortunate enough to be favored by some noble, one would never have to live their previous difficult life again.

Most importantly, the Grendel family has been nurturing chief magicians for generations, who doesn’t know this?

If one could serve here long enough, there might even be a chance to glimpse a corner of the mysterious magical world…

For this, Lily studied diligently, worked hard, and learned tirelessly.

After countless hardships, she finally passed all exams this month.

And today, she became an apprentice maid of the Grendel family!

How glorious, how happy. All her efforts have been rewarded!

At this moment, Lily is holding the milk pudding to be presented to Young Lady Claire, taking deep breaths in the back kitchen.

Today is her first day officially on duty, and also her first time meeting the important figures in the mansion. It’s impossible not to be nervous.

Come on, Lily!

You are new, shining, and full of ambition!

You must complete all tasks, and not let down this super pretty maid uniform!

Okay, don’t be nervous, it’s time.

What movement, what posture, what speed should I walk out with?

Step with left foot first, or right foot?

Goose step…? No, no, no, goose step would be too exaggerated… Quick, remember, you got full marks in your etiquette exam!

The young apprentice maid made her mental preparations.

She adjusted the ribbons on her collar, cuffs, and skirt hem.

Standing straight, ensuring she was sufficiently elegant, sufficiently polite, sufficiently proper, that no one could find fault.

Steadily holding the freshly baked, fragrant and soft milk pudding, like a happy little butterfly, she slowly walked to Claire’s dining table.

Bowing down, using the gentlest, most respectful, most pleasant voice to softly remind:

“Young Lady Claire, this is your milk pudding.”

Good, a perfect performance!

Even if Head Maid Anna were here, she couldn’t do better!

Hmph, watch me get recognized by the Young Lady on my first day of work, and from here climb to life’s peak—

Lily gave herself a big thumbs up in her heart.

She smiled and raised her head, wanting to confirm the Young Lady’s reaction.

Only to see.

This petite young lady with twin tails, at this moment had a frost-like face, cold eyes, her rouge lips curved into an extremely cold smile, as if it could seep poison.

Though she was just sitting quietly, she seemed to be emanating a devil-like terrifying pressure.

Looking at Lily, her eyes were contemptuous, her smile sinister, as if the next second she would order someone to drag this tasteless maid out and whip her to death…

Lily only felt that under her gaze, her whole body began to tremble involuntarily, almost unable to hold the small pudding on the plate steady.

Pu-put the plate, on the table…

With tears in her eyes, her legs shaking like sifted chaff, the etiquette lessons she had recalled earlier were completely forgotten.

Purely by instinct, before fleeing in panic, trembling and shaking, she finished the latter half of her words.

“…Pl-pl-pl-please enjoy…”

Young Lady Claire proudly narrowed her eyes slightly, sneering with disdain.

She raised her chin and coldly said: “Thank you.”

Or perhaps Lily misheard.

Her tone clearly meant: “Go commit seppuku in apology,” or “I’ll give you a chance, put your own head on the plate yourself”…

Lily stumbled back to the back kitchen.

She was dazed for a while, removing her treasured apron in a trance.

While fingering the white lace trim, she felt the whole world wasn’t quite real.

So her carefully honed maid skills… were actually not worth mentioning at all…

Not even reaching barely satisfactory, instead, instead making Young Lady Claire detest her to this extent…

Wuwu.

What was my life working so hard up to this point for?

It’s already, completely over…

At this time, several other serving maids also squeezed into the back kitchen.

They all covered their chests, expressions panicked, gathering to discuss something in whispers.

“Did you see that, did you see that!”

“Saw it saw it, I was so scared to death… Who exactly made Young Lady Claire so angry!”

“Look at how you ask! Who else could it be, isn’t it that person sitting opposite at the table!”

“Help, I’m so scared. Why do I have to be on duty today, I’m really too miserable.”

“I said yesterday we should take leave and hide back home for a while, wuwu…”

The person sitting opposite…?

Lily wiped her tears, confusedly peeking out to look toward the dining room.

Young Lady Claire was drinking red tea.

Or perhaps not drinking red tea, but like a bloodthirsty vampire who kills without batting an eye, grinning while savoring the hot blood of prey.

Lily shuddered and shrunk back a bit, afraid of being seen by her.

Just now when she looked at Lily, Lily felt like her whole person had been doused with a bucket of ice water from head to toe.

Perhaps this is noble authority, truly terrifying.

And this silver-haired young lady sitting across from her, with such noble bearing…

Eh, surprisingly shows no fear at all, calmly savoring her vegetable salad?

Lily rubbed her eyes.

She wasn’t mistaken, she had made eye contact with Young Lady Claire, and her gaze was as calm as water!

It was even Young Lady Claire who first unhappily looked away!

Heavens, what admirable courage!

The morning’s bright sunlight shone on this young lady’s shoulders, appearing both warm and peaceful.

Her high ponytail was so neat and elegant, her straight neck neither servile nor overbearing, like a gracefully standing lily.

No, against Young Lady Claire’s pitch-black substantial terrifying aura, this young lady was more like a beautiful lotus rising unstained from the mud…!

Lily’s eyes brightened with admiration.

She hurriedly asked her new colleagues: “Who is this young lady? She, she’s really brave!”

The other replied in an equally fearful but mixed with excitement tone, lowering her voice:

“That is Young Lady Lavendia who the master brought back yesterday, our Grendel family’s true young lady!”