Where it all Started
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"Nariana…. Okay. I'll ask you one last question. Where your loyalty lies?"
The 15-year-old young master asked a harmless question, but the "pitiful" servant felt like a cold bucket of water had poured into her system because she immediately understood the underlying meaning of that question despite being a maid and a commoner.
She wasn't that stupid.
She attempted to control herself in front of them, especially in front of this 15-year-old young master who was rumored to be an uneducated and bad-tempered brat that would be considered a disgrace to this household.
"This lowly maid's loyalty is within the Marquis Chevalier household, as this lowly maid is grateful for accepting a lowly maid here to have a job."
Her "pitiful" act suddenly change into that gratefulness as she addressed her line without an ounce of shame and that makes the stoic 15-year-old young master smiled at her innocently but the servant who was the receiving end of that smile felt something isn't right.
'Was this the bad-tempered third young master of the Chevalier household from the rumors? I have a bad feeling about this!'
From the beginning, this 15-year-old young master haven't done anything since that incident where she "accidentally" spilled some hot drink within his hand and from that time, he hasn't been throwing a tantrum, unlike how the rumors stated him to be.
Before she could speak, the 15-year-old young master beat her to it.
"Really? Are you willing to put yourself on the line while taking an oath for that loyalty and gratefulness that you stated? Hmmm~~~"
His unusual impassive tone changed into a teasing tone that makes her tremble in fear because by only stating those words alone, even without direct meaning to it but for those people who were intelligent enough can catch up with something.
The other servants around them couldn't make a noise or even move from where they stood and could only watch the scene unfold in front of them.
They didn't get the meaning behind those words that came from the 15-year-old young master as most of the servants are commoner and there were others who came from a fallen nobility or had at least the educated one, including the "pitiful" servant who right now, is the center of this situation.
He, on the other hand, didn't know why he needed to deal with these kinds of bullsh*t, and it seemed like his so-called family of his wouldn't bother to even do anything about this matter.
'Tsk! First, I need to think of a plan on how to get the hell out of this household as I don't want to suffer the same fate from my first life, or rather, the right term should be…. To follow what's destined to me according to the world's novel itself.'
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Where did it all start?
Well, it seems down to his first life….
He was born as an illegitimate child from his noble biological father from a prestigious noble clan and to his biological mother, who is nothing but a commoner within the eyes of noble society.
So, basically, he is a half-blood noble, from their term.
Contrary to the popular belief, he wasn't born within the walls of his biological father's household but rather, his father and mother spend a one passionate night together and after that, when his mother learned that she slept with someone higher than her stature, she felt ashamed of herself and from that night, she fled away before his father would wake up.
However, that's not all of it.
After that incident happened, months later, his mother learned that she's pregnant and carrying a child that belongs to a prestigious household within their empire and instead of seeking his father, his mother runs away from the Empire and went into hiding.
His birth mother, although came from a commoner background, she's the eldest daughter of the largest merchant company within the Empire and their household is the Head of the Merchant Alliance.
From what he could manage to remember from his first life, at that time, it took around 8 years before his father's subordinate managed to track them down and was taken back to the Empire, especially to his biological father's household.
That was the only time that he learned that his father was none other than AUGUSTUS RYNUS CHEVALIER, the current Marquis Chevalier and known as the IRON-BLOODED SWORDMASTER of their Empire.
He thought from that moment, their lives would be better since they were brought into that household but that was a mistake on his part.
He didn't expect that his life would turn into disaster the moment he stepped into that household.
For as long as he could remember from his first life, he was labelled as nothing but a disgrace to the Chevalier's name because not only he is an illegitimate child but also, unable to manifest the proud bloodline of the Chevaliers.
Long story short, he is nothing but a wastrel excuse of a young master.
Because of the treatment he received and scorned from others, he became nothing but a twisted person and in addition of his biological mother's passing when he was around 10 years old, no one even bothered to looked after him, not even his biological father.
His stepmother, the Marchioness, is the worst. When his mother passed away, the amount of physical abuse that he suffered from her hands couldn't count within his hands and not only that, but there are also others that's much worse that he didn't want to remember.
Even his half older siblings, didn't even bother to care about him and only treated him as nothing but an air as if he didn't exist in the first place.
After years of maltreatment, not only from his family but within the noble society, he isolated himself from the world and put up a wall between those people who tried to enter his life.
That was until he met HER.
She was a new student attending the same academy as him and the first ever commoner that was admitted to the academy only for nobility.
The reason for this was because, she holds the rarest bloodline power that was stated that only came by for a millennium and this kind of bloodline power isn't somewhat inherited through family members within the households, unlike others.
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