On the first night, the master's bride couldn't be found.
In the empty bedroom of the princess, the master ordered Jimin, who was at a loss of words.
"You will take the princess' place."
It had started off as a simple tease, a light joke.
However...
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Jimin, who was walking down the long hallway, suddenly stopped there. She stared at her reflection on the transparent window. She was dressed in a dull-colored maid's uniform and had neatly combed hair without any stray strands.
Wearing a dress and fancy hair decor made her feel distant like she had a long time ago.
It was a short, sweet pleasure, like an exciting dream, like a cookie melting in your mouth. Jimin forced up the corners of her lips, grasping her shoulders. "This much is enough."
She took a step back and arrived at the end of the hall, knocking on the door. When she couldn't hear anything, she called several times and tapped again, but she couldn't hear anything. When she opened the door with a foreboding feeling, the room was empty.
It was a princess' outing that now felt like a regular event, like a once-a-month cleaning. She let out a sigh. Taehyung took her when he came to the bedroom and didn't find the princess. He didn't look for the princess every night. He used to be away from home because he was busy with work. He stayed up late at night and fell asleep in a separate room, saying he didn't want to wake up the sick princess. Even if the princess went out secretly, if he didn't stop by the bedroom that day, nothing would have happened. So, ultimately, he and the princess had never slept together. Today too, he was...
"Oh, I knew he wouldn't come in tonight."
The princess used to go out at about the same time at night, if not exact. Jimin quickly looked out of the window, judging that it would not have been long since she left. She could see something like a dress disappearing in the distance. There was no proof that the fuzzy silhouette was the princess, but Jimin opened the door as if she was possessed. She needed to know where she was going.
Her master would not come here anyway, so she began to move diligently. She ran out of breath, but she couldn't see the princess, let alone her dress. There were many guards, so she couldn't have exited through the main gate of the castle, and the walls were too high to cross. Even if the princess was good at using her body, even an adult man could not have succeeded in something this difficult. Then the princess' shoes came to my mind. There was a time when she picked up the princess' shoes to clean,and found dirt stuck to them. She remembered wondering where the princess, who would only have used a carriage to visit places, had gone to get her shoes dirty.
"Then..."
Jimin, who had been struggling, looked toward the wall with a look of wonder. Her gaze moved along the edge of a dim garden without a single light, at the corner of this vast, huge wall.
She shook her head, saying it was ridiculous, but Jimin began to pry through the lower part of the wall. When dirt was on her hands and filled her nails, a small hole was drilled in the tightly blocked area.
In fact, this place was a hidden one used by maids secretly. It was not until more than a year after she had worked that Hoseokie tipped her off. There were not many people who worked in this castle who knew about it, but the princess who just came into this house actually knew it?
