After having been reincarnated as a Duchess from one of your favorite novels, you'd expected life to go smoothly. There was no need for you to worry. All you had to do was sit back and enjoy the wealth your husband, the Duke, pampered you in and act like a noble lady. Things became complicated when your husband embarked onto a mission in the North, leaving you here alone for a few weeks while you handled the place on your own until his return.

"Your Grace, you should be ashamed of yourself," Leia hisses, digging her nails into the flesh of your earlobes in a not-so-subtle way as she pretends to fix your earrings. A maid that never once seemed to draw attention to herself, neither in the original novel nor before your husband left, is now acting so viscously towards you, taking every opportunity she can get to harm you.

"His Grace is returning tonight and you're in such terrible condition," she scowls, her voice dripping with mockery and ridicule. She's the one that's reduced you to this state, small little bruises over your body and bloody nose from all the exhaustion she's caused you, yet she has the audacity to belittle you.