Days have passed. I am now getting used to my new environment, most especially, to my own face. Every time I looked into the mirror, I still cannot stop admiring myself. Also, it's evening now and I was instructed earlier this morning that I would be having dinner with the duke.
I learned from Maya that the duke is my father. And that my mother passed after she gave birth to me. How did I make Maya answer all of my queries without her getting suspicious of me, you ask? That's simple. I just used the usual reasons in every historical manhwa with transmigration plot that I've read. That is... losing memory after getting sick for a long time.
I know everything is cliche. But embracing these cliches is the only weapon a modern-day woman like me has in order to survive in this unfamiliar world.
Apart from learning about my current family, which is very overwhelming, I learned that I-- a twenty-seven-year-old woman possessed the body of a sixteen-year-old girl. Sixteen but I already looked like a full-grown woman!
She is the only daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, Duke Cassius Felarina de Melenheim. And I am that girl now, Aerin Angenas von Felarina de Melenheim. Her late mother was the daughter of a duke family from the neighboring kingdom, Varona. The Duke of Canasas, Duke Angenas. Her mother's family is known to be the strongest military force in the Varona Kingdom.
During the time when the war was ongoing between the Varona kingdom and their kingdom, Theolia, her mother was sent as a hostage. Her father, as the son of a duke, and also a knight was tasked to guard the poor lady. If Angenas is the main military force of Varona, Melenheim is also a family that serves as the right hand of the King of Theolia. And the rest was history.
Right now, both the Kingdoms are already in a peace agreement. A lot has changed since the rule of the new King, King Efredus Valia de Theolia, as I was informed. Since servants were not educated, those were the only details that I know coming from Maya.
In addition, the fact that I am revered as a notorious villainess in society has been revealed to me. So, that was the reason why all the servants that I've met so far we're doing their very best to act in numbers. That also explains why the maids on that day of my official waking-up were trembling in fear. And that's why Maya was confused when I talked to her politely and gently. Because this Aerin right here hasn't ever talked in that way. If ever she'd talked gently, that's because she's being sarcastic and the next thing after that would be a punishment worth praising by all the villainess in this world.
I literally knocked my head down the table upon hearing those things about me. Maya added that because of that, I do not have any single friends. Most noble women were either afraid of me or despise me. I haven't had any single suitors or proposal requests, too.
"Ha! haha! Ha-ha!" I laughed in misery. What a lovely thing to fathom.
"My lady?" Maya caught my attention.
"Oh, right! The dinner." I looked at myself in the vanity mirror once again. "So pretty, yet so poisonous." Then I stood up and started to walk out. The maid in front opened the door for me. I smiled at her to say thanks. She just clutched the metal rail of the door tightly. They might not still be used to how this current Aerin is acting. I sighed. What a pity.
[Aerin is really that bad, huh? To think that even a smile sends a shiver down their spine.]