I am now 5 years old,
I can't stress enough how I wish I can just ease the first 3 years off my memory. The struggle to sit and the crawl and walk. It was alot, good job on persevering young me.
Sometimes I really believe it was a miracle I had grown up to this degree, that toad of a woman tried to jinx me every other day.
I have finally became old enough to be involved in knights training, my mother is still bed bound and sleeping most of the time. The two adulterous couple were having fun travelling every other month when they were in the capital running our finances to the ground.
So as any normal person, I was wondering who is the real mastermind behind the dukedom and how have we not gone bankrupt yet? Well the answer was the most obvious one , it was due to the effort of both the head maid and the butler. That was the reason the duke was unable to say a word when the headmaid reprimanded him,as she is holding his lifeline in her hands.
The other good news is I finally figured out which work of fiction I landed into. It was a novel i dropped half way because of how brain dead it was. "Roses of gold" was the official name. It was an academy romance about how the Crown Prince had lost his feelings at a young age and how the FL helps him regain his love. Which was well written until the author decided to make up a demon lord invasion and was then lost in the face slapping that he forgot about the plot.
So a background about this country: its called The Empire, yes just that, you can tell the author was lazy to name it.
There are 2 dukes in this empire, the Northern Duke of Chaos which us featured in every novel and fanfic there is and the southern Duke of Challice which is our family.
If I remember correctly, I was meant to be mentally disabled , and my young brother was meant to be the supporting male lead. But unfortunately for some reason there is no young brother.
The level of technology in this world is like that of steam engine era, but with magic machinery instead.
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The head maid had made up a very stressful daily chore list for me
Morning : running, sword and archery training
Afternoon : heir studies including etiquette, math , finance , history and geography
Evening: running and sword training
By the time sun sets I would be a tired piece of human meat. I am also allowed to see mother twice a week for one hour each.
After going through with the hell schedule for 3 months , the headmaid came to see me one morning ، apparently I am a genius. especially in math, but come on, anyone who had to do algebra will feel basic math was nothing.
The headmaid said she will be giving me lessons after the evening training, about how to run the dukedom , as it seems my incompetent bio-donor had left everything to both her and the butler for the last 15 years.