Since It's My First Time Being a Lady, I'll Cause Some Trouble - Chapter 1

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A Lady for the First Time: Accidents Will Happen 001
I woke from sleep one day to find that I, once a maid, had become a Lady.
It wasn’t possession like in novels.
Nor had my station risen because some secret birth revealed me to be a noble-born maiden rather than a commoner.
This was an accident—if you could call it that—brought about entirely by my mistress’s machinations.
As a maid, I’d believed that becoming a Lady would mean a life of comfort and leisure in a fine household.
But once I actually became one, reality proved vastly different from imagination.
Before I could even grow accustomed to High Society, disillusioning events flooded in like a deluge.
So though I stumbled into mishaps more than once through no intention of my own, I never committed crimes born of malice.
“It’s unjust! I committed no murder, planned no treason!”
I shouted my innocence until my throat felt raw.
Yet no one sided with me.
Never had I felt so cruelly wronged.
This couldn’t be happening.
It was all because of her—my mistress.
Yes, every bit of this monstrous injustice, my being dragged before this court, all of it was her fault.
If she hadn’t switched our bodies, I would never have been tangled in any of this!
‘If only I had never become a Lady…!’
Regret flooded through me far too late, yet there was nothing I could do now.
As crimes I’d never committed were listed out, cold gazes cut through me like daggers.
A moment later, the judge spoke in a grave voice.
“I sentence the defendant to death.”
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It had been five years since I began working as a maid in the Nezert Household.
“Ulpina!”
“No, I won’t!”
Once again today, our young mistress was throwing a fit.
Though she’d long since left her teens behind, Ulpina spent her days quarreling with the Baron and Baroness.
Ulpina was the sole heir to the Nezert Barony.
Yet she refused to take up the title or expand her connections in High Society, preferring instead to flee from gatherings—so much so that she had no real friends, not even anyone with whom she exchanged even perfunctory courtesies.
She cried out at her nagging parents.
“I don’t want to spend my whole life cooped up here like you two! I want to live freely!”
The foolish girl, driving daggers through her parents’ hearts with such words.
They’d done their utmost to feed and clothe and raise her, and that’s what she said? Born into a house overflowing with wealth, status, and honor—what on earth was her grievance?
“Live freely? You already do whatever you please every day!”
The Baron had a point.
“Don’t say I was free! You stopped me every time I tried to do anything!”
“Of course we did! What parent stands idle while their child walks down the wrong path?”
A perfectly sound argument.
‘Had the Baron and Baroness not restrained her, this girl would have been on the streets long ago.’
In fact, she’d nearly fallen victim to swindlers more than once because she acted on her whims.
The Baron answered with cold facts alone, and Ulpina’s face flushed red and purple in frustration.
“Just leave me alone!”
With nothing left to say, she stalked from the study and slammed the door behind her.
‘And later she’ll come crying to me about how hard it all is.’
Complaining about how exhausting the Debutante season is.
As expected.
When I stole into her room, she was sprawled about with all pretense of grace abandoned.
And in that short time, how much had she drunk? She lay there like a drunken fool, slurring her words.
“Miss, where did you even get that liquor? Who’s supposed to clean all this?”
Who else but me?
I clicked my tongue and hauled her onto the nearby sofa.
She kept sliding off from lack of balance, and though I felt the impulse to simply pitch her out the window, I refrained—unlike her, I had some sense.
“Aida… don’t you know how unhappy I am…?”
“You expect me to believe you’re unhappier than I am, standing here cleaning up this mess?”
I answered curtly, but she was already lost in drink and self-pity, shaking her head as she mumbled.
“I’m so unhappy… you don’t know how hard it is to live as a Lady….”
“What?”
Was that something to say to someone whose back had never properly straightened all day from menial labor?
But her words didn’t stop there.
“I want to live freely. I don’t want to spend my whole life watching my step in High Society.”
The young lady had her own burdens, it seemed. Nobility didn’t mean freedom from worry—that much was certain. A comfortable body didn’t guarantee a peaceful heart.
‘She’s rather pitiful, actually.’
My heart softened slightly at the sight of her vulnerability.
“If not a baroness, what would you wish to become?”
“I want to be a pirate. To roam the blue seas freely, a pirate…….”
Drunk on her own fortune, she’d clearly lost her wits.
My momentary sympathy hardened back into steel.
“It’s nonsense to say you’re not free, Miss. There’s no one in this world who gets to do whatever they please as much as you do.”
“But…….”
“If I were in your position, I’d be overjoyed.”
There was no denying that being a noblewoman was infinitely preferable to scrubbing floors for a pittance.
“Is that so? Then shall we trade places?”
As she spoke, the young lady suddenly perked up as if she’d never touched a drop, rising smoothly to open the drawer with steady hands.
She withdrew tea leaves and the implements needed to brew it.
The way she prepared the tea with such practiced grace—no tremor, no fumbling—was almost uncanny for someone supposedly intoxicated.
“Drink.”
She handed me a Teacup—a delicate one painted with flowers and rimmed in gold, the sort she rarely used and cherished greatly.
Her sudden kindness seemed suspicious, but…….
“Thank you. I’ll enjoy it.”
I decided to drink first and think later.
For a maid to taste fine tea was nearly impossible, and suspicion wouldn’t help me anyway.
‘Wonderful!’
The black tea’s characteristic tartness brushed across my tongue before melting into a subtle sweetness that warmed my entire mouth.
The warmth spread through my chest and into my limbs, and my exhaustion seemed to fade. It was a world apart from what I usually drank.
I was thinking how astronomically expensive the leaves must be when the young lady across from me gazed at me intently.
“What do you think?”
“It’s delici…….”
The word was barely past my lips.
Whiiiiing―
A sharp, piercing sound filled my ears and my vision darkened.
My stomach lurched. A vertigo as severe as if I’d drunk an enormous amount of alcohol crashed over me.
The Teacup slipped from my hands and shattered on the floor, spilling tea across my feet and onto the carpet.
“Ugh…….”
I tried to speak, but my body wouldn’t obey. Through my blurring vision, a golden-haired woman came into focus.
It was me.
‘What is this?’
I was here, yet I could see myself—it made no sense.
‘Is this the Out-of-Body Experience I’ve only heard about?’
But wasn’t that something that happened when you fell asleep? And the me across from me was moving of her own accord!
My body examined itself with wonder, looking down at its hands before beginning to spin and twirl in place like a dancer.
“It worked!”
The ‘me’ who’d spoken smiled radiantly and stepped closer to my face.
Watching myself from an outside perspective made my skin crawl.
“I’m sorry, Aida.”
Aida is you. Or is it me? But you’re also Aida.
I tried to think clearly, but my head was spinning too much for coherent thought.
Regardless, the me sitting before me continued to say increasingly strange things.
“If I escape in my own body, my parents will throw themselves into searching for me and the Nezert Household’s reputation in High Society will be ruined. A noblewoman running away to become a pirate—it’s absurd.”
What’s absurd is this situation!
It was clear now: the young lady had taken possession of my body.
“Uhhh…….”
I wanted to protest vehemently, but the body I was in refused to move, and only moans escaped my lips.
I—or rather, the young lady—swept her falling bangs aside with a gentle finger and smiled warmly.
“I know you envied me just as I envied you. That’s why I came up with this plan.”
With those words, she walked toward the door with a light step.
“So let’s call it even.”
And with that, my consciousness shattered.
This is My First Time as a Lady
A Full-Length Novel by Wage Liberation
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