Surviving as the Villainess’s Servant in a Martial Arts Novel - Chapter 17
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Episode 17
Later on, I got a bit carried away with my own acting and may have exaggerated things a little.
Fortunately, it worked on the Young Miss. She had completely frozen up and couldn’t move from that spot.
Seeing that sight, I laughed so much inside.
An apology from the Young Miss? I don’t even expect that.
Reflection from the Young Miss? I know that’s impossible.
So it was just a bit of venting with some mischief mixed in. If the Young Miss felt upset during the time I was gone, that alone would be enough.
And so I only headed back to So-nang Garden the next day.
‘…Will it be okay?’
Honestly, at this point I was getting a little nervous.
After all, it was true that I had been absent without permission. What if the Young Miss was so upset that she found me detestable and threw another tantrum, and then it reached the Chief Steward’s ears and I really got kicked out?
Just imagining it made cold sweat pour down, but everything would be decided once I opened that door.
I took a deep breath and then spoke.
“Young Miss, I’ve brought your medicine. May I come in…?”
Creak!
“Huh?”
My eyes went wide.
The Young Miss, the Young Miss opened the door first and came out?
“Ah, Young Miss? Why did you suddenly open the door… Where are you going? Is something wrong?”
“…”
But the Young Miss didn’t say anything.
She just stared at me intently – I couldn’t see her face since she was wearing her face veil, but it felt like she was – then suddenly turned around and went back into the room.
I stared at the Young Miss’s retreating figure in bewilderment. Then I belatedly followed her inside.
Even after that, the Young Miss was acting strange.
Normally, no matter what I did, she wouldn’t pay attention and would sit at the table arrogantly reading a book, but now she wasn’t even reading – she was just sitting in her chair staring intently at me.
Thanks to that, I, who had planned to casually strike up a conversation as soon as I entered, became tongue-tied and could only stand there awkwardly.
‘Why, why is she acting like this?’
Is she angry? Is this revenge? Silent pressure to confess my wrongdoings while she’s still being nice?
Just when I was about to try making an excuse.
“…wasn’t.”
“Pardon?”
Suddenly the Young Miss shouted loudly.
“…It wasn’t on purpose!”
I blinked.
On purpose? What on purpose?
“Pardon? What are you talking about…?”
“…”
“…Ah.”
I realized belatedly.
Come to think of it, there was only one reason the Young Miss would say something like that.
About what happened yesterday.
“….”
“…Yesterday.”
As if my thoughts were correct, the Young Miss slowly began to continue speaking.
“On purpose… I didn’t do it on purpose. It’s just, you suddenly thrust those flowers at me. Even when I said I didn’t want them, you kept doing it, so I got angry….”
“….”
“…So you shouldn’t have been so stubborn, right? When I say I don’t want something, you should think ‘oh, she doesn’t want it’ instead of being so persistent. You should have listened when I told you to take them away!”
“….”
“And bringing flowers every day too. It’s not that I don’t like… I don’t dislike flowers, but still, I don’t want to see new flowers every single day. Do you know how troublesome it is to keep bringing flowers from the flower garden? Why do you go looking for trouble…!”
“….”
“…It would have been better if you hadn’t.”
The Young Miss, who had been raising her voice in excitement for a moment, seemed to become conscious of my gaze belatedly and cleared her throat while lowering her voice.
The Young Miss hesitated for a moment, then spoke.
“A-anyway, I was wrong… well, I was. About that trumpet vine, if you really feel bad about it, just say so. I can tell Chief Steward Jeok to plant trumpet vines all over your family’s courtyard….”
“….”
“…Are you listening?”
“Yes, yes?”
I snapped back to attention and asked. For a moment the Young Miss trembled all over, but soon muttered in a low voice that seemed to be suppressing something.
“Fine, if you didn’t hear.”
I looked at the Young Miss like that and smiled awkwardly.
‘No, I was just too surprised.’
Who would have known?
That the Young Miss would apologize.
So even though she had rambled on and on like that, in the end, summarized in one word, it was this:
‘I’m sorry.’
Sorry? She’s sorry?
Our Young Miss?
But why? What change of heart? I thought our Young Miss would choose to bite her tongue and kill herself rather than apologize, even if she committed some heinous crime, but she’s apologizing…?
At first I wondered if it was a dream, but no matter how I looked at it, it was reality. Seeing the Young Miss turned away but glancing at me furtively made it even more so.
My mouth opened on its own.
“Well, honestly I was confused too….”
“…I see.”
“And I felt a little hurt too….”
“….”
“But still, if the Young Miss is apologizing to me, then as expected….”
“When did I say I was sorry…!”
“Aren’t you?”
At my question, the Young Miss closed her mouth.
“…Think whatever you want.”
Watching the Young Miss hesitate, I spoke in a gentle voice.
“You don’t have to give me the trumpet vine. Why do you think I brought the trumpet vine in the first place? I brought it hoping it would make you happy.”
“….”
“If I had known you would dislike it so much, I wouldn’t have done it. I’m sorry too. For forcing it on you like that…. I really need to fix this habit of mine, but it’s not easy. I keep getting stubborn….”
“….”
“You probably feel the same way, right? But how can a person change all at once? Let’s try slowly together. I won’t be stubborn, and you… will tell me things like you did earlier.”
“….”
“If you don’t tell me, I won’t know either. I’ll try my best to listen seriously too. Okay?”
The Young Miss remained silent for a while. She just fidgeted with her hands placed on her knees, lost in thought, then answered in a small voice.
“…Mm.”
I smiled brightly.
After that, things were the same as usual.
I chatted with the Young Miss about what I did yesterday when I didn’t come here, saying there would never be such a thing again, and the Young Miss just listened quietly without much response.
However, if there was something slightly different from before, it was that the Young Miss wasn’t reading a book and was quietly looking at me. My heart fluttered with excitement.
This feeling, this atmosphere.
Right now is the time.
“Young Miss.”
At my call, the Young Miss looked at me.
“Actually, aside from the trumpet vine, there’s something else I’d like to ask you for….”
“….”
“May I tell you what it is?”
The Young Miss hesitated and asked.
“…What is it?”
“You’ll grant it, right?”
“What is it?”
“Would you please take some medicine?”
The Young Miss answered in a gentle voice.
“No.”
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In conclusion, the Young Miss did take the medicine.
It was nothing short of a tremendous achievement.
Of course, to accomplish this, I had to engage in countless arguments with the Young Miss. Her “I don’t want to” disease had flared up again.
“Why don’t you want to? Why? You can take medicine just once, can’t you? You said you’d do anything for me! You said you’d even pluck the stars from the sky!”
“When did I ever say that? Stop being stubborn, you said you’d try too!”
“Well, I need to be convinced before I can try or not try. How long are you going to refuse medicine? Until I get old? Until my black hair turns white? Until I die and go into a coffin?”
“Before that, I’ll die first….”
“Oh my, I can’t live like this! You definitely said you were sorry, but it was all lies. You definitely promised hand in hand that you’d decorate my room with lots of trumpet vine, that we’d decorate our bridal chamber with trumpet vine too, but you can’t even take a simple medicine…!”
“I get it, so won’t you be quiet?!”
In the end, the Young Miss gritted her teeth and said.
“…Just, just this once.”
And so I succeeded in getting the Young Miss to take her medicine.
I wanted to share this joy with the Chief Steward right away. So I immediately ran to the Chief Steward with the empty bowl in hand, and sure enough, the Chief Steward jumped with excitement.
“Th, th, the Young Miss took her medicine?”
The Chief Steward was excessively delighted.
He asked me several times and looked into the empty medicine bowl several times over. While doing so, as if reality was finally sinking in, he shed tears and said.
“Child, I knew you could do it. I knew you could! How incredible, that the Young Miss who refused even our most earnest pleas has finally taken her medicine. How could this not be a deeply moving matter…!”
“It, it’s nothing that much…”
“It seems heaven has not yet abandoned the Young Miss. Ah, heavenly spirits. Thank you, truly thank you…”
“…”
He’s even calling upon the heavenly spirits?
But I understood the Chief Steward’s feelings. I had quite a hard time getting the Young Miss to take her medicine, so how much must the Chief Steward have worried all this time.
Since he’s someone who has watched the Young Miss since she was young, it must have been even harder for him. I waited until the Chief Steward stopped crying. After wiping away his tears, the Chief Steward looked at me and smiled bitterly.
“I’m sorry. For showing you such an unseemly display…”
“It’s fine. Even I can’t believe what happened.”
“Yes, it is unbelievable. And you’re the one who made it happen. I was right to trust you. Even what I said to the Young Miss about you…”
“Pardon?”
“No, never mind.”
The Chief Steward shook his head and suddenly said.
“Is there anything you want? I’ll grant it all. I’ll grant you anything, so speak freely!”
My eyes sparkled.
Yes, now is the time. With this much merit, wouldn’t it be fine? The Chief Steward will grant what’s within his power, and even if it’s difficult, he could at least speak to the Master about it.
“Then, shameless as it may be, there’s one thing I’d like to ask of you, Chief Steward…”
“Chief Steward!”
Who is it, at such an important moment!
I scowled and turned around. Then I became bewildered. Uncle Hwang was standing there with an urgent expression on his face.
“The Master has arrived!”
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