The Male Lead’s Attached Maid Is Too Competent - Chapter 4
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The Male Lead’s Devoted Maid is Too Competent Episode 004
Christen watched Roella with a strange look in his eyes. Roella was slumped in the chair, asleep with her hand resting on the bed.
At first, he couldn’t believe in the existence of a compatible person.
To think he had to entrust his life to someone so fragile and powerless.
The curse called magic power addiction was disgusting to the point of disillusionment. However, Christen was slowly adapting to Roella. To sleeping like this by her side.
‘What remarkable adaptability.’
While sleeping, his magic power couldn’t be controlled. Thanks to that, no one had been able to approach him while he slept.
Roella was like a small rabbit that had entered a large beast’s cage.
Not even knowing the danger.
‘What am I thinking.’
In the first place, Christen had no intention of doing anything to Roella!
Christen clicked his tongue softly.
Of course, it was a chair he had prepared with the hope that his compatible person could rest comfortably through the night. He had it made a bit wider and longer so she could lean back comfortably.
Perhaps because Roella’s frame was small, she would often fall asleep curled up in the chair.
Still.
“This is the first time I’ve seen someone fall asleep before the bedroom’s owner even arrives.”
Still, it was fortunate, if you could call it that, that she hadn’t forgotten her duty as she kept her hand stretched out toward the bed.
Even when Christen returned from his bath, Roella remained asleep. She was even muttering in her sleep, moving her lips.
“Company President… chair… salary…”
Christen sat on the bed, running his fingers through his hair that wasn’t completely dry yet. His gaze toward Roella was calmly settled.
The moment he directly witnessed Roella organizing documents today, he decided to hire her on the spot.
As the lord of the Northern Territory suffering from talent shortage, it was naturally the right choice.
Though he couldn’t entrust her with important tasks yet, she seemed suitable for document organization work. Even Aidan welcomed it with both hands raised.
‘If Your Grace doesn’t hire Miss Roella, I’ll hire her with my own money. Please raise my salary.’
Not just Aidan, but Lady Rosette also showed a reaction acknowledging Roella’s abilities.
If hiring Roella could increase everyone’s job satisfaction, Christen was fully prepared to do so.
Christen stared at Roella’s muttering cheek. As if searching for another Roella within.
‘Her face is pale.’
Come to think of it, the fingers that moved the pen were particularly thin, like a child’s.
According to Lady Rosette, she ate little and was on the thin side. It was probably due to starvation during her time at the Chipley Baronet House.
“…I should order nutritious food to be prepared.”
Strangely, Roella was well-versed in employment contracts, unlike a baronet’s daughter who had supposedly never worked before.
She was completely different from her father, who only took money without even reading contracts.
‘I heard she definitely didn’t receive proper education.’
Roella’s father, who bet everything on gambling and games whenever he got money, never invested a single penny for his child.
In the end, he lost all the meager assets they had, and it was known that they barely survived on the money Roella earned through paid sewing.
When Roella’s father decided to stake his daughter as gambling money, she happened to be judged as a compatible person. Thanks to that, instead of becoming gambling stakes, she was sold to the Grand Duke’s House.
Despite such difficult circumstances, Roella was surprisingly carefree and optimistic.
And after the employment contract, her work processing speed became even faster.
‘…She can prepare documents at such a fast pace? Is it true that she’s already finished organizing next month’s budget plan? I can’t believe it.’
‘I think so too. Normally, we would have been struggling until the end of the month. Miss Roella said that she’s someone who works as much as she gets paid.’
It was an exciting statement that made him wonder what level of ability she could demonstrate if he raised her salary even more.
In any case, it was good for Christen since his workload had decreased thanks to her. He had bought his leisure time for 30 ecra per month.
But there was a tremendous disconnect between that image and her current appearance.
Christen gazed at Roella with strange eyes.
“Mmm…”
Her face, scratching her cheek and tossing about, looked completely carefree.
Christen muttered.
“Unbelievable.”
He couldn’t believe they were the same person. Moreover, could someone be this defenseless?
Christen threw a blanket over Roella, who had carelessly exposed her ankle. He sighed and lay down on the bed while still holding Roella’s hand.
The soft breathing sounds coming from beside him somehow made his heart feel at ease.
It seemed to tell him that there would be no threats here.
It seemed to whisper that he would be okay.
“Really unbelievable.”
Christen gazed at Roella while lying on his side. His eyes gradually narrowed.
As the magic power that had filled his body drained away, breathing became easier. He slowly exhaled. The things that had been tightly filling his chest gradually diminished.
The last thing he saw as he fell into a peaceful sleep was Roella’s soft, pale cheek.
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“Yawn.”
If there’s a downside to the Company President’s chair, it’s that it completely lowers your guard.
I fell asleep when Christen was a bit late. I was a little bothered that I had fallen asleep before my employer arrived, but when morning came, Christen had already left the bedroom without saying anything.
Well, it would be ridiculous to keep waiting all the time.
I’m not a concubine waiting for the king. Still, today I should at least see his face before going to sleep, for conscience’s sake, right?
I shrugged my shoulders and now went to work as a “paid” employee. Maybe because it’s “paid” work starting today, even breakfast seemed twice as delicious. My steps felt much lighter.
“You came early today, Miss Roella.”
“Of course.”
I smiled brightly at Lady Rosette.
My workplace hadn’t changed. The family head’s office was still a place with a high threshold for me.
As of yesterday, I had a new goal: to rise to the position of the Grand Duke’s aide.
The salary that aides receive is different from the start. My goal became to build achievements here and get a letter of recommendation to become another noble’s aide.
According to what I casually heard from Mr. Aidan, you can earn more salary if you go to the Central Region.
Since dreams should be big, becoming an aide working in the Imperial Capital seemed like a good idea too.
Anyway, for me with such lofty dreams, attendance was also part of my performance record. If you interpret a letter of recommendation differently, isn’t it no different from a personnel evaluation? You have to make a good impression to get a good letter of recommendation.
I could keep working here indefinitely, but doing so might unnecessarily entangle me in the original story. It would be best to extract myself quickly before that happened.
“I’m working for pay now, Lady Rosette. You said yesterday that official work hours start at 9 o’clock, so I adjusted accordingly. I’m not late, am I?”
I smiled brightly. Lady Rosette replied curtly.
“You are not late. He said to assign you new work today. This is the Grand Duke’s House financial ledger for the entire past year. He said to organize this as quickly as possible.”
“A whole year…!”
“Yes. He said that after this, you’ll need to organize the data from the year before that, and the year before that as well.”
This amount is no joke. Looking at the mountain of documents piled on my expanded desk, I turned to Lady Rosette with a troubled expression.
“Lady Rosette.”
I called her name seriously.
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Anneflower
That was crazy. Do it everything manual 😂 as a modern person, wtf….. they didn’t even have calculator right?