After I died, my personal maid rebelled.

Unable to sleep, Elena tossed and turned in bed, sat up, quietly lit the oil lamp on the bedside table, and took out Luna's letter from under her pillow to read it again.

Oswald was still fast asleep beside him. The command and mobilization of several troops, coupled with a huge pile of administrative tasks thrown at him by Luna, left him feeling deeply exhausted.

The battle at the front is going poorly; the powerful individual monsters are causing considerable trouble for the troops, and intelligence gathering has come to a standstill. The only good news the two have received recently is that Jenny has awakened.

Unlike Oswald, who was overjoyed and seemed to have a heavy burden lifted off his shoulders, Elene obtained more information through Luna.

For example, after witnessing Annie's madness and the torment of love and hate, Jenny immediately said, "We all hope, and should be, that one and only."

That sentence kept Alene from sleeping.

She wasn't ready. She loved the Duke, and she loved Jane; they were both her unique family. Why couldn't there be a suitable relationship that would allow them to accompany each other through this life?

The large family now formed by the Northern Duke's Mansion has begun to include several new families. In fact, both Jenny and she have noticed the growing distance between the three of them.

Unlike Luna and her two friends, Paul has a happy marriage and receives teasing and blessings from Luna and Lisa.

In their team, Paul is the ballast stone responsible for providing support, Luna is the core of proposing directions, and Lisa controls the balance between radicalism and conservatism.

The relationship between Luna and the other two is as simple as a few straight lines, yet it is incredibly strong.

In contrast, the three of them—Elena, Alini, and her friend—are in a complete mess, with love, friendship, and family ties all intertwined. If they want to continue, they either need to become an inseparable whole, or they need to actively sever ties…

Unable to sleep, Elena put away the letters, picked up the oil lamp, and went outside. She felt that the Duke was the biggest obstacle for Janice, more so than her own willingness to compromise.

It's because she likes to pretend to be a good girl.

The dim lighting couldn't illuminate the entire corridor. Elena had only taken a few steps after pushing open the door when she bumped into Jenny's pale face.

"Are you crazy in the middle of the night?" Alene, who was almost out of breath, was about to say something to her when she saw Jenny, who was clutching her chest, swaying as if she had lost all strength. Water droplets dripped from her wet trousers and into her shoes and socks.

"I... I'm so lucky to know you."

Elena grabbed Jenny's cold, small hand and pulled her toward the bathroom. Fortunately, there were many convenient magical items in the palace, which allowed Jenny to take a hot bath in time.

Jenny remained silent, letting Alene lead her away. Even after Alene took off her clothes and put her in the warm bathtub, Jenny still didn't speak.

Unable to find any extra oil lamps, Elena could only light a candle in the dark bathroom. Jenny quietly watched the flame in the mist, blinking only after a long while.

After grabbing a set of her own clean clothes, Elena returned to the bathroom, rolled up her sleeves, and began washing Jenny's hair.

The sound of dripping water echoed in the empty space. Jenny suddenly spoke up: "Elena, I have regained my memories from my previous life."

"Tell me, have I been causing you all this trouble?"

A hand covered in foam brushed against her smooth, emerald-green hair. Upon hearing this, Elena chuckled, "Look at yourself, Miss Jenny. You're causing me trouble right now."

Of course she knew what Janet was talking about. In their previous life, the opportunity for them to meet Janet was when Sister Janet from the Northern Territory went south and scolded the King, which broke Frank's defenses, and then she was thrown into the Duke's mansion by the Royal Guard.

Janice might think that she exacerbated the conflict between the Northern Territory and the Central Territory, but Eleanor, who knows more about the inside story, said that the Northern Territory and the Central Territory were already irreconcilable long before Oswald and Frank came to power.

At that time, the old king, in alliance with Annie's father, wanted to overthrow the Charles family's rule in the Northern Territory. Annie's family controlled the eastern agricultural region, so once the Charles family's military strength was weakened, both sides could use methods such as strangulation and public opinion manipulation to incite internal strife in the food-starved and militarily depleted Ice City.

Otherwise, there wouldn't have been so many disaster victims at the beginning of the Duke's reign.

However, no one expected that the old duke and the old king would die on the battlefield of the demons, followed by a political struggle among the princes of the royal city.

The eldest prince, who had long been chosen as the heir and had the support of the southern nobles, naturally knew about the old king's plans before his death. But the second prince, Frank, didn't need to consider these issues at all; all he wanted was the throne.

Without pressure from the central district, Oswald was able to swiftly resolve the Eastern Marquisate and thus launch a sweeping reform.

On the other hand, Elena naturally didn't want to hide it any longer. "Did you know that His Majesty the Duke came from another world?"

"I can probably guess some of it."

Jenny Shih absolutely refused to believe that the Duke had fallen in love with Annie; after all, the suspicion that someone was mentally ill was impossible to hide.

Therefore, the Oswald that Annie sometimes loves her and sometimes abandons her must be someone else entirely.

After taking a shower, Jenny changed into Alene's clothes and was led away by Alene as usual.

The light from the oil lamp swayed all the way to the dormitory door. Before Alene could open the door, Jenny blushed and tugged hard at Alene's sleeve.

Of course she knew who was sleeping inside.

"Was what we did wrong? I was a bit impulsive before. Actually, I could have come when you weren't here, and you could have pretended you didn't know anything."

When Janet announced her second time with the Minotaur, Elena was initially shocked, then suddenly smiled with relief, and finally sighed deeply.

As the saintess of my own family, I can only take her in myself. No matter how I look at it, it's because of my past self that I couldn't bear to see Jenny leave.

If Janice actually goes ahead with this doomed plan, the relationship between the three of them will come to an end.

When it comes to how to win over the Duke, no one is more qualified to speak than Elena. First, you have to let him see your open and honest love, the more open the better. Then let him panic and overthink, and find no reason to deny it.

As his wife, Elena was reluctant to admit it, but the Duke was truly the kind of person who would say: If you love me, fine, thank you for accepting everything about me; if you don't love me, that's perfectly normal, loneliness is the norm, and there are always many things to do in this short life.

Sometimes, being too strong-willed isn't a good thing.

Pushing open the door, Eleanor and Jenny walked to the bedside one after the other. Eleanor gave her a look that said, "Do what you want," then blew out the light and went back to her original spot.

After a long while, Elena heard a rustling sound, followed by the sound of the blankets shaking.

Ignoring everything else, Jenny tightly hugged Oswald's arm, successfully waking up the unsuspecting man.

As Oswald slowly opened his eyes, he felt one of his arms being pressed down as a pillow and the other being grabbed as a body pillow, which made him feel confused and bewildered.

He first turned his head to look at Elena, who winked at him with a wry smile, and then he turned his head to the other side...

Jenny's body temperature rose rapidly, and she hugged his arm even tighter, burying her head under the blanket and not daring to look him in the eye.

Having lived through several lifetimes, this was the first time Oswald had encountered such a situation, and his mind went completely blank.

What's going on? Has the god of lust attacked?