CHAPTER 1

“WAKE UP, YOU LOWLY SERVANT! ARE YOU PLANNING SLEEP LIKE A PRINCESS THIS WHOLE DAY?!”

Eerie was awaken by their head maid who was nagging at her with an anger expression as she violently kicked her off the bed, making her hissed in pain but she didn't speak back to avoid any misfortunes, though for all years she have been already experiencing misfortunes and been treated worse than a garbage. She's already used to be bullied by them. She even has a lot of scars on her body that has been happened in the past and she couldn't even remember some of them, that she find it weird, as if a boulder was blocking to prevent her from remembering her past.

She was already on the ground, but instead of whining because of the pain that she felt, she stood up as she slightly rubbed her waist who was hit on the floor, then she bowed her head without complaining or whining to the head maid because even if she would complain to her nor to anyone, they would just laughed at her and won't care about what would happen to her. She'll be a laughingstock to them so there's no use of telling anyone, asking for their help just because she was mistreated in this manor.

The head maid looked at her from head to her toes, then she has this disgust plastered on her face as her face slightly grimace. “Go to the hall right now, we need to talk along with the other maids.”The head maid said with a grumpy face as she rolled her eyes, stumping her feet as she walks away.

Ever since Tiana woke up, she already found herself in a filthy room way back 4 years ago. She's been mistreated by the other maid because of her looks. Half of her face as well as her body was burned. She was like a laughingstock to them but she managed to endure their attitudes towards her.

It's been a years but she can't remember her past, even her name, her family's name, all of them... she couldn't recall. The Head maid was the one who have her a name... “Eerie”. Ever since, she was already called Eerie and sometimes the maids used her name in a teasing way.

She sigh as she fold the blanket and gently put it on the bed as she went to the hall before the head maid would curse her and beat her to the pulp.

As she was walking to the hall, all eyes are on her. Even though she's not looking at them, she could saw their smirks as well as their unpleasant looks.

The Head maid angrily look at her and slapped her face, “You ugly monster! What took you so long and who are you to make us wait, you wrench!”

Eerie didn't respond, but she only bow her head, hiding her face with full of scars from burns using her long wavy scarlet hair. She already know that they hated her, and they kept on using her as somewhat a punching bag and a stress reliever by bossing her around as if they owned the Mansion, and they would make her work without any labor. She hardly obtained money, and they would just gave her a two penny silver coins, which has a lower value than the gold and two silver can only buy four bread. Usually, the payment should be fifty silver, but the head maids cut her payment and use that money for their own gain. She had already known all of it, all along but even if she would protest about it, she'll never win.

“Yeah! How dare you make us wait!”The other maid said, agreeing to the Head maid.

But Eerie didn't respond to them making them even more mad but they already know and they haven't even heard her voice because she didn't talk for this past for 4 years that she's been working at this manor.

Head maid just sigh as she rolled her eyes then she look at them. She open her lips as she start talking. “Listen up, from what Duke Casol instructed, we need to send one maid to the Royal Palace. Who volunteered to be sent?”

Duke Castol is the boss of the manor that they are serving with. The Royal Palace is the place where the Crown Prince, Princes and Princess, Empress and Empress, meaning to say, one mistake... you'll be executed.

All of the maid has this evillish grin plastered on their faces, as if they had already know a right person for that, while they all pointed Eerie making her flinched as she shook her head trying to decline what they were thinking.

The Head maid smirked.“Okay. Eerie will be the one who is the maid representative of Duke Castol.”

Eerie was about to open her mouth but she couldn't dare to speak, instead she just left with no choice.

“She'll be beheaded for sure.”

“She'll be killed for sure, with her clumsiness, dumbness and also her ugly face that looks like a monster, she'll be mistreated for sure.”

“I heard that the Princes are bullies, for sure she'll be bullied.”

“he Princes and the Crown Prince were ruthless and merciless, one mistake from her, she'll be sliced to two.”

The maids giggled as they were looking at her with full of happiness, it's like they were really looking forward for her to get killed immediately before she could step to the Royal Palace.

Eerie couldn't defend herself, so she just bow her head, hiding her head as tears flows to her emotionless gold eyes. Silently crying as she bow again and went to her shabby room to pack her things. ‘I just wanted to have a good life, with a good job and without being treated like a monster. Why am I look like this? Those mocking smile, pity eyes, and their contempt disgust on their faces as if I was sort of a curse, a garbage and a virus. I just wanted to live the way I like without being treated like this!’

She was already crying, packing her clothes. She admitted that she's scared, she's been violently abused by the maid in the manor and she did her best to tolerate it all without giving up on her life. But now... she doesn't know anymore. Eerie angrily messed with her hair as both of her hand covered her face, as she sat on the shabby small bed that could be broke if she would jump onto it, then she let a deep sighed to control her anger from messing with her heart.

'Why do I look like a monster? Why do I have this scars on my face making me look ugly? Why do I have to be born into this world? What's my purpose on being born?'

That's what she was always asking to herself. She couldn't serve well, she couldn't cook as well, she couldn't even do a simple job, meaning to say she's useless. People would call her ‘useless monaster’ because she couldn't even do her job well., but even if her heart was aching because of the painful words that they uttered, she still pretended as of it didn't affect her at all.

There is one thing that Eerie found out on herself, is she has a dangerous ability that could really kill someone if she would use it recklessly and it only activate if she's angry. It was an ability to see through your target and kill them in an instant by crushing their hearts using some manipulation of her ability. She doesn't know wether it is a good thing or a bad thing, but the only thing that she know is she doesn't feel guilty when she killed someone. Either way, she doesn't kill easily especially those innocent. So far, she had only killed one person and it was due to her anger at the same time, self defense.

She accidentally killed the butler who tried to molest her and of course, the Duke didn't suspect her or anything since they saw her as a weak and a fragile woman who can't do thing on her own and can't also decided for herself.

She's already 19 years old—the only thing that she could remember is she's fifteen when she woke up, find herself in a shabby room, ended up serving the Duke Castol who was the one who save her life. For four years, she's already enduring the pain, hardships, teasing, and even mistreated from the fellow maids but she's still alive.

Her golden eyes stopped from shimmering, she couldn't talk out of scariness, she's been experiencing anxiety as well as nightmares every night but all of those starts to change when she start seeing a large black dragon on her dreams, it was confusing at first and she was also scared, but many days had past, she found herself being comfortable with that dragon who always appeared on her dreams.

Eerie's hands were cold, shaking and nervously closed the bag as she went out of her shabby room. As she was walking at the same time looking down, hiding her face, as one maid went to her way.

Marta— the one who has been treating her well, hugged her tightly as Eerie brushed her face on her shoulder as tears flows to her eyes.

Marta lightly tapped her shoulder, telling her to stop crying. She lifted her face so she could see Marta's face for one last time.

The world really is unfair. Just because of her face, she was easily been judged, and was easily being mocked and bullied, but the only person who defend her and who truly understand her suffering was Marta.

‘I see... so those people really judge people based on how they look. So this place, this world, isn't for someone like me who look like a monster.’ She sadly smiled at her thoughts.

She was about to stand up to bid her goodbye when she heard a deep baritone tone and every each word he uttered was full of longing and affection.

‘Wife, I miss you... I miss you so much. I promise to come and get you. Hang in there. I love you.’

END OF CHAPTER 1