His Highness Has Decided

“From today onwards, you are all attendants to His Highness Prince Ryan. Put your hearts and souls into it!”

Inside the lavishly decorated mansion hall, an old butler sternly instructed twelve maids.

“Yes!”

The maids, dressed in black dresses with white aprons, responded in unison, their faces filled with apprehension and unease.

Among them, a blonde girl with the prettiest and loveliest appearance revealed a look of joy and anticipation that set her apart.

(Excellent, successfully infiltrated.)

Flora couldn’t help but snicker inwardly.

Unlike the other maids, her purpose here was to win the favor of Crown Prince Ryan Rowland.

But don’t misunderstand, she didn’t want to climb the social ladder and become the future Empress.

Rather, she had no intention of really having anything happen with the Crown Prince.

After all, just a month ago, she was an absolutely pure male.

Her transformation into this beautiful girl was due to the effects of a magic potion, which would wear off in a year.

In other words, she was here to deceive feelings.

“His Highness Prince Ryan is coming! Quick, form a line!”

The old butler suddenly urged.

The maids immediately split to both sides.

Flora, having been lost in thought, was a beat late.

She only realized she was the extra one as she hurried to take her place.

“Flora Haggia, what are you doing? Quickly go to the other side!” the old butler rebuked in a low voice.

“S-Sorry!”

Flora repeatedly apologized, hurriedly running to the opposite side, but inadvertently tripped over her own feet, losing her balance and falling to the ground.

“You…”

The old butler couldn’t help but facepalm, while the maids couldn’t contain their laughter.

Flora’s cheeks quickly flushed red.

She didn’t want to do anything so embarrassing, but she hadn’t fully gotten used to this new body.

As a result, she seemed clumsy.

She passed the maid exam after three retakes, barely scraping by.

During that time, she had been criticized more than once as having “wasted a pretty face,” which made her feel extremely stifled.

Fortunately, her goal relied on her looks and figure, so she simply based her persona on a natural, lively, and beautiful girl.

“What’s the situation with this maid?”

Just as Flora was about to get up from the ground, a cold and indifferent voice pierced everyone’s hearts.

A tall young man with black hair and crimson eyes walked out of the house.

He had handsome features and a stern expression.

Dressed in the Empire’s iconic black and gold military uniform, he exuded an invisible aura of ruthlessness.

The maids quickly retracted their mocking gazes and lowered their heads in fear.

“Your Highness Prince Ryan, I am very sorry, this is my failure to manage properly!”

The old butler quickly stepped forward to apologize, gesturing behind his back.

Flora quickly lifted her skirt and ran to the opposite side.

Turning around, she noticed that Crown Prince Ryan was staring at her.

His eyes were full of contempt and disgust.

Flora quickly bowed her head like the other maids, her face filled with terror.

This is bad, this is bad!

She had left a bad impression on her target right from the start. What was she going to do?

Whether he had already silently noted her transgression or simply didn’t care about such a trivial matter, Crown Prince Ryan, accompanied by the old butler, quickly left the mansion.

Confirming that their master was gone, the maids all breathed a sigh of relief and began discussing what had just happened.

“How scary, just like the rumors, like a demon who walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.”

“That look, I felt like he was going to devour someone alive!”

“Is this the master we will be serving in the future… what should I do, I want to go home.”

“Which family is she from? She’s doomed.”

The maids whispered among themselves, moving away from Flora as if she were a harmful source of infection.

But they couldn’t be blamed.

The maids who came to work at the Crown Prince’s mansion were all second or third daughters of middle and lower-ranking nobles.

If they performed poorly here, it would affect their families.

But Flora’s identity was fabricated. Haggia was said to be a declining baronial family near the border, and now the only member of the family was the nominal head of the family who was her father.

She didn’t have to worry about the future of the family or anything like that.

As for the maids’ evaluation of their master… Flora didn’t find it strange.

Ryan Rowland’s reputation in the outside world was so bad.

As the Crown Prince, he had become an Imperial Marshal at a young age through deception and flattery of the Empress and the Pope.

After gaining control of a large army, he not only did not restrain himself, but became even more arrogant, brutal, and extravagant.

A year ago, during the eastern expedition to the Kingdom of Slyke, he ordered the live burial of ten thousand enemy soldiers who had already surrendered.

Half a year ago, Count Gonzales of the South was beheaded along with his entire family of hundreds of people, including infants, for speaking disrespectfully to him.

In order to enrich his treasury, he created pretexts to start construction projects, building canals, and even proposing to build a meaningless Great Wall in the north to resist the barbarians who had long been defeated by the Empire.

In terms of his lifestyle, there were rumors that he had countless lovers, often frequented the pleasure district, and loved all kinds of military training games, so that the maids were replaced batch after batch.

The fact that Flora was so clumsy yet had not been screened out, and that her appearance stood out among the maids, was also related to this situation… middle and lower-ranking nobles did not dare to send their daughters with a little beauty.

Well, Flora knew that she was kind of walking into the tiger’s mouth.

But she had to do it.

Just a month ago, her beloved childhood sweetheart was forced into an engagement with the Crown Prince.

When the ruler wants his subject to die, the subject has no choice but to die.

Under normal circumstances, even if the other party was a mediocre and incompetent heir to the throne, she would have accepted it, even if she was unwilling.

But Crown Prince Ryan was a ruthless, despicable bastard.

In addition, the childhood sweetheart’s face could not hide the sadness and helplessness when she told her about it… for the sake of her future happiness, she decided to ruin this marriage.

Considering that she shouldn’t cause too much trouble for the country and others.

And the Empire has always followed the teachings of the Radiant Church and implemented a monogamous system.

Therefore, the best way was to make the Crown Prince fall in love with someone else and take the initiative to break off the engagement.

Unfortunately, she underestimated the matter of becoming a woman, and things went wrong from the start… was she going to be fired right away?

“Flora Haggia!”

Speak of the devil, the old butler, who had returned to the house, called her out immediately.

Flora had no choice but to follow her persona, pitifully walking up to the old butler, tearfully saying:

“I’m sorry, Mr. Charlton, I know I was wrong, I promise I won’t do it again, I will accept any punishment, please don’t send me away…”

Unfortunately, the old butler had seen enough of similar situations during the past half month of assessment.

He probably no longer had any expectations of her.

He waved his hand to signal her to stop and said:

“From now on, you will be His Highness Prince Ryan’s personal maid.”

“Huh?”

Flora was stunned.