Chapter 5: Meet Vincent

The De’Rosa household is located in Aldrich City’s remote Noble villa neighbourhood, which is surrounded by beautiful mountains and rivers. While the main house of De’Rosa family’s location is unknown.

Aldrich City is the capital city of Atlas Kingdom. Without exception, all the wealthy and influential people all over the Kingdom are in this city. Even with their power and influence, they will try their best to buy land in this capital city. Because on one hand, this will solidify their status, on other hand, they can get easier access to make contacts with Nobel household.

In the Atlas Kingdom, the status of Noble families is very important. There are many wealthy and influential people in the Kingdom yet they still need to show respect towards Nobles. In the Atlas Kingdom, It is not easy to receive a Noble title, people need to either gain merits by joining the Kingdom’s military or contribute many accomplishments. Either way, it is hard and near impossible to gain noble titles for commoners. Although there is an instance where certain genius individual contributes and invent new inventions for the Kingdom, they are gifted with a noble title and honour. In other neighbouring kingdoms, if you have wealth you can buy noble titles from the kingdom’s government but in the Atlas Kingdom, the money can’t buy such precious noble titles instead you need to work hard to gain it.  

In a beautiful garden, where different types of flowers are blooming with vitality, butterflies dancing around these flowers, bees buzzing around.

In the middle of this beautiful garden, people can easily see a young girl sitting in a wheelchair. The girl looks between 9 to 13 years old, with scattered long raven hair, small button nose, pale thin lips looking a bit wan, sickly pale skin and without a doubt, you can see the shadows of beauty on her that she will grow up to be. But what makes people drawn to her are her beautiful crimson red eyes, sparkling like rubies when the sunray hits her. The girl was staring seriously at the sketchbook as her hand went on sketching busily.

Mary Lin, who has been watching her young lady sketching for a while found her serious expression incredibly cute. Mary Lin cannot express her current feelings. It has been almost two months since her young lady has awakened from the coma and she cannot express how much she is happy and grateful for that.

Smiling slightly, Mary Lin looked at her young lady sketching a single huge full-bloomed peach tree found in the centre of the garden. Mary Lin looked at the pink petals fluttering in the wind. Looking at the peach tree, she felt nostalgia.

When she was doing her internship in the De’Rosa household, Miss Lilith would always bring her lunch. They would meet under this peach tree.

In the Atlas Academy of Maids and Butlers, the graduating students need to do their internship in any Noble house that extends their offers to them. These internships can also help the soon to be graduates to gain experience at the same time they might also get offered jobs from the Noble household if they get their work done well during their internship.

As a top student, Mary Lin obviously got more offers than her fellow mates. Among them, the De’Rosa household also offered her to do her internship in their household. Thinking that the De’Rosa family have a good reputation among the noble circle and being known for their tied knit family mentality, Mary Lin thought she won’t encounter the troubles of being harassed by some privileged nobles.

Mary was seriously traumatized by the horror stories told by her seniors. She doesn't know whether those stories about some of her seniors being abused, harassed and being kept as mistress or male pets during their internships are true or not. 

That’s why she safely chose the De’Rosa household with a small number of family members and also their man is known to be indifferent towards others. Meeting Master Autumus, Mary was relieved that the man seems to be so indifferent that his whole presence screamed people to stay away from him or else they would die. Giving few orders to the head butler to take care of the new interns, without taking any glance at them he walked away.

At that time, Mary was so happy to get an indifferent master that will not do anything to them. But who knew, that this indifferent master is not that indifferent because he dared to snatch her dear miss Lilith right under her nose.

Hand clutching, she gritted her teeth while cursing that damn Duke for taking away her innocent lovely miss Lilith. On other hand, she also wants to see the idiotic face of her so-called friends and her self-proclaimed rivals when they know that she is now the personal maid of the future head of the De’Rosa Household.

 ‘Ah…how she wants to see their idiotic face when they know about it.’

“Hahaha….hahaha…” Mary Lin imagined as she laughed maniacally.

Quinlynn looked over her maid seeing her crackling madly, she shook her head helplessly and went back to sketching.

Snapping out of her fantasy, Mary Lin looked at her watch. Seeing that it's time for her young lady’s treatment, she said,“ Young lady, let’s head back, it’s time for your psychical therapy. Dr Josh must be waiting for us. “ She manoeuvred the wheelchair towards the big villa leaving the beautiful garden.

Arriving at the living room, Quinlynn listlessly looked around, expensive vintage furniture decorated in minimalist style, custom crouch made out of finest materials and small but detailed expensive things decorated in a low key manner. Well, Quinlynn was used to seeing all these expensive things around this villa for the past two months. Actually, she was expecting Dr Josh to wait for her as usual but no one was in the room.  

Sighing…She went back on her unfinished work while Mary Lin silently stood near her.  

In the silent room, only the sound of sketching can be heard until a knock on the door.

Deeply Engrossed in her work, Quinlynn said, “Come in”

A huge shadow stood in front of her as if expressing their presence to her.

Quinlynn looked up, her eyes widened in surprise. Instead of Dr Josh, it was her father Duke Autumus in his handsome glory.

“Quinlynn, I see you’re busy with sketching.” Duke Autumus warmly greeted his lovely daughter while smiling gently.

Closing her sketchbook, she questioned, “Father, Why are you here? Where is Dr Josh?”

“Quinlynn, why don’t you call me dad? Calling me father makes us so distant with each other,” Whined Duke Autumus before answering her,” I gave Dr Josh a day off and came because of this.”

Duke Autumus beckoned the small figure behind him to come in front. Quinlynn curiously watched behind her father, a boy slowly came in front of her while his small hands grasped her father’s ironed black pants, which is now wrinkled. The boy had brown fluffy hair, seems younger and smaller than her current body but she could not see his face due to him lowering his head, his expression covered by his bangs.

'Who is this boy?' thought Quinlyn with a confused look in her eyes. 

Duke Autumus gently brought the boy in front of his daughter and told, “Quinlynn, meet Vincent.”

“Huh?”