RABED 40 🔐

Summary

“Don’t expect anything from me.”

That was the cliché line the male lead threw at the female lead. And me? I was just the maid watching from the sidelines as the female lead finally gave up on him and decided to run away.

I stared at the two of them with half-lidded eyes, watching their drama play out—because, unfortunately, the so-called ‘female lead’ who heard that line from him was actually a man.

“……”

I lowered my head, pretending not to see the Empress’s face crumple miserably.

Soon, the female lead—who was actually the Empress—would give up on the Emperor and escape the palace. And me? I was destined to get my head chopped off for failing to stop her.

All I wanted was to escape before that runaway Empress did, so I was desperately looking for a way out when—

“A man? Who, me?” “Not you. Me.”

A strange lunatic with the face of an enchanting Empress but a deep, husky voice added,

“My brother asked me for help, so I was planning to buy some time before going back, but there’s this powerless little squirrel constantly getting in my way, you see?”

That squirrel… couldn’t possibly be me, right?

“Hm? Squirrel.”

I closed my eyes, and that damned man forcibly opened them as he laughed like a madman.

“Why don’t you try stopping me again?”

As I looked at that mischievous smile, one thought crossed my mind:

I’m doomed.