The Princeliest Prince of All - Chapter 1
It has been five years since Sera transmigrated into this world.
At first, she wondered why she was in such an absurd romance fantasy world, but she had long considered it a blessing for dying while doing a good deed.
She liked novels too.
But maybe helping an old man collecting scrap paper was too trivial to be considered a good deed.
In this book’s world, Sera was nothing more than a nobody.
Sera sat at a corner table in the kitchen, munching on the cookies the head chef gave her.
Although they were rejects that didn’t come out pretty, the ingredients were so good that the taste was always excellent.
“Sera!”
“Yes!”
At the head maid’s call, Sera jumped up from her seat and quickly ran over.
A powerless lady of a barony and a maid in the prince’s palace.
That was Sera’s current role.
A noble in name only, a trivial role that shattered the fantasy in romance fantasy.
“You need to clean the study.”
“Me?”
Sera’s eyes widened.
Wasn’t she not supposed to work in places visible to the prince?
The owner of the palace where Sera ate, slept, and worked, Prince Leonard, was a notorious mysophobe.
Usually, the female lead would appear and heal him, but unfortunately, the prince was not the male lead of this book.
More on that later.
“Amy has a high fever. Anyway, His Highness isn’t there, so please fill in for her.”
Cleaning the study was a tough job, but Sera nodded obediently.
After all, Sera was the person who contributed the least here.
Fortunately, the prince, who had been summoned to the empress’s palace, wouldn’t return for a while today either.
Despite being called a maid, those working in the prince’s palace were no different from lowly servants.
The crazy Prince allowed only a minimal number of people to move around his palace, assigning each person to a designated area.
A small elite team had to handle even the most menial tasks.
It was no wonder that Amy, who cleaned the study filled with books up to the ceiling every day by herself, fell ill regularly.
Whenever that happened, Sera had to fill in because she didn’t have a designated area.
The prince was so crazy that on her first day, he tried to fire Sera, a new maid whose name he didn’t even know, just because she laughed and saliva flew into the air.
He treated people like infectious disease carriers.
Here, everyone’s expected to work quietly in a hidden place.
With such unreasonable conditions, Sera barely managed to keep her job in the palace.
“I’ll be back!”
Sera packed her snack and cleaning tools and headed to the study on the second floor.
Although the spring weather was so sunny, there wasn’t a single flower in the green garden outside the window.
That was because the prick— no, His Highness the Prince hated even flower pollen.
“I wonder what our Imperial Princess is doing…”
Despite the dirty and harsh treatment, there were two reasons why Sera stubbornly stayed in the palace.
First, because of the older brother of this body’s owner, Siannon Brandt, who inherited the Baron title, was making their already impoverished household even worse.
Second, because this palace was the stage where the original story unfolds.
To watch the male and female leads live!
It was truly a popcorn-worthy scene.
Recalling the image of Leticia, the female lead with honey-like hair and 24K gold-like eyes, Sera’s eyes blurred with bliss.
Today too, she intended to enjoy and leisurely watch the 4D romance novel… but it seemed she’d spend the whole day cleaning.
Sera opened the door to the study.
“Whoa.”
The long-unvisited study was as grand as ever.
The high bookshelves, taller than twice Sera’s height, reached up to the ceiling.
Books were high-end items in this world, handcrafted by artisans, so they shouldn’t be handled carelessly, yet the room was filled with them.
“Even though he doesn’t read them properly.”
Sera thought of Leonard, the owner of the study.
Prince Leonard of this country, who turned the pages of books with gloves on, using a specially made pointer stick.
Although he was the emperor’s only son, he had not yet ascended to the position of Crown Prince because he couldn’t touch the thousand-year-old relic with his bare hands.
No matter how stealthily she moved around, she couldn’t avoid encountering the owner of the palace.
Unlike Leticia, he had crappy blonde hair and mere 14K gold-plated eyes.
So different in rank, as expected of a supporting character.
And his temperament was so nasty.
If it wasn’t for the prime view of the original story, Sera would have quit long ago, no matter how decent the pay was.
“Dirty. Clean it.”
Mimicking Leonard’s gruff voice, Sera began cleaning.
The prince’s palace had the strictest work manual in the entire palace.
Since its master had fits at the sight of a single speck of dust, no wonder.
Sera brought a ladder and started dusting the high places on the bookshelves first.
Thinking she could just dust them off roughly with a duster was a big mistake.
She had to meticulously dust between the books and shelves with a high-end duster made of soft feathers.
If a single speck of dust was seen in the sunlight streaming through the window, our dear fragile prince might die!
