Chapter 4

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Zed quickly ran through the budgeting documents concerning the development of the new library. There was far too much money allocated to purchasing new furniture. In contrast, the labor cost for the construction of the garden was lacking a little.

There was the rough scratch of a feather pen on paper, and the seventh budgeting document was pushed to the left. Piled high on the table were reports and approved documents with an elegant signature scrawled on them. These were all the documents that Zed finished working on.

“Haaa—so damn tiring.”

He straightened his back and twisted it a bit to give a stretch. There was the sound of cracking bones. His eyes felt dry and his back ached. The people that didn’t say a peep out of fear back when Leticia was in her usual state were now raising their voices and demanding changes now that Zed was in charge.

“Why do I need to do all this?” he grumbled. He glared at the mountain of papers in front of him. This should all be done by the lady he served, not him… Well, to be precise, this should all be done by the matriarch of the house.

Zed tapped his index finger several times on the table.

“Lady Leticia said that the Marchioness had passed away when she was young, right?”

He heard that the Marchioness—Leticia’s mother—had been a woman of weak constitution. She would usually be in bed due to an illness or another, and passed away due to a fatal disease when Leticia was only five years old. Since then, Leticia had been delegated the role of taking care of the household at a young age.

If Leticia was unable to manage it, then either her assistant or the household butler would act for her…but she had no assistant, and for some reason the butler had long ago received orders from Leticia to

She repeatedly refused to believe in his words, and he brought a mirror in front of her.

Leticia’s expression turned dazed when she saw herself completely grown up in the mirror. She touched her face here and there in fascination, before her mind fully processed what she was seeing and her body shivered in slight shock.