The Maid and the Usurper

“It’s been a while, Layla, my maid.” You were always an insolent maid to me. You’re the wretched girl who gnaws at my memories and won’t let me go. Leopold, the king’s abandoned illegitimate son. With a desire for vengeance against the royal family, he assumed a false identity and returned as a war hero, in order to seize the throne. Yet, whether what he sought was the throne or the audacious maid who ran away from him… even he himself couldn’t tell. ‘I’m the biggest fool here. I was the one who loved you then, now, and in the future. I just couldn’t let you go.’ Layla, daughter of a brothel prostitute. To escape her miserable brothel life, she stole the identity of a noble lady. ‘...