Chapter 156

"Miss, you look so beautiful!"

"I'd fall for you myself, if I were a man."

At the maids' praise, Tanya's face flushed red.

She was too embarrassed to even look properly at the full-length mirror.

Even from a quick sidelong glance, the woman in the mirror, dressed in a dazzling red gown, looked like someone else entirely.

Tanya had always believed that she was destined to live and die as someone else's maid. Yet now she was being treated like a precious young lady, and she could hardly believe it.

Tanya, head lady-in-waiting to Empress Adele, had recently become the adopted daughter of the Marquis of Mervin's house. The Marquis's family, who had no daughter of their own, doted on her, and the maids had all taken to her warmly as well.

Every day felt like a dream, and Tanya prayed each night that she wouldn't wake from it.

"Miss,…