I am Kujouin Reiko, a poor lady living without my parents. My Grandmother, who died 2 months ago was a self-indulgent Ojou-sama, who actually has no ability to look after herself. My Father left the infant me after having led the Kujouin family to ruin, and is still missing. It was my Grandmother’s maid, Fuki-san, who brought me up. Thanks to Fuki-san, I was able to acquire the ability to look after myself. Meanwhile, my Grandmother, whose pride was tall enough to tower over Mt. Everest, instilled in me disciplines that the daughter of the Kujouin family ought to have. She sat up a piano in our modest rented house and gave me strict guidance. She did the same for dance, manners, and language too. My Grandmother had been studying piano in Europe for a long time.
I decided to enroll in the high school of the prestigious Meisei Private Academy, which has a special scholarship system, but was tackled from behind on the day of the entrance ceremony, and was tackled by Sakurada Yuria, who called me, “Villainess young lady” apparently believes that this world is that of an Otome Game. She makes sure I stay away from her childhood friends (whom she called, ‘capture targets’), and makes great effort to stick the heroine, Yuuki Miu, and the capture target, Takanashi Ryou, together.
I don’t have the time to be bothered about that though, because of the state of poverty I am in. Meanwhile, it turns out that the house where our maid, Fuki-san, finds retirement is the house of the very same Takanashi Ryou, the capture target. Fuki-san was apparently the great-grandmother of Takanashi Ryou. He accuses me of pushing Fuki-san around but I just want to see her again. At such a time, I lose my home to a landslide. Do your best, dear Me! Don’t give up, dear Me!
Meow
Let’s gooo
Arha
She has her grandmother’s stubborn streak.
sa
Go Rei-chan! Although you got different purposw choosing short piece, shut those terrible people up!
Aiyie duFreaqoe
Slap them with your talent rei-chan!!!
Meow
Violence desu
Meow
Why is everyone so cuteeeee
MelayStuff
Bless her friends for giving her hope to dream
MelayStuff
our girl is so good at fibbing lol
sa
Aaah… there is good thing that the twins werent there. she got to know outside students
Favy
That taka something guy needs a reality check… Him and his whole family… And fuki lady doesn’t deserve the administration Reiko-sama has for her
Six_characters
Fr fr, I bet Fukibis not as innocent as Reika remembers and the lady that ruined that girls homecoming or whatev was probly her. Also I think she was probl responsible for Reika think that she had to stay poor or something. Brainwashing is really something huh?
All the money she spent was only for Mary and her self not for Reika as she never got new clothes.
And im willing to bet that all that money was not from the husband and son, some could have been from Reika’s father, but she was probly never told of it or any was used for her like it was mean to be.
sa
he lived with the landlady while ignoring his daughter living in the same building… trash indeed
Meow
Why can’t she have a good life for once …
Meow
Hope at least the father got murdered by the boulders
Anonymous
Bro….. If the landslide doesn’t do it, I’ll fucking do anything to go in this novel, and put that mother fucker 6ft under.
Kei Vi Arcadia? ? ???????? ?
Ok i want to kill that son of a bi*ch
MelayStuff
… WTF … WHEN IT RAINS ON OUR GIRL IT FRIGGING POURS?!?!
so does Fuki keep in touch with the landlady now that she’s bailed oooorrrrrr?
Kei Vi Arcadia? ? ???????? ?
Ok i want to kill that son of a bi*ch
Aiyie duFreaqoe
I’m glad she’s finally getting a proper guardian
Meow
Yesssss reiko get his asssss
MelayStuff
“As if I will let him die just like that.”
“Should.not.this.grudge.be.avenged.”
YOU GO GIRL!!!! what great quotes lolol
Zola Moala
HAHAHAHA, she is as petty as me when it comes to food
Darkclord
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Darkclord
Comrade Yoshio insists that they’re all replicas, so I make myself think so too. They must be replicas. That’s right, they’re replicas.
Me: Yeaah, of coursee~ *I drink imaginary tea from an imaginary cup.*
Darkclord
Moree, I need moree!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/284d47bbf7ce017d99041a97e7ac7831695d4abde1d15c7b277b2f3fd241a214.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9a02a6da07297cfa0a27eebec2da4003e7675cb550e3a25411e2fb4686c7724a.gif
Six_characters
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Autumn's Shadow
It’s been a while since the last update…. have we caught up to the raws?
I’m craving more of Reiko’s antics…. willhergrudgebeavenged?
Kojiro_S
What? So pre-supposedly-recovering-memories Yuria was a parasitic bully?
Meow
Take your time and settle things at your pace! All the best
Nyhilite
No problem at all take all the time you need
Meow
The author really loves to constantly dump shit on her … Sadly she’s not the type of character to go grab a pillow and end that trash once and for all
Meow
Can we spend one chapter without the author handing her an L, please author give her a break
Favy
If it were me I’d kill that so called father in his sleep….. Cause what?!
Katarzyna Kadej
That’s an easy way out for him. I recommend lingchi.
For both that trash and that old mad hoe.
Katarzyna Kadej
That’s an easy way out for him. I recommend lingchi.
For both that trash and that old mad hoe.
Favy
She can’t see she’s blinded *in sza’s voice*
Fuki San and her father deserves death
Ricardo Aguilar
Her father is quite the manipulator, making people indebted to him and brainwashing them with ideals not even he believes in.
Ricardo Aguilar
Kinda pointing out the obvious, but what’s more heartbreaking than knowing how much she’s suffered, is witnessing her realize she was indeed suffering, not by a series of random misfortunes, but a well-planned evil scheme (can’t call it otherwise, after all it’s a bunch of adults torturing a little girl)
Hopefully, author-san will soon explain, not justify, the reasons behind her father’s actions.
Kojiro_S
Hahaha the parasites thing reminded me of one of the first Slayers episodes when Lina gouges on the whole fish, innards and all, only for Gourry kindly reminding her of what kind of bait said fish just swallowed.
Kamal Khairi Kamaruddin
It was unexpected plot twist that michael is navy SEAL. At this point i might think that all Reiko’s belief from A to Z is a lie. Maybe her father a good guy.
Thanks for the chapter.
Six_characters
Mabe maybe not. Her mother had unfortunate circumstances ? so her father either was trash or was helping out the poor woman.
ran7654
thanks for picking this up
Meow
Oh ffs now we can’t even look towards her revenge arc, cmon author
Arha
Wait, he can’t be that old can he?
Meow
Author’s dumping way too much backstory into that, gotta chill.
That aside, she was born in 1943 right? And reiko’s around 1996 ish? I feel like there’s a whole generation gap worth of age difference between the father and her, like if the father was 40 years old at the time of reiko’s birth that would still put him 13 years younger than her, not sure how that relation came through back in these ages but pop off mari
Ricardo Aguilar
I think the answer is obvious, he’s the rich heir from a really wealthy family. Reiko’s mother was probably a young woman forced to marry this old man.
Six_characters
Or he just seduced her with his dashing looks and educated background ?
Autumn's Shadow
This grudge shall be avenged~
Autumn's Shadow
The grudge was avenged by the landslide… not as satisfying…
Sev Il
So for me the biggest villain is still the father. Fuki had an inferiority complex to old mari but that was born from admiration and fuki did something really bad. However, the father is, to this day, the one that keep kicking a downed horse. Old mari literally didnt care about anything because she had lost everything she ever cared about, so the father keeped thinking he was breaking something that had already broken and made thing worst for everyone. His followers were scammed into thinking he is somesore of god, blinded to his true nature. He kept destroying the household name that he was left to inheirit, had an unwanted child that he dump to old mari without any care, Then he laughed at everyone thinking he outsmarted them. That is why the father is the asshole villain to me.
Kojiro_S
Wow, so just about everything can be traced to Fuuki. As the nerd would say: “Wow, what an @sshole”.
Arha
Okay so only Reika, Mari and a bunch of unrelated strangers are anything close to decent human beings then?
Meow
Wish reiko would find it in herself to spit on fuki, but that’s not gonna happen. i know very well how very much you can’t be bothered to do such things when your heart is empty
Favy
My heart hurt alot while I read this .. Fuki destroyed the whole family…
Meow
I’m happy at least she has friends like sou and sara to help her through the rough times
Boxcat13
Is it dropped? Are you guys dropping this novel?
Six_characters
Im soo glad her friends helped her dream bigger! She was abt to make the most foolish decision of her life
Six_characters
Madenokouji x Rei ??? What about Soju?
Jayswing103
Soju? What about Sara?
Six_characters
Wtf!?
Six_characters
I would really love some context or explanation, but the father is trash tra$h trash belongs here ??
José Pérez
I agree with this devil pfp.
It’s garbage day. *prepares shotgun*
Six_characters
Is the landslide really an accident? Could someone have deliberately set it off to kill her?
Six_characters
Hat fact that fuki has has the power to hurt her more than anyone elsenis what worries me. And the supposed revenge on a child, what the heck?! Twisted adults ???
Fuki took revenge for hem? She was probly mistreated her whole life and didnt know it ???
Six_characters
Glad they made up, I didn’t like it when they made a fuss when she was so wounded
Six_characters
Cant wait for Reiko to take her revenge https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bb27180c5abbe8a09cf9190281275698530b8a0ca70c42a252e5b9cab00f6799.jpg
Six_characters
Man she has quite the few admirers, ?? totally glad that she compared it to the heroine of a game and indirectly called Tanaka a pedophile in her head ???
Six_characters
Reiko be like :
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Six_characters
Moaar
taer kitty
Wow. I did not see that coming!
taer kitty
It never fails to surprise me!
taer kitty
She’s gonna floor them, I can see it already!
taer kitty
So touching. So many little details.
taer kitty
Adorkable Rei!
taer kitty
Oh, so much chunni…
taer kitty
Love it!
taer kitty
If he grabbed her wrist too hard, that could have ruined her future as a pianist!
taer kitty
She thinks fast on her feet!
taer kitty
I can never predict where next this will go, but I can always predict correctly that I’ll love it!
taer kitty
Trash is as trash does.
taer kitty
I can’t wait until all the shoes finally drop.
taer kitty
It’s starting to get good!
taer kitty
Wow, the backgrounds for all of the cast are so layered!
taer kitty
Yuri, again…
taer kitty
I’m shipping her with Madenokouji-San…
taer kitty
She is so optimistic!
taer kitty
Sorry to see it seems to have fallen off the pipeline, but it was a great read while it lasted!
taer kitty
Thank goodness for NovelUpdates, else I wouldn’t have been able to get caught up, given how many times this WN has been dropped.
It’s worth the effort, though. The chapters on this site really dive into the pathos and finally answer some of the questions about her upbringing.
There’s no need to “recommend” this story at this point. If you’re here, you’ve already committed to following dear Reiko to the ends of the earth, or at least the end of her tale.
Smell Sara-Chan
How can one person smell so good that it is one of the two descriptors I remember about her? She smells good and has drill hair.
Katarzyna Kadej
That “landlady” saying that fuki did revenged her and the tormented one was a child?? What tf is wrong with those idiots? How an innocent kid could do anything to her, to them?? All of those rotten bastards should rot in hell for eternity.
José Pérez
Tanaka-san and Yoshio-san: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d344f9f09ebbd2a8111b7a342f93bdb12b70f47f137106c1d355d846f8e2c628.jpg
Hatsune Miku
Thanks for the chapter