Little Tyrant Doesn't Want to Meet with a Bad End Chapter 446.2: Revealed Thoughts (2)

The capital of the Austine Empire, Siaus.

In a room furnished with classic elegance, Lilian sat by the window as she stared at the snowy scenery outside with her cold amethyst eyes. Beside her stood an orange-haired maid, who softly reported the intelligence gathered today with a lowered head.

She was Audrey, who served as Lilian’s head maid.

She had been serving Lilian from a young age and displayed great competence in any work entrusted to her, making her Lilian’s most trusted aide. While Lilian was away in Leinster, she was the one who had been managing Lilian’s faction and settling all sorts of issues.

Not just anyone could become the personal maid of a high noble. By the Austine Empire’s tradition, this role was reserved for a daughter from a lower noble house. It went without saying that the personal maid of a member of royalty had to be chosen with utmost prudence.

Audrey herself was from a count house, so she was of considerable social standing despite being a maid. Prior to Lilian’s enrollment in Saint Freya Academy, she had always made sure to stay close to Lilian and attend to all of her needs, which resulted in her adopting some of Lilian’s cool-headed decisiveness. That made her quite an intimidating person to go against.

Yet, she couldn’t help but feel a pang of worry and confusion as she looked at Lilian’s silhouette. It had already been ten minutes since she had finished her report, but Lilian hadn’t issued any orders yet.

As someone who had been with Lilian for many years, Audrey was more aware than anyone else about her liege’s intelligence. Lilian had always been efficient when it came to work, dealing with issues at a speed where even Audrey struggled to keep pace. Even for intricate problems with many nuances, it would never take her more than five minutes to come to a decision.

Yet, there was no response from Lilian even though ten minutes had already passed. On top of that, Audrey’s instincts were telling her that Lilian wasn’t thinking about what she had said at all.

Such incidents had alrea

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