PROLOGUE

She thought she was at rock bottom when she was abandoned on the altar at the age of 22. The whole situation had a cruelty worthy of one of those soap operas that the public loves to criticize, but cannot stop seeing: the childhood friend that she dedicated her whole life to simply decided to run away, leaving her pathetically waiting for him in church.

She became the joke of the town. Her mother-in-law-to-be blamed her, claiming that she must have done something to chase away her precious son. As if the humiliation was not enough, Yayoi fired her and expelled her from the hotel where she worked and lived since she was a toddler. Days, weeks, months later, Kyoko discovered that her degree in Hotel Management was useless in the face of the stagnant economy and her controversial reputation.

She had nowhere to go. She had no references. She had no friends or relatives to support her. All she had was the Hotel Fuwa and Sho, but in one move, she had lost both.

Kyoko needed to change cities and start from scratch. Her bank account barely had enough. All the potential that she knew to have, all the dedication she employed in her studies and the days worked relentlessly were being lost in strange part-time jobs. Until, one day, Kyoko realized that five years had flown out the window and all she had conquered was more years on her back and a pseudo-relationship with a co-worker.

Resolute and desperate, she repeated the old routine of flipping through classified ads and scouring one by one in search of a signal, an answer, any suggestion that better times would come.

Until she saw the unusual ad.

"Castle Hizuri II looks for young and single female housekeeper. We pay well. For more information, contact the curator Sawara at the local. To the interested, a warning: the only resident of the castle is a poltergeist. We do not indemnify"

Yep, it was very bizarre and definitely suspicious. "Why a young single woman? What do you mean, a poltergeist? And why were they already warning that they did not intend to indemnify?" were the questions that any normal person would ask, but Kyoko was too desperate to think like a normal person. Thus, she only focused on the promise of a good payment and the perspective of finally work with something minimally similar to what she spent her life training to do.

She was already at rock bottom. She could not go any lower!

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Right?