I Became the Maid of the Lout Prince Chapter 48 Discussion

I've read up to the latest chapter and I've got to say, if you manage to get past the 1st 4-5 chapters then the novel will naturally get better and better.

The protagonist, Lilith Rosewood, sold herself to relieve her father's debt and became a maid of the Blackwood Ducal house. She was born a female but one day she suddenly regained the memory of a Korean man. Coincidentally the man is someone who spent over 500+ hours on an adult game and through that, she now knows what horrible future she will have to face if she keeps her current lifestyle.

The first few chapters will be really uncomfortable to read, I know that the transmigrated guy is a loser who basically spent his entire time trying to make it so that Lilith stays a virg*n and his obsession with virg*n girls is honestly unhealthy and a little bit creepy. He hates Lilith because he spent a large amount of time trying to keep her from giving away her V-card yet his efforts still have no results, he also hates Ethan Blackwood for always taking away Lilith's V-card. The first few chapters of the novel will provide you with some light curses and complaints from the protagonist, and after examining that Lilith still has her v*rginity he finally calms down and proceeds with his maid work.

I think it's rational to display some erratic behaviour and voicing irrational complaints in this situation. Other novels will naturally deal with the shock using "a unique mental skill that makes them calm all the time" or "just time-skip to the day when the protagonist mentally settles with the fact that they just got into another world", this novel takes a different take on this by unhesitantly showing the bad, incel-like side of the protagonist and showing the audience their bad sides knowing it'll leave a bad impression. In my opinion, this just shows the protagonist's human-like side to them. When suddenly faced with an unprecedented situation, humans will naturally reveal some aspects of themselves that may look unfavourable to others. Although I have to admit, the protagonist does have a weird ass way of adapting with the situation.

After some time, the protagonist (although reluctantly) will adapt to Lilith's body and she begins to earnestly (?) work as a maid. And Lilith will have to face the bullying of senior maids and the way she eventually tamed the young master, Ethan, to become at least a respectable human being is honestly really funny and fulfilling.

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Lilith just dead-ass dealt with the maid bullying with violence and the delivery is the most comedic way a human can describe a dogfight. Lilith didn't find a way to solve this peacefully, she woke up one day and chose violence. She basically did the same with Ethan, she literally put him in a chokehold and then verbally ab*sed him. I noticed that a reviewer said that she choked Ethan despite him only playing minor pranks on her and to that I say: Ethan is a 13 y.o trapped in a 19 y.o's body and also the original game is an adult game, Lilith not only knows that in the future Ethan will ab*se Lilith with whips, chains and BD*M toys and committed the most heinous crimes of all - Stealing her v*rginity. In the 1st 3 months of working as Ethan's exclusive maid, the bullying starts with small pranks and incessant calls for attention from Ethan and it escalates to full-blown s*xual harassment. Imagine your superior constantly gives you extra work and overtime and on top of that your superiors will also cause a hassle to disrupt you from doing the work they gave you, for 3 full months, it sounds short but for medieval maids, especially the ones with debt don't get a vacation nor a weekend, so Lilith has spent a total of 84 days dealing with Ethan's antics. I imagine anyone would want to file a complaint and choke their superiors if they did stuff like that.

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The method of choking your superiors and hurling insults at them proves to be useful as Ethan genuinely tries to improve himself after Lilith did that and around chapter 40 or so we see some character development for Ethan. The way Lilith tries her best to increase her stats and level up is also a point I like. She shows her ability to use the situation to her advantage and creatively use the tools and game mechanics given to her to defeat monsters, level up and raise stats.

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e.x 1: She was trolled by the maids to basically do all their work. She used that to have some private time to practice magic here and increase her MP stats. She used the maid's bullying and ignorance as a cover for her magic practice

e.x 2: During an outing, a monster shows up due to a scroll usage mishap. She used the excuse of luring the monster away using herself as bait to solo the monster and monopolise the exp.

e.x 3: She was summoned by the chief of defence and after touring the training ground with Ethan, she manipulated the situation using various excuses to train with the soldiers and level up.

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It's a 5/5 for me, I'm a sucker for character psychology so I might have accidentally dived too deep into the matter but honestly Lilith (and also Ethan) is a fun character to analyse their behaviour and how and why they do stuff. The pacing of the story also feels just right, they don't rush for anything and have a deep understanding of the characters and their drives.