The Villainess Turns the Hourglass - Vol. 1 Ch. 39
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Yes, thanks @Neutronoid I just so happen to be french. But her name sounds like Honey (miel). Miellé has a strong accent and sounds nothing like her name though.
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@esmee_n101 thats a good point, but maybe she could make the pocket small so that it doesnt move around a lot, and close to her torso/chest so that it stays vertical. Thats just sth i would have done because that big box looks sketchy af 😂
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Seeing Mielle and Aria sit side by side reminded me how much Aria had aged in comparison to Mielle, who I believed is just a year or two younger then Aria.
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Mhm... pretty far i would say. A few things need to happen.
Events that happen between now and before the "Epilgoue spoilers" are as follows:
Wow i wrote way more than i expected my bad.
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Mhm... pretty far i would say. A few things need to happen.
Events that happen between now and before the "Epilgoue spoilers" are as follows:
Aria uses all the profits from her selling sugar to invest in new businesses and startups. This includes low-class nobles like barons, merchants, or commoners.
This includes trends she knows will become popular in the future. Though Aria isn't 100% sure which business will become successful in the future.
The twist to this is that... she actually ends up establishing a 3rd power base (does this unknowingly though). The Crown Prince faction, The Noble Faction, and Investor A's faction (Aria hides her name as "Investor A").
Mielle gets increasingly frustrated about Aria and decides she will try to bring Investor A's faction to the Noble faction and invites all the wives of Investor A's faction to the Count's house for a tea party. This is a very strange move because she is a count and some of the invites were given to commoners. Anyone who wasn't too busy accepted the invitation (for curiousity sake). She tries to win them over (but they aren't falling for it). Trying to get them to accept gifts (but they deny them). Aria happens to stumble across them just as Mielle was trying to get them to accept her gift. She joins the tea party and shows off her intellect by engaging on their business topics (since she reviewed all their businesses she knows all about their business). The wives' then invite her to their next business meeting. Mielle leaves in frustation.
Aria ends up joining the business meeting (the businesses supported by investor A hold regular meetings and review which business partners will be good to invest in before telling Investor A. Aria meets the crown prince there as he appears with a different name (Aria confuses the new name with as his real identity). Asher then proposes a business he has planned. He wants to open an academy that would allow anyone to join if they have the talent, it would be paid for by the crown prince and Investor A only has to lend them their name, the business partners of investor A would be given first choice from their best students (so they can gain trained employees for their startup businesses).
At some point Sarah's wedding ceremony is held and Aria goes to give her, her blessings. She sees Asher as is leaving, and meets him in a garden. There he reveals to her he is the crown prince and they have a quick conversation. As Aria is leaving (her face blushing red) Isis catches a glimpse of her face and decides to check out the garden. She notices the crown prince and starts to get worried. Later when Mielle is visiting the duke's mansion Isis orders her to get rid of Aria and hides her some poison. Mielle's headmaid then tells the maid whose been getting bullied by Annie and Jessie to poison Aria's tea. The next day she serves Aria, Jessie and Annie tea as usual but she can't stop fidgetting. Aria notices immediately that something is wrong and takes out her hourglass before telling Annie to drink from her cup. Annie immediately collapses and the maid immediately becomes sorrowful and begs for mercy. She turns the hourglass. Now she pretends to drink from her teacup and collapses. The maid looking ecstatic throughout the entire motion. After Aria collapses, Jessie and Annie immediately run over and call for a doctor, meanwhile the maid flees from the scene.
The maid goes missing and the entire capital and all the servants and guards of the mansion are searching for her whereabouts. Aria helps stir the suspicious onto Mielle's headmaid since she is supervisor. She later adds fuel to the rumor because no one had fled the capital and yet the maid was still somehow able to hide under everyone's noses. The only one capable of sheltering the culprit had to be the headmaid. Later on Asher shows up and tells Aria that he found the maid and gave her a location and said "It's up to you what you do with her". Around this time Asher also hands Aria a bracelet as a protection charm. Aria goes to visit a dirty warehouse and finds the maid cowering in a corner covered in filth. She baits her by telling her if she confesses to the authorities who told her to do it she can help her flee the country and give her enough money to live for the rest of her life. The maid doesn't believe her at first but Aria tells her she can just say she was threatened, and that if she didn't listen her family would be killed. The maid immediately latches onto her only hope. And she confesses the headmaid had told her to poison Aria, that she had no other choice because she was being threatened. Mielle chooses to abandon the maid (she had no other choice or she would take the fall). The maid is to be given a sentence after a court hearing.
I forgot when but Aria also reveals she is Investor A and shocks everyone in the capital.
Around this time Cain starts visiting Aria's room often and it's clear he is looking at Aria like a woman instead of a sister. Aria notices and is disgusted by it but she purposefully leads him on. At some point Cain has an inner monologue about how he used to look down on his father for taking a prostitute as a wife but now he can't help but think he has the same blood running through him because he is attracted to his sister-in-law. On the day of the sentencing the judge asks Aria for the judgement and she requests for the maid to be executed, lest more innocent souls get harmed. As her family was about to head home Aria excuses herself and rendezvous with Asher in an alleyway. Cain secretly followed her and discovers Asher. He quickly gets jeleous. The maid gets beheaded. Mielle stays in her room and cries for days or weeks. At this point all the servants in the count's house look at Mielle with disdain though. When she finally leaves she has taken her noble lady mask off and glares at everyone.
Mielle stops trying to act like a saint and looks at Aria with disdain all the time and forgoes all pleasantries. Later on Mielle tries to approach her only remaining ally in the house, her blood relative and brother Cain. Cain who is powerless to stop Aria from meeting with Asher loses his temper whenever he sees Aria heading out and becomes pretty desperate. This is when Mielle approaches him. She suggests a plan to corner Aria. The plan holding a huge tea party that would involve the wives' of the noble faction. They would make sure there are no witnesses around. The two siblings would then bring the Count up to Aria's room and tell her to come downstairs. Just as Aria is about to reach the staircase on the 3rd floor (her room is on the third floor), Mielle pushes the count down the stairs. The count turns around mid-fall and tries to grab at the air, only to grab Aria's bracelet and the bracelet falls apart, shattering beads all over the floor. He notices Mielle was the one who pushed him down. Mielle then screams for help... when suddenly Asher appears out of thin air, surprising both Aria and Mielle. Asher looks shocked and confused as well but quickly grabs Aria and disappears from the scene.
Aria and the Crown Prince appear at a resturant half a day away by carriage from the capital. Aria tells Asher what happened and they decide to leave evidence that they had never been at the scene by traveling to a foreign country. They would gather eye witness accounts of their travels and leave credit behind the places they visit (parchment with a record of what they owed the establishment along with the time of their visit). This is later used in court when Mielle tries to frame Aria for the assassination of the Count.
This includes trends she knows will become popular in the future. Though Aria isn't 100% sure which business will become successful in the future.
The twist to this is that... she actually ends up establishing a 3rd power base (does this unknowingly though). The Crown Prince faction, The Noble Faction, and Investor A's faction (Aria hides her name as "Investor A").
Mielle gets increasingly frustrated about Aria and decides she will try to bring Investor A's faction to the Noble faction and invites all the wives of Investor A's faction to the Count's house for a tea party. This is a very strange move because she is a count and some of the invites were given to commoners. Anyone who wasn't too busy accepted the invitation (for curiousity sake). She tries to win them over (but they aren't falling for it). Trying to get them to accept gifts (but they deny them). Aria happens to stumble across them just as Mielle was trying to get them to accept her gift. She joins the tea party and shows off her intellect by engaging on their business topics (since she reviewed all their businesses she knows all about their business). The wives' then invite her to their next business meeting. Mielle leaves in frustation.
Aria ends up joining the business meeting (the businesses supported by investor A hold regular meetings and review which business partners will be good to invest in before telling Investor A. Aria meets the crown prince there as he appears with a different name (Aria confuses the new name with as his real identity). Asher then proposes a business he has planned. He wants to open an academy that would allow anyone to join if they have the talent, it would be paid for by the crown prince and Investor A only has to lend them their name, the business partners of investor A would be given first choice from their best students (so they can gain trained employees for their startup businesses).
At some point Sarah's wedding ceremony is held and Aria goes to give her, her blessings. She sees Asher as is leaving, and meets him in a garden. There he reveals to her he is the crown prince and they have a quick conversation. As Aria is leaving (her face blushing red) Isis catches a glimpse of her face and decides to check out the garden. She notices the crown prince and starts to get worried. Later when Mielle is visiting the duke's mansion Isis orders her to get rid of Aria and hides her some poison. Mielle's headmaid then tells the maid whose been getting bullied by Annie and Jessie to poison Aria's tea. The next day she serves Aria, Jessie and Annie tea as usual but she can't stop fidgetting. Aria notices immediately that something is wrong and takes out her hourglass before telling Annie to drink from her cup. Annie immediately collapses and the maid immediately becomes sorrowful and begs for mercy. She turns the hourglass. Now she pretends to drink from her teacup and collapses. The maid looking ecstatic throughout the entire motion. After Aria collapses, Jessie and Annie immediately run over and call for a doctor, meanwhile the maid flees from the scene.
The maid goes missing and the entire capital and all the servants and guards of the mansion are searching for her whereabouts. Aria helps stir the suspicious onto Mielle's headmaid since she is supervisor. She later adds fuel to the rumor because no one had fled the capital and yet the maid was still somehow able to hide under everyone's noses. The only one capable of sheltering the culprit had to be the headmaid. Later on Asher shows up and tells Aria that he found the maid and gave her a location and said "It's up to you what you do with her". Around this time Asher also hands Aria a bracelet as a protection charm. Aria goes to visit a dirty warehouse and finds the maid cowering in a corner covered in filth. She baits her by telling her if she confesses to the authorities who told her to do it she can help her flee the country and give her enough money to live for the rest of her life. The maid doesn't believe her at first but Aria tells her she can just say she was threatened, and that if she didn't listen her family would be killed. The maid immediately latches onto her only hope. And she confesses the headmaid had told her to poison Aria, that she had no other choice because she was being threatened. Mielle chooses to abandon the maid (she had no other choice or she would take the fall). The maid is to be given a sentence after a court hearing.
I forgot when but Aria also reveals she is Investor A and shocks everyone in the capital.
Around this time Cain starts visiting Aria's room often and it's clear he is looking at Aria like a woman instead of a sister. Aria notices and is disgusted by it but she purposefully leads him on. At some point Cain has an inner monologue about how he used to look down on his father for taking a prostitute as a wife but now he can't help but think he has the same blood running through him because he is attracted to his sister-in-law. On the day of the sentencing the judge asks Aria for the judgement and she requests for the maid to be executed, lest more innocent souls get harmed. As her family was about to head home Aria excuses herself and rendezvous with Asher in an alleyway. Cain secretly followed her and discovers Asher. He quickly gets jeleous. The maid gets beheaded. Mielle stays in her room and cries for days or weeks. At this point all the servants in the count's house look at Mielle with disdain though. When she finally leaves she has taken her noble lady mask off and glares at everyone.
Mielle stops trying to act like a saint and looks at Aria with disdain all the time and forgoes all pleasantries. Later on Mielle tries to approach her only remaining ally in the house, her blood relative and brother Cain. Cain who is powerless to stop Aria from meeting with Asher loses his temper whenever he sees Aria heading out and becomes pretty desperate. This is when Mielle approaches him. She suggests a plan to corner Aria. The plan holding a huge tea party that would involve the wives' of the noble faction. They would make sure there are no witnesses around. The two siblings would then bring the Count up to Aria's room and tell her to come downstairs. Just as Aria is about to reach the staircase on the 3rd floor (her room is on the third floor), Mielle pushes the count down the stairs. The count turns around mid-fall and tries to grab at the air, only to grab Aria's bracelet and the bracelet falls apart, shattering beads all over the floor. He notices Mielle was the one who pushed him down. Mielle then screams for help... when suddenly Asher appears out of thin air, surprising both Aria and Mielle. Asher looks shocked and confused as well but quickly grabs Aria and disappears from the scene.
Aria and the Crown Prince appear at a resturant half a day away by carriage from the capital. Aria tells Asher what happened and they decide to leave evidence that they had never been at the scene by traveling to a foreign country. They would gather eye witness accounts of their travels and leave credit behind the places they visit (parchment with a record of what they owed the establishment along with the time of their visit). This is later used in court when Mielle tries to frame Aria for the assassination of the Count.
Shorter Summary
Aria becomes Investor A, investing in startup companies. Creates a 3rd faction in the power struggle unknowingly.
Mielle tries to recruit Investor A group by holding a tea party with the wives' of Investor A group. Fails.
Aria ends up attending a business meeting with Investor A group's invitation by the wives.
Aria meets Asher there and he uses another noble's name. Aria thinks the fake name is his real identity.
Sarah gets married.
Aria meets Asher at Sarah's wedding. She discovers he is the crown prince. Isis discover the two secretly meeting at the wedding. Gets suspicious.
Isis orders Mielle to get rid of Aria. Hands her some poison.
Mielle tells her personal maid/mother figure (i forgot her name) to poison Aria.
Headmaid tells Aria's maid to poison her tea (the one that gets bullied alot).
Aria catches her acting suspiciously and pretends to be poisoned.
Maid flees, gets found, Aria tempts her into revealing the culprit. Mielle is forced to abandon head maid. Head maid is sentenced to death.
Aria pretends to be a saint and arranges the maid a carriage and some money to allow her to flee the country.
The carriage is then left in the middle of the woods, the mounts are missing, all her luggage is gone. Maid is left to die in the wilderness while she sobs.
Aria reveals she is Investor A to the whole capital.
Cain falls in love with Aria, wants to monopolize her. Discovers her rendezvousing with Asher. Gets angry and increasingly violent.
Mielle approaches Cain, they hatch the plan to kill the count and blame Aria.
That's where my epilogue spoilers begin.
Mielle tries to recruit Investor A group by holding a tea party with the wives' of Investor A group. Fails.
Aria ends up attending a business meeting with Investor A group's invitation by the wives.
Aria meets Asher there and he uses another noble's name. Aria thinks the fake name is his real identity.
Sarah gets married.
Aria meets Asher at Sarah's wedding. She discovers he is the crown prince. Isis discover the two secretly meeting at the wedding. Gets suspicious.
Isis orders Mielle to get rid of Aria. Hands her some poison.
Mielle tells her personal maid/mother figure (i forgot her name) to poison Aria.
Headmaid tells Aria's maid to poison her tea (the one that gets bullied alot).
Aria catches her acting suspiciously and pretends to be poisoned.
Maid flees, gets found, Aria tempts her into revealing the culprit. Mielle is forced to abandon head maid. Head maid is sentenced to death.
Aria pretends to be a saint and arranges the maid a carriage and some money to allow her to flee the country.
The carriage is then left in the middle of the woods, the mounts are missing, all her luggage is gone. Maid is left to die in the wilderness while she sobs.
Aria reveals she is Investor A to the whole capital.
Cain falls in love with Aria, wants to monopolize her. Discovers her rendezvousing with Asher. Gets angry and increasingly violent.
Mielle approaches Cain, they hatch the plan to kill the count and blame Aria.
That's where my epilogue spoilers begin.
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lol i made a shorter summary this time.
lol i made a shorter summary this time.
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I'm not gonna lie, I'm slightly disappointed in how the tea scene was told in the manga compared to the novel (and the novel could have been even more subtle about it).
It's only a minor scene but in the novel :
It's only a minor scene but in the novel :
Isis notices at one point that Aria has an hourglass in her hands and wonders when she took it. It would have been perfect if it stopped like that.
But later when we get back to Aria's POV she says she was glad she took the hourglass with her (in the manhwa it happened in the middle of the scene). The novel would have been better if we didn't have Aria's thoughts, it would have stayed a little example of how Aria is using it in her day to day life without the need to insist on it heavily as if we're too dumb to comprehend it if the narration doesn't tell us explicitly.
But later when we get back to Aria's POV she says she was glad she took the hourglass with her (in the manhwa it happened in the middle of the scene). The novel would have been better if we didn't have Aria's thoughts, it would have stayed a little example of how Aria is using it in her day to day life without the need to insist on it heavily as if we're too dumb to comprehend it if the narration doesn't tell us explicitly.
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@Flyingpantsu I was thinking the same thing.
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mielle is so ugly
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can someone tell me what chapter is this in the novel? i want to read more
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HELL YEAH, ARIA. Make that money, honey! Best protag ever!
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@Regular_user2 one of few things may have happened:
1) Mielle (or somebody) wanted pancakes so the cook had to go along with it even if they lacked sugar.
2) Cook is stupid and just picked a dish that uses sugar even if they have no sugar.
3) Cook uses a lot of sugar to appeal as better than others. (Explanation: addictive effects of sugar making them think it's actually good)
Cook easily could have picked a dish that doesn't require to add sugar but went along with what I guess are pancakes which, if not required by his employer, is a silly choice.
That's probably just author's way to show that the lack of sugar on the market is not imaginary but is a fact. Maybe some more time passed like when it happened with the wig, who knows. I guess it's another reason to read the novel.
Although, after I found this on the internet:
So simply they are used to sweet things and the cook in fact used it everywhere, huh.
1) Mielle (or somebody) wanted pancakes so the cook had to go along with it even if they lacked sugar.
2) Cook is stupid and just picked a dish that uses sugar even if they have no sugar.
3) Cook uses a lot of sugar to appeal as better than others. (Explanation: addictive effects of sugar making them think it's actually good)
Cook easily could have picked a dish that doesn't require to add sugar but went along with what I guess are pancakes which, if not required by his employer, is a silly choice.
That's probably just author's way to show that the lack of sugar on the market is not imaginary but is a fact. Maybe some more time passed like when it happened with the wig, who knows. I guess it's another reason to read the novel.
Although, after I found this on the internet:
Source: https://www.crystalking.com/thefoodofrenaissanceitaly
So simply they are used to sweet things and the cook in fact used it everywhere, huh.
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Ugh, Mielle's dress has been driving me crazy since last chapter. It needs to be a true off-the-shoulder or come in "properly". This in-between poc just looks too big for her. 😡 It's ridiculous, like she has no fashion sense at all.
At least Aria and Isis are dressed well. Aria's dress is particularly lovely. 😍
-Sorry. I read this for Aria and the clothes. It makes my Victorian loving heart so happy.
At least Aria and Isis are dressed well. Aria's dress is particularly lovely. 😍
-Sorry. I read this for Aria and the clothes. It makes my Victorian loving heart so happy.
