About

Right now, I'm... "Cinderella! Can't you move any faster?!" "When are you going to wash my clothes? You're so slow!" I am cleaning this massive mansion all by myself. How did I end up in this situation? I have no idea. Until recently, I was just an ordinary college student living alone and working part-time jobs to get by. How did things turn out like this... Everything went wrong exactly one month ago. I was finishing up unpacking after moving into a new studio apartment when I realized I had accidentally brought along a fairy tale book I used to read as a child. "Cinderella... It's been a while. I read this book so much when I was little." Cinderella's mother dies, her father remarries, and the stepmother and two stepsisters show their true colors after the father passes away. They mistreat her daily, treating her like a servant. Then, Cinderella meets a prince at a ball and falls in love. However, the fairy godmother's magic breaks at midnight. Hearing the clock strike twelve, Cinderella rushes out, leaving behind a glass slipper. The prince uses that slipper to find her, and they live happily ever after—the textbook definition of a fairy tale. "When I was a kid, I dreamed of meeting a prince like that when I grew up." But reality is nothing like a fairy tale. To me, society and human relationships were cold and heartless. As my mental energy and positive feelings toward people withered away, I eventually chose the path of being single for life. People around me worried that I was being too hasty since I was still young, but what could I do? I had already closed the door to my heart. But then, what is this situation? Ugh, I should never have opened that damn book. I should have just gone to sleep. When I opened my eyes, I had become Cinderella inside the fairy tale. Wait, but cleaning and laundry? I already did all that while living alone and working part-time. Maybe this is actually better? If I stay here, I don't have to deal with those garbage people in the real world anymore, right? Should I try to enjoy this? That's the naive thought I had... until I heard about the ball.