Moonlight After Sunset's
Amendment

"Change is certain but awareness of it is often overlooked."

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The moonlight is so beautiful accompanied by the sound of crickets that are mutually authentic. Along the road are carved with marble stone and decorated by garlands. There was a young woman who was walking leisurely, time had shown at 11 pm but her steps remained calm and dignified.

Now the Moon is making plans for tomorrow where it will be 17 years old. The moon was walking along the outskirts of the road to the empress' house at Duke Ari's residence. From a distance the Moon saw two figures of servants who were chatting ria.

"I heard she was traumatized because her engagement was canceled." The waiter showed a look of disdain while thinking about the face of Dusk.

"Why have you thought of him there I'm even more disgusted to see the bad woman" continued the other waiter.

"He was so naive, he should have just died instead of losing his memory. What does he think, if memory loss then everything will be fine?"

The moon that heard the mockery still looked calm. But of course, as a noblewoman, self-esteem was very important.

"Women are evil, then I will show you what is evil,"

Slowly, the Moon approached the two maids. As his figure began to approach, the two maids did not notice it. They continued to talk about the hot gossip in the residence.

"I heard, he said he was escorted Miss Winter home to this mansion, not that too..."

The servant's words broke when he was shocked to see the Moon that was already in front of him.

"Too what? Don't know yourself that's what you mean?" The moon connected the servant's sentence with an annoyed face, she glanced at the two maids with the tip of her eyes.

"Huh you.., you are indeed a shameless woman," shouted one of the servants stammeringly.

Hearing the servant's words made the Moon even more upset. He then slapped her hard enough.

"I'm your master, how dare you gossip about me here, huh."

The servant held her hot cheek from the Moon slap. Instead of being afraid, the servant looked at the Moon arrogantly.

"You're just an outcast princess in this residence. Why should we be afraid of you."

Hearing that the Moon turned towards the other servant. He looked at the servant with a domineering aura and intense decisiveness. The atmosphere of the hallway was so quiet, plus the moonlight made his gaze even more terrifying.

"I am the lawful daughter of this house, although my mother who is the Empress of this place has died, but no one has taken her place."

The free hand of Moon slapped the servant's face so hard that he fell down and fell. The other servant could only remain silent with a pale face.

"why could he be so brave? Is that memory loss a lie?"

The servant's face had already explained everything in his mind. With his body shaking violently, he bit the nails on his fingers to calm down.

The moon who saw that immediately looked at the servant earlier while saying. "If I hear you or the other servants talking to me like this, then I will beat you to death."

The threat from the Moon managed to make them tremble in fear. The cruel and domineering aura made the two servants only able to lower their heads. They could neither move nor speak, and the upset Moon decided to leave both.

"It's night, I won't continue. But when the sun comes up, you'll feel even more cruel than this."

The two servants immediately prostrated themselves and held the foot of the Moon while begging for mercy.

"Punish us Young Miss, geez. We were wrong, we promised we wouldn't repeat it, please don't punish us. We beg you."

The waiter cried bitterly. The moon that saw him did not even change the slightest bit of his expression. Moon's face remained flat and cold, he violently pulled his feet and hurried away leaving the two maids in his place.

"I'm sorry? Just good for you guys. What you did to Dusk is not even worth your life,"

The upset moon resumed its mission. He went north where the queen's house was built. After arriving at the empress' residence, Moon decided to climb the wall rather than enter through the front door.

This was because even though the empress pavilion was empty but the guards kept guard at the entrance as if they did not allow this place to be entered by anyone other than Duke Ari.

The first thing the Moon found in the empress pavilion was a large courtyard with so many tulips and Lily surrounding the place.

It turned out that the taste of the empress was not much different from her. The moon also loves tulips and lilies, because of their beautiful colors and shapes. Slowly the Moon entered the area in the house, fortunately the guard is only in the entrance only. While on the inside there are only a few servants who work to keep this house clean.

Last month, she entered the empress's room, which is located on the lower floor near the living room. The first thing the Moon found in the room was a pile of books strewn everywhere.

The queen's mattress looks tattered and dust scattered around the room. Looks if this room never once entered or maybe cleaned. Surprisingly this room is not locked as deliberately left open just like that.

Last month up upstairs, there he found so many paintings stacked randomly. The paintings - the painting was even how many were torn and destroyed. Last month I checked the face in the painting.

The face was the Duke and empress but strangely, why in every painting only the Duke was smiling warmly while the empress was lazy to paint.

"Maybe that's why this painting was destroyed?"

"Is the Duke so angry with the empress that he destroyed all his face paintings? Hmm, maybe."

The moon wandered around for a moment inside the room while occasionally glancing out the window. He was afraid that someone would notice his presence there.

In one of the paintings there is also a painting of Dusk with his mother. Their faces look so similar that the only difference is that the rest of the eyes are all the same.

The Moon had seen the Duke once when he first arrived at this residence. But seeing the face of Dusk that had no resemblance at all to the Duke, it proved that Dusk was more identical to the empress.

It is a little different from the moon. Although he is similar to Dusk but the color of their eyes are both different. The moon has a green eye color to the ashes while the color of the twilight eye is only ash - ash alone in the absence of green.

In addition, the shape of the lips and nose both look different even though it needs to be seen in detail. Even so, no one in this house is aware because from the beginning, no one has ever paid attention to Dusk.

After being satisfied to see the room, the Moon returned to his residence.

"Happy birthday to me."

The moon looked out her bedroom window as she glanced at last year's events as she celebrated her 16th birthday.

On the night of his birthday, his sister and his mother and father would definitely give him a very lively suprise but now he has to live it alone without their presence, he said, it did not feel clear crystals dripping from her beautiful eyelids.

The next morning the servant who used to serve Dusk came to the room to serve the Moon. The maid made the bed and gave warm water to wash the Moon's face and change her clothes.

" Miss happy birthday" said Amel who had just arrived.

Amel also brought a tray containing macaroni cake and a glass of warm tea with him. The moon remained indifferent to Amel. Seeing the Moon's behavior like that made Amel a little afraid.

After the return of the Moon as Dusk, never once did he call Amel or even tell him to be together. The Moon prefers to be alone, and the Moon is still suspicious of Amel who has something to do with the murder of Dusk.

Amel, who was aware of the change in attitude of her Miss, began to seek attention by making herself look so good before the Moon.

"Miss, Mr. Duke is waiting for Miss at the dinner table."

Last month he stood up and looked at himself in front of the mirror. So beautiful and graceful his figure with pink clothes he looks cute plus a rose-shaped hair ornament next to his left ear.

Last month, he stepped into the main house to the family dining room. Arriving in the dining room, he was already suguhi by the sight of his three sisters wearing clothes no less luxurious than his.

"Sit down, breakfast is about to begin."

The moon sat down and enjoyed the meal. The dining room was so silent that no one dared to start a conversation until Moon finally decided to talk to Duke.

"Dad, I have a request."

Everyone in that place looked at the Moon with an annoyed look.

"Surely he will ask for something strange again" murmured Sarah who was reciprocated by a nod of the head by Arina and Bella.

"I want you to fire them."

The duke was silent, while the others were shocked and glared at the Moon.

"When has this girl been so brave?" murmured the concubine of Reliza, in her heart.

As the main concubine, Reliza was often envious of the vacant empress' position. He hoped to ride but it never happened. Whenever he talked about the topic, Duke would always turn him to another topic.

"They're just ordinary servants why you have to be so narrow-minded,"

Moon glanced indifferently at concubine Amarylis. To be honest the Moon already knew the concept of hierarchy in this residence. As a favorite concubine, Amarilis was quite two-faced.

"Mother, I am the main daughter of this residence, the rightful daughter and the only young Miss who is in this house. They only dare to me what about my other sisters."

The moon put on a sad face, he looked so hurt. While putting on a face of annoyance and pity, he looked at Arina, Sarah and Bella with a guilty smile.

"They are not legitimate daughters in this residence, they are only sons of concubines. I was afraid that my three sisters would have a bad day." continued Moon as she gently wiped her falling tears.

Of course, it's all a lie. He did not even care about the lives of the entire people in this mansion.

"Isn't my acting very good?"

Behind his tears, there was a sly smile emitted. Of course the Moon deliberately emphasized the word lawful so that they all become aware of its position in this place.

The two concubines and the three Twilight sisters looked so upset. Their faces heated up hearing the Moon's words while Duke remained silent saying nothing. The moon that had seen Sarah and Arina clutching their palms began to smile with satisfaction.

"Let's add more fuel."

"Dad I also need some new clothes. I also want the waiter who served me in exchange. Dad knows that four more days is election day?"

Amel who heard the words of the moon was in great shock. He found it strange why his lady became this brave and even wanted to take his place.

"Didn't Miss not lose her memory? Maybe he was just pretending to look pathetic,"

Amel timidly glanced at Sarah with his pale face. Sarah was shocked to hear the Moon's request. The two glanced at each other, they seemed to understand each other even though not a single word came out.

" Why do you have to change your waitresses,"

Sarah asked reluctantly, she was lazy to perform at this show. But if he just shut up, then his biggest fear will come true.

"Right, why did you change the waiter."

The concubine Amarilis chimed in on Sarah's words.

"You can only make others bother." It was Bella's turn to speak.

Noah who had been observing the conversation had become very interested. The corner of his lips rose making a strange smile, Noah had never seen this brave twilight.

"Quite interestingly, after the suicide you immediately turned into a figure who dared to appear like this," Noah sneered as he sipped tea in front of him.

Hearing that last month smiled.

"Sister, everyone can change at any time. Look at you who never cared about anything now look so curious."

The moon looked at Noah calmly and smiled warmly.

With this calmness, the Moon kept her elegant posture. Moreover, his straightforward style of speech made him look like a real high-class noble.

"Mother, since I'm the rightful daughter of this residence, I just want to look better than the others. I don't want any other noble to insult our family just because his main daughter is dressed in such a mess and only wears those jewels, after all this is for the reputation of Father in front of the other nobles."

Months later saw Amel with a smile that finally made Amel's body shudder in horror, his face paled again.

"I need a new servant to serve me in academia. After all bringing some servants is not a wrong thing, is it mom?" asked Moon with a face mocking him.

Finally, the Duke spoke up, he felt the change from the originally sloppy and rude attitude of Dusk to become more graceful and calm.

"Alright, do as you please."

The Duke's words made the entire room shocked. Because the Duke never or even can be said to almost never agree with the argument of Dusk.

"But.., but this father is kinda..." Arina wanted to protest, but she held her voice. He knew, if denied his father would make him lose a lot of things.

"Father is not fair." Bella slams a glass in front of him.

"Bell..., Bella." The main concubine was shocked to see the haphazard attitude of her daughter before the Duke.

"Darling you didn't have to do that, did you?" Beloved Concubine was so anxious, that Sarah just froze. His face began to blacken.

"Everything quiet. Did you forget where this is?" The Duke looked so upset, he looked at Bella sharply.

"Bella, you've crossed the line. This time I'll sentence you to room detention for a month and your allowance will be stopped for 10 days."

Bella who heard that instantly froze, her body became tense and her tears were rushing.

"Dad, you're punishing me for him?" Bella pointed roughly towards the Moon.

"Dad, you're evil. I hate you." Bella impulsively ran out of the room. The Grand Concubine who saw her daughter running while crying came out to chase after her.

"Bella where are you going, son. Bella. Don't be like that in front of your dad,"

The duke who saw the behavior of his daughter and concubine could only sigh in annoyance. He lightly massaged his forehead inexhaustibly with the actions of his youngest daughter plus his first concubine who ran while shouting.

"Dina put all this away, I'm tired and want to rest." The irritated Duke stepped his foot out of the room. Consorts of Amaryllis followed Duke from behind like a duckling following his mother.

The conditions in the dining room were so chaotic, the Moon pulled the tip of her lips and smiled cunningly. He was satisfied with the show this time.

Arina and Sarah who saw the Moon were upset to the tip of her foot and decided to leave the Moon and Noah both in the dining room.

"Your game is so good, brother." Noah smiled mischievously before the Moon.

"I don't care about anything that happens in this house, after my mother's death I only care about being the successor of the family and taking out useless trash."

Noah leisurely smiled cunningly before the Moon. But the Moon just kept quiet and ignored him. She learned an important fact from the handwriting of Dusk that the second concubine of the Duke's residence, Noah's birth mother, had died after giving birth to her.

After that Noah was treated by the Empress for 10 years before the empress died of illness. After that Noah was taken care of by his uncle and trained in sword until now.

The relationship of Noah and Dusk never existed at all even though he had been cared for by the empress but at that time he rarely met with Dusk, even more so since the death of the Empress, Dusk always closed himself.

"Oh so you want to get rid of me if it's useless, right?" ask Moon indifferently.

"You should know that I don't care about you either. As long as you don't take care of my business then I won't bother you either." continued Moon.

Noah stared at the moon. He realized that now the girl in front of him had changed, even though they look the same but their nature is different. Noah felt that this Dusk before him was another figure.

"alright. I agree," Noah replied as he left the Moon.

"Prepare the horse-drawn carriage, I will go around," cried the Moon to his servant who was answered with a nod of his head.

The moon returned to her yard and hurried to change clothes. Now the Moon's goal is the black market. He heard from the servants who were gossiping that the way to enter the market was very easy.

Just by entering the secret passageway towards the basement. There were so many unique things sold and even he could see a wild fight, in that place the Moon would try his luck.