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  • Aria unlocking her powers and going back in time.
    • Any time Aria gets to use her powers, really.
  • Aria's charm and manipulation skills in the second timeline are amazing. She pulls a Wounded Gazelle Gambit in front of others, and rapidly learns how to be the perfect lady. The result is that the Count's servants all go to Aria's side, and other nobles no longer see her as just a prostitute's daughter, especially once she grows up and looks like a bombshell. Even Mielle was fooled at one point, after Aria saved her from being executed for treason.
  • Aria, freshly returned to the past and resolved to change her image to one of being plain, humble, and elegant. She realizes that a major obstacle to this is her gaudy, flashy wardrobe. But she realizes she can’t ask for new clothes outright without immediately destroying her image. Solution? Setting all of clothes on fire and pretending it was an accident. Immediately she gains the household maids sympathy, gets to buy new clothes without seeming selfish, and even gets to put one over on Mielle by borrowing a dress from her - the dress that just so happens to be a birthday gift from Oscar, the fiancée Aria is looking to steal…
  • The end of the casino incident, which sees Asher breaking in and capturing a whole lot of corrupt nobles.
  • Aria resolving the tea poisoning incident. First, she tricked the maid who actually served the tea (Berry) into confessing who ordered her to do it in front of the whole house. Then Aria seemingly helps Berry flee the country, only for her carriage to be "intercepted", getting her killed; and finally the culprit, Mielle's longtime maid Emma, is sentenced to death, leaving Mielle shaken and without her best ally.
  • Asher's official debut as the crown prince stuns the aristocratic party. Aria's family is also shocked when they finally meet Asher and find out he and Aria are lovers. It also ruins Isis' plans to marry into the royal family, losing her valuable connections all the while.
  • Mielle's plan to push her father off the stairs to frame Aria also fails, since Asher appears out of thin air to save Aria via his teleportation powers. When Mielle tries to tell people that she saw Asher use magic, she is accused instead of taking hallucinogenic drugs, which gets Mielle into big trouble. Aria, meanwhile, is cleared of all charges since she had no motive for hurting the Count.
  • The resolution of the coup arc. Isis is finally caught and her whole family (save for Oscar, who willingly helps the investigation to get back at his Abusive family) is executed for their crimes. Mielle and Cain are spared, but only because Aria vouches for them...so that they can become her new servants.
    • Mielle and Cain's involvement with the coup brings an end to the original Roscent family. It also means that Countess Carin has an excuse to divorce the Count, as she does not want to take care of the man who treated her and her child with indifference at best. Carin gets to transform from a prostitute into a genuine Countess, all thanks to Aria.
    • Carin and Aria slowly but surely drain the Roscent's coffers, systematically diverting funds from their accounts to a villa under their control while also spending lavishly on the soldiers staying in the Roscent's estate during the coup arc. As a final nail in the coffin, Carin convinces Count Roscent that the only way to protect his assets from being seized by the Imperial Family after Mielle and Cain have been arrested for participating is to divorce her. He signs the document after only a brief hesitation and she casually strolls out of the room - then she sends him to a nursing facility.
  • Mielle's final downfall. After taking Aria's "advice" she tries to poison a fellow maid, only to accidentally poison her own brother. She is finally sentenced to execution and is eventually forgotten by the rest of the world afterwards.
    • After Aria tells Mielle the truth of everything that happened in both timelines, and how badly Mielle messed up, the once-proud noble girl is left utterly broken. She spends the last moments of her life deluding herself into believing her and Aria loved each other as sisters, dying with a smile on her face.
  • Aria's conversation with God.

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