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One week before the elopement, Sook-hee discovers Hideko’s diary. It isn’t naive—it’s a ledger. Hideko has been playing the Count and Sook-hee against each other. She knows the asylum plot. Worse: she has her own plan. She intends to drug both, steal the Count’s papers, and escape to Shanghai as a man.

They bury him in a shallow grave, covering him with torn pages from the uncle’s erotic books. “Poetic,” Hideko whispers. the handmaiden extended

They forge a new pact: betray the Count together. Hideko will “fall” for him, marry him, then on the wedding night, Sook-hee will switch the poison meant for Hideko into the Count’s wine. They will flee with half the fortune. The Count, believing he is the puppet master, is now the puppet. One week before the elopement, Sook-hee discovers Hideko’s