A Tender Heart: The Story of How I Became a Duke's Maid

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Liandro was stricken with a hideous curse at a young age, shunned by his family and rejected by everyone. As the supporting character in a novel, he's doomed to a role of misery and loneliness. That is, until a sympathetic reader is suddenly transported into this fictional world as his lowly maid, determined to change his fate! Can Evelina break Liandro free of his wretched destiny and help him find true love after all?

Original Novel:
KakaoPage

Original Webtoon:
Kakaopage, Ridibooks, Bomtoon, Lezhin, MrBlue, Naver Series

Official Translations:
French, Thai, Japanese, S.Chinese
English: Tappytoon, Tapas, Pocket Comics, Webnovel

Note:
All English Platforms have the Tappytoon translation

Type

Manhwa

A Tender Heart: The Story of How I Became a Duke's Maid (Novel) (Adapted From)

Associated Names

A Tender Heart

A Tender Heart: Comment je suis devenue la servante du Duc

Bỗng trở thành cô hầu nhà Công tước

Hassas Bir Kalp: Nasıl Dükün Hizmetçisi Oldum

I Became a Duke's Maid

Jadi Pelayan Duke

Sinceramente: Me converti en la sirvienta del duque

Sinceramente: Me convertí en la criada del duque

Sincerely (Jooahri)

Sincerely: I Became a Duke's Maid

Tôi trở thành hầu gái của một công tước

Unripened: I Became the Maid of the Duke's Family

Я стала горничной герцога

خادمة الدوق المتعجرف

คำสาปร้ายคุณชายซาตาน

公爵家のメイドに憑依しました

穿越成公爵家的女仆

重生之男主养成计划

重生：公爵家的女仆

날것: 공작가의 하녀로 빙의했습니다

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Latest Release(s)

c.103 by Imperfect Comic 4 years ago

c.102 by Imperfect Comic 4 years ago

c.101 by Imperfect Comic 4 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

103 Chapters + 8 Side Stories (Complete)

S1: 45 Chapters (1~45)
S2: 40 Chapters (46~86)
S3: 17 Chapters (87~103)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 6.9 / 10.0 (254 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.83 / 10.0

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Last Updated

July 16th, 2025 3:26am PDT - 1 month ago

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Genre

Drama Fantasy Romance Shoujo
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Category Recommendations

Odebu Akujo ni Tensei Shitara, Naze ka Last Boss Ouji-sama ni Shuuchaku sareteimasu

Becoming a Family With the Duke and His Dear Son

I Became the Squirrel That Saves the Villain

Once Wicked, Always Wicked

Materialistic Lady

Recommendations

N/A

Author(s)

Jooahri

Artist(s)

Aloha

Year

2019

Original Publisher

Daum

DNC

Kakao

Serialized In (magazine)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Pocket Comics

Tapas

Tappytoon (Original Publisher)

Webnovel

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #753

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Monthly Pos #1451

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3 Month Pos #2612

(-383)

6 Month Pos #3160

(-676)

Year Pos #4169

(+139)

List Stats

On 999 reading lists

On 209 wish lists

On 400 completed lists

On 97 unfinished lists

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I put this is my unfinished list

by whitespade
5 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

As I wont continue reading this after the resignation chapter. I cannot stand the white lotus MC that try to be so self sacrificing but ultimately just hurt people that need her the most. She forgot her reason that she exist in the novel world and decide to care about unimportant characters thoughts and rumours - who are they and why should she care?

Anyway the pacing is also not the best and I prefer shota and when he grow its just meh.

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Bland

by Zurel
5 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

The story is only about Alejandro and how pitiful he is. When he is in the scene, obviously you have to look at him. But even when he is not, he is all everyone talks about. Side characters only appear to make Alejandro jealous, and most of them then disappear altogether into oblivion, never to be heard of again. FL has no interest other than Alejandro. (Seriously girl, get yourself a hobby). And there is no world-building whatsoever.

... Last updated 5 years ago

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Couldn’t keep reading

by FlyingRabbits
3 years ago

Rating: N/A

Tried to keep reading, but it fell flat and the FL became too much, among other things. Later the plot felt forced to make it longer than it needed to be.

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Spoiler-Included Review

by evehealy
3 years ago

Rating: N/A

Full Review With Spoilers

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Adequate at most.

by MondSemmel
6 years ago

Rating: 6.5 / 10.0

This is a thoroughly adequate manhwa. While it is neat to see a protagonist in a supporting role rather than as the lead, the manhwa otherwise covers all the typical tropes without any interesting deviations.

As for the art, the backgrounds are fine, but the faces are disappointingly bland. There's a severe lack of interesting facial expressions; characters do express sadness, say, but not contempt, or amusement, or any similarly subtle emotions.

And the storytelling is pretty repetitive. Most chapters follow the formula of

the protagonist meeting a side character, her master seeing her and growing jealous of her, and the protagonist trying to assuage this jealousy without properly understanding it.

And some story threads end in a rather anticlimactic fashion, e.g.

the master's curse is cured in an annoyingly deus-ex-machina fashion.

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Reading season 1, drop it

by Dizzy-Wuzzy
5 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Tbh this one have a interesting premise but the whole how the story progressed is.... Pretty much upsetting me. This is my personal opinion so this is really subjective.

For a story that came up with canon fodder as the heroine... This story is totally merciless to unimportant canon fodder. Canon fodders who have different goals with main charas are highlighted as a very very awful people which i think is totally an ass move from author.
Bland bland bland characters, I'm sorry being rude but none of the characters have great charisma that can affect me while reading it. Really one dimensional that in the end make me annoyed. The author tries to emphasize that this one is such a pitied character, this one is very very evil.... What about the neutral ones who don't have anything to do for batter with main charas? They're awful because they're all silent from the whole drama.

Should i start with the male lead? Bratty is understandable, but he's using "i have pitiful life" cards to be bratty and selfish. Thanks to him being so selfish (that ironically very mimicking his selfish, self centered parents),

he put his dearest maid aka female lead on the edge of the cliff, endangering her career as maid in duke's mansion and led her to be fired. I know other characters are annoying too because their roles in the story is to pour gasoline on fire (with gossip) but male lead seriously need to use his brain and not just using his ego and heart.

Funnily that author tried to emphasize that oooh he's so sensible and sensitive how he didn't want people to get hurt because of him but it's only in one scene he acted like that from countless scenes

I won't spend bad reviewing to another characters because i think my points for male leads can give hints to how another characters depicted in this story.

I forgot to add another problem in this story: grooming. Change fl age into an old maid and let's see if ml could fall in love with her.

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Shota

by OrphenKoRn
6 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Shota 🤮 also dumb fl, pretty boring storyline

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