Another potential scene, to keep the board from getting cluttered.
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Of all the things that [MC] expected to inherit from his estranged father, a mansion in a foreign country was not one of them. Nestled in the mountains, it had reasonable access to the nearby resort town, yet offered plenty of privacy. By itself it seemed like a good deal he might have trouble holding, but there was one catch.
Within that mansion was a maid. An actual serf, one of the few hundred still legally in existence, she was tied to the land, and whoever owned the mansion defacto owned her. She was cute, and utterly devoted to fulfilling her master’s needs… both out of the bedroom, and in it.
[MC] was sure there was an angle, since all it would take was her turning in a single page form to the mayor to be a free woman. But he was still a fairly young and healthy man. How could he say no?
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In case it's not clear, the maid is stubbornly holding onto the legal servant status even though it would be trivially easy for her to end it. Could be tradition, pragmatic self-interest, trying to play out a romantic fantasy on her part, or something else I haven't thought of. A major part of the story would be my character figuring out why she insists upon being tied to the mansion.