1. I have become a villainess!!!
Chapter 1: Transmigration
Episode 01
"I will be taking my leave then. Thank you so much for everything, Manager."
"No need to thank me. You are a hardworking employee in our Café. So that's the least I can do for you."
Hearing my manager, my heart filled with warmth.
She is such a good person. Throwing a birthday party for me after work… I am really thankful.
"Still, thank you so much."
I said with a slight bow.
"Hahaha~ Stop saying thank you already. And again happy birthday."
Miss Tia said with a warm smile.
"Yes."
"Alright then. Hurry up and go back. You have to return to your dorm in time."
Hearing that, I looked at my watch.
Aghh! It's already 9 P.M.! I have to go back to my dorm before 9: 30!
"Ah! Yes! See you again!"
Saying that I started running.
"Aghh! I am going to be late."
I was literally running back to the dorm. But I had to stop in front of the crosswalk as the traffic light was green.
"It's green light now. I guess I have to wait."
Ding*
As I was waiting on the sidewalk, suddenly my phone's notification rang.
"Huh?"
I took out my phone from the bag.
One of my roommates sent a message.
Pfft! She really likes chicken wings. Good thing I already bought it.
Anyways I really should get going. I looked at the traffic light. It was red.
"Let's Hurry up, Harin."
Mumbling that, I started walking in the crosswalk. The roads didn't have much traffic.
But suddenly a bright light blinded my eyes. And before I could think of anything else, I was hit by a truck.
Aghh~
My entire body aches. It aches so much. It hurts.
I can feel the red fluids I was lying on. My blood covered my whole body and the road.
Aghh~
I guess I am dying like this…
They must be happy now… Their ungrateful daughter is dead now…
Sob*
I hope they will live happily… in a world without me…
And like that, right on the day I turned 21, I died.
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Aghh! Why does my body feel so heavy?
I slowly opened my heavy eyelids.
And what came to my vision was nothing but pitch-black darkness. It's so dark that I can't even see my own hand. I can't even hear anything else other than the loud sound of my heartbeat.
That's right. I was hit by a truck… I must've died.
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Sob*
It hurts. This silence… I am afraid of it… It reminds me of the suffocating atmosphere of that family…
Sob*
Why? What did I do? Why did I have to die?
Honestly, I just wanted to be loved… Was it wrong? Was it wrong to expect love from your parents?
Aghh~
I am afraid… I am afraid of this darkness and loneliness…
I… I just want to live…
Someone, please help me… Please help me to get out of this darkness…
Please…
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"My Lady! My Lady! Wake up!"
I can hear a girl's voice. And 'My Lady'?
Is one of my roommates pulling pranks on me? Aghh! I don't want to wake up though.
"My Lady! Please wake up!"
"Alright! Alright! I am getting up! So please stop calling me 'My Lady'."
I got up from my comfortable bed in a drowsy state.
I can never just wake up and start doing my work right away. I have to sit down for at least 10 minutes before my brain starts functioning properly.
"Huh? What are you saying, My Lady?"
"Haa~ Nothing."
"My Lady! Please stop dozing off. Get up already."
"Just 10 more minutes."
"Sigh! My Lady! Did you forget that today is your engagement with Duke Cedric Wolff?"
"Hmm…"
Wait?! What?
I tried to open my eyes even though I felt drowsy.
What is this? Who is she? She is definitely not one of my roommates.
In front of me a girl, wearing black and white Victorian maids' outfits, is standing. She looks like a girl of my age.
I looked around the room. No way. This extravagant room… It looks like the rooms of some kind of Royal Palace. Now that I see it, the bed I am sitting in looks like that of an Ancient King. And it's so large and comfortable, unlike the one in my dorm.
Aghh… What is going on? How am I here? Clearly, I was on my way back to the dorm…
While I was thinking, a sudden memory hit me. That's right. I definitely died from that accident.
No way… Am I still alive? No. That can't be possible. I clearly remember getting hit by a truck on my head…
Just remembering that moment makes my body shiver with pain.
I touched my head. It's perfectly fine. No bandages or anything. After that big accident, it wouldn't be abnormal if my entire body is wrapped around with bandages. But I don't have any. I can move my arms and my body perfectly fine.
Am I dreaming?
Thinking that I pinched my hand.
Ouch* It hurts. Then it's not a dream. Then is this heaven?
"My Lady?"
I flinched, hearing the maid's sudden voice.
That's right.
"Where am I?"
"Huh? What are you saying, My Lady?"
"Just answer me, please."
Please tell me. I need to know where I am.
The maid's eyes widened hearing that.
'Please?'
"You are in your room, My Lady. You are still living in the Lancaster Duchy."
"Lancaster Duchy?!"
"Yes. And today is your engagement ceremony with Duke Cedric Wolff."
"Umm… Am I Anastasia Wol- I mean Lancaster?"
"Huh? Yes, My Lady. You are the only daughter of Duke Lancaster, Anastasia Lancaster."
No way!
That can't be true… Anastasia Lancaster is the Villainess wife of the male lead in the novel !
a novel I randomly read when I was alive in Korea.
It was a love story about A Duke and his Childhood Friend.
His friend was the daughter of a Viscount. But her father and mother died in a carriage accident when she was little.
The Ducal Couple at that time, meaning the Male Lead's parents, was close to the deceased Viscount Couple. So they took in the little girl who lost her mother.
Like that, the male lead and female lead grew up together. They didn't realize their love for each other until they were adults.
But when they did, it was too late. The Emperor of that time forced the male lead to marry the daughter of another rival duchy.
But the male lead never liked his wife, Anastasia. She always lived lavishly. She was a typical evil lady who tormented the Female lead. Later in the story, the male lead killed his evil wife.
There were still many obstacles in their way to love. But both of them passed those obstacles with the power of their love.
It was a normal cliché story. But you are telling me, I have become the male lead's evil wife?!
"B-Bring me a mirror."
I asked the maid with a trembling voice.
"Huh? Alright, My Lady."
The maid bowed and then dragged a gorgeous mirror stand in front of the bed.
No way…
Black Hair… Blue eyes like sapphire… And A mole at the corner of the right eye….
I really have become Anastasia Lancaster, the villainous wife of the male lead!!!