There was no one there, the quiet school rooftops were desolate.
Cha Min-joo walked to the edge of the rooftop and closed her eyes.
As she climbed the stairs, the hem of her sweat-soaked clothes clung to her back.
The hot sun stung her eyes like always.
Bang!
The sound of the door opening was heard behind her back.
Perhaps she hurried up the stairs, since her breathing was also hard.
“Hey, Cha Min-joo!”
‘I looked back at the call of the voice. I saw a face that was so hateful that my teeth grit.’
“Cha Min-joo, w-wait!”
The woman who found Min-joo at that height began to tremble and turned pale.
Her lips were red and thick, calling her name.
The woman had an angelic face, as if all the loveliness of the world were put together.
Her cheeks were flushed whenever she was shy, and her voluminous eyelashes all went well with her.
Of course, that face didn’t look lovely to Min-joo.
“You’re not really trying to fall off, are you? You just sent a letter to surprise me, right?”
The woman took the letter out of her arms.
It was a letter left by Min-joo like a suicide note to curse her.
The face of the woman, who held the letter lightly with her index finger and thumb as if she were picking up a dirty object, turned redder and redder.
“Do you think you’re gonna scare me if you do this?”
“Lee Su-yeon.”
Min-joo called her name flatly. Su-yeon’s shoulders trembled.
Her eyes were filled with self-pity, turning a blind eye to all her misdeeds.
The anger that lay deep in Min-joo’s stomach wriggled dynamically.
A resentful heart grew angry, and anger soon resigned.
There was no one beside Min-joo anyway. No parents or friends to protect.
‘Do I need to live while grinding my teeth?’
‘Can I dream of the future happily as long as I pass this period without a hitch?’
Min-joo shook her head while asking herself questions.
“You know, I thought about it.”
Min-joo did not have the confidence to live now. There were no regrets for not continuing such a ditch-like life.
If life was a novel, she wanted to finish this book and leave for the next story.
She wanted God to do so if he existed.
“If I were to be born again, I would love to be born in the same world as you. Let me be born and raised in the same place as you.”
Every time she continued, Su-yeon trembled less.
Min-joo smiled and whispered the oath she had hoped for.
“So that I can take my revenge on you.”
The wall touching her back was very low. The height was easy to jump off.
Su-yeon must have noticed it, too, and began to run with a pale face.
“Wait! I said wait!”
“Listen, Lee Su-yeon.”
‘Now, remember this moment.
Never forget.
I look forward to the day you’ll pay for everything you’ve done to me.’
“I wish you would die a miserable death, even if you had to live again.”
With the last curse, Min-joo takes her strength away from her body.
She collapsed quickly so as not to make any mistakes. She’ll definitely die if she smashes her head first.
What was unexpected was Lee Su-yeon’s behavior.
“No!”
Min-joo thought she’d laugh at her as usual, but she came running with her teeth clenched and grabbed her hand.
‘I was dumbfounded. Is she doing this because she’s afraid of me dying?’
Min-joo clenched her teeth.
“My hand, let go!”
She completely leaned against her as she was trying to shake her off.
Coincidentally, Lee Su-yeon was held in her arms.
While falling together, Lee Su-yeon’s screams did not fade away from Min-joo’s ears. She was dazed.
That was Cha Min-joo’s experience just before she opened her eyes from Dahlia’s body, who started suffering from fever.
1
* * *
A Villainess.
It is a word that refers to a harsh woman with bad temper.
And Dahlia Margaret, the first daughter of Count Margaret’s family, was one of the greatest villains in the Empire.
Beautiful appearance, a cold atmosphere, a vicious personality.
Everyone in the empire was afraid of her.
That was the reputation of Dahlia Margaret that Cha Min-joo knew.
“Miss, I’ll help you get dressed.”
The maid who came in bowed her head politely.
“Yes.”
Dahlia answered awkwardly and kept her expression as cold as possible.
If it was a dead quiet or indifferent attitude, she had a good idea, too.
When she lived as Cha Min-joo in Korea, that’s how she always lived.
‘If I’m going to be the rumored vicious and wicked woman in the whole world, how much evil should I do?’
But now it was a world of fiction. Besides, the world in a novel she had read just before she died!
‘Is it a good thing to have read the contents of the book, though?’
Dalia smoothed her nails, covering up her nervousness.
When she first opened her eyes in this world, she thought she was unlucky to not have died, so she had a seizure.
It was even more frightening to see people in strange clothes all around.
“Dahlia! Dahlia, my daughter! Are you all right?”
“Who, who are you….?”
“Who are you? It’s your father, Dahlia!”
But when a man named Father came and had a few conversations, she could quickly find out where she was.
‘<Florre was Born to be Loved>’.
As you can see from the title, the main character of this novel is Count Margaret’s other daughter, Florre Margaret.
But he was calling her by a different name.
“Dahlia, are you awake?”
Only after the man called her real name did she realize.
That she became a supporting villain’s role, not the heroine.
As soon as Dahlia found out, she cursed the person who had brought her there.
Knock, knock.
At the sound of someone knocking on the door, Dahlia turned her head.
After finishing up, the maid also stepped back.
Appearing at the open door was an old butler.
“Miss, the Count is waiting. When you’re ready, we will show you to the reception room.”
“I got it so get out.”
Dahlia deliberately threw a cold answer.
There were also faces she could build that were as bitter as possible.
“What?”
But the butler looked surprised. Dahlia clicked her tongue because she thought it was a disaster.
‘What is it? Should I have thrown that candlestick? I should have done something bad, you know!’
This was the greatest difficulty given to Dahlia at present.
Dahlia Margaret was the most beautiful and evil woman in the Empire, but Cha Min-joo was not a wicked woman.
She was just a high school student who devoted herself to her studies in a normal and calm manner.
I couldn’t regret not seeing a single weekend drama because I was so focused on studying.
If she’d watched a soap opera, she’d know how much evil she’d have to do in this situation.
For her, all that was bad was raising her eyes or screaming.
“My, can’t you hear me? Get out!”
Dahlia, whose face was half-red, squeezed out her voice.
“Oh, I see. I’m sorry, Miss.”
The butler hurried out of the door and left. Even after being left alone in the hallway, the confusion in his mind continued.
‘The rumor that the lady has become weird is true! Even at the age of five, she couldn’t stand it without throwing things.’
The butler groped his forehead with a stunned look.
There was still a scar that had been struck by a candlestick that Dahlia threw for knocking on the door while she was taking a nap at the age of five.
It was unbelievable that the girl, who had such high pride on her back with the power of the Count’s family, suddenly became gentle.
‘In addition, on the day when an unwanted sister came in like today, she would have had to run wilder…’
The butler shuddered lightly, imagining badly what was about to happen.
* * *
Dahlia, finally finished dressing up, managed to calm herself down and set out into the hallway.
The butler, who had stood still in the hallway, found her and came straight up.
‘I was a bit annoyed earlier, but it’s kind of like that…’
Dahlia hesitated to look at the butler’s face.
As if to prove his age, her feelings of guilt increased when she saw his gray hair and wrinkled forehead.
‘What if it’s a little different from the original? It’s not such a big deal.’
Eventually, she couldn’t overcome her guilt and whispered softly to Dahlia’s butler.
“Excuse me….. “
However, she couldn’t remember what the butler’s name was.
“Yes, Miss. Do you have any instructions?”
The old butler quickly bowed his head.
He said that as if he was used to getting instructions.
“A while ago….. I shouted…….”
How should she apologize? What could she say that could moderately relieve her guilt without damaging the villain’s reputation?
“……sorry.”
“Yes?”
Whispering with a flushed face, Dahlia quickly escaped.
The butler, who was left, froze with a face that seemed like his eyes would pop out of shock and looked only at her empty spot.
Dahlia Margaret apologized!
Working at the Count’s Mansion, he had never received an apology from the people of the Count Margaret family.
However, he couldn’t believe that the first apology he heard was from none other than the young lady.
‘Miss, I….. I will never forget today!’
He trembled with excitement alone, and ran after Dahlia, who had fled late.
That’s when he remembered he had to show her to the parlor.
* * *
Dahlia ran recklessly through the corridor.
The moment she apologized, she saw the man’s frozen face and couldn’t stay still.
In the novel, she didn’t know how bad it was, but she still hadn’t figured out how bad it was.
“Haah, haah.”
Dahlia burst out of breath and went into a random room.
The scent of old wood and books instantly took her nerves away.
She raised her head with her hands against her ascending chest.
“Is this….. the library?”
A study full of high spirits welcomed Dahlia.
There was a chair by the window far away.
She trudged along and flopped down on the chair.
“Ha…..”
It had been a month since she had reincarnated into that body.
She might have gotten used to it, but she was amazed by the attitude of the servants who were surprised at everything she did.
“You’ll know if you do something bad, I don’t know anything.”
Dahlia briefly recalled her previous life.
‘I remember I was used to bad things being done to me, but I was not used to making bad things happen.’
‘Would it be okay if I act like Lee Su-yeon?’
I felt gloomy when I remembered the woman in my previous life who had been carrying on a bad relationship.
It was the moment when she became dissatisfied with her body again.
‘Of all… of all the characters, Dahlia is the one. What a horrible bastard to die for.’
If she had only been a servant with no role, she would have lived a whole new life.
The world did not change no matter how much resentment she expressed.
Even when she opened her eyes after praying, there was still a woman with silver hair and purple eyes standing in front of the mirror.
Fortunately, she was a reader who had read the novel completely until the very end.
“If I just keep talking in moderation and escape, I’ll save my life, right?”
Dahlia had no intention of appearing on the stage.
Because, as soon as she becomes a character, she knew very well that the stage would lead to her death.
Unlike Florre, Dahlia was not the main character, but just the enemy of the main character.
“Dahlia!”
That’s when a loud voice hit her ear. Dahlia was startled and smacked herself up.
Someone opened the door and started stomping.
It was her father, Count Videl Margaret.