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Seria's sleep has drastically increased lately. It was different from a year ago. Last year, Seria was the most famous villain in high society. She didn't have time to sleep while chasing banquets and ballroom dances every day, and she got away with it.
There was no one who could stop her due to her status and position. But it's been a long time since she was active. All the nobles knew that Seria had become a repentant woman. She slowly changed within the lines until everyone was convinced. It was still a mystery how the crazy woman stayed so quiet. And there was Seria, sitting on the luxurious terrace and dozing.
"It's because she has a cold, my lady. I heard that the winter cold will make you feel that way."
It was the priest sent from the temple who spoke softly to Seria. She was the one who came to this distant province simply because of Seria's cold. The priest looked toward the terrace with warm eyes. There was a woman with black hair.
"The saint came from the heavens. It is truly a blessing from heaven. Of course, Lady Seria is also blessed by God, so the cold will pass soon. She will always be healthy."
The virtues of the priest were soft. His face was full of expressions of joy.
Saint.
Seria followed the priest and looked out of the terrace. She saw the saint, Lina, with dark brown hair and ivory skin. Yes, she was a saint. In the original novel that Seria read, the heroine was called a saint.
This was the world of a novel. Just a few days ago, as in the original plot, the female protagonist fell from the sky.
"Oh, isn't that your fiancé, Lady Seria?"
The priest was right. Next to Lina was a handsome man with light brown hair who stood out from afar. Kalis approached Lina, and she smiled brightly as she greeted him. Lina's laughter was clearly visible from this terrace, which was quite far away. She wore a dress that exposed her shoulders, and a cold breeze blew. Kalis thought for a moment, then took off his coat and wrapped it around Lina's shoulders. Seria felt a bit strange seeing that.
"That bastard."
He was Seria's fiancé. He abandoned Seria just a week before their wedding.
"Should I go down and tear their hair out? But if I do that, won't I die?"
"You've been on the terrace with the patient all day."
At that moment, Seria and the priest reflexively looked towards the source of the voice they heard. Seria stood up from her seat while the priest hastily bowed his head.
"His Highness the Grand Duke Lesche Berg."
His red eyes looked at the priest as if they were covered in blood. His cold eyes were dark and full of irritation.
"Lady Seria, wasn't it outrageous that your fiancé called the priest when your worsening cold was due to spending all day on the terrace?"
This man never cared about Seria's health. It was just a nuisance not having enough priests on his own property and having to ask for more from the temple instead.
"I'm sorry, Your Highness."
He looked at Seria and turned his gaze while speaking to the priest.
"Take her to the temple as soon as possible."
"In my opinion, she should stay here a little longer for stability... Your Highness!"
The priest quickly followed the duke, who walked away after saying his piece. Seria didn't care much.
'Because he is the main character.'
He is cold now, but in the future, he will change and look at the heroine with honey dripping from his eyes. That was the fate of the male protagonist and the end of the original story.
Seria thought about the title of the novel she had read.
Seria was originally an ordinary graduate student. Yes. You can't call a graduate student a common person.
Anyway, when she woke up one day, she had possessed a character in the novel she was reading. She couldn't say how she died or how she overcame it. It was hard for her to remember what she had forgotten.
The important thing was Seria Stern, the person she possessed.
Seria Stern was the greatest villain in the novel. Similar to her name in reality.
If asked to choose one of the most popular villains in the world of imperial society, 100 out of 130 people would choose her as the villain.
A cold attitude unlike her impeccable appearance and a tendency to pour champagne over others' heads. Of course, there was a natural sense of inferiority in the victim.
Seria was a young maiden from the prestigious Marquis Kellyden family in the West, but her mother was a humble actress.
Has it been mentioned that her mother was a commoner?
However, she was a beauty.
Thanks to this, Seria, who inherited her mother's blood, was also a great beauty with bright green hair and icy blue eyes.
But Marquis Kellyden already had two children.
Both children were of impeccable high-ranking officer lineage. Only Seria's biological mother was an uncommon actress.
Therefore, Seria couldn't fit in with her family at home. Hobbies were a luxury. The relationship with the family was also the worst.
However, the day Seria turned fifteen, the situation changed. It was revealed that Seria was a person with divine power. So what happened?
Seria took the title of Stern from the temple as her surname, left the Marquis Kellyden, and went to the capital to enjoy a luxurious life.
But about a year or so later, Seria changed. Since Seria was in possession of the villain's body.
At first, she couldn't understand the reason why she possessed her. After all, this novel was unique in only a few parts of the setting; the other characters and relationships were completely cliché.
It was a scenario where Lina, the female protagonist, who was a dimensional traveler, fell into a different world and received much love from the male protagonist and sub-male protagonist, and of course, the cliché of a happy ending was faithfully followed.
But where there is light, there is also shadow. Of course, there was also a villain who died miserably.
That was her, Seria Stern.
She even ended her life with her throat split in half by Kalis's knife...
She wanted to live.
During her last life as a student, she died too young; this time, she didn't want to have the same fate.
She didn't have any fetish for being a villain either.
She could easily cut the bad deeds. Of course, there was a long time before her reputation that hit rock bottom would rise again...
It was pure coincidence that she fell in love with her current fiancé, Kalis Haneton. A beautiful man with light brown hair, the second main male protagonist of this novel. And a month ago, they got engaged.
"Right now it should be the wedding."
Kalis was beautiful, but he hid the pain of having a rotting arm.
The person who healed him was Lina, the female protagonist, and Kalis naturally favored Lina, who healed his arm. That crush easily developed into love.
But aren't all second male protagonists the same?
Kalis was devoted to Lina. Because he was so devoted, he even took Seria's life, the villain who hurt Lina. But in the end, Lina didn't choose him, so he ended up single all his life.
Seria honestly feared Kalis.
Just thinking about how vivid the scene of killing Seria with a knife in the original was gave her terror.
Moreover, the fact that Kalis's arm was injured was caused by something related to Seria, so he hated her even more.
However, she found him alive, prayed, and healed his arm. Because she read the original story, she knew how Lina healed his arm.
She won the favor of the person who killed her most cruelly. She didn't know he would confess his love to her.
In fact, she wondered if all it took was fixing the injured arm to make someone fall in love.
However, she started to like Kalis more, who recklessly confessed.
Then, the heroine will fall in love with the male protagonist, and everyone will have a happy ending.
Wouldn't that be better than committing suicide while suffering?
Seria thought it was the perfect ending. Especially for her as the innocent villain.
"Seria Stern!"
She looked blankly at the man who was shaking her body. He was not her fiancé, Kalis Haneton.
A wrinkled veil fell to the ground.
He clenched his teeth and called her while she lay in a blood-soaked wedding dress. Even her beautiful silver hair had some blood.
"Wake up. Don't die. Don't die, damn it!"
"Why did this happen?"
