Her name was Yerim.
She died at the age of 19 in winter.
Born as the third generation of a major corporation in Gullji, she grew up without any lack.
Her family loved her beautiful and intelligent self, and the rest of the people envied what she had.
She always enjoyed looking down on those less than herself from the highest place with a sense of superiority, and a bit of sympathy.
Moreover, that wasn’t all she had.
With innate intelligence and beauty, excellent taste, and even athletic nerves, she was born with all the conditions that a male protagonist in a romance comic might have.
Easily becoming the class president and the student council president, she became a high school student.
And in her first midterm in the first year of high school, she learned the meaning of the word ‘defeat’ for the first time in her life.
‘2nd place? Me, 2nd place?’
She couldn’t believe it.
Never once losing the top rank in the entire school, the number 2 being drawn on her report card.
In burning rage, Yerim tore and tore, setting out to find the 1st place.
A girl from an ordinary household with an utterly ordinary appearance.
Yerim couldn’t believe the fact that a girl who would be forgotten by anyone even if she appeared as a background somewhere, looking like a mere supporting character that the protagonist brushes by, dared to defeat her.
‘Yeah. Once can happen. I did get a little complacent coming to high school.’
Yerim steadied herself and sat at her desk more and slept less, driving herself harder.
But the result was a complete defeat.
Until the end of the first year, she could not receive the number 1 even once.
Even during the final exams, she reduced her sleeping and eating time to study, lived with anemia and coughing, but the number 2 still appeared on her report card.
While Yerim was becoming emaciated with anxiety, that child looked so comfortable and bright.
She even secretly investigated the 1st place student, but both parents were just ordinary high school teachers who graduated from a modest teacher’s college.
They were incomparable to herself, with everyone in her family having graduated from prestigious universities and holding most master’s or doctoral degrees.
Her friends consoled her.
‘You’re much prettier anyway.’
‘Right. She collapsed while running long in the fitness field, didn’t she?’
‘Overall, you win, Yerim! A total win!’
But in Yerim’s ears, her friends’ consolation only sounded like mockery.
It was the same at home. The family didn’t say anything specific about Yerim’s report card, but in her head, she constantly heard their mocking voices.
‘We gave birth to you so smart, but you can’t even utilize it?’
‘We’ve provided you with expensive private tutors, and you’re perennially 2nd place?’
‘You can’t even beat a child from an ordinary home and you disgrace the family?’
Of course, these were just voices in Yerim’s delusions.
In fact, her family didn’t care about Yerim’s grades.
The comfort for her was that she already had two welloff brothers, so what her parents wanted from Yerim was only one thing: to grow up healthy and beautiful and marry into a good family.
So no one in the family cared or asked about her grades.
‘AAAAAAHH!!’
Yerim, relieving a year’s worth of stress by tearing an innocent doll, made up her mind.
Next year, she would regain the number 1, no matter what.
But cruelly, no matter what she did, Yerim was always 2nd place.
Around the end of the second year, Yerim finally realized.
That she was not the protagonist.
Her world, where she shone without much effort, where she never doubted that she was always the protagonist, crumbled down.
Her name was Yerim.
She died at the age of 19 in winter.
Born as the third generation of a major corporation in Gullji, she grew up without any lack.
Her family loved her beautiful and intelligent self, and the rest of the people envied what she had.
She always enjoyed looking down on those less than herself from the highest place with a sense of superiority, and a bit of sympathy.
Moreover, that wasn’t all she had.
With innate intelligence and beauty, excellent taste, and even athletic nerves, she was born with all the conditions that a male protagonist in a romance comic might have.
Easily becoming the class president and the student council president, she became a high school student.
And in her first midterm in the first year of high school, she learned the meaning of the word ‘defeat’ for the first time in her life.
‘2nd place? Me, 2nd place?’
She couldn’t believe it.
Never once losing the top rank in the entire school, the number 2 being drawn on her report card.
In burning rage, Yerim tore and tore, setting out to find the 1st place.
A girl from an ordinary household with an utterly ordinary appearance.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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