I Will No Longer Live As Your Villainess (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 2
“Lorencia. You’re not acting like yourself. You always used to listen to me.”
“I used my power again not long ago. If you give me time to recover, as soon as I’m healed…”
“So Lorencia can’t even endure that much pain for my sake? Would you rather I just die like this?”
“No, Your Highness Prince Luans.”
At his words about dying, Lorencia’s face turned deathly pale. A brief silence passed.
“Honestly, lately I don’t even understand what benefit there is in meeting you, a bastard of House of Count Paul Heredian. I’ve been thinking—perhaps, as Her Imperial Majesty suggested, it would be better to meet a young lady from another house and become engaged, given the current situation.”
His words pierced her heart like countless needles.
“If that’s what Your Highness desires, please proceed with an engagement to a young lady from another house. After all, I’m just…”
Lorencia looked at Luans with an empty feeling in her heart. Yet he seemed extremely displeased.
“That’s not what I meant at all! Lorencia Paul Heredian!!”
At Luans’ sharp shout, Lorencia flinched slightly and shrank back.
“But…”
“But? What? You keep saying ‘but’ all the time, Lorencia. I already told you not to do that in front of me. Have you already forgotten? Why do you keep repeating the same mistake!”
At his raised voice, Lorencia lowered her head deeply. Luans let out a heavy sigh.
“I’m sorry for raising my voice. But I was angry when you suggested I get engaged to a young lady from another house. How could you say that to me, when I cherish and love you so much?”
“I was being thoughtless. I’m sorry.”
Seeing Lorencia’s restless state, Luans smiled gently and stroked her head.
“Just as you have no one but me, I have no one but you, Lorencia. So please, never say that again. Understand?”
“I was wrong.”
Lorencia lowered her eyes indifferently and apologized to Luans, forcing the words out as if squeezing her voice. Apologizing was the only way she could suppress her current unease. She clearly knew she was loved—so why did his love feel so burdensome? Why did her heart ache and feel so uncomfortable? What was the reason?
“Do you love me, Lorencia?”
“…Yes.”
“Then I’ll ask you once more. Can you confirm for me—according to my plan—whether Crown Prince Adrian dies or not, and whether or not I become suspected?”
Lorencia felt as if her chest was being tightly squeezed in agony.
“Your answer?”
“I’ll do it.”
“You really are kind, Lorencia.”
Luans gazed at her for a long while with a gentler smile than usual. Seeing him smile, Lorencia let out a small breath and began fiddling with the violet amethyst pendant the size of a thumbnail hanging around her neck.
Lorencia, the bastard daughter of House of Count Paul Heredian. Her mother, the only one who had ever taken her side, had suddenly died when she was eleven, leaving behind only that violet amethyst pendant.
What Lorencia remembered most about her mother was sitting together in the tower room, looking out the small window. Her mother’s beautiful lullaby drifting through the open window soothed her heart. At those times, small, cute birds would gather. Once the lullaby ended, the birds would flutter away again. Lorencia would stare blankly at the departing birds and say,
“Mother, I want to go outside like those birds.”
She hadn’t understood it well back then, but looking back, she and her mother had been confined in that high tower, never once stepping outside the room. Though she’d asked to go out, feeling suffocated, her mother had never agreed.
“Lorencia, you mustn’t leave—you must uphold your destined fate.”
Though she couldn’t understand, her mother always became deeply melancholy after saying that—so much so that she’d hold Lorencia and cry. At those times, Lorencia would kiss her mother’s forehead, and her mother would stop crying with a soft smile.
“Loa.”
“Yes, Mother.”
“You may face many hardships ahead, but remember just this one thing.”
“Yes!”
“That you are the daughter of Goddess Ella.”
Life inside the room had been stifling, but with her mother, Lorencia had never felt lonely. But after her mother’s sudden death, loneliness and sorrow filled her heart until it ached. She began compulsively biting her nails.
Hoping she might somehow be allowed to leave, she once asked the maid who slipped food beneath the door whether she could go out—but no one ever answered her question.
All Lorencia could do was open the window and sing the lullaby her mother had taught her. The little birds that came to her room each time she sang became her friends—but they could never fill the void left by her mother.
One day, her father Brandt—who had never clearly shown his face to her—visited and asked an absurd question.
“Do you suddenly see visions of what’s to come… or have dreams about the future?”
“The future?”
“Yes. The future.”
“I don’t see anything like that, Father.”
How could anyone possibly see the future! She thought it a ridiculous question. Watching Brandt’s disappointed reaction, Lorencia felt puzzled.
At that moment—
*Slap!*
Her head snapped sharply from the force of the sound. Clutching her stinging left cheek with trembling fingers, she stared at Brandt, who had struck her.
“Father? Did you just call me your daughter? How dare a bastard like you—!”
Brandt shoved Lorencia’s shoulders with both hands, knocking her over. She collapsed weakly onto the floor with a thud, her face filled with fear.
“I’m… I’m sorry.”
“You’re just as utterly useless as your mother.”
“I was wrong.”
“Red hair! Those eyes fill me with nothing but disgust!”
Unable to control his anger at the sight of Lorencia kneeling and begging, Brandt finally raised his right hand high.
Time passed indifferently. Lorencia remained locked in that room in the high tower. She gradually grew accustomed to Brandt’s verbal abuse and physical violence. One day, as she wondered what reason she even had to keep living—
“Is this the room?”
Brandt’s voice and another man’s melodious voice came from outside the door.
“The door is locked.”
*Bang!*
“Is there someone in this tower? If so, answer me.”
Frightened by the stranger pounding on the door, Lorencia tensed. Soon, she heard the lock click open, followed by the creak of the door swinging wide.
From her corner, Lorencia’s eyes met those of a man with slightly wavy golden hair and kind green eyes—her first encounter with anyone besides her mother and Brandt.
“So someone was trapped here. Good thing I came up.”
“W-Who are you?”
Lorencia asked the man before her. He gazed back with a gentle smile in those green eyes.
“My name is Luans von Ishter. And what’s yours?”
“I’m Lorencia.”
“Why are you locked up here, Miss Lorencia?”
“Because I’m a bastard… They said I bring shame to the family and must never be seen.”
“A bastard of House of Count Paul Heredian? I’ve heard stories—but it was you all along.”
Luans thought deeply for a moment, then slowly approached Lorencia, who was huddled in the corner.
“Your hair is the color of a red rose.”
Remembering Brandt’s words, Lorencia tightly shut her eyes and trembled.
“Truly beautiful hair. And your eyes are as lovely as amethysts.”
At Luans’ words, Lorencia’s trembling stopped.
“Beautiful… you think?”
Luans was the first person besides her late mother to ever call her beautiful.
“Truly beautiful. But aren’t you curious why I came here?”
Lorencia nodded.
“It was you who always reached out the window to call those little birds, wasn’t it, Miss Lorencia?”
“Yes.”
“I was curious, so I came up here. Have you been alone all this time?”
“Yes.”
“You must have been so lonely.”
His words brought tears to Lorencia’s eyes.
“Miss Lorencia.”
“Yes?”
“Will you be my friend?”
“My friend?”
After that, Luans kept visiting Lorencia’s room. She couldn’t hide her astonishment—but each time, he won her over by offering sweet treats she’d never tasted before.
“Try this too. It’s pastry with chocolate.”
Though she was glad Luans came, Lorencia always feared what might happen if Brandt found out. And that fear soon became reality—but not in the way she’d imagined.
“Y-Your Highness?!”
Instead of anger, Brandt bowed deeply upon seeing Luans. It turned out Luans was the Empire’s second prince, recently turned twenty.
Learning Luans’ true identity ended Lorencia’s imprisonment immediately.
Luans spoke to Brandt and had Lorencia officially registered as a legitimate daughter of House of Count Paul Heredian. Faced with her suddenly transformed life, Lorencia felt more fear than joy—but Luans gently embraced her, calming her nerves.
For the first time stepping outside, Lorencia looked up at the blue sky and green leaves. Gazing at the drifting clouds above, she felt overwhelming joy. Reaching out her arms, she sang the lullaby her mother had taught her—and squirrels hidden in the trees, along with tiny birds, began gathering around her.
“You truly are amazing, Lorencia.”
“I’m amazing?”
“The ability to call animals isn’t something just anyone possesses.”
Blushing at Luans’ praise, Lorencia felt her cheeks grow warm.
“You’re adorable. From the very first moment I saw you, I was drawn to you.”
His words made her heart flutter.
That night, after hearing his confession,
the violet amethyst pendant—her mother’s keepsake—began glowing for the first time. Simultaneously, high fever struck her, and she began bleeding from her nose. Objects around Lorencia started moving on their own. Brandt, witnessing this, called her a “monster.”
Yet only Luans soothed her gently.
“It’s alright, Lorencia. Try to calm your mind.”
Holding both her hands firmly, Luans helped her regain composure. At that moment, Lorencia’s amethyst pendant began to glow again—and she saw a brown-haired maid sprinkling white powder into food. That very meal was then set before Luans.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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