[Full] The Villainess Just Wants to Live Quietly! (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 2
In the novel , there was a part where Askan escaped from the laboratory, but there was no explanation that he lived as a slave in House Brelrop.
‘Could I have missed something?’
I quickly tried to recall my memories, but nothing came to mind.
Only then did I realize that was not a completed novel yet. Unless I was the author, I couldn’t know all the settings of the novel.
‘This can’t be…….’
My head was in chaos.
I had planned to set out to find Askan who had fled to the Arwen Empire, but I couldn’t gauge whether it was a good thing that he appeared right in front of me like this.
As I stood stiffly without saying a word, Askan bowed his head slightly and spoke first.
“If there is nothing more to order, may I take my leave?”
“Y-Yes, go ahead.”
There was no reason to keep him here. I needed time to think as well, so even more so.
As soon as my permission was given, Askan quickly left the room. It was as if he was fleeing before I could change my mind.
Click—
With the sound of the door closing, Askan disappeared from my sight, and the maid who had been watching from the side opened her mouth with a puzzled expression.
“Huh? My lady, you’re letting him go so easily?”
“Hm?”
What was this about now?
When I looked at her with a confused expression, the maid, thinking she had made a mistake, continued in a flustered voice.
“Oh, no, it’s nothing. It just seemed like you were sending Askan away earlier than usual, so I asked without thinking.”
“I did that?”
“Yes. Don’t you remember?”
Of course I didn’t remember. That happened before I possessed her.
Moreover, since unfolded centered around the protagonist Noxia, there was no way to know what Tanasia was doing when she wasn’t appearing in the novel.
“I…… why did I do that?”
When I asked with a genuinely confused expression, the maid answered with a face full of worry.
“My lady, are you still not feeling well?”
“Ah, yes. Everything else is fine, but strangely, my recent memories are a bit hazy.”
“Oh dear, it must be from when you hit your head in the riding accident. Shall I call the physician right away?”
“No, there’s no need for that. Instead, tell me everything from the beginning about what you said earlier. What did I do to Askan?”
At my question, the maids hesitated to answer and exchanged glances. They seemed to be wondering if it was okay to tell the truth.
“No matter what you say, I won’t get angry, so tell me honestly. That way it will help me recover my memories.”
“Well…… My lady, you disliked Askan very much from the beginning.”
Not just disliked, but very much?
It didn’t make sense. After waiting a bit more, another maid who had been watching added an explanation.
“You often said that you hated the sight of Askan’s black hair. That’s why you frequently called him and gave him a ton of work. You even made up tasks that didn’t need to be done.”
“I did?”
“Don’t you remember anything? You often took up the whip and punished Askan.”
“Wh-Whipping too?”
I couldn’t help but blurt out in response. It wasn’t just Askan who had black hair. I also had dark black hair.
‘Could it be that because of my dissatisfaction with hair different from Noxia’s, I tormented the innocent Askan?’
It was something I had never even imagined.
At first, I thought it would be enough to just quit playing the villainess role. From now on, I planned to live my own life without getting involved in unnecessary matters…….
‘I’m screwed.’
The death flag seemed to have already been planted.
‘Could that be why Askan killed me?’
I didn’t know about anything else, but Askan clearly thought of his past in the Arwen Empire as horrific. And the reason for that was perhaps…….
I wanted to believe it absolutely wasn’t because of me, but the reality unfolding before my eyes wouldn’t let me deny it outright.
Suddenly, I felt the world go dark.
I seemed to see a hallucination of Askan approaching me with a sword pointed at me in the future.
Just the newly realized facts were enough to make me lose my mind, but the maids’ reports continued.
“The bathwater currently filled in the bathroom is also something you ordered Askan to draw personally every day.”
“I ordered such a task? When you can just turn on the faucet…….”
A thought suddenly came to me, and I shut my mouth. It was because I recalled the maids saying earlier that I made up tasks that didn’t need to be done.
That’s right. I had done all sorts of things to torment Askan somehow.
In short, I had been diligently digging my own grave all this time.
‘Surely I wasn’t the one who sent Askan back to the Kalua Empire?’
Askan had escaped the laboratory in the Kalua Empire and crossed over to the Arwen Empire, but later he was captured and taken back there in the story.
I think the reason was briefly mentioned, but I couldn’t remember well.
Since even the fact that he worked in House Brelrop wasn’t clearly stated, there was no way the process would have been explained in detail.
I could only hope that at least that much wasn’t related to me. No, I had to avoid getting involved somehow.
I couldn’t give up my life here.
I clenched my fists tightly without anyone noticing.
The maid, unaware of my resolve, spoke as if she had just remembered.
“Oh, right, earlier you said you were going to the slave market, my lady? Shall I schedule it for tomorrow?”
“No, cancel the slave market.”
They say if you keep your wits about you, you can survive even in a tiger’s den. I couldn’t just sit idly by doing nothing like this.
I had to think of a way somehow.
That night, for the first time since falling into the world of the book, I had a dream.
It was a dream where I discovered Askan at the slave market.
I recognized at a glance the ancient language engraved on his nape. Not only that, but also the dozens of magic formulas engraved on Askan’s body.
They were traces of experiments forcibly engraved to turn him into a human weapon.
Someone who knew nothing might think they were rare tattoos, but I precisely understood what they meant.
Inserting special abilities into an ordinary person’s body.
In the dream, I trembled upon discovering this new fact.
『If I can have Noxia’s ability…… the way people look at me will change.』
I had lived being compared to everything since birth.
Among them, what Tanasia could never surpass was the ability to manipulate water, which had almost disappeared from the family.
If I could decipher the ancient language and magic formulas engraved on Askan’s body, it might be possible to copy Noxia’s water-manipulating ability into my own body.
I bought the slave Askan, brought him into the house, and secretly began research without anyone knowing.
Whether it succeeded or failed, since it was never a legal method, all facts were thoroughly kept secret.
The first thing I did was to find out what his ability was.
『It’s no use denying it. Hurry and show me your hidden ability. From the formulas engraved on your body, you’re already not an ordinary human.』
Askan did not open his mouth. Having risked his life to escape the laboratory, he had no reason to reveal his past.
I did all sorts of things to open his mouth.
It was true that I hated his black hair just like mine, but there was a reason for tormenting him.
Smack!
A long whip mark from the whip I swung remained on Askan’s bare upper body.
Smack! Smack!
It was when I repeated it dozens of times.
Unexpectedly, a moment came when no wounds remained on Askan’s body.
I approached him writhing in pain and touched the skin where no wounds appeared.
It was hard.
Like steel.
Upon first realizing Askan’s ability, I said with a mad smile.
『What, this was it?』
The ability to turn the entire body into steel.
Even without holding a sword, his whole body was already a weapon, and he wouldn’t get hurt by ordinary attacks.
The power one such person could have was tremendous. He could probably cut down dozens, or even hundreds, alone.
That was the true nature of the human weapon being created in the Kalua Empire.
I, who had read the novel , already knew this, but I never imagined that Tanasia in the story would know it too.
In the dream, I was filled with joy, but in reality, goosebumps rose all over my body.
‘What is this. I want to wake up now.’
I struggled hard with my body that wouldn’t move as if pressed by a ghost.
At first, my body wouldn’t budge, but little by little, it started moving according to my will.
As soon as I could barely twitch one finger, the rest was easy.
Suddenly, my eyes snapped open, and bright morning sunlight came into view.
“Huff, huff.”
Rough breathing came out as if I had sprinted full force.
I could feel that the bed I was lying on was completely soaked in sweat.
‘What did I just see?’
It wasn’t a simple dream. I couldn’t call something this vivid a hallucination.
Until now, if what I imagined was from what I read in the novel , what I felt just now was like peeking into Tanasia’s past.
Yes, as if I had experienced it myself, not told by someone else.
It felt like Tanasia in the novel and I were becoming one person.
‘What on earth is going on.’
There were too many hidden stories in the novel that I didn’t know. That’s why I shouldn’t read unfinished novels!
But regret was too late.
The reality I was in was too despairing to just sit and lament.
‘If this is really true, then I didn’t just torment Askan, I practically experimented on him like in the Kalua Empire!’
If I tormented him to this extent, I couldn’t change his image no matter what.
In short, the probability of the future where Askan cuts my throat becoming reality was very high.
‘What kind of nonsense is this. It’s a minefield everywhere!’
At first, I thought it would be enough not to torment him, but I had not only been bullying Askan, who was the final black curtain, but also secretly experimenting on him without anyone knowing.
‘I’m really screwed.’
The death flag wasn’t just planted; it was so firmly stuck that it seemed impossible to avoid easily.
Until now, I had tried to deny it, but it seemed certain that the reason Askan thought of his past in the Arwen Empire as horrific was because of me.
If the story flowed as is, there was a high possibility that I, who knew Askan’s identity, sold him back to the laboratory in the Kalua Empire.
‘Still, thankfully, it hasn’t progressed that far.’
Everything was the worst, but I forcibly found consolation within it.
It wasn’t something I did, but what was already done couldn’t be helped. To survive, I had to somehow clean up Tanasia’s misdeeds that kept peeling like an onion.
For the first time, I resented possessing Tanasia out of all the many characters, but I couldn’t dwell on irreversible matters.
I shot up from the bed. Just then, a maid who entered the room spotted me and greeted me in a bright voice.
“Oh my, my lady, you’re already awake?”
Without a word, I walked to the place I had seen in the dream. When I turned the painting decorated on the wall to the right, a hidden space was revealed.
The maid, unaware of that fact, approached to tidy the bedsheets.
“Why did you sweat so much? Are you alright…… Kyaaah!”
The maid who noticed me late screamed.
In the space hidden between the walls, various kinds of whips were lined up. All of them had horrific shapes used for torturing people.
They were also what I used to hit Askan in the dream.
This proved for sure that it wasn’t just a dream.
“M-My lady.”
When I took out one whip and held it in my hand, the maid called me in a fearful voice. She seemed scared that I might swing it at her.
I shuddered at the feel of the whip fitting perfectly in my hand and hurriedly put it back in its original place.
“Get rid of all this.”
“Y-Yes?”
“Throw away every single one without exception. I don’t want to see them ever again.”
There would be no occasion for me to use a whip on someone like in the dream.
It seemed urgent to devise my survival plan.
There was nothing to trust in this world.
Askan looked at me, who had suddenly come to him, with a disgusted expression.
He still didn’t show much emotion on his face, but somehow, unlike the first time, I felt like I could now read his mood.
“Have you come up with another task for me?”
It might sound polite at a glance, but if you thought about it, it was a barbed remark.
Yes, since I had tormented him whenever I felt like it until now, it was natural for him to be wary of me.
But from now on, it would be different.
“Well, it’s nothing special, but it seems we need to move your quarters starting today.”
“My quarters?”
Askan looked at me with eyes that said he didn’t understand.
Behind him, I could see the dark and narrow room where several slaves lived together. Even from afar, not only was mold growing on the walls, but the smell was terrible too.
It seemed to show in a glimpse how hard he had lived as a slave.
“From now on, don’t worry about anything. I’ll treat you well.”
“……I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
“It means from now on, the end of misfortune and the start of happiness.”
Anyway, was not a completed novel. Then, I decided to change the ending to what I wanted.
“You, from today, become my squire.”
Absolutely a happy ending.
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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Isn’t he is being cute, just let him be …ufff….