Chap 1

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The water continues to flow down stream of the river. It's clear and calm, slow and steady. The reflection of my childish, round face is almost perfectly still. I turn my eyes to scan the small river, spotting no basket floating on the surface.

It's not the time yet. I sighed.

It's been a year since I started coming in to this river, waiting for a basket which will contain a baby infant inside for me to save. How long should I have to wait for that baby?

I don't know.

I turned around to leave the mountain down back to the small village where I live. Tomorrow I will come back at exact the same time and wait for an hour for that baby to appear. I will have to do this everyday, nonstop, so I don't have to miss the chance of saving that baby. After all, according to the novel I once read in the internet before, that baby is gonna be one of the key characters in the story.

How did I know that? Well...

I was originally a woman living on Earth, but because of a plane accident which caused my death, I've been reincarnated into a world that's different from Earth, and that world is actually inside a novel; The Tale of Morinzina Kingdom.

I don't know how did I get reincarnated inside a novel, but all I know is that I woke up in a three year old child's body after my death. It has been a year since then, hasn't it?

Knowing the contexts and events that will happen in the distant future, I decided to act on my own and try to change the flow of the story to save myself and my newly obtained humble parents from the troubles we can't afford to have.

Which brings me back to the small river up the mountain.

The baby inside the basket will grow to become a powerful and influential lad, and he'll be later known as Ellios of the South, someone who will be the main figurehead to an uprising rebellion in the south.

When he turns fourteen in the future, he will be named as Ellios de Alcantara, the youngest son of His Majesty the King, and will be titled as the Crown Prince, the legitimate heir to the throne. With the support of the people in the south and his right to the throne, Ellios is undeniably the hardest person to overthrow during the fight for the throne.

Ellios is the last villain that the main character has to beat in the end.

However, the most important thing about him, at least for me, is the fact that he has an older royal sister in the palace.

Eclaire de Alcantara, the most beloved princess in the palace and extremely doted on by the King. Her special place in the King's heart is something that's widely known by the entire kingdom, and as such she's one of the most important and popular royal member that everyone looks up to. 

In the future, when she grows up, Eclaire will be the most beautiful woman in the kingdom, blessed by a type of beauty that will cause devastation in kingdoms and worshipped by the mortals.

Combined with her beauty, the Princess is gifted with an almost endless amount of mana supply, which makes her an inevitable powerful Summoner in the continent, someone who can wield magic as freely as the magical beings.

She will be titled as Princess Liliya, the purest royalty in the family.

And I want to meet her.

Why? Let's just say that I want to see how beautiful the Princess truly is.

In the original novel, the Princess is the female lead who becomes one of the reasons for the kingdom's near collapse. It's not only because of her devastating beauty, but also because of her strong sense of justice. She will attract many men's attention and some of them, if not all, are a bunch of bewitched idiots who are willing to destroy themselves and the kingdom for the Princess.

Hypothetically speaking, if I let the original story ran its course without me enterrupting, then us common folks will suffer the most. Especially the people of the south, which is where I've been reborn to.

Courtesy of Ellios's rebellion campaign...

The main character, Hiyas Chalistine, will naturally have his own share of damning the common folks specifically in the south.

Let's just say the south is a doomed place. 

But I won't let that happen, at least until I get myself and my parents out of here.

Prince Ellios will be kidnapped by a bad guy and abandoned by the river to be left on his fate. Some random family will find and save him, which is when his villainous way of rising to the throne will start.

I can't let the original story happen either.

Ellios will be my ticket straight to the palace, and assuming that His Majesty won't accuse me of kidnapping a royalty and kill me on the spot, I can ride behind Ellios's royal horse to meet his famous royal big sister. From there, I will start devising my plans in accordance to future consequences, save my own neck and my parent's, and maybe enjoy a few bits of drama at first hand.

The main character, Hiyas Chalistine, is a very intriguing guy. If it's not for the fact that he's the male lead, he'd be a perfect villain who's more dangerous than Ellios. That's just saying how decisive and scheming he is. His only goal is to succeed the throne, and nobody can stop him for that.

My only goal is to guide Ellios to the right path, teach him how to become a good leader, help him succeed the throne, and live a leisurely life enjoying his riches like a parent riding her child's success.

The Princess's goal is to fix the mess in the palace, clean it and get rid of the dirt that destroys the balance between the noblemen and commoners. Basically, she wants peace, justice and fairness to be restored.

Hiyas is the main character and in the book, he and the Princess ends up together in the end.

But also in the book, the Princess dearly loved and spoiled her little brother, Prince Ellios, for she felt pity and guilty for the sufferings he had to endure outside the palace. But Ellios is a villain and thus, he was ultimately abandoned by the Princess.

With me meddling about the story, I can't just let Ellios become the bad guy, now can I? 

So I start to wonder...

Whose side will the Princess pick in the end? The main character, or her little brother?

The Princess and Hiyas are meant to be, they're destined to fall in love with each other as the story progresses. Once they do, it'll be harder for Ellios to beat Hiyas for the throne. However, if I meddle in between, will I be able to break the fated lovers apart?

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It truly will be a good show to watch, won't it?