‘Ugh! My head hurts! Where am I? Am I within the hospital?’ Anna thought as she tried to open her eyes. However, even if she tried, she couldn’t see anything because everything is blurry.

After being conscious, she went to move her hands and she succeeded. Perhaps, she wasn’t badly hit by the car since she’s still alive, right? She thought once more so she sat on the bed and looked around but her eyes suddenly widened this time.

‘What?---Where am I?’

That’s when she realized that he wasn’t inside a hospital but was inside an unknown place, a noble place that she could only describe in her dreams and read some descriptions in the noble she was reading.

Her eyebrows creased and her vision started going to her hands.

‘My hands are fair white skin and small?’ she was indeed shocked as if she had seen a ghost. Normally she had white skin but she couldn’t think that her skin right now is pinkish and even more beautiful than her old self

‘Wait, did someone abduct me and made me change to someone else?’ Insane thoughts were already running through her mind until she immediately shakes her head

‘No, it can’t be. This can’t be happening. I know that this is impossible!’ She tried standing from her bed and looking for a mirror but when she did, she almost fainted to see a different person right in front of her

“Who is this?” Her hands went to the mirror and she felt she couldn’t breathe anymore. She even sensed how cold the mirror was.

Then she remembered.

“No this can’t be!” Her hands went to her cheeks as if he acted indeed surprised. Never did she only revert to being in a child-like form but she also travel to another world. And to top it all, did she reincarnate as the villainess of her favorite story?

‘Is this Celia Crenst?’

She thought as she looked at herself once more. She’s probably in her tenth year of age, she was currently wearing a nightgown since it is night and the surrounding in her room is absolutely dimmed.

Then she recalled the description of the villainess in the story

‘The villainess is named Celia Crenst, she has pink hair- check. She has fair pinkish skin- check. She has these round beautiful golden eyes- check. Even if she’s still a child, she has already maintained a healthy diet with how light her body was!’

Anna couldn’t believe that she was the villainess. No, she didn’t want to become the villainess because indeed she wanted to be reborn as a normal human being once more if she ever died in that car accident…

“This can’t be!!!” She wanted to shout but her voice felt rough and when she tried to look at the mirror on her face, she immediately saw how swollen her eyes were.

‘Did this original villainess even cry? In the novel she’s portrayed as a strong woman with nothing to hold her back, she even puts on a strong fierce façade whenever she was seen in the public’s eyes but this? She’s crying? This isn’t right. In the novel, it wasn’t even said that the villainess is crying… Perhaps it had something to do with Eran…’

Then her eyes suddenly widened remembering the villainess’ first love.

‘Shit! Fucking shit!’

She wanted to curse right now or even shout at herself but she can’t, knowing that she couldn’t make any noise at night since she must be and act like Celia from now on

‘No way, no…no…no…no…nooooo’

She started walking back and forth with her hand over her face and eyebrows she couldn’t decide what she will do.

She repeats the words and her body even trembled but, as if her mind suddenly had hope, she stopped walking around and faced the mirror with huge eyes

‘Since I’m already dead in my previous life, why not make the best out of it now and change for the better? Perhaps that’s a good idea to start my new life?’

She thought once more while narrowing her eyes

However, after doing so, she’s indeed horrified by the look she made by seeing herself in the mirror

She’s eventually terrified because of the way she smiles, it seems like it’s a villain’s smile that had some plan to kill someone on this night. She suddenly shiver at the thought and moved her body away from the mirror and shook her head

‘Calm down, Anna. You’re already Celia so there’s no need to act like the old you, alright?’

She put both of her hands over her arms and gently massaged them as she sat on her bed once more and look at her hands afterward.

‘The hands of the lady are indeed smooth and gentle, but covered with callouses or hard work’ she narrowed her eyes as she turned her hands into fists.

‘But as Celia from now on. I refused to die…’

Then she went to her desk and search for something since she knew that the original villainess might have something planned written on a piece of paper…

When she found a small book, she read the contents only to make it slide from her hands and fall to the ground with her eyes widened and open mouth

‘What the hell is this?’ Anna thought since she knew that Celia is indeed an obsessive maniac to Eran but she never expected that she will see the actual plan of that villainess

In the small book she held earlier, there was this plan of the original villainess where she will create alchemy, and make it a point to have a ritual with the demon, she even researched how to perform rituals and make liquids on love potion!

“What an insane young lady she is!” There, she said it and it was because she hated the original villainess whom she had reincarnated into.

She wanted to shout but then, she can’t once more so all she did was shake her head and narrow her eyes.

She picked up the book and slapped it on her desk but more like she wanted to tear it however, she couldn’t since she thought that it might have some information on her survival so she continued reading the pages until her guts told her to

‘She had indeed a survival plan after killing the heroine but in the end, she never succeeded in it. She died in the hands of the male leads…five male leads with their sword pierced on her body’

Anna shivered at the thought and because of that, she hid the book and went to her bed.

‘Perhaps, it’s better to start the night off from my plans. I’ll just have to devise it by tomorrow’

But when tomorrow comes, the maids already went to her room. She was then greeted by the piercing heat of the sun on her skin

Though when she opened her eyes, she could see how the maids tremble after narrowing hers.

‘Ah, right. Perhaps, Celia had already started her bullying? When was it then? That previous year when a nanny who suddenly disappeared advised her to be evil…’

Shaking her head, she sat on her bed. The maids continued to tremble with their heads down the floor and eyes gazing at their hands

‘G-Greeting, M-Milady,” they all said in uniform

Three of them were within the room to greet the lady and Celia only nodded

“Good morning…” she said in a soft tone of voice that even made the maidservants widen their eyes and looked at the lady

“…and first of all, I wanted to apologize for the mistakes and bullies I’ve done to you all.”

The maids couldn’t think anything at the moment because they felt as if they have seen a ghost. Only when Celia explained everything did they finally let go of the breath they’d been holding in their body for quite a while now

“It’s not because I wanted to still bully people but I’ve come to realize that everyone has their problems and I have to. So I’m sorry if I always put the blames on you all. I hope you can all forgive me and I promise to change for the better from now on,” Celia said with a gentle smile as the rays of the sun kept on penetrating her whole figure but the lady sitting on her bed and smiling didn’t mind at all

“M-Milady!” then the maids cried as if they have been purified of the lady’s intentions and now, the lady even signified them to hug her and so they did.

Then rumors about the lady changing started that morning within the household and many of the servants couldn’t believe it at first but after finding out the truth and how the lady started smiling, the three maids indeed were telling the truth

The servants then changed their perspectives toward the lady and that afternoon, she even came to their household’s library.

Since it was the place that Nether liked so much. It’s where he could find peace from his bully sister or so he thought. But then, his peaceful thoughts suddenly crumble after hearing footsteps and turning to look at her smiling sister

“Nether…” Celia spoke and now she was even smiling to which Nether stepped backward with a book in his chest that he was currently hugging

“W-What----”

“I’m sorry….” Were the words Nether heard that widened his eye sand before he knows of it, the book he was hugging tightly fell to the ground that made the lady pick it up for him. She even removed some specks of dust from it

Then Celia smiled at Nether

“I know I’ve been a bad sister to you all this time, but trust me, I will always love my younger brother,” Celia said and without saying any further she smiled genuinely at Nether and she even  open her arms as she wanted Nether to hug her

At first, the young boy blushed but then he nodded and tears sprung out of his eyes

“I-I also love you to sister!” the young boy cried and the two had already hugged each other

‘Well, this might do then…’ Celia thought as she caressed her younger brother’s head and nodded as she smiled the sweetest

From that day on, the servants became happy, the parents of the lady and young master changed their perspective on their spoiled daughter and Nether came to understand her sister even more

Days passed and Celia would always greet the servant, and helped Nether in his lessons as she has one with her tutors as well. Sir Elphon and Sir Feralius were even surprised that the lady is paying attention to their teachings. That’s when the people within the household realize that the lady stays true to her words

One day, after a week had passed, the lady was at the market to buy some flowers for her parents but then her carriage had stopped

“What’s the problem, Jack?” The lady asked the horseman and the horseman replied in a shaking voice but still gentle to the lady

“M-Milady, please don’t go o-out yet. I-I’ll have to see the young boy who f-fainted,” Jack said but that widened Celia’s eyes

‘Jacob….’ She thought since she knew that this day, a servant destined to be his knight would come but she couldn’t possibly hinder or change that idea because Jacob is one of the male leads!

‘Right, I have to claim his trust in the end so he’ll save me rather than kill me!’

“Jack, please let me see it too”

“B-But Milady”

“Please?” With her adorable puppy eyes, the horseman couldn’t do anything but nod slowly

“But you have to be behind me, Milady we don’t know it the young boy pretended to faint”

‘Jack, that will never happen because that young boy is gravely injured’

“My goodness!”

“See? He couldn’t attack us because he’s injured, Jack. Now, let us help him, alright? Bring him to the household”

“B-But Milady, wouldn’t the duke and duchess be angry?”

“No, Jack, they’ll understand since I am helping a poor person whose almost dying,” Celia said and she never entertained any question of the servant instead, guided the young boy into her carriage and immediately went to a guest room to their household and called a physician

Everyone seemed to be in panic even Nether, the young brother of the lady is narrowing his eyes and looking at how the lady cared for a stranger than her brother for the first time

‘Sister is only mine, I will never let anyone steal her away from me,’ the young boy has in mind and he cried after seeing her sister worry about a stranger

“Come here, Nether,” Celia said, and Nether came to her side as she hugged him

“Since the physician said that he’s alright, then we should make him my knight, right? Our parents already agreed after I persuaded them earlier,” her sister is giggling with happiness but Nether only narrowed his eyes after looking at an unconscious silver-haired young boy sleeping on a bed

That day marked the change for the villainess as some of the nobles spread the rumors that the evil lady suddenly changes because some witnessed how she saved a poor fainted young boy on the streets

Then her reputation went up a little that caught the attention of Eran, the crown prince

“Say Elmias, that lady is making some hot topic now, investigate her for me,” the young crown prince who was currently sitting on his chair narrowed his eyes as she said those words to his shadow assassin.

“Y-Yes, your highness,” the shadow assassin responded and without wasting any second the servant disappeared right in front of Eran but he couldn’t help but narrow his eyes since he couldn’t believe that the lady changed

“Interesting piece,” he whispered as he brought back the queen from his chessboard that he had already claimed

“What game are you playing at now, Lady of the Crenst household?”