Cordelia was biting her lip hard to the point of making it bleed, when she felt the characteristic smell and taste of that crimson liquid, she brought her hand to her lip and cleaned the remains of blood.
It didn't hurt... rather she didn't feel any discomfort from her anger. Her magenta eyes scanned the surroundings of the place where she was.
It was the house where he grew up until he was 10 years old.
Dark, mossy walls whose wood was rotten, at any moment it would fall and become unusable.
Getting up from his "bed" which consisted of a couple of worn blankets and straws. Walking with his body still numb from sleeping in an uncomfortable place, he moved across the dirt "floor" and in a corner, very carefully held a piece of broken glass carefully to use it as a mirror and observed himself.
She looked no older than a 5-year-old girl, her sea-blue hair, messy and tangled fell over her shoulders and back, her skin was white full of dirt stains with a pair of magenta eyes. Her clothing consisted of a worn brown dress.
Her fingernails and toenails were long as if they hadn't been trimmed and cleaned long ago with all the dirt on them, really... disgusting.
(Poor me...) I croon in his mind with some sarcasm, his childhood in {this life) was never the prettiest and the rest of it was hell.
She died at the age of 22, in a prison and with a dead baby in her womb... Why?
No one chooses to be a villain, a protagonist, an extra, or all kinds of roles, no child is to blame for the actions of their parents.
But... Cordelia from birth had to be a villain, although her role was secondary and lower than the main villain, she was still a villain.
Her mother Druella, was a cruel and merciless woman, the culprit of multiple murders out of jealousy: nobles, commoners, and slaves, no type of woman were spared by her, besides she was an accomplice in the death of the Crown Prince.
When her mother was sentenced to death, she was pregnant and a day before she died, she gave birth to a baby girl.
Cordelia... was the name chosen by her mother meaning "daughter or jewel of the sea" because of the color of her hair. Cordelia was an identical copy of her mother and despite the cruelty of the woman, no one could deny that she was more beautiful than a fairy or a mermaid.
Her childhood consisted of three things: contempt, hatred, and abandonment. Because of her mother's death, she was given to her father Luosty Vedralla also known as Prince Lee Vedralla, he was the younger brother of the King and as a title, he was given the surname of Lee Vedralla when his older brother became King with the death of his father.
His father and uncle were blood brothers: therefore their relationship was closer than that of the other siblings of different mothers. Cordelia was a princess and cousin of the Crown Prince who died with the help of Cordelia's mother.
Druella wanted to wish you of any successor so that Luosty would be the sole heir to the Emperor and become heir... she wanted imperial status for her daughter and her, as her current status as a Concubine was very low.
Lusty without any way of refusing accepted her daughter and raised her for 2 years, hating her presence and with the help of complaints from others exiled her to an old servant and widow who had gone blind.
When she was 5 years old, the old servant died. Cordelia had to survive on her own from a young age and without adult guardianship... many times she was on the verge of death and cruelly God let her live in agony.
At the age of 10, she was searched for and taken to the capital with a miserable reason, to send her as a sacrificial bride to a neighboring kingdom for an alliance. As an object of exchange with the position of concubine.
Her husband was an insane and aggressive man much older than her, at the age of 15 she was raped by her husband, was beaten, and miscarried more than 10 children... at the age of 22 and in her last pregnancy, she was beaten by him, she in madness killed him.
Her husband was a 62-year-old man while she was 22 years old, he was 40 years older than her, a high society nobleman. The clerical wife denounced Cordelia and was locked up in prison.
She lasted 4 days in prison, without water and food, and on the third day her son died inside her, many pains and discomforts invaded her, in agony, she cut her wrists with a hair accessory leaving her blood to bathe the floor until she lost her life.
But before dying she pronounced a spell... one forbidden and of dark magic that she had read once by mistake in a book of her ex-husband... that man was a danger for many and especially for women, that in front of the others he was a lamb but inside worse than a cunning fox and bloodthirsty shark.
Now and in this present time there were two circumstances, first he had returned to the 5 years and secondly, he had the strange memories of another person.
Memories of a double life and a world with a certain resemblance to hers, but at the same time different?
Did she have another life besides this one?
Why was she the villain?
She wanted her revenge... she hated her "relatives", Cordelia would make them pay with interest one by one and especially the Female Protagonist and the other Protagonists.
Besides, she would have another target How about a group of bad guys for her?
No one would make her suffer once again...
Cordelia and Leticia were one and the two being one would enjoy this life to the fullest.