Now's a new day and I have decided to write my new daily schedule for the next ten months, February to November.
After going out for a light jog, I went straight back to my room and ask the maids to send breakfast here. While waiting for my food, I take out a feather pen and paper to start writing my new schedule.
Usually, I would be training my aura and sword stances for the whole day to improve myself, but since I regained my memories about proper body-building exercises, I have made a drastic decision to ignore aura altogether.
I've already trained my mana control for my whole life, I think eight months would be better spent on body exercises, and the rest up to before December would be with aura. I would like to think that I'm the only one sane enough to do this in this world but I'm sure it'll work out... maybe.
Humans here have better bodies since mana heals and strengthens the body naturally. Having mana helps the body make it stronger, in simpler terms.
But even with that advantage, I still can't work out for the whole day non-stop because I won't be using aura at all. Mana naturally hastens the regeneration process of the body, but like how science would have explained it, it's still bit by bit so if I force myself to exercise the whole day without aura, that would be suicide.
So, working out would only be for four hours in the morning and four hours in the afternoon, and I based this on how easy it was to do these exercises yesterday while teaching them to my brothers.
Even though I haven't done those exercises with this body, I completely did them with ease on the first try.
So what would I do in between?
Read romance novels, of course!
Exercise, read, exercise, read, sleep, then repeat.
"Hahahaha! This is the perfect schedule!" I tell myself as I bite a piece of bread from my breakfast. Out of nowhere, I snicker at the thought of me, Nera of all people, enjoying reading.
Even as Jessica Magiting, I wasn't fond of reading and studying at all, always the one having a 'barely' passing grade when I studied in school.
Physical Education was the only subject I had an exceptional grade at if it wasn't obvious. Also, the character development subject.
From the start of my education, I never cared about numbers so this wasn't much of a bother to me. However, I did start to care a little bit more because when I failed an exam back in elementary, I was immediately removed from the team in a national tournament. After that, I started to do my best to pass exams. Traumatizing for the seven-year-old child that loved playing volleyball.
Academics was the least of my concerns, because sports, especially volleyball was my everything. Anything beyond that, gone, thrown in the trash can, goes in one ear and out the other. Even if I forced myself to listen, I just couldn't remember those topics...
So, in that sense, Jessica and Nera are basically still the same person. Just in different eras, clearly, different worlds. It's amazing now that I think about it.
But from my memories that had just returned, there was one thing that Nera had a major difference in with Jessica.
As Nera, the only thing I care about is anything that involved knighting. That's it.
But as Jessica, in the plethora of random shit I could do thanks to the existence of the internet and my siblings having interests that I occasionally dabble in, I had two hobbies I fixated in, rather an unhealthy addiction, which was volleyball and romance novels.
Romance novels.
Why?
Reading wasn't my forte, but romance novels became an exception. It was my past time if I wasn't playing volleyball or any other fun sport.
It all started due to an accident, when I sprained my ankle in the first year of my high school life and was forced to rest for a whole month, then my friend suggested I read.
"Me? Read? Do you even know me?" I said with my voice shaking, audibly shocked, matched with my facial expressions.
A friend, whom I had for 6 years by that time, was suggesting for me to read.
Placing her hand on my shoulder while giving a deep, disappointed sigh.
"Why? You can't even do anything else right now?"
"Shut up."
"Pfft... Just tell me if you aren't up for the challenge." She snickered, quite proudly, while crossing her arms.
She was provoking me, quite obvious now that I recall.
But at that time, the naive me was restless, uneasy, and desperate for something to do inside my room.
My pupils shook and they swiftly glared at her. She was smirking. I heaved a breath out.
"Oh no, Jessica. I never thought that you'd be this weak."
"You're only mocking me now!"
"Just try it! I won't force you again if you try reading two chapters." Giggling, she handed me a rather thin book, compared to what she normally brings to school.
"Hah, just two chapters. Seems easy enough."
And there, I fell into her trap.
She left the book to me and then came back the next day. To her surprise, even mine, I actually read the past two chapters.
"I thought you said you didn't like reading? How are you past half the book already?" With a wide grin on her face, already exhilarated at the thought of her being correct, she closed our distance excitedly.
Almost glared at her out of annoyance but instead, I replied grinning back.
"Alright, I admit it. This is pretty fun to read. It's simple and enjoyable too."
With a shriek of glee, successful in her recruitment, she jumped and hugged me.
"I can't wait to share my recommendations! I'm not gonna let you rest!"
Before I knew it, I got addicted to this written literature.
During that time when I was injured, I didn't have anything else to do but read novels. I still had to go to school and do schoolwork, but who cares about that?
Since I couldn't go to volleyball practices right after I was discharged from the hospital, my pastime was reading romance novels.
I got hooked on them because most of them were easy reads. Some did have heavy plots, descriptive paragraphs, and numerous pages, but most of them were cliched plotlines. Which I came to love.
Most of them were cute and adorable, and at the same time, they were cheesy and easy to make fun of.
"What? How could he have fallen over her body even though they were so far apart? And exactly on the lips too?" I laughed loudly.
Most of what I read was stupid, but it made me feel smart while I was reading them. I enjoyed it way too much.
"The bad boy trope is so stupid."
"Then why are you still reading that book?"
"Because it's stupid."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It's fun to read 'cause I love how unreal these are!"
There were romance novels that were exceptionally good and I had fun reading them too, but what I read the most was the ones with the cheesy cliched tropes. I loved reading them because they fell under the 'it's so bad that it's good' category, criticizing them with my friends was a great pastime.
"Why do they react like they're gonna die from that small wound? Hospital from tripping? Really?" I chuckled again. "Haaa, I love these."
I smile as I came back to recall my novel reading days.
As Nera, I didn't have time, nor the interest, to check out books since I was preparing to be a knight. The only things I cared about were my body, specifically my aura techniques and strength, mostly, upholding the honor of our family.
But now, I have regained my previous memories.
As well as my addiction to these written works of art.
Oh god, I can't wait to read all the romance novels in this world... I wonder how many of them are here in this mansion's library?
Scrunching my eyebrows together, I shake my head as I am once reminded that I'm in a novel that I read before, reincarnated with a completely new life. I'm sure of it. Reading all those boring books in the library wasn't for naught, although I'm not sure why my memories had gone back to me.
Suddenly losing my appetite, I placed back the bread on my plate. While sighing, I closed my eyes, leaning on the backrest of the wooden chair, letting my head rest.
I stare at the ceiling for a while with no thoughts whatsoever.
After a few minutes, my hands cover my face then I shout, a muffled scream spread around my room, luckily for me, no one else is around to hear it.
Really! How the hell did I end up here?!
And not just any romantic comedy novel...
It's my all-time favorite webnovel!