A Painting Of The Villainess

They disfigured her, and her mother died an unjust death. They thought they had ended her with a cup of poisonous wine, but had they? She rose again against the odds and ended up plunging into burning flames. Maybe it was already written that her fate was to end in the flames. Just as her rebirth! Another chance, A new fate.

She was reborn in the body of the villainess — the woman everyone hated, especially her cold, powerful fiancé, Hoai Trach. In the original story, she died unloved and scorned. But this time, she’s not here to chase love… she's here to survive. Cold shoulders? She shrugs them off. Schemes? She avoids them like the plague. Yet the more she withdraws from him, the more he starts to notice her. And soon, the man who once hated her… begins to fall — hard. Can a rewritten villainess change her ending… and his heart?

Betrayed. Starved. Left to die alone in a world that chewed up the weak and spat them out. Gu Qingran trusted the wrong people, loved the wrong man, and paid the ultimate price. But fate? Fate gave her a second chance. Reborn 30 days before the apocalypse, she refuses to be the naive fool she once was. This time, there are no attachments, no kindness—only power. With the Omni-Alchemist System, she can create weapons deadlier than an arsenal, fortresses stronger than steel, and medicines that could cure or kill with a single drop. While the world slept, she stockpiled. While they wasted time..she built an empire. When the world burned, she rose from the ashes—untouchable, unstoppable and unchallenged. Let the apocalypse come. Let them beg for mercy. Because in this life, Gu Qingran is no one’s prey. She is the storm. Character Art done by Punzygracy>Daily updates 3 chapters, 4 chapters during weekends ( ˶°ㅁ°) !!

—WSA 2025 Entry— Discord: https://discord.gg/ed7bKYKh5q Melissa, a common salary woman, now Lillian Ker Arius, an extra she had never heard of, has to survive in a world based on a Otome RPG game she played before meeting her untimely end. Finally, being able to meet a character she admired for so long due to their uptight, strict, but gentle personality, how will she fair when she finds out that this character she admires so much is secretly a yandere underneath all her coldness?

After getting hit by the truck, Luke was reincarnated as a target character in a reverse harem game. He was supposed to throw away his fiancée—the Villainess—and mindlessly follow the Protagonist. A side character he was destined to be, however, even if Luke accepts his fate as a side character, he cannot let the Villainess meet with the same dead end. ----------- Additional tags: No yaoi, no yuri, no NTR. Obsessive character, possessive character, solo-romance, no harem, early romance, possible lemons.

The ordinary world is not what it seems. Many strange events unfold in the background but go unnoticed by the masses or are covered up. A supernatural world exists along with the natural world which can only be seen by those called Balancers. Spirits and Evil Spirits exist along with Balancers who possess unique powers to see and fight them. Among the many ordinary humans, a girl undergoes a lot of suffering and experiences a prophetic vision. It grants her knowledge of the hidden world and of some future events. The girl loses almost everything she has and then takes the steps needed to become a Balance Breaker. Her past identity has to be abandoned for the sake of survival so she renamed herself Ash. Ash gains the powers of a Skin-Walker and begins living in such a world taking on the appearances of others, experiencing their lives and living under the mask of another person.

A classic villainess/heroine tale that puts a new twist on the genre. This Industrial Era fantasy tells the story of Nadia—a secret agent with a dry love life and an unhealthy addiction to visual novels—as she Transmigrates into the body of Vivian Moore, the villainess of the novel, from a family of business CEOs. All the destruction flags were raised, and Vivian was at the end of her rope. Her life was about to take a turn for the worst, but with Nadia behind the wheel, she seized Fate by the hairs of its head and yanked it into a sharp U-turn. No more weakness was allowed! If something wanted to get rid of her, she would stab it to death. If someone wanted to trample over her, she would shoot them into a beehive. And there was no stopping her because she had the strongest weapon a main character can have: the System!

Reina Suzuki was an overworked office worker—until she died and woke up as Lavinia Devereux, the infamous villainess princess of the Elarion Empire. She knows how this story ends: she’ll drink poison and die. A painless, easy death. So why bother changing fate? Villainy, revenge, redemption—sounds like way too much work. She decides to do absolutely nothing and let the story play out. But her terrifying father, Emperor Cassius Devereux, won’t ignore her like he’s supposed to. He watches her, questions her, and—worst of all—starts acting like he actually cares. Lavinia just wanted a quiet villainess retirement… So why does everything keep changing?

Blood runs thicker than water. Lillian Chen—no, Lillian Lu—met a tragic end in her previous life with not even her body intact. Branded as a villainess in the pages of someone else's story, her fate happened to be betrayed by the Chen family- the very family she devoted her life to. But the fate had other plans. She was reborn, and this time she was out for revenge. Discarded by the Chens and overshadowed by Eva, the so-called “real daughter,” Lillian vows to rewrite her story—this time, on her own terms. And she plans to save her poor real family- the people who truly cared for her- this time from their ill-fated endings. To her surprise, they all turned out to be bigshots! Her mother is the mastermind behind the most powerful intelligence agency. Her eldest brother? Lord of the criminal underworld. The second? A world-renowned surgeon with a genius mind. And the third? A legendary hacker wanted by nations. It seemed she had a dangerous father as well! Also, why was the richest man in the world chasing after her!? This time, Lillian was determined to be the villainess she was and take the world by storm.

Han So-Young, 30, single, Korean, and totally uninterested in men — or so she claimed — lived a quiet life until she died heroically saving a stray puppy from a speeding truck. A tragic yet poetic end. What she didn’t expect… was to wake up inside a novel. Not just any novel. A brutal, blood-soaked historical fantasy called Mystery You. A book known for its vicious politics, class warfare, and a body count in the triple digits. A story without romance. Without forgiveness. Without happy endings. Worse yet, she’s transmigrated not as a bystander… But as the villainess herself — Elizabeth Port Shelberg. Daughter of the infamous Shelberg family. Slave owner. War profiteer. Tyrant in pearls and corsets. The woman destined to be executed at the hands of the revolutionary hero, Arthur Penrose, by Volume 3. So-Young has no one. No mysterious system. No help from people. All she has is the memory of how it ends and perhaps a gifted ability she gained after being transmigrated. Now trapped in the 1850s of an alternate world, where slavery still thrives and power is soaked in blood, So-Young has two choices: • Follow the script. • Or burn the whole damn book down. But changing fate won’t be easy. Because in this world… The only thing worse than being powerless is being merciful.

"Five princesses, one throne - only the fiercest will reign." In a world where power comes at the cost of family and emotions, five estranged daughters must fight each other for their mother's throne. Amidst the current succession contest, they must learn how to navigate their way in politics, loyalty, legacy, betrayal and love.

A fiction&fantasy story about about the Villain and the hero's live, how they annoyed each other to become friends but it all goes down hill for Opal. The Villain(Opal) she couldn't stand it anymore she hated being disliked by everyone no matter what she did to help so she decided to get revenge, that is when their friendship fell apart and now the hero has come to put her down.

Divya wakes up in a cliché cultivation novel—only she’s not the badass heroine. Nope, she’s Xiaopang, the doomed side character meant to die for plot development. With zero cultivation skills, a killer headache, and a demon leopard on her heels, Divya’s got one goal: survive. Who needs divine talent when you’ve got sarcasm, sheer stubbornness, and a deep grudge against translated novels? Time to rewrite fate—because dying to make someone else look good? Yeah, not happening.

Xian lived his days doing what he loved, conquering the dating sim game he played with a touch of tragedy again and again looking for a way romance to one character. But, just when he reached what seemed to be the prelude of the route he wanted, it turns out that was the end of it as the game rolled the credits. "What!? Are you kidding me?" Indignant and was almost about to smash his laptop, an email notification plastered itself on the screen which caught his attention. If this were a novel, then he knew too well what happens next when something like that pops up. And he was right. Apparently some entities that were watching him got touched by his dedication. But still, he did a grave sin of not taking care of his body which caused him to die. As a compromise, the entities decided to punish him, by making him relieve doing what he loved. Transmigrating him in the game world he loved so much, to accomplish what he left unfinished and reach ‘the end’ he wanted to witness. But his first day didn’t went so well, as just minutes into reincarnation his vision already spun. He had been beheaded. By the orders of the very same character he was trying to save. That was his first regression. “Damn bitch.” He spat out of habit right in front of her. It was a habit he developed whenever he got frustrated with her character. He was beheaded once more, then came his second regression again. No Updates on Saturday and Sunday, 3-5 Chapters a Week. Also available on ScribbleHub and RoyalRoad!

Evadne Persephone was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder at the age of six. To avoid the scrutiny of New York’s high society, her parents, Cielo and Romos Monteverde, decided to leave everything behind and settle in a quiet countryside village in France. For years, Evadne lived a peaceful and happy life with her parents. She had everything she could ever ask for, until her eighteenth birthday, when the nightmares returned, disrupting the tranquility they had worked so hard to build. Unable to help their daughter themselves, her parents turned to a renowned psychiatrist based in New York. Left with no choice, they returned to the very city that held their most painful memory, the tragic death of their eldest daughter, Ceres. But in that city, Evadne discovers a truth far more haunting. This is not her first life. She was once Empress Ceres Evadne Valeria of Aquilonis, in the realm of Solmara. And the nightmares she suffers from… are fragments of a life she wishes she could forget.

Alya, gadis biasa dengan hidup pas-pasan dan dunia yang membosankan, terbangun di tempat yang tak dikenalnya—dunia dalam novel yang pernah ia baca diam-diam. Masalahnya? Ia bukan pemeran utama. Ia adalah Arianna Verlice, villainess arogan yang dibenci semua orang... dan dijadwalkan mati tragis dalam waktu satu tahun. Tapi tidak seperti karakter aslinya, Alya punya kelebihan: ia tahu jalan cerita, akhir yang menunggu, dan siapa saja yang akan menusuk dari belakang. Kini, dengan wajah cantik, darah bangsawan, dan status sosial tinggi, ia bertekad tidak akan menjadi pion siapa pun. Namun semakin ia berusaha menghindari kematian, semakin dalam ia terlibat dalam konspirasi istana: koridor tersembunyi, kakak bangsawan yang hilang, pesan rahasia dari sang pangeran, dan sejarah kelam yang bahkan tidak tertulis di novel asli. Dunia ini tidak sesederhana kisah cinta dan balas dendam. Dan Arianna... mungkin satu-satunya yang bisa mengubah akhirnya.

[Mommy Villainess (The Lady with the Crab Mallet)] *** [Original book cover. Artwork by Artist Michiro for WN Author sola_cola.] *** In Tilly's past life, she was a villainess who neglected her husband and son for power. Then, the "real woman of the prophecy" came and took them away from her. When she failed to seize the throne for herself, she was executed for all the crimes she committed. Then, came her rebirth. She wants to meet her son again so she vowed to be a good person this time. Good enough to seduce Captain Kiho--- her husband in her past life. But soon, she realized that flirting with the captain is the least of her worry. After all, she discovered that her "evilness" in the past was caused by the true villain--- someone who wanted her dead to steal the special power that she didn't know she possessed. Power that has something to do with the Four Ancient Beasts of the Moonchester Empire: The Red Phoenix, the Blue Dragon, the Golden Tiger, and The Black Serpent. Apparently, she's the Beast Priestess... ... and her lineage isn't supposed to exist anymore. Because of her blood, there are people who want her gone. So now, aside from having a happy life with Kiho and their son, she has a new goal: to burn down the b*tches who want to ruin her family again. *** [EXCERPT] *** [‘Why am I so horny tonight?’] Tilly thought to herself while sucking the crab leg suggestively. And then, she noticed that Captain Kiho gulped while staring at her mouth. [‘Ah, I’m not the only who’s hot and bothered here.’] She didn’t know if it was the alcohol in her system or her desperation to have a child… … but she suddenly felt like flirting with him. They were bound to get married and have a child together anyway. “Captain,” said Tilly as soon as she pulled the crab leg out of her mouth. “I can clearly see that we’re both attracted to each other. Shall we spend the night together?” Kiho remained pokerfaced but she saw panic cross his now glowing yellowish eyes. Ah, the captain was flustered. “My lady, you seem to be really drunk.” She walked towards him and when he didn’t move an inch, she stood in front of him and looked up at him with a grin. “Captain, are you the type of man who will only sleep with his betrothed?” “That seems to be the case, my lady.” He said that as if he was forcing the words out of his mouth. Plus, she could see in his eyes that he was conflicted– that it was hard for him to reject her. [‘Aw, I didn’t know that I have this kind of effect on my ex-husband.’] Or perhaps she just didn’t pay attention in the past. “Captain, I have a solution to your problem,” said Tilly in a playful voice. Then, she stood on her toes and whispered in Kiho’s ear. “Let’s get married.”

A web novel enthusiast finds himself abruptly reborn into a fantasy world after a fatal lightning strike. But instead of the hero, he wakes up as Lyra von Elenhardt, the notorious villainess destined to die in every storyline he'd ever read! At just twelve years old, his new life as a pampered noble girl takes a shocking turn with a marriage proposal from the Crown Prince—the very event that signals Lyra's tragic end.

In a world where family heritage and bloodlines matter, a woman named Selene is forced away from the kingdom's center to a forgotten area. She once lived in luxury but has lost her title and home. She is sent to a distant duchy that has been neglected and is full of political problems. This exile isn't where her story ends—it is only the beginning. Selene possesses a sharp mind, a strong will, and knows a special sword technique. She must navigate a world that views her as a threat, a scandal, and a villain. In the darkness of her disgrace, she starts to forge a new type of power—one she claims for herself, not one given to her. This is a tale of hidden truths, secrets among nobles, and the quiet rise of someone who had fallen from grace. In this world, destiny is not something you inherit—it is something you build for yourself.

> Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Yuri (slow-burn) I was just trying to finish a good book... not get reincarnated into it. After binge-reading a twenty-four-volume fantasy epic without sleep, I died and woke up as Celia Averna—a spoiled noble girl and third-rate villainess who gets kicked out of the story before the real plot begins. She was meant to be a footnote. A joke. But this Celia has one advantage: she’s read the entire novel. Now armed with meta knowledge, sarcasm, and no plot armor whatsoever, I’m rewriting fate one step at a time. Surviving a magical academy, avoiding doom flags, and possibly—accidentally—stealing the heroine’s spotlight? Bring it on. After all, who says a background villainess can’t be the main character?

A modern-day genius hacker dies and transmigrates into the body of a notorious villainess from a popular romance novel. In the original plot, the villainess met a tragic end—executed for scheming against the heroine. But this MC wants none of that drama. All she desires is a quiet, peaceful life. Too bad the characters around her have other plans. So she coldly humphs and says, “So what if my hacking skills don’t work here? I’ll just hack your brain and mince it if that’s what it takes to live freely and in peace.”

I did nothing with my entire life. Literally nothing. Then I died — not saving a cat from a tree heroically, not even struck by Truck-kun — but of a heart attack caused by a BL manga confession scene. Pitiful? Perhaps. When I begged for a second chance, the gods listened. Or at least, they jeered at me. Instead of returning as a mighty sorcerer or a spoiled heiress, I found myself as a young woman with awful vision in some obscure nobleman's manor house. My eyesight is so poor I can hardly recognize faces. I trip, blink, and consistently confuse people with chairs (and vice versa). But here's the kicker: I've been reborn as the young stepmother of a future villainess — a child who will grow up to be the "evil empress" in a bestselling romance novel that I used to detest. And so, with only my half-working eyes, shreds of memory, and sheer obstinacy, I'm going to do something — anything — other than waste this life. Whether that is steering my evil stepdaughter, making it through treacherous noble schemes, or just learning how to walk straight without crashing into a wall. I've got my chance now. And this time, I won't let it slide through my fuzzy fingers.

Kim Eun-Ji is a college student with a passion for otome games, but one game in particular has always frustrated her: Saintess Chronicles. In the game, the villainess, Selene Ravencroft, is always sentenced to death, while the flawless Saintess Eri is glorified. Despite playing through all the possible routes, Eun-Ji can never change Selene's tragic fate. Her sympathy for the misunderstood villainess and her disdain for the seemingly perfect Eri grows with every playthrough. One morning, after finishing the game yet again and angrily complaining about its unfair ending, Eun-Ji realizes she’s late for class. In her rush, she’s tragically hit by a runaway truck and dies. She wakes up to find herself reincarnated inside the world of Saintess Chronicles—not as a random side character, but as the villainess, Selene Ravencroft, on the day of her gift awakening! Now, Eun-Ji now as Selene Ravencroft must try her best to survive at all costs but for some reason the plot keeps continuing despite her making changes.

Adria Ellhart was born as the Villainess of the the novel Rose's dream path when she was happy that she was born as a baby soon it shattered as she found out she was forced to play the Villainess. So she decided to have a secret life so that she can escape from the plot of the novel and vicious nobles. Will she able to live as she want by avoiding the death flags that is following her or will she die in vain as written in novel

Claire's life was miserable. She was pushed around, belittled, and bullied her entire life until one day her health failed her. Claire's existence should have ended right then and there, but she was given a second chance. Reincarnated as the villainess from one of her favorite childhood games. Claire finally has the chance to turn the tables and dish out some of her own abuse. One issue...she couldn't but fall for her would-be main target. Note For Royal Road Staff:https://www.royalroad.com/profile/737618/fictions

She was the most powerful and infamous swordmaster in history — until she died reading a romance novel. Now in the body of the villainess fated to die, Kaelith has only one goal: survive in a new world on the brink of war.

"Kiss my foot, butler." "What the hell?!" The day Senay was appointed as Princess Serena's butler, he suddenly remembered he was inside a game world he'd played in his past life! The bad news: he became the butler of Serena Ruthelphia, the one destined to become a Tyrant Queen and the Villainess of the very game he'd played! The good news: he knows the future. But how in the hell was he supposed to handle the egoistical, prideful, cruel, arrogant, and sadistic Princess? The only solution for him to survive the ordeal was to prevent the Villainess Queen from becoming a Tyrant, but that might be more difficult than he'd initially thought...

Ayaka Rin was born a commoner, poor, orphaned, and invisible. But with a brilliant mind and unmatched skill in military strategy, she clawed her way up the ranks of the Virelian army, dreaming of a better world. She fought not with a sword, but with tactics, diplomacy, and the will to survive. But dreams shatter easily. Betrayed by her comrades in the heat of war and left to die in a demon battlefield, Ayaka falls into enemy hands. Faced with death, she makes a desperate choice: serve the Demon King or perish. Now bound by a deadly curse, Ayaka becomes a reluctant pawn in the demons' war against humanity. But she is no pawn. As war rages across kingdoms and loyalties crumble, Ayaka uses her mind as her weapon. Every alliance she builds, every plan she executes, brings her closer to one goal: revenge on those who betrayed her, and the truth behind the war that broke her. They call her a villainess. But she will be the last one laughing.

Isabella had only been reading a novel to pass the time.a tragic tale of a cold-hearted villainess who schemed against the beloved heroine, only to meet a fiery and untimely demise. But when Isabella wakes up in the body of that same villainess, she finds herself thrust into a world of wealth, intrigue, and betrayal. However, there’s a twist: she has been transported three years before the catastrophic fire that claimed the villainess’s life. Armed with her knowledge of the novel’s events and outcomes, Isabella quickly realizes this is her chance to rewrite the story and her fate.