Be The Villainess
Seira thought her life was already over.
As a wife bound to a man who knew how to twist love into control, she spent years giving up pieces of herself, her freedom, and her dreams.
She didn’t fall apart overnight.
It happened over the years... years of making herself smaller, quieter, more convenient.
Years of handing over bits of herself to someone who only knew how to take.
He didn’t want a partner. He wanted control.
And she let him have it.
Her time, her choices, her energy, and even control over when she should speak.
She thought it was easier than bracing for another argument, another cold shoulder, another quiet punishment.
She learned to make herself small.
To not take up space.
To silence the parts of her that once laughed too loud or dreamed too big.
But then came the tragedy.
It broke her.
Then it broke her open.
And that’s when it happened.
Death came for her. But so did something else.
A second chance.
Not in the world she knew, but in another one entirely... one with magic, kingdoms, and rules she didn’t understand.
A place where her name wasn’t hers anymore.
Where fate had already written her as the villainess.
She is Valerie Goldstein now. A name she didn’t recognize at first, until she realized where she was.... "Hearts of Alora." a romance fantasy novel she had barely skimmed once out of boredom.
Valerie was the villainess.
The cold, sharp-tongued noblewoman who made life hell for the gentle heroine. She was never meant to win and the heroine? She looked exactly like Alona.
Seira hadn’t seen Alona in years... not since everything fell apart.
But here she was again, blonde and saintly and adored by all, playing the role of the chosen one and Seira? She was the one the world hated on sight.
The role she was given didn’t fit, but the system kept nudging her toward cruelty.
Orders popped up like warnings:
Ruin this.
Humiliate that.
Break their heart.
But she couldn’t.
Wouldn’t.
She chose not to follow the script and strangely, it made the world around her shift. The people who were supposed to hate her started to stop and speak to her.
Watch her like they saw something different... something not written into the story.
She wasn’t trying to win them over.
She was just trying to survive.
To figure out who she was outside of what the world told her to be.
And then the system dropped something new.
A line of text that made her stomach drop.
Another person has entered this world.
Identity: Unknown.
Role: One of the nine love interests.
Warning: Possible threat.
Possible identity match: Maximilian Cortez.
Her ex-husband.
The man who’d broken her.
The man who might now be one of the love interests in this cursed story.
But if she’d already lived through one life pretending to be something she wasn’t… maybe this time, she could rewrite everything.