When the Villainess Died, the Male Lead Went Crazy

Chapter 1

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Even though the end was already set in stone, there were some things that still weren’t easy to do.

But at least, for me, it was.

There were things that I couldn’t change even if I wanted to, and because I knew this, I decided to faithfully fulfill my role to the end.

Truly.
I don’t have to change it.

Because even though you tried your best to accept me as your wife, I know that you hate me.

Bang!

It was my father, Duke Percival, who pulled the trigger.
However, contrary to my father’s plan, the target of that bullet became me instead of him.

Kylian Cypnos.

The male lead of this novel, and the man who would later become the emperor who would unify the continent.
I was his wife, the villainess who was destined to die and disappear after my father’s coup d’état failed.

“Anais!”

The ear-splitting rupture made my mind wander.

Even so, the sound of rain hitting my ears intertwined with the stillness, making the surroundings quiet and beautiful.
I could hear the rain’s pitter-patter against my cheek, but for some reason, I couldn’t feel anything.
Maybe it’s because this body was someone else’s, not mine.
In the end, I wondered if even my senses had become someone else’s.

“Why… why…!”

Whatever it was that I saw on television before, it’s all a lie.
You don’t die the moment blood is spilled.

“Ugh…!”

Even though my vision blurred around me, I could see my Father’s gaze upon me very clearly.
It was a look of regret, but at the same time, shock.
I’m sorry, Father.
But I don’t wish for things to go as you planned.

Then, a hand raised my chin as my vision distorted.

“Kyli, an…”

“Hold, hold on.
Soon, the priest…”

“Kylian.”

I could feel my heartbeat slowing down.
The sensation in my left hand was gradually disappearing.
I heard that herbivores don’t feel any pain when they’re bitten by a carnivore.
Perhaps I was in a similar state.

“Now live… happily… Kylian.”

“Anais…”

To die for the main character, Kylian, who I loved the most.

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This was the ultimate goal that I set my mind to after transmigrating into this book.
I regarded this goal as the only purpose of my life—to save Kylian Cypnos, who was the male lead of the novel entitled, 〈 Beneath the Water’s Shadow 〉.

I lived the life of a villainess faithfully.
I did only the things he hated, did only the things he loathed, did only the things he feared.

So on the day I sacrificed myself for him, I wondered if he would laugh in derision.

“A-Ana… Hiic…”

It was strange how my eyes kept closing.
The last thing I saw was Kylian looking down with his big eyes that remained like an afterimage.

His voice wavered, like the echoing rainwater.
I could feel my body cooling down, but my chest continued to feel warm.

Goodbye, Kylian.

As much as the hope you gave me, I want you to live happily that much, too.

With this as my final thought, I felt a tug from below, pulling me down to an endless abyss.

 

 

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I’ve experienced death twice now.

The first was when I died in a car accident, and the second was when I took a gunshot.

When thinking about it like this, it seemed like a pathetic and pitiful thing, but I was satisfied with how I lived both of my lives.
Above all, in my second life, I died for the male lead, Kylian, who I loved very much.

Truthfully, that novel was what gave me the will to live during my first life when I had nothing else.

So, when I became Lady Anais Percival, who was the male lead’s villainous wife in my second life, it was a joyous and a strange feeling.

I can watch the person I loved the most from his side, and that beloved would look at me and talk to me.
Oh, how thrilling it was.

Although my bias hated me, it didn’t change my desire to repay this grace.

Above all, he was far more beautiful than how was described in the novel.
Black hair and bright yellow eyes filled with the sun’s radiance.
His face was beautiful enough to make anyone speechless for about five seconds if your eyes ever met.

With eyes that shone like stars and with a nose so exquisitely angular and high as though it was a sculpture’s.
Though his lips were always firmly shut, the sweet, low-pitched voice that flowed from them would make you want to listen to any request of his.
Everything about him was so alluring.

“Do you hate me?”

“…….”

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“We’ll still get married though.”

His face, looking at me at that time, was filled with some unknown disappointment.
It was at that moment that I realized that, just like in the original story, he hated me.
And, I recalled how I was destined to die even after being ignored until the end.

So, I stayed true to that mandated role.

Like a villainess, I made sure to cause him trauma—I loathed to think that he’d still remember me after I’ve died.

But even as I acted like that, I still vowed to take the bullet for him in the end.

Kylian was fated to be wounded gravely after being shot by my second life’s father, Duke Percival.
He would be blinded in one eye because of that bullet, and the impact would paralyze the lower part of his body for five years, making him unable to move.

However, as it was written in the original work, the duke’s coup failed.
After it was revealed that Kylian was the only remaining descendant of the emperor’s lineage, he was still enthroned as the emperor.

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