‘It hurts so much. I wish this day would just end…’
For someone in the final stages of cancer, reaching the end was a form of liberation.
“Wait… that’s not right. Why does my left eye hurt? I never heard of cancer spreading to the eyes.”
He voiced the confusion in his heart softly, but the moment he spoke, the bewilderment grew even stronger!
‘Why is it a girl’s voice!’
She snapped her eyes open and found her surroundings completely unfamiliar.
On an old, slightly damp desk sat various medicine bottles. Green leaves, looking like herbal scraps, were scattered messily across the surface. Before her sat a pile of half-mashed herbs.
“What is all this?”
She was baffled by the situation, but at that moment, a name surfaced in her mind, sending a flicker of terror through her heart.
Anis Fronster.
“No way…”
Unwilling to believe the reality, she endured the sharp pain in her left eye and pushed herself up from the chair. Trembling, she shuffled step by step toward a mirror to examine her current appearance.
Perky, full, and rounded curves were hidden beneath her thin clothing, sparking endless imagination.
Below her short skirt, those long, smooth, and straight legs looked like treasures from a deity, making her instinctively swallow.
After a long silence, she finally muttered three words: “She’s so… mature.”
‘I turned into such a sophisticated young woman?’
‘Is this a dream?’
But the sharp pain from her left eye told her this was no dream; everything was real.
She really had transmigrated into the novel she read just before passing away. She had even changed genders to become the story’s protagonist.
However, Anis couldn’t feel happy at all. Instead, she clutched her head, her face a mask of agony. “Why did I have to read a torture-the-protagonist novel!”
In the book, Anis was a girl with immense magical talent. She was scouted and adopted by a family, who carefully groomed her into an exceptional mage!
She had even pursued advanced knowledge, becoming a higher-level existence among mages — a Witch!
She thought she would become the family’s heir, but who would have thought the family’s purpose in adopting her was to turn her into a sacrificial tool for their revival?
She didn’t even have basic personal freedom!
Under the family’s coercion and control, she was forced to fight powerful magical beasts one after another until she died in the freezing snow!
The current moment was the critical turning point! After this, the plot would begin a downward spiral until its fatal end!
She had escaped one cage of death only to turn around and welcome a second!
“I finally managed to be reborn. I don’t want to die!”
If she had known she would transmigrate, it would have been so much better if she had read a power-fantasy webnovel!
The throbbing pain in her left eye pulled her back to reality. She felt a warm stream sliding down her cheek. Wiping it with her hand, she saw blood.
Because of her emotional outburst, the wound on her left eye — which hadn’t really healed — had split open again. Anis hurried back to the desk. While pressing gauze against the wound to stop the bleeding, she used her other hand to speed up the mashing of the herbs.
Judging by her current injuries, she must have transmigrated into the middle of the book, which was the beginning of the plot’s decline.
She gently applied the herbs to her eye. A cool sensation instantly suppressed the pain, easing her furrowed brows.
After bandaging the wound, Anis finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Whew…”
Leaning back in her chair, Anis began to calculate her next move. The most urgent task was to steer this downward-spiraling plot back on track and escape her fatal end!
But before she could think deeply about her next plan, a voice from outside startled her!
“Anis, I think I heard something. Are you awake?”
The wooden door, which had no lock, creaked three times before being pushed open. A small head with silver twin-tails peeked inside.
Once she confirmed Anis was awake, her face lit up with a smile as she walked in. “That’s great!”
Anis looked at the young girl before her with a slight frown. The girl seemed to love the color white. From her shirt and short skirt to the delicate white stockings covering her legs and the small high-heeled boots adorned with bows, everything was a uniform, pure white.
Moreover, her name carried a sense of whiteness as well: Shirley Fronster, the eldest daughter of this house and the sole heir.
However…
Anis remembered Shirley from the book as a well-developed girl with an incredible figure.
According to the book’s setting, Shirley was a tall, beautiful girl who had just celebrated her 18-year-old coming-of-age ceremony 2 months ago.
Logically, being 1 year younger than Anis, she should have used her age advantage to grow into a graceful, slender, and beautiful young woman — more of a mature young woman than Anis herself.
But after transmigrating and seeing her in person, why had she become a little girl?
Shirley walked to Anis’s side and asked with eyes full of concern, “Does the wound still hurt?”
“It’s fine now. Thank you for your concern,” Anis replied perfunctorily, while her mind continued to process the information about her.
In the book, she was set up as a villain — a manipulative girl who was pure white on the outside but pitch black on the inside…
One must never be fooled by her soft and cute appearance!
Anis took 2 steps back, maintaining her distance. “Shirley, is something the matter?”
“I knew you were hurt, Sister, so I specifically came to deliver some medicine.”
Shirley placed a small box on the table. “Inside are various herbs for healing. For Anis, who has mastered Herbology, this shouldn’t be a problem, right?”
“Thank you.”
Anis didn’t refuse, but she didn’t step forward to take the box either.
Having transmigrated and knowing the original plot, Anis was well aware that this girl’s true purpose was not this at all!
“There’s one more thing. I want to use this to trade for a potion brewed by Anis.”
Shirley pulled a locket from her pocket. Opening it revealed a ruby necklace with sharp edges that sparkled brilliantly. It was quite expensive.
Then, she opened the cabinet on her own and pointed inside. “Can I trade this for a bottle of High-Purity Mana Stability Potion?”
Anis’s brow creased slightly. Setting aside the potion she wanted to trade for, if Anis remembered correctly, the function of this necklace was to control a person’s body. Once it was put on, it could never be taken off!
In the original story, after Anis put it on, she became a complete puppet of this family, forced to fight countless powerful magical beasts until her death!
If the previous Anis could still resist, then after putting on this necklace, no matter how much she resisted, her fate would be sealed!
She clenched her fists and gave the only possible answer. “I don’t like jewelry.”
Shirley’s eyes filled with grievance. “Really? But this is my most cherished and valuable one…”
‘Keep acting. Just keep on acting.’
Anis issued a dismissal. “If there’s nothing else, please leave. I’m very tired and need to rest.”
“There’s one last thing!” Shirley continued to feign a pitiful expression. “Can I have breakfast with you tomorrow, Anis?”