THE VILLAINESS IS A MARIONETTE

CHAPTER 2

Cayena slowly opened her eyes.

'I'm really back.'

Lying on the bed, she thought about this chaotic situation.

Cayena was the villainess of the novel, 'The Lady of the Black Rose'.

'That's right, it's a novel.'

However, the situation was not as simple as that.

In the novel, she acted as a proper villainess and, as befitting of such a role, was killed by her crazy husband.

In her second life, she was born in the Republic of Korea.

Of course, she didn't remember her life as Cayena, but she had happened to read a novel called 'The Lady of the Black Rose.' In that novel, Cayena was portrayed as a foolish and wicked character.

Actually, most of the characters were like that. All characters except the heroine were socially powerful but insane.

Rezef was a sociopath; Heinrich was mad with power; and Bayel-was he even human? Among them, Raphael, the male lead, seemed to be the most normal, but he also had some mental problems.

'The novel was about how all the characters were influenced by the heroine.'

The original heroine, Olivia, was a living stabilizer that filled the characters'
deficiencies.

Cayena was driven by her jealousy and tried to poison Olivia.

But even though she was the villainess, Cayena alone wasn't evil enough to actually kill her.

Rather, she was used like a marionette by her tyrannic younger brother.

Rezef wanted to get control of Olivia, so he controlled Cayena to poison her. It seemed to succeed, but Bayel, the powerful magician and the owner of the Black Rose Garden, gave Olivia his power and revived her.

That was why the title of the novel was 'The Lady of the Black Rose.'

Afterward, the story predictably punished the wicked characters.

However, as the reader, she wasn't impressed by the narratives of the main characters.

Rather, she was drawn to the life of the villainess, Cayena.

The reason she was so concerned about her story, though, turned out to be because it was her previous life.

'To think that I was the villainess of the novel.'

For some reason, she had returned to Cayena's life. More than that, it was also when she was only 19 years old, before she came of age.

'I probably died, right?'

She only knew the person who stabbed her by his face.

She remembered that there was a scandal at the company-the man had been having an affair. He had to turn over the project he was working on because of that.

'That's already just a life gone by.'

She may have lost many things, but it had been a wretched life.

The woman had been competent. She was more than competent enough to be usable and more than enough to pose a threat to others.

Executive Director Kim had coaxed her to follow his commands and controlled her. It was just like Cayena's life.

'How did I return as Cayena?'

She had been abandoned by Rezef and married-sold-to Viscount Gillian. Then, in the end, she was gruesomely murdered by her insane husband.