Chapter 1 - Ugly Baby

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*^The above image was found on Pinterest it's called morning train by Dennis Kaya and can also be found on artstation.com^*

It was just after 11am in the morning on a Saturday and Yasmin Adam was standing in the slightly crowded train with the warm sun cutting into her shoulder. The oversized coat that she was too anxious to return wrapped around her relatively average frame keeping herself warm in the late October weather.

Yasmin was a 23 year old who was on her way back from an interview for a part time job. Although slower than others who would start working at 16 whilst they studied that had never been an option for the now 23 year old woman. It could be the result of her family sheltering her from the world coupled with her lack of common sense. She became anxious and fearful whenever she went outside. The only strength that she had was her lack of thoughts or naively impulsive nature, and that was barely a strength at all. But coupled with her fears and anxiety it allowed herself some shelter from the outside world, as well as showing her heart on her sleeve. She wasn't talented or rather she lacked self-esteem to live up to the expectations people placed on her. It had gotten to the point where she understood that she was lazy and didn't understand why her body would automatically breathe. It was needy. But despite all this she was happy that she attended her first interview, because she passed the CV/resume stage.

She was contently reading a web novel about a 45 year old woman, who on top of having an envious life in her real/original world got transmigrated into a main characterless novel world. She was a cruel woman who dubbed herself as a female lead.

The story deviated from the typical transmigration texts in that the protagonist couldn't remember the story from the novel she read properly. But could eerily remember the parts in the novel where others were in pain or suffered. Readers all over the globe were particularly shocked by this, because the protagonist only remembered these parts clearly having a clear outline on how to elevate herself whilst further harming said victims.

She took all the work of those that were working endlessly for that one break or to help others. The protagonist was evil and vindictive in doing so. She would also be very lazy and only when other characters had a certain scenario that would save them, she'd appear working hard.

What made this worse was that the entire web novel was in first person. So the readers had a front row to how disgusting the protagonist was. The protagonist was supposedly smart and cruel, thinking herself cool for being that way. She thought she represented a real person and was unique. One exception where she seemed somewhat passable was when she complemented the body she got transmigrated into. However, that was short lived, as the body and her were the same type of people. So much so that they received the same birth abilities.

Although she doesn't mention it a lot, abilities in the alternate universe she had been transmigrated to were very important. Yet, since everything was from her own perspective the readers only knew that abilities weren't great to have. The protagonist herself was only ever trying to hide the abilities and the transmigrated body she was in also did the same thing.

She was rich, had high status and was a 'pitiful' person.

The protagonist could do anything and get by by being lazy. The only problems that arise could easily be solved by the description her transmigrated body had already built for herself. If she wanted to be safe she could enter an idol reality show to become safer and gain a fanbase that would protect her. If she was ever even slightly found out about killing, beating, bullying or etc. No one will openly question her, but instead stand by her side to defend the 'framed' heiress. She dropped her family that she knew was going to take work to fix to live in another rich higher status family that were wanting a daughter.

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