"I would like a cup of coffee, please,"
said the woman with short hair, dressed in a typical outfit for a female professor - a formal blouse, a skirt, and comfortable shoes. She wore minimal jewelry and makeup, but even that couldn't hide her natural beauty.
The woman was none other than Wang Mingya, a Professor of Literature at the prestigious Huaxia University.
She asked the kitchen staff for coffee, while reading something on her smartphone with great interest.
After finishing her classes for the day, Wang Mingya always made a beeline for this cafe to indulge in her favorite pastime - reading web novels.
Despite her reputation among faculty and students as "The Ice Queen", her favorite leisure activity was reading web novels, especially those with a romantic theme.
This time was different, as it was the finale of her favorite novel, [Counterattack of the Villainess].
The novel followed a mistreated villainess who travels back in time to right the wrongs of her past. This was a common theme among novels of this genre, which usually followed a typical path of face-slapping and feel-good moments.
As the novel reached its final moments, the villainess had already avenged all those who had mistreated her in her past life. Wang Mingya read with relish, wondering who the villainess would finally end up with.
[-Isadora stood victorious, gazing out at the familiar mansion before her. She was sure that all those guys were searching for her. She wasn't sure why even those who had loathed her in her past life became attached to her after she came back.
"It's a pity...If only you guys were like this in my previous life..."
she whispered in a sad tone before her eyes glinted with a sinister gleam.
"The threads of fate unravel... time is but a means to an end."
THE END-]
"What?" Wang Mingya muttered.
"That's the end???"
She couldn't believe that was it. The novel she had been reading for the past year had finally ended, just not the way she expected. She had thought the ending would be similar to other romance novels, where the protagonist would live happily ever after with one of the male leads. After all, the novel had many main male leads and numerous side male leads.
Wang Mingya rubbed her temples to calm herself.
"Miss, your coffee~," the waitress cheerfully laid out the coffee she had ordered on the table.
"Thank you," Wang Mingya smiled as she took the cup and just as she was about to put it over her lips,
BA-DUMP!
She felt time stop as she could hear her own heartbeat. Which grew louder and louder until she couldn't take it anymore.
She felt the cup slipping from her hands, falling to the floor and breaking apart in the process. Everything looked so slow, even the shock on the waitress's face appeared very slowly.
'I'm sleepy,'
Wang Mingya could feel her consciousness slipping away as everything soon turned black.
THUD.
"MISS WANG!!!" the waitress screamed.
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"The threads of fate unravel... time is but a means to an end.
Yet, even in this moment, a new thread is woven, a new destiny created.
Who will it ensnare, and where will it lead?..."
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