The Chronicle of Aurelia Aurelius

Chapter 1

           "What is destiny? Does destiny always come true? If the person is destined to die tomorrow, can that person avoid the death? Do humans just follow the flow of destiny, or can we break the flow of it?"

That was what I always thought about the book, where I read my own fate in the book's world and became this person as 'villain', but it seemed I needed an obligation to follow the book's world, yet if the fate of mine was a death of me, surely I would avoid that fate, no matter what God told me to follow it.

There were two types of fate that believers believed in: the first was the fate where humans could not change it; no matter how much humans wanted to change this fate, they would face it; it was the fate of death; and the second was the fate of a soulmate. God already decided your fate about those things—where, when, or how you would die, or who would be your soulmates—before human birth.

The other fate was the fate you could change; there was a lot of this type of fate; the fate you would pass the exam depended on; whether you wanted to study or not; it was not God's matter, it was your matter. You wanted to be healthy, rich, famous, etc. It was your fate that you could change how you act.

But there was an exception to the fate you couldn't change; the exception was that you still needed to try to achieve it. For example, if you wanted to have a soulmate or partner to marry but didn't make any effort to find one, you just stayed alone, waiting for someone to come to you. God would not unite you with fate, and if you didn't want to die fast, you needed to stay healthy, eat healthy food, and don't do something stupid. Sometimes this became a paradox: if God already knew my fate, why did I need to try to achieve it? If, in the end, God already knew about me from the beginning,

So did the book's story like the god's fate? The character of the book could not change it, but if someone was aware of the story, it could change the story or the fate of the book. Even though I would be against the gods or goddesses in my own world. Still, I refused to go with the flow of the book or what the book told me.

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One day in the evening, I opened my eyes and saw a ceiling—a ceiling that I didn't recognize. In front of me was my long hair. I didn't know I had long hair. Half asleep, I tried to get up from the bed, but my hair kept sticking out in front of me. I looked around; I didn't recognize the room. There was a big mirror, a big dressing table, a big wardrobe, a big window, and a big balcony beside the bed.

I saw the door open in my room. There was a maid who brought a bowl with a towel and entered the room. Our eyes met, and suddenly she was surprised and dropped the bowl with the towel. I raised my hand to call her, but she immediately exited the room.

I laid back and examined what the hell was going on. Did I have this type of room before? Did I have this white hair before? I stood up from the bed to check my face and body. I walked to the big mirror beside the window. In front of the mirror, I saw someone with thin cloth pyjamas; was this a body of mine? The body was small. I couldn't believe what I just saw. I kept touching the body and the hair.

When I heard the door open, I returned my attention to it. I saw some people entering my room. There was the maid before, a lady with long white hair, a man with short white hair, and a little boy and a little girl behind them. Their faces were so worried.

"Is that really my Aurelia?" The lady spoke.

The lady and the man immediately approached me and hugged me. I wanted to reply to the hug, but I didn't know what was going on; it felt awkward. The lady showed her face to me, and I saw there was a tear in her eyes.