(⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠) Author's Prologue. This story is something I've been reading and enjoying, though many apps don't provide a proper translation. I've pieced it together through my own searches for better versions of Chinese novels. This is how I usually read them, and I thought you might like it too. All story and translation credits go to their respective creators and owners. I'm only sharing it here in this form so that it can be helpful to others who want to read and enjoy it as well. (⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠³⁠˘⁠)⁠♥

"My sword is one inch away from slicing your neck. My victory is one inch away, yet why can't I do it, Althea? What kind of spell have you cast on me to have me thinking about you all day?!" ----------- Byeol meets a tragic death at age nineteen, but instead of passing on to the afterlife, she finds herself reincarnated into a novel she read in her past life. Now living as Althea Asten, the villainess, who is also bound to lose her life at age nineteen, she realizes that if she doesn't do something to change her future, she will die at a young age in this life too! Now fully motivated and confident, she is ready to rewrite this story until she can escape this empire. Aias Solace. The male lead in the original novel is ruthless and cold at heart. There's one person he hates more than his emperor father, Althea Asten. She who has been blessed by the goddess, is seen as a threat to the throne by him. He shall do anything in his power to make sure Althea falls from her power, taking the temple down with her. His plan is perfect - all he has to do is execute it. What happens, though, when he realizes Althea is acting... strange? Like she's not exactly... Althea. - First book in the echoes of life and death series - [A/N] All art belongs to their respective owners. None of the art (in the cover, in the headers etc) is mine, only the storyline. -Detailed murder scenes -mature language

In my first life, I Josephine de Franzaie, fell in love with the Crown Prince Edgar who was also My fiancé, but the feeling wasn't mutual. He loved some one else. I went Mad on Jealousy and harmed his beloved. I bullied her and nearly killed her. This caused Him to execute me when he became king. Before I died my last words was, 'I wish I didn't fall for y-'. and I died In my Second life I was reincarnated as Sarah Forn in the Modern world, I was the of two loving parents who were poor. I worked hard and became a world class politician as well as the Leader of a Mafia Group.But I died by the hands of another right when I retired when I was 28. In My third life, I reincarnated as Josephine de Franzaiem again. I regained my memories of my last two lives, I'm the villain of a romance novel I read in My second life. I don't want to die again. This time I won't fall in love, I'll be good to my family, and stay away from everyone related to the main story of the novel. Come on!