As the Eckrett Empire declares their new king, a golden king appears from the south with an eye of greed for the empire and the new reigning queen. With the transition from being a Duchess to the empire's new queen, will Tori be able to protect what she has fought for now that the stakes are higher? Will life in the palace be able to knock the unrestrained queen of mean? Will her wicked reign prevail?

When Victoria becomes the official heir of the Rozenreff Dukedom, she decides to be the queen with the king of her choosing. - - - - - - - - Set after a year when Victoria Rozenreff announces to the high society that she takes side with the aristocratic faction. Victoria will move her plans to make the second prince, Prince Corean, sit on the throne as the next king. Victoria decides that she will be the second Queen Regent in the history of the Eckrett Empire. The line has been drawn between foes and friends. Will she be able to do it when the impending death of Prince Corean is still set in stone? Will she become the queen with her chosen king candidate? - - - - - - - - - WICKED SERIES 2 An Original Story Date Started: April 23, 2021 BOOK 2 of The Villainess

Amazing cover made by: Geksxx Talia grew up without trusting anyone but herself to live. With no father figure to look up to and a clinically depressed mother who keeps on betraying her, Talia crawls her way to the top of the social chain to survive. But one drunken night, she meets her terrible end. Just like that, Talia loses all she worked hard for, or so she thought. When she wakes up, she becomes a duke's eldest daughter in a medieval era where alliances and conspiracies dictate a noble's future and where love is a luxury that will lead anyone to ruin. No matter how twisted the world she is pushed into, Talia is determined to live long. She realizes that she is given a second chance to live - or not. Reality slaps her hard when she learns that she is now inside the body of a sixteen-year-old villain character of the Netflix series that she binge-watched, "Thorny Crown"! Talia, who is now the infamous Lady Victoria, entered a popular yet twisted Netflix series two years before the plot started. And in that plot, the character of Lady Victoria is meant to die like cannon fodder for the female lead! Talia refuses to die again. And this time, she is going to extend her helping hand to another side character, the second prince of the story, Prince Cory. She decides to be the queen and defy the plot called destiny with the king of her choosing. In an era of deceit and conspiracies, will she be able to keep her head as she walks the thorny path of a villain? With her head on the line, will she be able to control her blooming feelings for the pawn that she has chosen?

It's game over! I was reincarnated into a villain in an otome game, but this is already the end of the game! I lose! What's more, this game has a really brutal ending for me. No! I refuse to die like this. I'll show you what a REAL villain looks like. Watch me as I wriggle out from this horrible starting situation and build my way up from a disgraced princess all the way to the new Empress.

Lenora did not have a wonderful life. After her engagement to Prince Ronan is broken, she loses everything... her reputation, her home, and her family. Starving on the streets, she dies angry and bitter at how her life unfolded... Only to wake up in her old bed, fifteen again, five years before she died. Now she must struggle to change her fate, and the fate of those around her. This time she won't trust in something as flimsy or changeable as love. No, this time she'll have the power and the money to protect herself. Lenora has already lost everything once. She's not going to lose again. No matter what the cost. (Cover submitted by @QueenHelmer)

The world? Ha! Even hell and heaven fear her! Teufel was a notorious terrorist well-known for her ruthless nature. The government was already at its wits trying to catch her but for naught. While enjoying the peak of her achievements and fame, her soul suddenly transmigrated to an otome game she never even played. Reincarnated: "You have death flags on every route because of the heroine!" Teuful: "Haha! Then that makes it easy, let's just kill the heroine. Problem solved! I'm a freaking genius." *smirks* Reincarnated: *facepalm*... Author's Notes: Credits to gumicatkiller (she's an artist in tumblr) for her art which I used as a book cover. WARNING: This story contains violence, cursing and some offensive words to several culture/religion which may not be suitable to some audiences.

Irene is a known writer. Her published works have always been well-received despite her notable fascination with bittersweet endings. Not just that, she's also a linguist and of course, a wide reader. One fateful night, while she was at an old rodden bookstore she happened to notice a book somewhat glimmering in the bookshelf. Realizing that it was well-written, she took it home, read it without putting it down for two days and eventually found herself in awe with the character of Magnus Baudin Veritas Courtenay who she considered to be a tragic yet well-rounded antagonist. In her mind, before she succumbed to her drowsy sleep-deprived fatigue, Irene unbeknownstly yearned to save this villain from his treacherous path of misery. When she woke up, her eyes widened in shock. What happened? Why is she all of a sudden in a somewhat English mansion, reminiscent of the setting of her recent read? What in the world happened? And what does it have do to her? (A/N: I own the story but not the artworks.)