In the event of death, there is a 1:10,000 chance that you will reincarnate in a world not your own and Retain your Ego; that is, your memories and Mental Self.
In that chance, there is a 1:10,000 chance that you will be given some sort of ability; the basic types are skills, or maybe talent, and these are called Classes, such as the famous 'Hero' to the infamous 'Maou' or 'Demon King'.
Then, there's... well, then there's James. James is an idiot savant, essentially, and so, thinking it's a dream and that he'll wake up soon anyway, he chooses 'nothing'.
He simply refuses to choose, and sits around in the Spirit Realm, meditating, for 100,000 years; in this way, he develops his own skills, instead of accepting one from the Gods.
Now, there's no going back.
After all, I didn't say his luck was 'Good' Luck, Did I?
He was a ruthless villain in his last life. But he was not a born villain. He became ruthless in love. He fell in love with an abandoned prince and murdered people to get revenge for that prince. Only to find out, the abandoned prince used him.
That's how he ended up in prison. In prison, he was used again by another evil person. Then the hell broke loose. And two villains killed each other in the end.
So when he died, he thought his redemption was done. But the next moment he woke up in the body of a consort who was more miserable than him .
A consort who is not only abandoned by the emperor but also hated by the commoner, framed and poisoned by other wives.
Maybe, he was sent here to bring justice for the poisoned consort ? If that's the case, then he will show them his true power.
He will see who can scheme better than him !