[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess":3,"chapter-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-1":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I'm in Love with the Villainess!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":18,"prevChapterSlug":19,"totalChapters":20,"novelImage":21},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":12,"translator":16,"content_hash":17},894937,1171,"Chapter 1: A Crazy Obsessive Death","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-1",1,"\u003Cp>(Quick Note: The MC is crazy)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was another night, another rainy night that smelled of cigarettes and blood. Nights like this always reminded me of her, Lady Evelina D’Arclight, even if she was only words on a page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beautiful, cruel words. I used to imagine her watching me from the shadows, judging, smiling, loving me back in a way no one else ever could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The villainess of my favorite novel, or more accurately, the love of my life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The job’s done.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a boring life, but at least it paid, the job of an assassin, a job that ended up with me stuck in a huge skyscraper on the top floor, covered in blood and surrounded by the bodies of my target and his bodyguards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? Don’t mess with me, you bastard!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was set up, my target was a decoy, my employer wanted me dead, and the bodyguards were positioned in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now that I had survived, he had another plan to take care of me fully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He planned to detonate the entire building, one that wouldn’t just take me down, but the entire street around the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How much does this bastard hate me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Y-you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BEEP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hung up on the call, leaving me to my fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck this!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I bolted quickly towards the stairs, crossing floors in seconds as I ran for my life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRASH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was too late, the detonation had started, even if I couldn’t hear it, I could certainly feel it under my legs as the stairs trembled from the vibrations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stairs below me crumbled, causing me to fall hundreds of floors below, but I wouldn’t allow it. After being in the business for so long, I refuse to die in such a stupid way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I died, I wanted to die in a glorious duel, not in a pile of rubble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CLANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I grabbed a railing that was beside the remaining stairs that were still present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I muttered, I felt something missing from me, something important and invaluable, my novel, it suddenly disappeared from under my coat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when I looked down, there it was, falling, its pages flipping due to the air as it continued to plummet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CREAK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without even having time to think, the new stairs below me also started to crack. The more I stayed, the more the building started to fall apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that’s when I knew I no longer had an escape; it was hopeless, and now that I had lost my most precious belonging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A novel that was long discontinued for mysterious purposes, the only copy that was signed by the author.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without it... Do I even have a reason left to live?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The assassin’s life paid well, but it also gave me plenty of enemies to come with it; my only escape was reading the novel, being immersed in its characters and world, a novel that was large enough to rival the bible in terms of content.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now...? It’s gone, and my chance of escape? also minimal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The choice was obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This really will be my end...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Jump]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sudden translucent purple panel appeared in front of me, its message snapping me out of my bitter thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Just Jump]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked down, and just as expected, it was the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The building’s walls were now long gone as the skyscraper began its slow tilt, slowly falling and destroying the street below it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had no choice; if I just stayed here, I’d be left sandwiched between the skyscraper and the cold street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if I jump, I don’t really know what will happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either death...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Just Jump]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or something else...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stairs below me finally gave way, sending me plummeting; the street below grew closer as the seconds passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t really know what I expected; of course, it would be darkness, it’s the obvious outcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either that or hellfire, I did more than enough to deserve to suffer in the circles of hell, so darkness was a good subversion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Personality Attuned]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Elemental Compatibility: Darkness]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Patron: Nyx]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Assigning Talent...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the cold darkness that surrounded me, the translucent panel appeared, the only thing that was present in the entire void I was in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even my body wasn’t present, but for some reason, I could still see, like my consciousness was ejected out of my body and allowing me to exist in this state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Talent: Photographic Memory]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Huh...?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought, but that immediately became my last concern as I felt my body being pressed down by a powerful pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or... what you would call it, that all that matters is that I was in complete pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aghh! The hell!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was used to physical strain; it was required on the job to be fairly used to it. I couldn’t even count how many cuts and bruises I had due to my job.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this? This was unbearable even for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>FLASH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sudden face flashed within my vision; it was of a girl with white hair and crimson eyes, a beauty so remarkable that I could just die happily after seeing it. I’d seen that face a thousand times in my mind, traced every line, memorized every cruel smile. To see her now felt like a promise. Or a punishment I’d gladly take.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there it hit me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lady Evelina D’Arclight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the girl in the novel, the love of my life, but why is she appearing now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Am I finally being sent to hell? Was this darkness just limbo? Were the flashes of her face my most precious memories? memories of me trying to envision her beauty when I first read her description.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Welcome]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The panel appeared again, and that’s when I felt it, a pain that could only be described as having an entire lance pierce through your back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pain enough to make me lose consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it did...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[May you love Lady Evelina in the next life... just as you did in this one.]\u003C\u002Fp>",1012,"2026-06-03T05:52:53.471Z","novelbin.me","2a4472cc700eac86d58b2361eabf3ff3c8fdc03fb349b0955e0efaa2ba1186f4","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-2","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-324",324,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-cover.jpg"]