[{"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-82":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I'm in Love with the Villainess!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},895244,1171,"Chapter 82: Quid Pro Quo","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-82",82,"\u003Cp>FWOOSH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I set Vivianne down on my dorm room bed, locked the door, and infused the surrounding walls with chaos energy to strengthen them against spells as an extra precaution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While waiting for her to wake up was definitely a choice, I still needed to head to my room to check the examination coverage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I’d rather not have her escape while I was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not like this was an actual kidnapping anyway, after I’m done asking for what I wanted in return, I’d easily let her go without even the slightest scratch on her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All of this should be enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knock on a wall, feeling it vibrate against my finger as I did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was durable enough, I decided, looking back at Vivianne’s unconscious form to double-check.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was literally no way she could get out, evenifshe unleashed her strongest spell, and if she still does despite that...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, she probably deserved the freedom at that point, to be honest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Profaned Step]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry, I’m late.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I arrived in the doorway, suitcase in hand, as I entered the classroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the professor in charge was Corvus, once again teaching moral and pragmatic applications of day-to-day life, just like the first time I attended this class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was uneventful as always.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally attending again, Arden?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Corvus chuckled, but stopped immediately as I reached a certain distance from him, his eyes narrowing immediately as he noticed the stark change in aura compared to before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised a brow as I finally took my assigned seat. Kevin, as usual, was still absent, likely still doing his own research about dark magic to even bother about the usual curriculum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll talk to your professor on spell formula to give you some extra marks.\" Corvus smiled, returning to the board as he continued to write terms and definitions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sir, if I may.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, Gloomwood?\" Corvus turned around, his personality switching entirely as he looked at the student with an annoyed expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The student’s hand lowered slightly at seeing the professor’s sudden change in demeanor, but to his credit, he didn’t completely back down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I feel it’s unfair to the rest of the class if you give—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Silence.\" Corvus returned to the board, barely even giving the student’s concern any attention. \"If you deserved it, I’d also have included you, but you didn’t, so don’t complain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He laughed slightly, looking at the student with a demeaning expression. \"And here I thought this was supposed to be the top class of this batch.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t the type to hold back at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Marcellus... come on, back me up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The student nudged Marcellus, who was sitting beside him with a less-than-interested expression. He himself had learned his lesson not to intervene in my business too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And being asked to help was certainly not going to change his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The professor has a point; stop bothering me with this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"D-Don’t tell me you’ve given up, your highness?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marcellus snapped his dip pen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sheer statement that Gloomwood had proposed was absolutely ridiculous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Him? A literal prince? Submitting to a mere baron’s child? Impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even he knew when and where to pick his battles, and a classroom where one of the world’s strongest dark mages was currently teaching was not one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I suggest you watch your words, don’t mistake me for my brother.\" He glared at the student with contempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am far less accepting of brazen insults like that...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I apologize...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hey... I gotta give Marcellus some credit, actually no... this was par on the course for his character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A prodigious good guy who also isn’t fully a good guy; even the label of anti-hero doesn’t suit him very well. While he had a less-than-decent temperament, he was still mainly a good person, if you believe it or not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’d better listen to Prince Charming...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I muttered, resting my head against my hand as I mocked him from my seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Y-You bastard...\" The student gritted his teeth but immediately stopped when Corvus suddenly sighed in front of the class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know my class is boring, but the least you could do is stop talking... It’s giving me a damned headache.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*** A few minutes later\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Corvus left the class with a yawn, placing the coverage for the examination on the desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t even bother pasting it on the board for everyone to see; he literally just left it there in a position that could easily cause it to fly off the window, never to be seen again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I guess that’s the privilege you get by being a fully defined S-Rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t take long as I merely glanced at the paper, storing it within my memory to ensure I could access it later with photographic memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with that done, I’m obviously going to skip the rest of the day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wasn’t the only one with that same idea as well; more like the entire class had also planned something like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I love privilege...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shrugged, snapping my fingers and returning to my dorm room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Profaned Step]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, I’m probably teleporting more than I was walking at this point, but then again, why the hell would I choose to walk if an option like this even existed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>FWOOSH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THUD!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment I returned, I had to use my suitcase to block a letter opener aimed at my neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The culprit? A now awakened Vivianne with an irritated look on her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I swear I could have gotten you there...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re still on about that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well... what doyouexpect me to do while I was locked up?\" She sighed, sitting back down on my bed with her arms crossed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You seem to be in high spirits, no longer afraid of Evelina?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivianne answered with an anxious chuckle at my question, avoiding eye contact and instead looking directly at the open window while her mouth twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m already far off the deep end at this point...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice was filled with utter devastation as she realized that being brought to my room had probably already sealed her fate once Evelina heard about it. Yet I still couldn’t bring myself to take her seriously...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way she delivered it was far more comedic than actually depressing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching someone calmly accept that their life was about to fall apart—even though it really wasn’t—was genuinely amusing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I already had Evelina’s permission after all; she had no reason to worry, but I preferred not telling her that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s nothing wrong with having a bit of fun with her reactions...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally willing to hear what I have to say...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Y-Yes...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1103,"2026-06-03T05:52:53.768Z",1,"novelbin.me","cefc6c3fb44a209c05eafdf3365d940b5e85823a18acabe0b33efa0860a5cb5b","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-125","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-81",324,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-cover.jpg"]