[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam":3,"chapter-young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-71":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Young Master's PoV: Woke Up As A Villain In A Game One Day",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},500723,755,"Chapter 71 The Royal Twins [I]","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-71",71,"\u003Cp>Princess Alice Vic. Draken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the game, she was one of the most fearsome combatants in her batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, the few times she fought Alexia made it clear that they both were equals in terms of martial talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Alexia never admitted it out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that wasn't all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alice was regarded as a better strategist than Thalia, nearly matched Michael and Juliana in swordsmanship, and was widely acknowledged as the academy's best overall duelist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her reputation wasn't just built on strength or skill, but on her ability to adapt and overcome any opponent, no matter how unpredictable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was said that Alice could dismantle her enemies with a blade all the while breaking their wills with insidious schemes, a balance of martial dominance and tactical genius that left even her enemies in awe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn't just a warrior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a force to be reckoned with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then there was her twin brother – who followed her everywhere she went.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was her Shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her sworn blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, it was not rare to see siblings swearing loyalty to one another and becoming their Shadow in the royal families.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The practice was most common in twins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Willem Vic. Draken was everything his sister was — just a little less. He was forever destined to be in her glorious shadow, as ironic as that might sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, he was the most fiercely loyal individual in the entire game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Scarlet Assassin ambushed the two of them, Willem had a chance to flee. Alice even urged him to take it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he fought by his sister's side… and died in front of her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a tragic event, part of a small arc called — The Killing of the Royal Twins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that seemingly small arc unleashed big consequences throughout the story, snowballing into many events and eventually causing the Total War of the Five Monarchs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though to be fair, that war was inevitable. It was bound to happen sooner or later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But let's get back to the point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, those events were going to happen in the future — a future I was determined to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, I was going to prevent their deaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would stop their assassination before it could even begin… no matter how much I was tempted to just let them die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why? Because I hated them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did I hate them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they were childhood friends of my sister, Thalia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enjoy new adventures from empire\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And much like her, they tormented me throughout my childhood whenever we visited the Central Safe-Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A couple of years ago, when we were still young, a civil war was raging in one of the now-Conquered Territories of the Draken family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My father played a significant role in that conflict — in fact, he wae one who ultimately brought it to an end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, he spent most of his time in the Royal Palace of the Central Monarch back in the day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever we visited him — though it was mostly Thalia who did the visiting since my father rarely wanted to see me — we would run into Willem and Alice, who were close to our age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were also twins, just like Thalia and me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the elders thought it would be a good idea for us to get acquainted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two, along with Thalia, made my life miserable. Not with malicious intent — no, that would've been easier to understand — but in that thoughtless, casual cruelty only children seem capable of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alice and Willem were perfect twins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alice was sharp, strong, and always composed, while Willem was warm, charming, and quick with a laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had each other's backs in everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had a seamless partnership that made them seem unstoppable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalia, of course, fitted right in with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then there was me — the odd one out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't just feel like an outsider, I was an outsider.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alice and Willem were royalty, heirs to one of the most powerful families in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalia, being a Theosbane and one of the suitable heirs to our family, was practically nobility herself, and everyone adored her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, I was just… me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The son of a Duke who barely acknowledged my existence. I was a shadow trailing behind my sister's radiant light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn't just our difference in status that made it unbearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the way they treated me — not out of hatred, but out of carelessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn't see me as a person, not really.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To them, I was just Thalia's awkward, weaker twin, someone to tease, someone to laugh at — not with, but at.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I remember one winter evening in particular, when the snow was thick on the palace grounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We were supposed to be playing a game of tag, but it quickly turned into something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Willem and Alice decided it would be more fun to play \"Capture the Weakling.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalia agreed, of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They chased me across the courtyard, laughing as I slipped and stumbled in the snow, calling out mocking encouragements as I desperately tried to get away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they finally caught me, Willem pinned me down while Alice crouched beside me, snowball in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See, Sammy?\" Alice said to me with a smirk, packing the snow tighter. \"This is what happens when you don't keep up. Weaklings get punished.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she shoved the snowball down my collar, and the icy chill burned against my skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalia laughed. Willem laughed. Alice laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I? I laughed too, pretending it didn't bother me. Pretending I didn't feel the lump in my throat or the sting in my chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because crying would've just made it worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, when I snuck away to warm myself by the fire, Willem found me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, I thought he might apologize. Instead, he grinned and handed me a steaming mug of cocoa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, don't take it so seriously,\" he said, as if that excused everything. \"We were all just playing, you know?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the worst part? I believed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I believed that maybe, just maybe, they didn't mean to hurt me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That maybe they'd grow out of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That maybe one day, I'd stop being the weakling and finally stand on equal footing with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that day never came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The war ended. We stopped visiting the Central soon after that and fell out of touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, I did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalia still kept up with them for a few years before drifting apart like people in long distance usually do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, with all that history between us, it shouldn't be a surprise that I had no desire to see either of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since when has the universe ever cared about what I want?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing before me was Alice. Just as stunning as she was described in the game, and smirking just as cruelly as she always did in my memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come on, Sammy. You weren't thinking of leaving without greeting me first, were you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sighed internally, took a deep breath, and put on the most joyously friendly smile I could fake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ali! How are you!?\" I greeted with the kind of over-the-top enthusiasm reserved for meeting a long-lost best friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I turned to Willem, pretending to notice him for the first time. \"Oh, and look at you, Will! How are you, man? It's been forever! You've grown so tall!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Willem kept smiling, clearly enjoying this little act. \"Didn't you just try to ditch me a second ago?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? Pfft!\" I laughed awkwardly, waving my hand like his comment was ridiculous. \"That doesn't sound like me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow, I'm hurt,\" Alice cut in, her sharp tone laced with mock solemnity. I turned to see her placing a hand over her chest, feigning wounded pride. \"You were really trying to sneak away without even saying hello. And let's not forget — you didn't even bother to meet us at the freshman party, either!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't be like that, Alice,\" Willem chimed in smoothly. \"You saw how busy he was during the party… devouring that cake on the ground.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alice burst out laughing, and so did Willem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their laughter sounded exactly the same as I remembered — light, teasing, friendly, and just as infuriating.\u003C\u002Fp>",1379,"2026-05-30T12:03:22.767Z","2026-06-01T04:31:10.979Z",1,"novelbin.me","66d80c641f924749efcba0de892158bdc7c70a8e7b5a040e3991cbeeb97165d7","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-72","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-70",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyoung-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-cover.jpg"]