Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The woman shouted as she was captured by the soldiers to be dragged to the place of execution.

“No! I’m not Carinne!”

Her appearance was a mess.

Her red hair, which used to be alluring and shiny, was now frizzy, and her face, which used to be clean and free of any blemishes, was now stained with dirt. Adding to that was her chapped lips.

The woman’s eyes that used to shine like amethysts were now dim. The glamorous and beautiful woman who was once sought after in the social world was thrown before the crowd in her most miserable form.

“Please listen to me! My body has changed! I am Olivia!” she cried out, tears in her eyes.

But no one listened to her.

“That vicious woman is talking nonsense.”

“Blinded by jealousy, she tried to kill her younger sister and His Majesty the Crown Prince, yet she acts so shamelessly!”

Instead, the people threw stones and spit on her.

Carinne, no, Olivia desperately pleaded her innocence, but it was to no avail.

She struggled, but soon she was on the guillotine.

The executioner began to list her misdeeds. Every time one of Carinne’s numerous misdeeds was revealed, the crowd became even more enraged.

“… Hence, Carinne Brienne is sentenced to the death penalty for attempting to poison the Crown Prince.”

Her worst sin was attempting an assassination on the royal family. It was the crime that led to her death sentence.

Carinne had long been jealous of her sister Olivia. Then, when Olivia became engaged to the Crown Prince, she tried to poison her.

Unfortunately, the Crown Prince drank the poisoned tea instead.

The royal family was shocked. As the investigation proceeded, all of Carinne’s past deeds and crimes were revealed.

The death sentence was unanimously decided at the trial, which was conducted swiftly.

The case seemed to end with the death of Carinne Brienne, the villain of the story.

However, a few days before the execution, Olivia and Carinne’s bodies were swapped.

“Ugh! Hmmf!”

Olivia struggled, her hands bound with rope.

She still couldn’t believe what had happened to her. It was so shocking that it felt like it wasn’t real.

‘This must be a dream. No, it has to be a dream.’

Last night, Olivia was sleeping in her bed in the Imperial Palace.

But, when she opened her eyes, her surroundings were completely different.

The stone wall that was damp and filled with moss, a fishy smell that pervaded her sense of smell, and the cold air that pricked her skin were not in any way similar to Olivia’s room.

It was a prison. At the same time, another shocking realization struck her.

‘My body has changed…!’

Olivia had become Carinne.

To be precise, her soul was in Carinne’s body.

‘Then, my body…’

Her head quickly went blank. Then, soldiers stormed into the prison to take her to the place of execution.

It all happened so quickly that there was no way to fix the situation.

“She’s an evil woman who tried to assassinate His Majesty the Crown Prince!”

“Hurry and kill her!”

Unable to come to her senses, Olivia barely raised her face.

She moved slowly as if her neck was broken. Soon, Crown Prince Edwin, who was seated at the top, came into her view.

The person next to him, holding Edwin’s arm tenderly and whispering something in his ear…

‘Carinne!’

Olivia widened her eyes in shock and let out a silent scream.

It was Carinne inside of Olivia’s body.

The Crown Prince nodded as Carinne got up from her seat.

Olivia looked at her as she approached her.

“I have something to share with my sister, so can you please step back for a moment?”

“But…….”

“It’s okay. Even the Crown Prince allowed it.”

The soldiers hesitated for a moment and then retreated.

Carinne approached Olivia, lowered herself, and hugged her tenderly.

To someone who did not know the truth, it seemed like a gesture of forgiveness for her sister, who was about to die.

But to Olivia, who was actually suffering, the touch was not such a gesture.

Even if she wanted to reject it, her hands were tied with a rope, and she couldn’t move.

“Olivia, how are you feeling?”

Carinne whispered to her ears.

“How does it feel? To die for my sins.”

She wanted to scream, but an unintelligible sound came from her gagged mouth.

Carinne smiled as she watched Olivia squirm.

“Stupid.”

She uttered those words with Olivia’s voice.

“You ate the curse in the form of poison every day without realizing it.”

Poison? Curse?

‘Why are you doing this…?’

Because Olivia was engaged to the Crown Prince? Did Carinne really do this out of jealousy?

After seeing her eyes, which were full of questions, Carinne burst out laughing.

Then she spoke softly,

“Let’s just say you’re unlucky.”

Sympathy seemed to flash across Carinne’s face for a moment.

As soon as she returned to her expressionless face, she whispered coldly.

“Even though I didn’t mean to harass you, if there are obstacles in the way, we have no choice but to clear them.”

Olivia couldn’t understand what Carinne was saying.

She wanted to ask, but her voice couldn’t come out.

“You’ll die without knowing anything.”

Carinne, who was savoring the shock and pain on Olivia’s face, opened her mouth again.

“So accept it. That’s the only thing you can do.”

She was smiling with a gentle and calm face even though she had just pushed someone to death.

Olivia’s whole body began to convulse. However, it was unknown whether this was because of the despair or because of her anger toward Carinne.

Carine smiled mischievously as she looked at Olivia.

“So, will you die for me now?”

〈Reversed Lady〉

The end.

The moment I read the last sentence, I doubted my eyes.

“Could that even be called an ending?”

The words ‘The end’ were disappointing.

I still couldn’t believe it. When I scrolled down, there was a sentence written by the author that I had never seen before.

It was only one line.

[The true protagonist of was Carinne.]

“Does this make sense?”

I almost threw the cell phone I was holding. The heroine, Olivia, was my favorite character.

I supported her journey through adversity and admired her positive outlook.

At first, I thought that it was not a severe sweet potato novel*, but then the author proved otherwise. It was the worst sweet potato novel I had ever read.

*TL/N: A novel that’s so frustrating that it leaves a bitter aftertaste.

Like the title, Reversed Lady, I looked forward to the heroine that would prevail despite the odds against her.

But the twist was that Carinne, the ultimate villain, was the main character?

Not surprisingly, the comment section was filled with clamors from readers who had already read the ending.

Half of it was cursing and the other half was an earnest request.

[Author, this is only the end of Part 1, right? I hope this isn’t really the end.]

[Write a story about Olivia’s return and revenge! Please!]

[I don’t think it’s really going to end like this.]

The author’s name stood out to me, ‘Sweet Potato Villain’.

Only then did I realize who the real villain of this novel was.

Unable to contain the boiling anger, my finger pressed the keys on the phone.

[I wasn’t going to make comments like this, but isn’t the ending too harsh for Olivia? It was to an extent that I wanted to take revenge on her behalf.]

Of course, I never dreamed that these words would come true, but just like how Olivia and Carinne’s bodies were swapped, I had entered Olivia’s body while sleeping.

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