She has always felt so useless. A good for nothing daughter. She couldn't even do things right with her life. She once wanted to make her parents proud and yet, she ended up becoming a disappointment. she wanted to end her life so badly.

A cold breeze blew against her as she stared down at the busy streets. City lights filled the dark night. Anyone would have found the scenery in front of her beautiful, even she did.

Zhou Yiren was at the rooftop, standing at the edge of the building. One more step and she would definitely fall and die. If only the wind didn't blow against her but instead behind her... It will be easier to fall, right? It will feel as if someone pushed her.

Will it hurt if she hit the ground?

Her body kept on trembling. She never liked being this high but... it will be all over at once, right?

'Someone... please push me...'

She tried raising her foot to take a step forward but instead of doing so, she ended up taking a step back. Her body lost its strength and she ended up leaning against the pole beside her for support.

'Ah... I still can't do it.'

She was a coward. Yes, a coward until the end. She was afraid of pain. She was afraid of leaving the people she loved.

'I'm pathetic.' She can't even end her own life. She wanted to disappear. She really does want to disappear so badly.

'Someone, please, help me... Please kill me. I can't do it by myself... I want a quick, painless, death. I just want to end everything.'

Haaah... She heaved out a heavy sigh. Maybe she should just hire a hitman to kill her? Yes... she should do that. She has enough money to hire someone to kill her. At least that way, she would be taken by surprise. She should probably give her hitman a note too. She didn't want a painful death so he should just snipe her from afar. A headshot would be great. Quick and painless.

Another sigh escaped her lips at having such a crazy thought. She straightened her back and left the place. She couldn't kill herself despite having the thought of wanting to die.

"Yiren, you're still here? I thought you left earlier?" One of her coworkers asked in surprise when she saw her enter our department.

That was her name, Zhou Yiren. It was a name that didn't suit an ugly woman like her. With today's beauty standards, she didn't fit any of it.

"I left something…" She mumbled as she headed straight to her desk. She took her bag and earphones before turning away. As usual, she ignored everyone around her and they did the same.

Before heading out of the hospital building, she took her earphones and placed them in her ear before connecting them to her phone.

The calm, classical music from the earphones entered her ears as walked out of the building.

She has always loved Liszt and Paganini's La Campanella. No matter how much she repeated this piece, it never failed to give her goosebumps. It was the piece that got her into playing piano, a piece that was almost impossible to play. It was as if the composers were trying to break people's fingers by composing this piece. It took almost a year before she was able to master this piece on the piano. No wonder they were accused of selling their souls to the devil.

For her, this music portrayed betrayal.

Whenever she listened to this piece, there was only one story that played in her mind. The beginning described innocence, that of a child until it was slowly building up to a jollier tune as the child grew and enjoyed the comfort of what life gave. Gleaming with excitement, he ventured out into the real world where he discovered various people with different kinds of character and belief. But as harsh as reality offers, his so-called 'friends' turned into monsters. Monsters that backstabbed him, putting his life in a miserable state. After realizing the true face of reality, he ought to seek revenge. As his anger rose, his sanity lost. Plotting and executing his revenge on the monsters, he did not find the satisfaction after killing them. He knew people were nothing but monsters behind their masks. No, this was not enough. He wanted more. He needed to eradicate all these monsters. Bringing chaos and carnage along his path, he found beauty in it. Like a maestro, he mastered the art of killing. But that was not the case, for in reality, he, himself, was turning into the worst monster of all. A psychopath. A monster made by the betrayal of reality.

Amazing, right? Such a piece was formed by people who were accused of selling their souls to the devil.

She has always preferred listening to classical music for the stories it told but there were times other kinds of music attracted her; depending on the story it tells.

Upon arriving at her place, the first thing she did was go straight to her room and changed her clothes. It was a tiring and depressing day for her.

She fell flat on her bed and stared at the ceiling before closing her eyes.

'Ah… won't it be nice to never wake up once I go to sleep?'

But to her disappointment, after the long night, she woke up and ended up finding herself inside a strange room.

"What the…"

She slowly sat up and looked around the place. The room was filled with luxurious, high-quality Victorian-era decoration.

She was about to take off the blanket from her but stopped upon realizing something.

Huh? Why were her hands small?

In panic, she threw the blanket just to look at her feet.

"No way… no… no…"

She quickly got off the bed and rushed towards the mirror in the room. She stood in front of it and looked at the unfamiliar kid in front of her with disbelief.

"Who…?"

Was she dreaming right now?

The girl in the mirror was someone Zhou Yiren never met. A foreign kid was looking back at her with the same expression she had on her face; surprised.

The child has shoulder-leveled red hair, as of it was kissed by the sun itself. Together with her red hair, a pair of red eyes stared back at her. Her eyes looked magical as if they were truly a pair of ruby gems. Her skin was as white as fresh snow. The first thing that came into her mind was Ariel; the Little Mermaid except for her eyes.

How could a child be this beautiful? It was unfair. It only gave her more insecurities when she remembered her real face.

Was this really a dream?

She pinched herself hard, "Ouch…"

The sting on her cheek was real. It didn't wake her up but only made her realize that where she was at that moment was not in the dream world.

She has read many transmigration novels in the past… was this something similar?

"Oh my!"

A woman's voice suddenly interrupted her thoughts, making her turn towards the person who entered the room and was now looking at her in shock.

The foreign woman was wearing a maid attire which gave Zhou Yiren an idea of her position. Despite the confusion inside her, she was someone who was used in hiding her emotions that's why she has always appeared calm in front of others.

Another maid entered the room and gasped in disbelief, "Young miss, you're awake!"

How could she even understand what they were saying? The foreigners in front of her were speaking a language that didn't belong in her past world but despite that, she miraculously understood every word they were saying.

The first maid who entered the room hurriedly came over to check on the child's temperature by touching her forehead. "Thank goodness, the fever's gone!"

Now then… how should she extract information from this woman? Should she act like someone who lost her memories just because of a fever? That was going to be too much, right? But Zhou Yiren didn't have an idea of how the original soul acted before she entered the body. At that moment, she was placed in a difficult situation.

"Young miss, are you alright?"

No, she wasn't. How could she be alright when she found herself inside a child's body in a place where she didn't know?

'Can I jump on the balcony and stay dead this time?'

Wait… how did she even die in her world? The last thing she remembered was just falling asleep!

"Quick! Call the doctor! I don't think Miss Scarlett has recovered yet!"

"Y-yes!"

Miss Scarlett?

At the mention of the child's name, memories began flashing in her head all of a sudden with caused a sharp pain in her head, making her groan in agony.

"What's wrong? What's happening?" The maid was in a panic when she the girl in pain. She didn't know what to do. Her face turned pale.

The memories that slipped in Zhou Yiren's head were the memories from the body's original owner but she couldn't organize any of it all because of the sharp pain in her head.

Just when she thought that the pain would never go away, it finally stopped but her sight turned dark and her body lost its strength.

'H-Huh…?'

The maid's face turned pale as she caught the child's body in her arms, "Miss Scarlett? MISS SCARLETT!!"

…

Scarlett Brielle Trancy. This was a name Zhou Yiren was familiar with since she was a character in one of the books she has read.

Of all the characters she could be, why did it have to be the ruthless and bitchy villainess?

A sigh escaped her lips. She woke up in the middle of the night in the same room she woke up to earlier. Except for this time, it was dark. The only light that filled the room came from the moon which entered through the glass door of the balcony.

If she remembered the setting of the story correctly, the place she was in right now was in the kingdom of Clover. A magical kingdom that was blessed by the goddess Atria; the goddess of nature. As for Scarlett's background, her mother died after giving birth to her, making her the only child in the prestigious Trancy family. Her father, Duke Charles Trancy never remarried after his wife died. In fact, he buried himself with work which made him neglect his daughter. Because of his neglect, his daughter grew up to be a malicious woman.

With the memories of the young Scarlett in her mind, she could tell that Charles didn't completely forgot his daughter since she remembered receiving countless of gifts from him. The only problem was… those gifts were never enough to make up for his company.

Zhou Yiren didn't have a choice anymore but to live as the story's villain, Scarlett now. Her ending might end in death so might as well see the story itself uncover before her.

Yes, just like any other story, the villain's ending was death. Even if Scarlett didn't become a villain, Zhou Yiren was sure that she would still die because of how sickly the body was.

Dying from sickness should be fine… If death comes knocking on her earlier, then she would gladly accept it. At least in this world, she didn't have to kill herself. A natural death awaited her.

Now that she was going to take over Scarlett's place. Things would be different. She knew what was going to happen and she decided to become a spectator in this world.