Chapter 1

Them feeling regret that they bothered their sisters and the protagonist attacking their hearts little by little was enough for me to dive into this game and drown in it.

And me, who once chose to take a look at the game, was now drowning into the game.

Reaching for the ending was easy even though, it was my first time playing these kind of games.

It was fun, I totally agreed on that, however the normal mode was way too easy even for the beginner like me.

From the start, All the male lead's interest towards the heroine started from 30% interest.

I saw every character's ending within 3 hours of time.

Then a card popped on the screen which said the ‘Hidden Ending’ with a drawing of lock on it.

"One-One hundred dollars?! Why is a single ending so expensive?!"

To earn the hidden ending, you either need to pay a crazy high price for it or to finish the hard mode of each of the characters.

"It's so late already, and I have class tomorrow"

I thought about the class I had early in the morning. However that didn’t go for long.

"Ah, Whatever! How hard could hard mode be?"

When I look back, the good feelings of the ending had mad me momentarily crazy. I wouldn't have acted that way normally.

My fingers excitedly clicked on the hard mode button.

The different prologue video played, this time, with a grand background music.

"The Villainess is the heroine now."

It was unexpected that the heroine changed in this mode.

She was the villain from the normal mode, the fake mistress of the duke family.

The story was set before the heroine of the normal mode appeared so it felt like a whole different story from a different game.

“Maybe this is why this game’s so popular.”

The detailed illustration of the heroine in the hard mode appeared on my screen that woke me up for good.

The unique system of this game was not like any other game. This made me be more interested in this app.

The villain who was evil to the angel-like heroine was the one who was winning the hearts of the strictly love-barriered male leads now.

That gave me the excitement and heart flutters that I couldn’t quite explain.

I proceeded to the main story of the hard mode. I was overly confident about this since I finished all the normal mode routes.

Even though it was called a hard mode, I expected that the choices of lines would be just a bit more difficult to choose.

However, that was just my grave mistaken guess.

"Ugh! Again! I died again!

Hard mode was extremely difficult.

The heroine who was the villainess from the first place. It was set that raising the characters’ interest was challenging enough as a Villainess.

It wasn’t only that.

The interests raised with my hard work all dropped down to ‘game over’ after just one smallest wrong decision.

Not just a normal game over thing, but very disturbing ‘death’ of the heroine.

"Why is this extremely difficult?! I know this is hard mode..."

The illustration was also so realistic and cruel.

I frowned at the illustration of the heroine getting sliced on the neck by the crown prince.

"This goddamn game... ."

I died several times due to the hard choices I made sincerely in the game. Frustration filled my heart at this horrible system.

What was the producer thinking, making the difficulty setting like this?

I died so many times that I started to feel the stress playing this.

"Just survive once! Just once!"

Initially, I just wanted the hidden ending, but I actually like playing it now.

I want to see this poor Villainess survive, and win over just one person and live happily.

'What did the Villainess do wrong? She's just a Villainess because she was given the bad role.

The heroin wins everyone's love so effortlessly in easy mode. In contrast, the Villainess's predicament becomes more unfortunate no matter how much she begs for affection.

The Villainess in hard mode, who's every ending is death. I saw myself, in the Villainess.

“I’m seeing the endings to this no matter what.”

I was killed again due to the older goddamn brothers. The sound of me gritting my teeth was heard in the room.

I don’t remember how much I died here now.

My two hands which clenched my heated up phone, trembled.

I thought that I was getting too emotional to this, but I couldn’t stop my fingers clicking the reset button.

I started all over again, from the start.

I chose the lines, slowly raised their interests, and gotten fame, glamour, and money to open up the new route.

"So annoyed..."

I was annoyed to the point I had a thought of just buying the interest using money.

If the producer’s goal was to make others pay for the damn thing, then they succeeded greatly.

Since they made me, who treasures money like no one else does, want to use up my money for this.

I didn’t use my money ’till the end, but I was on fire the whole night to see the ending of at least one of the characters.

Die, and start over.

Die again and start over.

Die,

Die,

And die again.

I only died until the sunrise.

However, I wasn’t able to see the ending of any of them ’till then.

“Fuck…… Again…… .”

Me, who was going to press the reset button again, couldn’t handle it anymore as I fainted to sleep with my phone in my hand.

"I am going to start again... Until the Villainess's end... isn't death."

And when I opened my eyes.

“Penelope Eckhart.”

Said the man with the blank gauge bar above him with the sparkling letters written ‘Interest 0%’.

"I am temporarily removing Eckhart from your name. ”

I was the villainess in the game which I never got to see the ending of.

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