Episode 1

"The Path of the Saint," a novel that won first place in the fantasy of times category on the world's most important novel platform.

It was an adult novel that had a great impact and was truly a work of art, as it completely broke the stereotype of the typical protagonist who reincarnates in a novel as the villain, the outcast, or some despised character destined to die.

In this novel, the protagonist, Alina, was a real bitch who reincarnated into a fantasy world, but it wasn't the world of any novel or something like that. She, being a con artist in her past life, decides to take full advantage of her talent for scamming to make a fortune and live a life of luxury. Unfortunately, things never go as she wants. That world was a fantasy, but it wasn't like novels and tales. There, the laws were insane and a person's worth was defined by their social status. The protagonist, who was reborn as an abandoned baby in an orphanage, is sold as a slave when she turns five. Fortunately, she manages to escape from her buyers, and that's where she uses her freedom to start using her scamming ability, resuming her initial plan of becoming rich.

By scamming the nobles, she somehow ends up entering the imperial palace, pretending to be a foreign princess whom she kidnapped and impersonated.

Enjoying the luxuries provided in the palace as an honored guest, Alina ends up meeting the crown prince, Leon, who is the male protagonist of the story.

Leon is captivated by the protagonist at first sight, and Alina, being aware of this, decides to take advantage of him, seducing him until he is completely lost for her. Leon becomes her loyal dog and does whatever she asks, from buying expensive jewelry and dresses to killing anyone who bothers her in the palace. Leon is capable of anything for her. He is that type of character willing to face the world for his beloved, and that's why all the readers came to love the kind prince whose true nature is that of a cold and ruthless being. Moreover, his appearance is excessively sexy and passionate, and in intimacy with Alina, he is a true unashamed stallion. How could one not love a character like that?

Alina is a rather egocentric and manipulative character who uses everyone at her disposal, but as in every novel, she at some point begins to have feelings for Leon. Up until that point, things still seemed to be in her favor. She decided to give herself the chance to love and be loved, but then tragedy strikes.

Leon is the victim of an assassination attempt and is on the verge of death. Desperate and not knowing what to do to save her beloved, Alina ends up awakening her dormant power, the most powerful healing power in the world granted by God to only one person. The person most beloved by God, the closest and the only one capable of speaking to Him – that person is the saint.

Alina learns many things in that world, and the one thing she never wished for was to be in the saint's shoes. The saint was the symbol of the temple, a person stripped of their freedom whose only duty was to be the puppet that the temple used to maintain its power and authority.

And when a saint awakened, it meant that the previous saint had died. So, the temple would try to find her as soon as possible to make her their new puppet.

And now that Alina had awakened as the saint and had saved none other than the empire's crown prince from death, the whole world would know this fact, and the temple would be no exception. Therefore, with all the pain in her soul, Alina decides to flee immediately.

She loved the prince, but she loved herself more and was not willing to lose her freedom for anything in the world.

This is how Alina ends up arriving in the territory of the great northern duke, the villain, Christopher.

Alina enters the mansion of the grand duke as a maid, who is known as the cursed demon due to a curse that took away his sight since childhood. A person who never received anything but abuse and mistreatment from everyone. When he was a child, his parents died and since he couldn't take care of the territory, his uncles took charge of managing the territory and looking after him until he was able to inherit the title of grand duke. But his uncles had no plans to give anything to the cursed child and all they did was abuse him and treat him like a dirty animal, as they couldn't kill him because only a direct descendant could inherit the title of grand duke.

And in order to take over the title, Christopher's uncle promised him to his adoptive daughter, Eliza, whom he adopted as a replacement for his deceased daughter because of her resemblance, but after a few years, he had another daughter and started treating Eliza like an illegitimate child who received nothing but mistreatment, even from the servants. She was almost in the same situation as Christopher. Eliza was engaged to Christopher with the mission of getting pregnant and giving birth to an heir, so they would kill Christopher and raise their child to be a puppet that would allow them to have the title of grand duke in their family.

Unfortunately, for them, Christopher was not a fool and as someone who never knew affection, when he came of age, the power of his lineage awakened and he massacred everyone in the mansion, taking control of his territory and earning the title of the cursed demon.

Upon getting to know him beyond fearing him, Alina felt pity for him and as the only one who dared to treat him without fear, she became the only one who attended to him and took care of him without knowing the impact she was having on Christopher's life. Alina discovered that Christopher was a kind person despite his coldness and lack of emotions, and gradually they became close. This is how Alina decides to cure Christopher's curse and restore his sight, giving him the opportunity to see the world again. Upon seeing her for the first time, Christopher becomes even more fascinated by Alina, but unfortunately, it was a one-sided love as Alina only saw him as a friend and was unaware of the obsessive beast that had been awakened.

Things go wrong for Alina when the temple finds her and to avoid problems with the cursed demon, they decide to kidnap her when Christopher is not at the mansion.

This is when everything goes awry and they end up awakening the wrath of the obsessive demon. Christopher knows that it was the temple who took away his beloved, so without hesitation, he attacks the main headquarters of the temple, unleashing a war between the temple and the grand duchy.

Christopher manages to rescue Alina but decides that the only way to protect her is by locking her up. Alina was too good for that shitty world, so he would take care of protecting her. Yes, Alina would be his alone.

This is where Alina realizes that she has fallen into the hands of an obsessive maniac and regrets choosing the mansion of the grand duke.

But Alina is no fool and just like Christopher, she has no scruples. She seduces him and takes him to bed, and in the midst of the act, she kills Christopher and escapes.

Just like the villain dies at the hands of the protagonist while they were having sex, worthy of an adult novel.

In the end, Alina seeks out Leon again and confronts him, asking how far he would be willing to go for her. Leon, without hesitation, tells her he would sacrifice the world to have her by his side. And Alina tells him that in order to be together, he had to destroy the temple and free her from the title of saint.

And so, it happened. Leon unleashed a war against the temple, which eventually resulted in the destruction of the temple after all the atrocities committed by the temple using the saints were exposed.

That is how Alina finally realized that the man she fell in love with was her safe place, and she ultimately surrendered herself to him, body and soul.

And there, the first part of the novel ends, and Alexa puts her phone down, satisfied with her reading.

It was really worth it, now I see why it's ranked number one in the world in its category. Damn, I loved the villain!! Rich daddy, I wish I could be Alina so that you would be obsessed with me! Too bad she died... poor thing, I would stay with him and take care of him and protect him so that he doesn't suffer anymore, my baby, I would make him happy... I hope they revive him in the second part...

Definitely, she will have to read the second part, but it will be tomorrow because she is very sleepy and is going to sleep.

Alexa closed her eyes and a few minutes later she fell asleep without imagining that an earthquake would destroy the building where her apartment was and she would die without even knowing it.

Alexa wakes up abruptly with her breathing accelerated and then tries to calm down by thinking that she had a nightmare, but at that moment someone throws a bucket of cold water at her, leaving her stunned.

"Eliza, you useless bitch!! When are you going to get up and do your chores?!!"

She hears the screams and turns towards the woman dressed in a maid cosplay, but what caught Alexa's attention was that this strange woman just called her "Eliza".

Then she looks around and realizes that this wasn't her room, she was in a place that seemed to be a damp basement with little light.

"Where the hell am I?"

"Aren't you listening to me, you wretched thing?!"

The strange woman shouts, and Alexa feels a strong blow to her head, realizing that the woman just hit her with an iron bucket.

Alexa touches her forehead and sees the blood on her hands.

"What the hell? First she throws water at me, and now she hits me?"

The best sniper in the state being hit by a crazy cosplayer? No one has hit her and lived to tell the tale.

Immediately, Alexa glares at the woman and she trembles under the cold gaze, instinctively stepping back, but not enough to prevent Alexa from lunging at her and knocking her to the ground, straddling her chest and immobilizing her arms by pinning them down with her legs.

"You're going to die, you crazy bitch," Alexa says, starting to punch the woman, who screams in terror. But Alexa doesn't stop and continues to hit her again and again until blood starts to splatter and the woman's face becomes unrecognizable. Still, she keeps screaming and writhing, but Alexa doesn't stop and begins to strangle her until the woman stops screaming and her body stops moving, indicating that she is dead.

Alexa stops and starts to look at her body, noticing something strange.

"Why is my body smaller than usual?"

She immediately gets up and searches the room for a mirror, finding an old and broken full-length mirror there. She looks at herself in it and becomes perplexed.

"What the hell happened to my body?"

She wonders, touching her face, which now resembles that of an eight-year-old girl.

Then she remembers that the woman called her Eliza before, and the characteristics that Alexa is seeing now perfectly match the description of Eliza, the strange woman murdered by the villain in the novel she just read.

"It can't be true, right? Did... did I become that Eliza?"

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