Boring!

Musky clouds shrouding the faint glow of the evening sun, a deep orange colour dying the sky over the Fox manor. Things are just the way they have always seemed to have been... Serene and still like an unmoving water.

Inside the Fox manor, on a queen size bed, Ariyah laid swirling a glass of wine between her fingers and staring at the rows of servant standing in front of her with sweet smiles on their faces.

Who knew that having everything that one could ever think of came with its own disadvantages. As narcissistic as that sounded it was true. You never know where the shoe pinches till you're wearing it. It was exactly because she was living this bland, empty life that she could truly understand what it felt like.

She reached out for the jug of wine on the bedside table but before she could even touch it, one of the maids rushed forward and took the jug up.

"Let me do it Young mistress"

Yeah right. How could she have forgotten. She wasn't allowed to even pour her own water. Talk more of pouring a drink for herself. Frustrated, she was now less interested in drinking the glass wine, she casually dumped it on the side table and waved for the servant to return.

This was the life she lived in.

She used to be a fan of those weak to strong female lead novels, where the female lead would be hated by a lot of people but still be able to rise to fame and stardom, it gave her a sense of responsibility and commitment... unlike her current life. Ariyah wasn't any female lead nor was she trying to rise to stardom, from the moment she was born, she was born into stardom.

Her parents were famous, not only famous but wealthy enough to have breakfast and dinner in the president's house. As she grew up, she too began to become famous from doing practically nothing, now she didn't even have a job nor did she have a life of her own, all she did was live in the shadows of her parents reputation but yet she was more popular than any celebrity you could think of.

Ariyah had everything she could ever ask, wealth and beauty that could topple a nation, the endlessly admiration from people wishing to be like her and on that an exceedingly peaceful life, no disloyal servant, no wicked stepmother or stepsister, no antagonist seeking for revenge, but she was walking on pins and needles. You could say the life she had was the very same antagonist of her existence. She couldn't keep friends because she had her father's legacy to safeguard, she couldn't casually be in a relationship because her parents were scared of being used as a political weapons. She was just a beautiful ornament waiting at the terrace of her father's house tills a path was created for it. It was peaceful and perfect yet frustrating and boring. What fun was there if she wasn't actually living?

It was funny cause many would pray for her life but if she was asked, she certainly was not interested in keeping her life. She wanted something interesting. She wanted to get to know what it had to be like getting to make life molding choices or plan her future by herself or perhaps struggles to improve her life, but she couldn't, her life was all made up, she would probably die the same way she was born... A Multi-zillionaire. That was it. There would be no personal achievement they knew her for only that she grew up to take over her father's company and died while doing just that.

She wanted to take a walk through her own garden and feel the warmth of the sun without having a 50mm thick umbrella blocking her view, she wanted to sit with people and laugh, have something to talk about and not just building knowledge she was going to only use probably when she was fifty. She wanted a real life, nothing too dramatic but definitely not this blur and she wanted to pour her own water, pick her own dresses and wear her own shoes by herself!

She waved her hand and signalled the servants to leave her room and they did. They might have left but she knew they were watching, the slightest bit of movement from her and they would probably come rushing in. With her hand on her cheek and her finger mindlessly tapping away on her chin, she began wondering if there was a way she could become her own antagonist, perhaps spice up her own life by herself. Not that she hasn't tried yet. in time past Ariyah had tried playing the unruly wealthy first miss but her efforts were futile. Now she was wondering if there was something she had not tried that would finally bring colour to her life. Or did she have to create a thousand identities for herself?

"l would give anything for a more interesting life" she whispered under her breath then picked up her phone. Scrolling through the internet, there's not a single dissing article about her, only news of an impending matchmaked marriage for her like her parents had always planned. Ariyah was already used to this that there wasn't even room to be displeased anymore.

Her boredom magnifies and in a moment of whim she decides to read a novel, randomly selecting a novel from her long list of lightnovels library on her phone.

She takes a quick glance at the synopsis then snorts. "Classic cliche, It's the same thing every time, isn't there a new plot to write about? it's not like people's lives are like this in reality."

First chapter, Second chapter and then till ten and she becomes fed up. She finds the characters annoying mostly all the female leads. They have the opportunity to make the right decisions yet always seemed to prefer making useless and illogical decisions that turns their life into a mess.

Ariyah can already see where the story was headed, she could imagine all the hardship the female leads would bring on themselves as they chase after love and useless things. Ariyah doesn't even have to read to the end to know that the main female lead wins anyway at the end, leaving the supporting female leads to suffer death or a life worse than death.

Ariyah loses interest in the book still she decided to jump to the last ten chapters. Just like she assumed the female lead had finally found her love somewhere in-between the story after almost losing her life and her family to the man she had thought she loved. Whereas the first Supporting female lead was forced to commit suicide from heartbreak. The second supporting female lead was far better than the first, even though she lost everything, she gained amnesty from the Female lead and male lead and was allowed to live her life

Ariyah gets discontented and closes that novel. A visible pout on her lips and a hungry glint in her eyes. 'I wish I could trade life with either of them, I'm sure I would live it better than they did' she thought in her heart and she meant every word. Ariyah moved to set her phone down but a sudden notification pops up.

She picks the phone back up and stares at the screen, it was one of those random pop up ads, she gets them a lot and they all end up getting swiped away from her screen, as custom her finger moves to swipe it away but her eyes catches what is written on the Ad.

[do you want a different life? click here!]

She's enticed, her finger hovers over the Ad for a few minutes. Ariyah is contemplating if to waste her time checking the Ad, she knows it's just a publicity stunt but still is very eager to see what is at the end of the Ad. She clicks expectantly.

Her phone screen goes white for a few seconds then returns to normal, the Ad does not open, Ariyah clicks a few more times but nothing happens this time, She should have known, most ads always end up like that from failed program design, she becomes disappointed and swipes the Ad away from the screen. She drops the phone and lies down back.

Staring at the ceiling with nothing on her mind, she suddenly gets the urge to drink something, she sits back up and grabs the glass of wine she has dumped on the table. The servants rush back in to assist fill up the glass of wine.

"Don't bother I just_" Ariyah waves them off angrily. Her voice trails off as her steps begins to stumble.

The firm room suddenly appeared to have been out on a rollercoaster. Everything in her sight was spinning faster than a hands of a fan.

"Young mistress are you okay?!" They rushed to hold her still.

Ariyah opened her mouth to reply but she seemed to have lost the ability to utter words. In the next moment a wave of dizziness hit her and she collapsed.

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