Celebrity Lady - Chapter 5

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Celebrity Lady
Episode 5
That’s right. The moment I woke, I found myself face to face with a strange woman whose hands were wrapped around my throat.
“What makes you so special? What gives you the right to go near Jaehyun?”
The woman who had broken into my home was likely an obsessed fan of some actor.
Recently, after filming an advertisement with a male actor, I’d unfortunately been caught up in scandal and was suffering the fallout.
Receiving death threats and having raw eggs thrown at me from his extreme fans had become almost routine.
Still, having weathered so much before, it was something I could endure.
But I never imagined there would be an obsessed fan so committed to killing me that she’d hide in my home and actually pull out a knife.
“Where do you think you’re going! Die!”
We struggled, thrashing about until I finally managed to escape the bed and run—but that was when
I felt the cold, heavy weight of the Kitchen Knife plunging deep into my abdomen.
“No, this can’t be happening.”
The pain seared as if that moment had transferred directly into me, and I curled inward, clutching my stomach.
‘Right, I was mistaken. It was such a horrible memory I must have wanted to forget.’
My last memory wasn’t falling asleep. It ended right there—stabbed by that fan’s blade.
‘If that’s the case, then… my body only had ten minutes left to live?’
I grasped at my foggy mind and carefully asked Wisht.
“Did I… die? Is that what happened?”
Wisht fell silent at my question. This time, too, the silence meant yes.
“So Rubetriya… wished for our bodies to be swapped? While I was dying?”
I pressed on, desperately hoping my assumption was wrong.
“She made that wish without knowing, right? She just envied my life and made the wish, but it just so happened I died at that moment. That’s it, isn’t it?”
“……”
“Please… tell me that’s what happened?”
“I’m sorry I cannot give you the answer you want.”
“Oh, no.”
She knew I was going to die? And still wished to swap our bodies?
There was no other way to interpret it. Rubetriya didn’t envy my life—she made that wish to save me, even like this.
For me, a woman from an entirely different world whose existence she’d never even known.
‘Why on earth?’
Seeing my confusion, Wisht spoke.
“Rubetriya had lost all will to live by the end. Though one of her three Wishes remained, she felt there was no meaning in using it. Eventually, I showed her your life through the Pond, and she went there to throw herself in…”
At those words, I recalled the last comment Rubetriya had left on my social media.
I’ve decided to die today, Juliet.
It seemed she was serious.
“Before dying, she wanted to watch your life one last time. As fate would have it, the last scene she witnessed was you—bleeding out from a knife wound, dying.”
“……”
“You might call it cruel, but I thought you should see it. The moment Rubetriya cast her final Wish.”
Wisht murmured expressionlessly and lightly tapped my forehead. In that instant, an image rippled across my mind.
Rubetriya was weeping, staring into the Pond where my dying form lay bare.
“No! No! Juliet! Please!”
She quickly called out to Wisht, trembling violently.
“A W-Wish. I have one Wish left. Please, save Juliet. I’m begging you.”
“I’m sorry, but I cannot save the dead. The Wheels of Fate have already turned, and Juliet Carennina is fated to die soon.”
“Then c-couldn’t you turn back time there? Somehow, I need to warn Juliet, I need to tell her to avoid the body—”
“Haven’t I told you already? Interfering with the Causality of that world is beyond my power.”
“Then? Does that mean Juliet just has to die like that?”
“If that is Juliet Carennina’s fate.”
At Wisht’s desperate answer, Rubetriya suffered more than I did—the one it concerned.
“This can’t be… Juliet is beautiful, lived a brilliant life, but I know better than anyone that none of it came without effort.”
Her voice, trembling through tears, echoed so clearly in my mind that my throat suddenly tightened.
“She persevered! Unlike stupid me! Juliet was such an amazing person!”
Rubetriya sobbed like a madwoman.
“She only slept four hours a day, and even resented wasting those four hours! Everything Juliet achieved wasn’t just handed to her!”
“……”
“She struggled, so hard, so incredibly hard—! Sob! She cultivated her life that way, and to die so senselessly like this…!”
“……”
“This can’t happen. It just can’t.”
Rubetriya, watching my bloody, dying body with hollow eyes, suddenly blazed with new determination as she spoke to Wisht.
“It’s fine as long as I don’t interfere with the Causality of that world, right?”
“What are you thinking?”
“Right now, before Juliet’s last breath completely stops.”
“……”
“Swap our souls. If you can’t save Juliet, then I’ll go into her body and die in her place.”
“What did you just say?”
“I was planning to die anyway.”
“Are you insane? You think I’m actually going to grant a Wish like that—”
“You’re my bound servant, and this is my command. Swap our souls right now. Juliet definitely wouldn’t want to die like this.”
“Ha…”
“Because I’m worthless whether I live or not, but she has so much more to live for—”
Wisht could not defy Rubetriya’s command.
And so I opened my eyes in Rubetriya’s body, and she opened her eyes in my dying one.
And in my body, she thrashed against the agony of approaching death for exactly ten minutes, then slipped away.
‘This is insane. What am I even supposed to do?’
When the image of Rubetriya I’d witnessed for the first time faded like an afterimage from my mind,
I lay silent for a long while, wrestling down my surging emotions.
It was too much reality to take in all at once.
A meaningless death.
And a new life left behind by a woman named Rubetriya Diolus—someone I’d never even known existed.
A second chance.
“I didn’t know, and I’m… ”
“……”
“To be blunt… I’m sorry.”
“It’s fine. As you said, you didn’t know.”
“Right.”
“……”
“Can you give me a little time to cry?”
Without waiting for Wisht’s answer, I quietly folded myself onto the bed. Tears began to flow.
* * *
Deep in the night.
By the time I thought I’d wept away all the moisture in my body, that no tears remained,
“Done crying?”
Wisht, who’d been by my side the whole time I wept, asked. I looked up at them through swollen eyes and nodded.
“What will you do?”
“What do you mean, what will I do?”
“Fair warning—Rubetriya’s life is so difficult and miserable that even after her Regression, she decided on suicide. You’ll likely struggle to handle all the trials surrounding her.”
“What are you trying to say? Stop beating around the bush.”
“I wondered if perhaps you could cleverly use me to your advantage.”
Wisht folded their arms and looked down at me.
“I remain bound as a servant to Rubetriya Diolus’s body, but since the soul within it is now different, you too can make three new Wishes to me.”
The unexpected offer caught me off guard. Wisht chuckled slightly, as if they’d anticipated my reaction, and made a proposal.
“So, want to use one right now?”
“Okay. I’ll use one.”
“Good. I’ll make you slim.”
As if certain I would make exactly that Wish, Wisht reached up to snap their fingers.
I scrambled to my feet and grabbed their hand.
“Are you crazy? Why would I waste one of only three Wishes on something like that?”
“You wouldn’t?”
“Of course not. I can lose weight through diet and exercise. And if I suddenly became slim, don’t you think people would find it strange?”
“Diet… exercise?”
Wisht’s expression grew suspicious. Apparently, Rubetriya’s track record of failed diets came to mind.
“I was an actress. For nearly twenty years since my debut, I managed my physique professionally. Daily exercise and diet checks are basic for me, and I adjusted my weight every time I took a new role. For me, dieting is the easiest thing in the world. I’ll handle it myself. I’m not wasting a Wish on that.”
“Then what Wish will you make?”
To Wisht’s confused question, I stated my request at once.
“First…”

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