I’m a Villain, but I Want to Live a Long Life - Chapter 1

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Honestly, really honestly speaking.

I had wished for the company to collapse. Not much, maybe about four times a week?

‘Please make the company collapse. It would be even better if it disappeared without a trace, like evaporating over the weekend…’

I prayed every day, whenever I had the chance… But even so.

“…No matter what.”

I stared into the mirror with bewildered eyes.

“Who actually makes it collapse!!!”

And it had to be when I was the only one at the company!

I remember it exactly.

I barely finished the documents my supervisor wanted by 8 AM tomorrow at 11:15.

I packed my things while patting my stiff back and put on my coat around 17 minutes past.

After looking around the empty office once, I turned off the lights, came out, and pressed the elevator button.

Then I yawned lazily and checked the last train.

The words ‘Arriving in 3 minutes’ appeared on my phone screen. It was just for a moment, but I stupidly thought my luck was pretty good today.

However, when I hummed and opened the web page of the novel I’d been reading lately.

Right then, the incident happened.

…The company building literally collapsed completely.

With an ear-splitting roar, the ground shook, and the feeling of suddenly sinking into the floor is still vivid.

Among the dust that hazily covered my vision and the pouring concrete chunks, I screamed and thought.

This really doesn’t make any sense.

Let’s say, giving it a hundred concessions, that it’s possible for a perfectly fine building to suddenly collapse out of nowhere.

But if exactly one person had to remain inside, and had to face such a bolt-from-the-blue death.

‘Shouldn’t that person not be me, who worked 15 hours a day?’

Even when my supervisor took only the results after dumping their work on me,

Even when I heard the bullshit about handling urgent work suddenly on weekends,

Even when that crazy department manager next to me at the company dinner subtly groped my arm.

…I endured it.

‘I’m sorry, but this seems to be outside my job scope.’

‘You want me to work on weekends too? Isn’t that a contract violation?’

‘What are you doing right now?! This is sexual harassment!’

The refreshing ending where you say everything to your boss and boldly punish the perpetrator didn’t exist in reality.

Why? If you say everything you want to say about being frustrated and wronged, what happens after?

Isn’t it obvious? The already hellish company life would just become more hellish.

I wasn’t particularly smart, but I knew one thing for certain.

My life wasn’t a novel or movie, but one hundred percent reality without plot twists.

For an ordinary ‘citizen number 1’ like me with no connections and no money, even asserting my rights was a luxury.

…And. In the first place, what reason did I have for stubbornly enduring at a company that paid a measly 1.8 million after taxes?

‘It was because I absolutely didn’t want to return to job-hunting hell.’

Anyone who has experienced job hunting even once would empathize.

That feeling of your self-esteem sinking to the bottom every time you get rejected at the document screening.

That’s not all.

Whenever I rarely heard from old classmates, it was always one of two things.

‘I opened a cafe recently. There are lots of pretty menu items, so please write a few posts with hashtags!’

Something like that, or,

‘Sebin! We decided to go on a hotel vacation with the kids, want to come? I got a job at S Corporation, so let’s hang out after a long time!’

Stories like that.

People who haven’t experienced it don’t know.

That feeling when a friend from school days is living a very successful life, but you can’t bring yourself to smile.

“…How annoying.”

I glared at the unfamiliar woman reflected in the mirror, gritting my teeth.

“So damn annoying!!!”

It wasn’t that my successful friends were annoying.

What was annoying was this damn fate that sent me, Sebin Lee, who tried to live quite strongly in this unforgiving world, to the afterlife.

And for such an absurd reason as building collapse.

Moreover, what’s more ridiculous than that…

“Where the hell is this place, and who am I!!!”

I looked at the woman standing in front of me with a half-dazed face.

“Oh my, miss, why do you look like that?”

A woman with an unfamiliar face wearing a maid outfit, entering my room as if familiar, calling me miss.

Suddenly an absurd thought flashed through my mind. With a faint hope, I muttered blankly.

“…Anna?”

“Yes. What’s wrong, miss?”

A calm answer came back. I slowly closed my gaping mouth.

‘I just said it on the off chance…’

This person is really Anna?

Anna was one of the characters in the novel I was reading just before the building collapsed.

Even though she was a supporting character with very little screen time, I clearly remembered her existence.

‘Her lines were so impressive they got stuck in my head.’

She was the character who failed while trying to do something terrible to the female protagonist.

Anna somehow escaped from the scene but was soon caught, and unable to endure the interrogation, she spilled everything about who ordered her from behind.

‘I, I was wrong! Please spare my life!! I had no other choice, I couldn’t refuse Miss Selene’s orders…!’

But the last line wasn’t completed. Before she could finish speaking, the male protagonist’s sword flew toward her neck.

I felt quite sorry for Anna’s death and even left my first comment on that chapter.

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Wait, am I the only one who feels bad for Anna? She’s just an employee – if her boss tells her to do something, what choice does she have? ㅠ

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But that Anna. The Anna from the novel! Why is she in front of me?

“…Miss!”

At the suddenly heard voice, I came to my senses and stepped backward as if I’d seen a ghost.

The shocking situation made my neck all stiff.

‘As expected, as I thought! I’ve entered the novel I was reading just before dying!’

There was no other way to explain the current situation.

As I trembled and gaped, Anna tilted her head and muttered.

“Miss, you seem a bit strange today.”

That gaze felt piercingly sharp, so cold sweat started trickling from both hands.

“You woke up much earlier than usual too.”

I turned my confused gaze toward the window.

Early? The sun was hanging high in the middle of the sky outside.

“You’ve been screaming at the top of your lungs since morning again.”

That was unavoidable since I was so shocked. Who wouldn’t scream after seeing a stranger’s face in the mirror?

Anna stroked her chin and made a “hmm” sound. Her innocent-looking green eyes suddenly sparkled.

“Perhaps…”

“…”

“Is it because of Lady Estelin’s birthday party this evening?”

My tightly closed lips slowly parted.

Birthday party? Wait, whose birthday party did she just say?

Anna let out a deep sigh and strode toward me as I stood frozen.

Then she suddenly thrust her face close to mine.

Just as I reflexively shrank back, Anna whispered barely audibly near my ear.

“Miss, don’t worry. I safely delivered ‘that thing’ you mentioned before to the maid in charge of the Banquet Hall Kitchen, just as you instructed.”

I unconsciously pulled my head back quickly and looked at Anna.

“…Th-that thing? What is that…?”

Anna didn’t answer. She just stared at me with wide eyes.

But after a moment, Anna, who had been frozen in that position, glanced around the empty surroundings and whispered quietly.

“Well, of course… it’s the medicine bottle you gave me, Miss.”

…Medicine bottle?

After a long silence, I gasped “Huk!” and covered my mouth.

Goosebumps instantly rose along my spine. A chilling sensation spread to the back of my neck.

In my rapidly spinning mind, a scene from the novel I had read before dying was vividly painted.

…She dropped the glass she was holding due to the heavy pain felt deep in her chest. The spilled wine stained the carpet red.

“…P-poison in the wine glass!”

“Call a physician immediately!!”

The banquet hall instantly became chaos. Red blood gushed from the mouth of her who had collapsed and was breathing heavily.

…This is terrible. I’ve seen this in the novel. My lips reflected in the mirror gradually turned pale.

Anna, sensing something strange, hesitantly approached.

“Miss, what’s wrong? Perhaps…”

“…”

“W-wait a moment. That medicine is a laxative as you said, right?”

What laxative. I swayed without answering and barely managed to grip the bed.

‘What on earth is this situation right after opening my eyes…’

My temples throbbed and a deep sigh welled up from my core.

But should I call it fortunate?

Even amid the confusion, one thing had become certain.

The body I had entered was the villain from the original novel,

and the villainess ‘Seleneae Tigris’ who would attempt to poison the female protagonist today.

“Miss! You should bring your coat!”

I hurriedly got out of the carriage and ran at full speed across the large garden.

“You shouldn’t run like that, Miss!!”

Anna’s desperate cry came from behind. But I didn’t stop.

With each rough step on the ground, the shoes I wore dug mercilessly into my tender heels.

However, such pain wasn’t important right now.

‘I have to prevent her from drinking it by any means necessary.’

To be precise, not Estelin, but her younger sister Eria.

In the novel, it wasn’t the female protagonist Estelin who would drink the poison Seleneae put in the wine glass.

‘It was Estelin’s younger sister Eria.’

And Eria was just a twelve-year-old child.

I bit my lips tightly.

Now that I knew about this situation, I couldn’t just let an innocent child die.

And most importantly…

‘Seleneae gets executed later when this incident is exposed.’

That’s right. This was the beginning of countless evil deeds Seleneae would commit and one of the most terrible incidents.

In other words, I had to somehow handle this incident first before I could live well here or not.

‘Moreover, if I fail, it’s definitely an execution ending…’

That was much, much more terrible than a building collapse!

As I caught my ragged breath and raised my head, I finally saw the grand gate of the manor.

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