Surviving as the Villainess’s Servant in a Martial Arts Novel - Chapter 2

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Episode 2

At first, I didn’t even know I had possessed into 【King of the Heavenly Pillar】.

Though I had gotten so angry about it, the truth was that it had already been several months since I read King of the Heavenly Pillar, and in that time I had devoured many more novels.

Usually when you possess into something, isn’t the unwritten rule that you possess into a novel you read recently or your favorite novel?

So when I was on my way home after my part-time job ended, crossing the crosswalk when a truck suddenly appeared out of nowhere and hit me, and I opened my eyes in this world, the first thought I had was this.

‘Is this a romance fantasy?’

A reincarnation truck that suddenly rushed toward me, thinking I was dead but having a perfectly fine body, and an unfamiliar ceiling that was neither an ambulance ceiling nor a hospital room ceiling.

No matter how you look at it, this is the opening of a typical possession story, isn’t it?

Then the next scene is even more obvious. If I just lie here blankly on the bed, suddenly the door will slam open and an impudent maid will appear shouting “Miss, what are you doing not getting up quickly?!”…

“Dan-ah?”

…That’s not it?

“Dan-ah, Dan-ah?”

I turned to look beside me in bewilderment. Then a woman with a slender, pale face came into view.

“Oh my, Dan-ah!”

I was flustered once again.

It wasn’t because the woman looked elegant enough to appear as a main or supporting character in some historical drama, nor because such an actress was calling me so familiarly, nor because after calling out she suddenly started crying as if the world was ending.

‘An, an Asian?’

Black hair and black eyes, fair wheat-colored skin with delicate features, and somehow familiar Eastern-style clothing.

No matter how I looked at it, she was Asian, not Western.

Asian? Do Asians appear in romance fantasy novels?

“Oh, heavenly spirits, thank you, thank you! Dan-ah, our child has safely awakened, how… how…”

Even while I was endlessly flustered, the woman was shedding tears profusely. Then she suddenly grabbed my hand and started rattling off some incomprehensible story.

“Dan-ah, you don’t need to worry about mother’s illness anymore. Don’t you know that if something happens to you because of mother, that would make mother even more distressed? When mother heard that our Dan-ah had an accident on the Mountain, my heart felt like it was collapsing…”

“Excuse me? An accident on the Mountain? Who? Me? Who are you to call me…”

“Huh?”

“What?”

A moment of silence flowed.

“Ah…”

By the time I realized something was wrong, it was already too late. The woman’s eyes widened at my sudden words, and just as I was about to make some excuse.

“Ah?”

Suddenly, the senses that had been distant began to return.

With the sudden surge of pain, I couldn’t even breathe properly. Heat rose to the top of my head and my whole body throbbed, making me stagger, and the woman’s pale face became even more ashen.

Through my blurry vision, watching the woman cry out “Dan-ah, Dan-ah!” while sobbing, I vaguely thought.

‘Ah, they said I had an accident…’

With that thought, I fainted.

That was my first memory in this world.

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When I regained consciousness, I was lying alone on a bed.

As I lay there blankly staring at the ceiling, the events that had just occurred came flooding back.

This sudden possession into another world, the appearance of an Asian person instead of a Westerner, the woman who had held my hand while crying…

“Huh!”

I quickly sat up. Then suddenly dizziness hit me, and I groaned while clutching my head.

Suddenly, I noticed that the hair I could feel in my hands was short.

Come to think of it, it wasn’t just my hair. The hands I could see, my feet, every part of my body was small. And now that I thought about it, my line of sight seemed strangely low too. Could this be…

‘Did I possess a child’s body?’

This sudden rejuvenation was bewildering, but at least the fortunate thing was that I remained female.

I finished checking my entire body once more by feeling around. Only then could I face the next problem I had been putting off.

‘So where exactly did I get possessed into?’

Just as I was about to tear at my hair again.

“Child, are you alright?”

Suddenly some people opened the door and came in. I looked toward the door in bewilderment.

I saw a short, plump middle-aged man and a gentle-looking middle-aged woman. The middle-aged man was naturally speaking to me.

“I was just thinking about calling for a physician, but you came to your senses quickly. Thank goodness. Do you know how shocked we were when Lady Sa came running over crying? She kept saying incomprehensible things about how you suddenly lost your memory.”

“Excuse me?”

“Then you collapsed, which was so troublesome. We laid the lady down in the inner room for now, but I’m not sure if she’ll be okay. Should we call for a physician even now…”

“Lady Sa?”

I asked in confusion. Were they talking about that woman who had grabbed me and cried as if the world was ending? What had she said again…

“Now you don’t need to worry about mother’s illness… What’s worse is if something happens to you because of mother…”

Mother?

Just when I had a feeling I had made another verbal mistake, the two people who had been looking at me with surprised eyes asked in disbelief.

“You, you don’t know? Really?”

Only then did I have no choice but to confess my situation to the two people.

Though I say confess, I couldn’t exactly say ‘Actually, I just got possessed and don’t know anything,’ so I ended up making excuses that I couldn’t remember anything.

Even that alone was shocking enough that the middle-aged couple’s faces turned pale. The middle-aged man let out a hollow laugh as if dumbfounded and then spoke.

“You’re saying you can’t even remember who you are, never mind anything else? Well, really. How can such a thing happen…”

The middle-aged couple looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Then they went to a corner, leaving me behind, and put their heads together to discuss something earnestly.

After quite some time, they finished their discussion and came over to start explaining to me.

“Then we have no choice but to tell you from the beginning. First, I’m Po Il-ung, and this is my wife, Sim Ok-hyang. We’re your neighbors who live next door, and oh, let me start by telling you your name…”

So according to what the middle-aged man—Uncle Po—told me, it was like this:

My name is Seo Dan.

I’m a young household head living in Boluo County, Huizhou, Guangdong Province, taking care of my sick widowed mother.

‘Huh, young household head?’

At this part, I was surprised.

I was definitely sure I had possessed a girl’s body. No matter how much I checked, I couldn’t feel anything between my legs.

But as I continued listening to the Po couple’s story, I began to understand.

Seo Dan was living alone with her mother in Boluo County. How could a young girl manage to support a household by herself in this place with no father or relatives? It would have been difficult to consistently provide not only living expenses but also the cost of her mother’s medicine.

Eventually, Seo Dan disguised herself as a man and worked various jobs here and there, but during this time, an incident occurred.

“Those wicked bastards! How dare they frame you when you did nothing wrong?”

Seo Dan had been falsely accused and driven out.

The story was that she had been caught stealing jewelry from the shop owner’s wife and was kicked out, but when Uncle Po explained this incident, he was furious, calling it “complete nonsense.”

I listened to this story as if it were about someone else and secretly thought to myself.

‘Who knows, maybe she really was caught stealing…’

Of course, the truth was unknowable. Because the real Seo Dan wasn’t here anymore.

Anyway, having lost her job overnight, Seo Dan must have felt completely lost. Even if she could somehow manage living expenses, how was she supposed to get money for her mother’s medicine?

In the end, Seo Dan had apparently climbed the mountain to gather medicinal herbs for medicine as an urgent measure. However, since she didn’t return even late into the night, her mother, who had been waiting for her daughter, eventually asked the Po couple for help and they went out to search together.

Which led to this current situation.

My vision went dark.

‘Is this for real?’

If I were to possess someone’s body, I thought I’d become an imperial princess, royal princess, duke’s daughter, villainess, saintess, or something like that and use my knowledge from books to cause chaos as a possessor, but who would have known I’d become a dirt-poor girl who’s the head of household?

And I even have to take care of a sick family member… As I clutched my head, Uncle Po beside me clicked his tongue softly.

“If only I had delivered the news a little sooner, you wouldn’t have had to climb the mountain. What a shame.”

“News?”

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