The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 164

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Chapter 164

⌜Is the child alright?⌟

Right beside me, I heard another someone’s voice.

It was the Duchess.

As the Mother of All Dragons descended, she seemed to have brought her soul along as well.

The Dragon examined Aristina’s body carefully before speaking.

⌜The soul hasn’t completely departed yet. But…⌟

It trailed off for a moment.

Urgent footsteps could be heard from outside.

“Young Lady?”

The Maids called out from outside, then slightly opened the door.

Upon discovering Aristina collapsed on the floor, they screamed and rushed inside.

“The Young Lady has been murdered!”

Their voices echoed loudly throughout the Annex.

The Dragon looked at the Duchess.

⌜This is exactly the future I read through my sword. This child is destined to die here.⌟

⌜Ah…⌟

The Duchess’s soul trembled.

⌜What should we do?⌟

⌜Wait. It’s too early to despair.⌟

The Mother of All Dragons blinked her large eyes and spoke slowly.

⌜Did you forget? We promised to help each other once. Only if your child lives can she help my children later.⌟

And it spoke solemnly.

⌜Dragons are beings that freely traverse time and space. I am the one with the most powerful strength among them. I’ve never tried it before, but I’ll attempt to avoid the fate of death once.⌟

⌜How?⌟

⌜I’ll temporarily send her to another world.⌟

The Dragon said.

⌜There are countless worlds in the universe, and time doesn’t flow at the same speed in all worlds. If I temporarily send your daughter’s soul to a world where time flows differently than here, the fate of death won’t be able to follow her there. After the fate has completely passed by, I can bring your daughter’s soul back.⌟

The Dragon raised its front paw and gently touched Aristina.

A faintly flickering soul emerged from the dying body. The Dragon carefully embraced it with both front paws.

The next moment.

Such tremendous power burst from the Dragon’s body that space itself warped.

Aristina’s soul vanished completely from this world.

The Dragon was right.

The fate of death that had been approaching like a giant gear couldn’t follow beyond the barrier of time.

It crushed the empty space where Aristina’s soul had disappeared, finding nothing.

Everything became dark.

Then…

It slowly began to brighten again.

Somewhere in another world.

On some land there, a small being that had escaped from the Dragon’s embrace gently landed.

It was a soul that had lost its body.

It was placed on the street in the form of a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes.

“It’s already past 12 o’clock?”

Some people passed by chatting, then hurriedly returned.

“Look at this! It really is a baby! What should we do! Someone abandoned it!”

“Let’s take it to the police station!”

The people picked up the baby and hurried away.

But…

From behind where they were walking, certain voices began to be heard.

“It’s divine punishment! She should have had a kinder heart!”

“Oh my, I feel so refreshed! I’ll sleep soundly from today!”

“Good riddance, you Villainess! In your next life, you must suffer the same!”

“Right! Since you made others cry, your eyes should shed tears of blood!”

The people seemed unable to hear them, but these angry words followed closely behind the baby.

The Duchess was shocked.

⌜What is all this?⌟

⌜The voices of people cursing over your daughter’s corpse.⌟

The Mother of All Dragons replied.

⌜It can’t be helped. This is all karma. She must endure it.⌟

The price of living as a Villainess.

The resentment and curses of the people around her who had been tormented.

It followed Aristina’s soul, which even the fate of death couldn’t pursue, blocking her path and giving her trials at every moment.

“I’m sorry. The adoption has been cancelled.”

“You need to earn your own living too.”

“Where do you think you’re looking? Go work now!”

Watching the child being constantly mistreated, the Duchess stamped her feet in distress.

⌜It’s hard, isn’t it? But there’s nothing we can do. This is all the karma you must repay.⌟

She offered words of encouragement to her daughter sitting blankly in the darkness.

⌜Endure just a little more! Get up quickly! Stay strong!⌟

Perhaps that encouragement was heard.

The child wiped away her tears and stood up.

In the endless misfortune, the former Villainess’s stubbornness slowly revived.

No matter how much the facility mistreated her, she gritted her teeth and endured.

While studying, she entered the workforce early, working overtime, side jobs, and even additional part-time work.

Rolling around in society, she honed her acting skills, learned shameless techniques, and developed mental strength that wouldn’t collapse under most abuse of power.

She grew into an excellent member of society.

I could see myself crossing the crosswalk at dawn. I was on my way home after finishing my warehouse part-time job.

The Dragon watching suddenly spoke.

⌜Now it’s done. The fate of death has finally passed.⌟

The Dragon briefly opened a wall in space to show the gear of fate disappearing in the distance.

⌜I succeeded in twisting fate and saving your daughter’s life. Although a long time has passed in this world, only a few seconds would have passed in our world. Now she can return.⌟

I could see a Young Couple holding a baby and urgently trying to catch a taxi. Some drunk driver’s foreign car was racing toward them.

As the Mother of All Dragons spread her wings wide, that foreign car suddenly changed direction and was drawn toward me.

With a loud crash, everything became brilliantly white.

My soul escaped from there, was embraced by the Dragon, and returned to the original world.

The timelines of the two worlds moving differently overlapped once again.

“Mmm…”

I, Aristina, who had been collapsed in the preservation circle, flinched and opened my eyes.

Light gradually returned to my clouded pupils.

The soul that had lived in another world for about 20 years didn’t realize that this was her original world.

While lying face down, I only rolled my eyes to look around, then squeezed them shut.

‘I don’t know. Let’s just keep pretending to be dead for now.’

…That’s how it happened.

I returned to reality and opened my eyes.

The figure of Aristina lying on the Study floor suddenly disappeared.

The figures of the Mother of All Dragons and the Duchess also vanished.

The light emanating from the magic circle I had drawn in the air slowly went out. The magic circle, having fulfilled its final role, disappeared and caused vibrations on the floor.

“…”

I, who had been standing there dazed and absent-minded, lost my balance and fell to the floor.

But I couldn’t even think of getting up.

‘That’s how it was…’

Now I understood everything.

I thought this world was a novel I had read because it felt so familiar.

But that wasn’t it.

This was my life.

My real life that had only paused momentarily to avoid the gears of death.

Because I was unjustly killed by an unidentified culprit, I must have loved mystery novels about catching criminals so much.

That’s why I was so obsessed with survival.

It wasn’t that I had possessed a murdered body, but that I had actually been murdered.

‘There was a reason for everything.’

As I lay collapsed on the floor in a daze…

The door burst open right in front of me.

“…?”

I raised my head.

Duke Carnel was standing there. His neatly tied hair was disheveled, and one of his rolled-up shirt sleeves had come down.

“Aristina!”

He rushed inside, breathing heavily. Then he hurriedly lifted me up into his arms.

“Are you alright? Hm?”

I stared up at his face blankly.

“Father…”

“Yes! It’s me! Are you conscious?”

“They said I’m your real daughter…”

“What are you talking about! Of course you’re my real daughter! Otherwise I wouldn’t have rushed over here so frantically!”

Duke Carnel shouted. Blood rushed to his pale face.

“I was wrong in my thinking. I judged that our father-daughter relationship was already severed and could never be revived anyway. I thought we should just live like this. But the moment I heard that thud just now, I forgot all those thoughts. ‘It absolutely cannot be like that day.’ That was my only thought.”

He poured out his words without even breathing.

“You don’t know how much I regretted it after hearing the truth about that night at the arena earlier. Even though you nearly died, I ignored it thinking it was a lie…”

Tears had formed in the Duke’s eyes before he knew it. He looked at me with a face full of regret and said.

“Father was wrong. Will you forgive me?”

“Father!”

After calling out loudly, I couldn’t help but choke up.

Until now, every time I called him father, I couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable about lying.

But now I could call him that with confidence.

‘He really was my father. We really were family.’

Something hot welled up from within my chest. I burst into tears and hugged him tightly.

“I’m the one who was wrong!”

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