Drama Queen Reborn as a Top Student! - Chapter 496: Offering flowers to Buddha on someone else’s behalf

CONTENT WARNING:/This novel contains mature themes, explicit sexual content, strong language, and adult situations. Reader discretion is advised./---She ran from the devil who raised her…And married the one who wore a crown.After her parents’ tragic death, Lydia Andreyevna’s life became a nightmare. Stripped of her name, inheritance, and freedom by her uncle—Lord Alexander—she was treated like property and promised to a Count four times her age.Desperate to escape, she fled into the cold night… and straight into blood.A stranger. Wounded. Beautiful. Terrifying.She should’ve left him.But she didn’t.She touched him once—and fate branded her forever.Her uncle caught her the next morning. Her escape failed. But when she begged Queen Olga for protection, the Queen offered her a deadly bargain:Marry the masked Grand Duke of Zolotaria.The king’s hunting dog. The butcher of the East. The devil in a crown.The man feared by kings.The heir to the throne.The same man she once saved.Ivan Romanov.They say he bathes in blood. That he kills without blinking. That he conquered kingdoms with a smile behind a mask. That no one sees his face—and lives.Some call him the devil. Others call him Death’s favorite son.But behind the mask is the same man she found dying in the dark.The same voice that haunted her dreams.The same hands she once held.Now, he’s her husband.Her jailer.Her obsession.She doesn’t know if she’s his prisoner, or his weakness.Cold and untouchable, Ivan doesn’t share his bed. Doesn’t share his secrets. But she sees it—the hunger in his eyes. The pain in his silence. The way he looks at her like she’s the only thing keeping his demons at bay.She should fear him.She should hate him.But the moment she dares to take off his mask… it’s already too late.Because Ivan wants her—her fire, her body, her heart.And in his world, what he wants, he keeps.Even if it means burning down the kingdom.She thought she was running from hell.She ended up in his bed.And the most dangerous thing of all?She doesn’t want to leave.

She is an orphan with no blood ties to him, calling him 'young uncle', yet he regards her as his possession.He is the heir to a powerful family, the all-powerful Crown Prince of Elysian City, yet for her, he lays an inescapable trap, meticulously plotting every move.From the moment she stepped into the Rhodes Family ten years ago, her fate was already sealed.When she is bullied and seeks revenge, he impassively indulges her in her vengeance.Having been alone since childhood, she yearns for affection; he weaves a web of love, letting her fall and lose herself within it.Little did he expect that one day, his possession would escape his control...The person she loves is someone else!He transforms into a demon, cornering her, “Nina Wynn, you dare to love someone else?”Nina Wynn dares not look him in the eye, “You are my nominal young uncle, I dare not love you.”He presses closer, “Is it 'don't want to' or 'don't dare'?”———Later, as night falls, The Valorian Crown Prince holds the treasure in his arms, his eyes bloodshot, paranoid yet helpless as he begs her, “Nina, don't stop loving me.”

On one spring evening when I was eight years old, I, Erica, Duke of Aurelia’s daughter, realized something.

Huh, I have reincarnated into a fantasy world, haven’t I?

Moreover, it was the romance-fantasy girl game that had the reputation of being bloody, 『Liber Monstrorum ~Phantom Beasts and the Winter Princess~』

The face reflected in the mirror was that of the villainess character of that game.

After repeatedly harassing many characters, including the heroine, she would die without exception, signaling the beginning of an event called the bizarre incident. She was a villain who deserved to get the consequences!

—I absolutely don’t want a destiny like that, though?

No, for me who has remembered the memory of my previous life, there would be no such thing.

In my previous life, I was harassed immensely by an irrationally angry yandere man who proclaimed ‘She is absolutely in love with me.’

My cause of death, too, was from being stabbed by another yandere man who I only had talked with a few times……

Now that I have become the haughty villainess Erica, I shouldn’t encounter more misunderstandings like with the previous life’s yandere men anymore, right……?

In that case, it will be fine as long as I deal with the death flags that I may have raised myself.

All right! First of all, before the bizarre incident begins at the Magic Academy, I will strike down the death flags accordingly!!

—Or so I thought, but it seems that I am about to die.

Eeh, how did this happen—!?

The Super Foodie System, a female fugitive's ultimate comeback!Tang Yiyi's life turned completely upside down after her superpower awakening failed at age 18.Her status plummeted, she was imprisoned for murder, and she was pregnant with a child of 'unknown father.'During transportation, she was sabotaged and infected with the Zombie Virus, then thrown on a Garbage Mountain. On the verge of death, she heard a cold mechanical voice—“Super Foodie System successfully activated, do you choose to bind?”