All Chapters of I Was Reborn as the Villainess, With a System: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The Eastern Tower had been sealed for a hundred years.No servant was allowed near it. No noble was permitted to enter, and even the Imperial Guards avoided the ancient tower after sunset. Yet tonight, Evelina walked toward its massive black doors without hesitation.The palace around her had fallen strangely quiet.Prince Cedric had escaped.The Emperor was trapped inside his own palace.Princess Alice had disappeared.And somewhere beneath the Imperial Palace, the secrets of the royal family were waiting to be uncovered.Lucien walked beside Evelina, his ice-blue eyes watching every shadow.Behind them, Corvin and two Raven's Eye agents followed silently.Evelina stopped before the ancient doors.“This tower has been hidden for a century,” she said, studying the strange symbols carved into the stone. “If my grandfather was imprisoned because he discovered the truth, then whatever is inside this place could explain everything—the royal blood pact, the Core Engine, and even why the Sy

The Imperial Palace had fallen silent.Not the peaceful kind of silence.It was the silence that came after a storm.Evelina stood inside the palace corridor, staring at the sealed doors behind her.The Emperor was still alive.Cedric was in the dungeons.Princess Alice had been stripped of her protection.And the Imperial Army had surrendered.Yet Evelina couldn't shake the feeling that the real battle had only begun.The strange message from the System remained in her mind.[WELCOME BACK, EVELINA ROSENTHAL.]She had never seen those words before.Why would the System say welcome back?She was supposed to be a transmigrated soul.She had memories of another life.She knew this world as a novel.At least…That was what she had believed.Lucien walked beside her.“You've been quiet.”Evelina looked at him.“I'm thinking.”“About the System?”“Yes.”Lucien's expression became serious.“You don't have to face it alone.”Evelina stared at him for a moment.Then she smiled.“I know.”Befor

Dark clouds hung over the capital like a bruise across the night sky.At the edge of the city stood Castle Iron-Clad, the empire's formidable outer fortress. Its towering walls had protected the capital for generations.Tonight, however, those walls were protecting a prince who had already lost everything that mattered.High atop the stone ramparts stood Crown Prince Cedric.The weeks of political humiliation had stripped away the charm he once wore so effortlessly. His handsome features were drawn and exhausted, his eyes hollow, his posture tense with barely controlled panic.Beside him stood three hundred archers and the remaining soldiers of the Imperial Guard.Every bow was aimed toward the frozen plain below.But there was one problem.The enemy wasn't coming.The enemy had already arrived.Beyond the fortress gates stretched the Northern Army.Eighty thousand heavily armored warriors stood in absolute silence beneath the falling snow.No shouting.No war drums.No unnecessary mo

The gentle sea breeze of the capital disappeared behind them.In its place came the howl of the northern wind.Snow battered the carriage windows as the horses climbed through the massive iron gates marking the border of Valemont Territory. Beyond the jagged mountain pass stretched the North—a merciless land of frozen peaks, endless winter, and warriors who believed weakness deserved no mercy.This was where Duke Lucien Valemont had forged his legend.Not in royal ballrooms.Not through political games.But in blood and battle.Inside the heated carriage, Evelina sat comfortably against the plush velvet seat, a massive tactical map spread across her knees.Her silver hair fell over one shoulder as her amber eyes moved across the mountain routes, supply lines, and military positions marked in black ink.Since the destruction of the Holy Temple's nexus, the System had changed.The bright blue interface that once followed her every move was gone.In its place floated a fractured, corrupt