Persona Villain

I was never a novel person. Honestly? I couldn’t care less about them. That is, until “Three Hearts, One Love”... the reverse harem novel that took over the world… shoved itself into my life. Everywhere I turned: malls, newsfeeds, radios, TVs… Even the old lady at the bus stop was raving about it. Out of pure annoyance… and a little curiosity… I bought a copy, planning to skim it just enough to say it was overrated. Big mistake. Huge. One minute I was rolling my eyes at the melodrama, the next I woke up inside the story — not as the beloved heroine, of course. No, fate made me Luna Graves: the pathetic and miserable, jealous best friend doomed to crash and burn spectacularly by the end of the novel. With no way out, I figured I'd play my part, die dramatically, and call it a day. But then something weird happened. Scenes shifted. Strangers walked onto the page. And the swoon-worthy male leads? They stopped chasing the heroine... and started chasing me. Me. The villain. This wasn’t in the script... and I was definitely not ready.

* The fourth book in the Love and Other Sorcery Series - Book One, The Mage's Heart, Book Two, The Golden Dragon's Princess, Book Three, Akyran's Folly * Love's Sacrifice Will Make You Stronger Tarragon, the first-born child of Queen Diandreliera of Uyan Taesil and her dragon husband, Aurien, is the child of prophecy in every way. She is beautiful, talented, well-learned, and a master of the sword she was born to wield. She is also as magnificent a golden dragon as her father when in dragon-form. Daethie loves and adores her older sister and envies her for all that Tarragon is and Daethie isn't. Short, small, dark haired, and unable to shift into a dragon, Daethie is fondly known as "the runt of the dragon litter." Whilst her siblings excel at Prince Akyran and Princess Ecaeris' Monster Hunting training, Daethie is a disaster more likely to harm herself than any monster that she encounters. When Prince Akyran brings Aien, the son of a local warlock who is well known for his villainy, to the castle as his hostage, Aien singles out Daethie to befriend, and Daethie falls hard and fast for the enigmatic warlock's son. With the increasing danger of monsters roaming their land, Tarragon leads an expedition to locate the portal that is allowing the creatures to cross from their world, but it is a dangerous, testing journey and one that not all will complete alive. What sacrifice will be made for love and the rescue of their world?

Edwina has made it her mission to improve the lives of all commoners through her position as Royal Historian. She has worked tirelessly toward this goal, but a group of powerful nobles called the Grand Peerage stands in her way, blocking her at every turn. Alexander Claiborne, the Duke of Ice, one of the most powerful aristocrats in society proposes a deal. He'll give Edwina all she needs to take down the Grand Peerage, in exchange all he wants is her hand in marriage!?

I transmigrated into a trashy, tragic romance as the vicious side character. By the time I arrived, the story had already reached its ending. I had caused the female lead to lose her SAT opportunity, and my two older brothers forced me to my knees. My eldest brother, Lucas Sherman, beat me mercilessly with a stick. He hissed, "Slap yourself 1000 times before you can get up." My older brother, Charlie Sherman, threw a bottle of pesticide at me. He spat, "Someone as vicious as you should just die." I let out a cold laugh and picked up the pesticide bottle, downing it in one gulp. Lucas and Charlie turned pale with shock. "Are you insane? You actually drank it!"

When Gwyneth opened her eyes, she found herself in a webnovel she had just binge-read, and she wasn’t just a random character—she was the villain’s mother! In the story, after the tragic death of her first husband, the original owner of her body had swiftly moved on and snagged a perfect new partner, only to heartlessly cast aside her son from the first marriage, worrying he would become a burden. Now armed with knowledge of the impending plot twists and the looming shadows of her future villain son, Gwyneth glanced at her surprisingly alive first husband and groaned. With the script she had been dealt, she'd rather face a dragon than revamp this narrative! She was determined to rewrite her destiny, but how could she escape this villainous fate?

“Why do you defy me, little dove?” He demanded and Desire was torn. Torn between pleasing her Master and bending one of the rules holding their region together. His blue eyes bored into hers for a while before Desire finally looked away again, waiting for her judgement, her dead judgement for breaking a rule“The first option is to have you killed by hanging, the second one is to send you to the Harem while the third one is to make you my private maid and you’re the only person who has the privilege of this rare chance. So, my dear little Dove, what do you say?” “I’ll pick the first option, let me die at stake or by hanging. Whichever option suits you, My lord but please just let me die a quick death” Desire pleased with a determined look on her face.

MAHIRAP ang buhay kaya't ang ulilang lubos na si Karina ay handang magtiis na manirahan sa kaniyang tiya kahit madalas siyang pagmalupitan nito. Ang tiya niya mismo ang nag-alok sa kanya ng trabaho upang mag waitress sa isang bar na hindi naman kalayuan sa bahay nila. Sa edad na dalawampo, natuto na si Karina na maging malakas para sa kaniyang sarili dahil wala naman itong maaasahan bukod sa kanyang sarili lamang. Bata pa lang ay hindi na ito namulat sa pagmamahal. Pagmamahal na ngayon ay tila hinahanap niya pa rin. Pagmamahal na hindi maibigay ng kanyang Tiya Alicia at kahit ng mga kaibigan nito sa bar. Isang araw, sa kanyang pagtatrabaho sa bar ay isang bagong customer ang nagligtas sa kanya mula sa isang bastos na lalaki. Nagpakilala ito bilang si Winston Miller gamit ang binigay niyang business card. Naging interisado sa kanya ang binata dahil nakikita nitong pursigido ang dalaga sa kanyang trabaho at halatang kailangang-kailangan ng dalaga ng pera, bukod doon ay may kung anong malakas na enerhiya siyang naramdaman sa dalaga. He asked her to be his personal maid. Iyon ang usapan nila. Sa laki ng halagang in-offer ni Winston ay hindi na nakapag-hindi pa si Karina. Tinanggap niya agad ito. Iniwan niya ang kanyang tiya na naghihimutok sa galit.

Gusto lang naman niya ang maranasan na mahalin. Hanggang kailan kaya mong tiisin para sa pagmamahal? Hanggang kailan kaya mong ipaglaban ang iyong pag-ibig na maraming humahadlang? Hanggang kailan mo ipagsiksikan ang sarili mo sa taong ni minsan hindi mo nakitaan na mayroon din siyang pagmamahal sayo katulad ng pagmamahal na nararamdaman mo para sa kanya? Ang hirap. Iyong lihim mong minamahal ang isang tao at hanggang tanaw ka lang. Nakakapanghina. Kung sabagay, sino ba siya para mapansin at magustuhan ng lalaking gusto niya? Isa lang naman siyang langaw na sampid sa angkan nila. Ilang taon na ba siyang naninilbihan sa pamilyang Montefalco? Halos isang dikada na. Minahal naman siya ng pamilyang ito ngunit yung pagmamahal na inaasam niya...hindi niya pa naramdaman. Palagi nalang siyang nag-aasam. Pait siyang napangiti habang nakatanaw sa lalaking matagal na niyang iniibig. Ang lapit lang nila sa isa't isa ngunit nahihirapan siyang ito ay abutin. Hanggang maid na lang ba ang tingin nito sa kanya?

Isang simpleng probinsyana lamang si Anna Marie Castillo, namumuhay sa isang simpleng lugar, simpleng probinsiya. Pero kahit ganoon, masaya siya sa buhay na mayroon siya kasama ang kaniyang pamilya. Mahirap lang sila at trabahador lang ng pamilya Bautista ang kanyang ama, samantalang ang kanyang ina naman ay nag-e-extra lamang. Ang tahimik niyang buhay sa probinsiya ay magugulo sa pagdating ng anak ng mga Bautista na si Kevyn, isang mayabang at antipatikong lalaki. Ano kaya ang kahihinatnan nila kung sa unang pagtatagpo pa lang nila ay hindi na naging maganda iyon? Ano kayang gagawin niya kapag nalaman niyang siya ang magbabantay sa binata habang nasa probinsya ito? Babalik pa kaya ang katahimikan niya sa probinsiya o lalo lang iyong gugulo?

"When beloved falls, her two demon souls combine. Humanity in her is long gone, and chaos will arise. And when blood spills, precipitated is her enchantress guise to surface. Together at the price of her pain, death is inevitable." A soul so dark and corrupt deserves no salvation. They say: "She who dwells in darkness, forever shall not descry light." But what will ignite between two people when that same evil existence, a woman, freely lets a man wreak havoc in her already not-so tranquil life? As to how the moon illuminates the shadow in the night or how the sun envelops the land in warmth, Matteo walked in Diane's life, resembling a soothing breeze blowing gently on one's heart. He was her salvation, something she didn't know she needed. And she was his damnation, something he knew he needed. Diane denies her monsters; Matteo embraces them. But can she learn to accept herself? Or will she end up being the destruction she feared she would become?