The Villainess Next Life (COMPLETED)

Chapter 1

Alarice sighed as she looked at the paper works in front of her.

"Your hands stopped moving Your Majesty." said the young man with brown hair and green eyes while fixing his eyeglasses.

He was a man in his early 20s. A diligent guy that has been working for her for the past four years as her aide. He came from a noble line of count.

Caleb Azure al Rizote.

A pair of golden eyes with dark bags under her eyes went to the count.

"I. Haven't. Taken. A. Bath. For. One. Week. GIVE ME A BREAK!" exclaimed the young empress as she slammed her hands on the table.

The count just look at her blankly, refusing to give in.

"No. The festival is in a week. We need to finish these documents."

"Then can I just not go there and use that precious week to relax." She said as she slumped in her chair.

"You can't Your Majesty. You did cause quite a stir last ball so you must attend the next ball to reinstall your dignity as the Empress." He said earnestly. As she look at the Empress appearance in disdain.

A woman in a baggy long sleeves oversized clothing, a pair of loose pants and an "indoor slippers" as to what the empress called it. Her silver hair's just been put up with a hair clamp and a face with no make up.

Surely, no one would think this woman is an Empress. Even her own maids were crying in the first months when she arrived here and demanded that she feels more comfortable in this attire. She rarely went to balls to socialize saying that it was the Empress Consorts' job to do those things and not the Empress Regnant.

Of course Caleb knows that she's just being lazy.

Empress Alarice bite here pen and recalls what she did the last ball.

Sure, she must have done something shameful but what can she do. She's desperate to finished all these job and relax.

What did she do? She barges in with her usual attire and messy hair and demanded the emperor to sign the papers so she can now sleep.

Well, the Emperor oblige and can even hear a small laughter coming out of his mouth from the amusement of the scene.

Who care about looks. It's tiring to fix your make up, every day. Besides I'm naturally pretty so I have no need of those. Ladies usually take 4 hours to be ready for a ball. I'll just use those time to sleep.. She thought

"You're Majesty, enough chatter and please continue your work." Urged Caleb

She sighed and start moving his hands. She glanced at the Emperor's empty working desk.

What am I doing stuck in here working my bones out while he was flirting to different women?!

She crumpled her pretty face. She doesn't really mind the Emperor having multiple wives. After all she doesn't love him nor he does love her. Their wedding is nothing but political.

That's  so so unfair!! I was drowning in my workload but he has the audacity to relax!!

The imperial harem consists of two empress and two concubines. The Empress Consort having a son and so was one of the concubines.

She really didn't mind as she does not want to be involved in the power struggle. Her role as the Empress Regnant was to oversee the harem and help the Emperor to govern the country not to join in the power battle of the women in the harem.

She never coveted the Emperor nor his love. After all that is her mother's advice.

The Empire of Philleon has a completely different custom than her home country. The Las Islas.

She was a foreign princess in a country of spirits. The reason for the union is to provide the Cilmarde the key to the spirit world. Which is Alarice. The very princess of that country. As a compensation, Las Islas will receive money and political support from Philleon.

She was sold off. But it was her own choice. Her loving parents tried to stop her but she knows this was her duty as the Princess of Las Islas. Besides, she has one secret.

She was a transmigator. Her name before transmigrating is Hanna. She was a normal college girl that dies from being hit by a truck.

Then she suddenly wake up and sees bright colored and expensive room. Her hair's silver and she was in the body of a 5 year old child.

As nonchalant as she was she just accepted her fate. She did enjoy the extravagant life until she turned twelve and saw the Male Lead of this story.

Nicholas Sulien von Cilmare. That time he was a pretty 17 year old boy with bright blonde hair and a pair of dazzling ocean blue eyes.

Her world feels like it stopped when they met their gazes at the ball they were in. Not just because of his handsome face but because she just discovered that she was the villainess of the story.

Yes. She was someone who fall in love with the Male Lead and tried to ruin the Female Lead due to jealousy.

The FL, the current Empress Consort. Qashanna Beatrice Elmea. The daughter of the duke of the Philleon Empire. And the childhood fiance of the Emperor.

Alarice was about to say F*CK it! And ignore the plot and just leave the leads as they are and just enjoy her life as the only Princess of Las Islas with her parents and two brothers but one day when she was eight they visit the empire of Philleo .

She saw the poor people on the slums. They were being given constant rations of food from the kind Empress Consort however I know that this won't do. Giving them this kind of support won't get them out of this poverty.

What they need is a better system of education and health programs. That was just the first steps. One must teach people how to fish not just give them fishes.

That's when she made a decision. To help this country to flourish. These people needs her modern knowledge. Though they are just extra characters in the novel. For them this life is the only life they know. To do that, she needs power.

Thus, she studied like crazy and equip herself with the knowledge befitting of an Empress and when she was 18 she handed the portrait of the now Emperor to his Father the King and demanded that she'll marry the man.

Luckily, the Philleon Empire's support is just what they need as some neighboring country was trying to invade their country as it was the home of powerful spirits.

After thorough persuasion the King and Queen of Las Islas gave up and do as their daughter wanted.

And that's how Alarice Estelle de Arze became the Empress Regnant of Nicholas Sulien von Cilmair at the age of 18.