Butterfly_effect

In every story, there is a male lead, a female lead and a second male lead. But what about the second female lead? 

Be it the unloved queen of a cold and distant king, the plain bodyguard of the forgotten prince, the evil stepsister of the well-loved genius, the servant who died protecting her lady or the defeated villainess. No one cares about their stories. 

This is the playbook of all forgotten second female leads. 

Volume IV: The Villainess who was defeated by the Gods (completed)
'In every story, there is a villain who has been defeated.  What happens to the defeated villain?'

After Lorelei's plot to overthrow the gods failed, she was stripped of her power and voice. She became a mermaid bound to a lake, with her enemy (the god) keeping guard of her. 
This is a story between a defeated villainess and her enemy.

Volume III: The evil stepsister who has lived through FIVE lives (completed)
'Please let me rest in peace!'

Odette was once an heiress who had it all, be it money, status or fiance. When her perfect stepsister appeared, she realized she was just a villain in this story. 
Odette, being the evil stepsister, was of course killed off halfway through the story. When she opened her eyes again she was reborn, but no matter what she did, she died in the end. 
Having experienced burning on a stake, the guillotine, hanging and stabbing to death, all she wanted now was to die normally after a normal life.


Volume II: Body guard of a forgotten prince (completed)
"You're just my tool. Know your place." 

It's her duty to follow her master's command. Even at the risk of injuring herself or losing her mind. 
It's his right to use her cold-heartedly. Even discarding her when she had become useless. 
She was a bird trapped inside a gilded cage, slowly losing her mind in the process.

Volume I: Rebirth of the unloved, forgotten Queen (completed)
"Let's break off our engagement. I don't want to be Queen anymore. You don't like me anyway."

At twenty, Liana died as she watched her country burned to ashes. 
When she opened her eyes, she was sixteen again. The first thing she planned to do was breaking off her engagement with Prince Sebastian. 
This is her story as a reborn queen.
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A series of inter-related second female leads' stories set in a fantasy historical world. 
Readers can choose volumes they like to start with!

Second Female Leads' Playbook

You are not a hunter... Did that mean I was in his way? Or he simply wanted to protect me? 


After all these, I still did not want to hinder him. I still wanted to help him. I even risked my entire family to help him. How pathetic. When would you wake up, Liana? Why did you still trust him unconditionally? Was it worth risking your family? 


It's no use regretting when I was already on the carriage to Coral Cliff. At the end of the day, I still trusted him unconditionally. When he said he would protect my family, I trusted him. I left my family and came all the way here. He had resources, it's much better than me hitting around blindly. 


(To be quite honest, it's all a lost cause when Mother heard about that. She literally packed my suitcases and pushed me into the carriage.)


And I really doubt there was something Sebastian could not do when he had already set his mind on it. That's why in the end I agreed to (or was forced to) come along. 


What I didn't expect was him coming along. 


"I thought you weren't coming along..." I asked Sebastian who was sitting right across me on the carriage. 


"I have something to do there. I will return after staying a few days," he replied without looking up from his documents. 


Then it was followed by silence, which wasn't a surprise. I had already gotten used to Sebastian's style silence. I took out the novel I had prepared for the journey and read all the way to the inn. 


We were on the road for one week when we finally arrived at the pier. During the entire trip, it felt like I was back to when I had just been married to him. We traveled in the same carriage and dined together. Surprisingly it didn't feel awkward, I even felt kind of relaxed. I didn't have the pressure to keep thinking what to say as I knew Sebastian did not expect me to entertain him. However, when I saw something interesting and shared it with him, he would reply in his short curt manner. 


This made me realized something, did my hatred and depression blind me? I had this firm believe that I suffered a lot during my entire two years living with him. But now that I looked back, in the first year of our marriage, before the famine had started, before the gossips had circulated, before I had found out that my family's death was not an accident, before Sebastian had refused to help me, we had gotten along pretty well. Kind of like this. 


I felt relax staying by his side. He knew quite a lot of things. Like that time when I saw a tree with some pretty blossoms, he could point out what kind of tree that was immediately.


But even if we did get along pretty well, that did not mean I would not break my engagement with him. The betrayal and depression I felt when he refused to help me find out the truth could never be wiped away. Those feelings would forever be a thorn in my heart. 


I didn't hate him now, I knew he had his reason. The famine, the droughts, the gossips, the traitor... he had his own kingdom to save. But understanding his reasons was one thing, that did not make his betrayal hurt less. I was his wife. He could have promised to help me find out the truth after everything was solved. Not treating my pleading like a joke. 


I had a headache just trying to sort out all these mess. We would reach Coral Cliff tomorrow. I heard that the beach and the sea was stunning. I believed I needed a well deserved holiday.


Chapter 13