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From Duke’s daughter to famous songwriter/ singer to crown princess, Serena Maxwell did it all. A winner in life who defied the odds of being a novel's villainess. 

It would have been perfect if it all ended with the royal wedding, but life holds more mystery and follows with misery at times. 

A divorcee before getting a chance to be widowed, a handicapped Marquis’ younger sister whose parents’ dukedom has been sequestered, poor and too embarrassed to even show her face in public, she can only live simply as a shadow of her former self. Writing plagiarized songs and selling them while in a guise to earn a living.  

Just when she thought that the situation couldn’t get any worse, worse turned to worst. Despite their self-imposed hiding, a Court Summons arrived summoning her brother to court to face graft charges with possible lifetime imprisonment as sentence.

Determined to find help, she seeks the young minister of Justice, the heir to the Cromwell dukedom, Christopher Cross. However, given her current position, it’s not easy to approach said esteemed person even when they were old acquaintances. With no better choice, there’s only one place she can go to be able to meet him.

Back to the glitzy, glamorous, and pretentious ballrooms of the nobility facing old acquaintances, from holding the crown to being the clown, becoming the butt of all jokes while receiving surly stares and audacious propositions from the male peers, Serena can only swallow her pride and brave it all. 

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After his revenge, Grand Duke Charlton Daniel has become one of the most accomplished and distinguished noble with an unshakable status in society. However, at the end of the day, he felt empty.

He used and betrayed his lover to get the best of his cousin. He deceived his ailing mother, the younger sister of the former king, while taking part of the party ousting the royal family. He now has everything, but at the same time, nothing. Sometimes he wonders, was everything he did, worth it?

Faced with the emptiness and loneliness despite emerging triumphant, he could only come to terms with the phrase, life must go on. 

Determined to move on from the past, he started seeing duke Ligeti’s granddaughter, Larissa. She was innocent and naïve, but she gave him peace of mind. So, with building a family in mind, he was thinking of proposing marriage. 

However, just when he thought that he found his solace, his past lover suddenly appeared before his eyes. She was as beautiful as he first saw her, or maybe even more. Was it the lights or just something in her eyes? Without doing anything, she caused waves and even tsunamis in his heart. Deny it all he might, something was still there.  

Yet, no. After all she did to him, and him to her, they were over. He can’t possibly forsake his present lover because she came back to... she was back for him, wasn’t she?

And just when this thought processed in his mind, reality came crushing in. Before his very eyes, she was seducing another man.

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Will Serena and Charlton rekindle their love this time around? Or will she find true love in another man’s arms?

Read and find out!

The Transmigrated Villainess after her Fall

Christopher has not heard anything about Serena after their property has been sequestered and also had no idea where she was. Even then, he was curious, but not interested enough to find out. But when he saw Leonard's impending case, his curiosity was reignited. Would she be out of hiding once this case was delivered?

It was only a few days after when someone he didn't expect came along. Emily. His ex-lover who was also the only other person in the ton who knew that he was interested in Serena.

He was not sure of Emily's reason until she mentioned Leonard. Apparently, they were in a relationship. He didn't know about that detail until that moment. She asked for his help.

In truth, he could have helped her given their past and her being quiet about the matter of Serena, but then something, rather someone came to mind. If Emily was with Leonard, then what were the chances that Serena was with them?

Chapter 30: Ligeti’s evening dance party VIII