Oh look, it's Cosmos!

Sigrid waited eagerly, hoping for a secret that she could use to either blackmail Roland or put the fake female lead at a disadvantage.

[Roland Maximus has a weakness for fluffy dogs.]

"Is that it?" Her eagerness died a natural death.

How was this information helpful? She could not recall reading anything about this in the novel, the fake female lead did not own any dogs.

"System, explain."

"Host, when a world is created out of a novel, it becomes bigger and the characters grow beyond the plot. The novel does not even cover 1% of the people in this kingdom, let alone the continent.

As for the characters in the book, only a small percentage of their lives are covered. For this reason, there are many hidden plots or ignored ones that you can take advantage of.

When he was a boy, prince Roland raised a small puppy but it was drowned by a maid that worked for the king's former secondary wife. It was an experience that taught him a cruel lesson about human nature. As much as he loves such dogs, he never raised one again."

"So, if i raise a few fluffy dogs, it's possible that he will spend more time with me because he wants to see the dogs." Sigrid said.

"Yes." The system confirmed. "If the fake female lead attempts to raise any fluffy animals, remember to kill them."

"Huh!" Sigrid blinked.

She was the villain, why was the system acting more villainous?

"Forget it, show me my money, how much did I spend on the salt recipe and handful of salt?"

Her bank account appeared on a blue screen.

"You spent one hundred fifty thousand dollars host, one hundred thousand on the handful of fine salt and twenty thousand on the recipe. The cost of doing business for the two transactions adds up to thirty thousand dollars....oh, and a tax fee of one hundred dollars."

Sydney's hand curled, forming the shape of bird claws, all that was missing were sharp claws to rip the system out of her head and scratch it to death.

"I will sue you, this is theft. What kind of salt costs one hundred thousand dollars? I knew that bank was not a good thing as soon as I heard about prices being life spans, beauty and other body parts. They are in the organ trafficking business and...."

"Keep complaining and things will get a lot worse for you." A voice was projected into her mind. It was not the system's voice, it was that of Cosmos 12. "I am outside your carriage..."

Sigrid ripped open the curtain and she looked outside. Besides her carriage, next to the window was Cosmos on the back of a horse. He was dressed like one of the knights assigned by her grandfather to protect her, if it was not for his white hair and beard, she would not have recognized him.

"You, what are you doing here?" A smile formed on her lips. "Are you here because you made a mistake and you are here to send me to a different world; one with cars, less horse shit, phones and jeans." she asked in her mind.

She was not loving these prom themed dresses with big arms that all the women of Eldoria had to wear all the time. It was sunny outside, she would much rather have been in a light shirt with short arms and some jeans. Even suit was preferable to the balloon shaped long dress she had been stuffed into. The dress code on Eldoria was more Victorian era like.

This trend, according to the novel plot was ended by the fake female lead who introduced the women of Eldoria to more tame gowns and more modern looking outfits.

"I am here to make sure that you remain focused on the mission, the senior managers have detected your intention to become an empress. They are worried that you could be side lined from the main mission. From now until your mission is finished, I will be your personal bodyguard." Cosmos responded in a lazy voice.

It was as if he was not interested in talking to her.

"Why do you want to be empress anyway? You are a villain, villains don't make good rulers."

"Have you heard of AA?" she asked.

"Of course," Cosmos rubbed the neck of the horse. "It's Alcohol Anonymous, on your ex world, it is a meeting for people recovering from alcohol addiction."

Sigrid nodded. "I am in VA."

"VA?" Cosmos questioned.

As a banking official for the bank of eternal fate, he had endless knowledge from every world in existence. This VA that Sigrid was speaking of was new to his ears. Not totally because he knew a few things that VA stood for but none could be related to the conversation.

"Villain Anonymous, I am a recovering villain." She said.

Cosmos threw his head back and he laughed loudly, he couldn't process or believe Sigrid's words. They were utterly foolish and ridiculous, for one she needed to be cruel to deal with the fake female lead and two, it was in Sydney's nature to scheme.

She had been on this world for less than five minutes when she decided that she would be the empress regardless of everything. As soon as she made up her mind, she decided to get rid of every obstacle in her way, fake female lead, real female lead, male lead even the crown prince if he proved to be unchangeable.

Sigrid as anything other than a villain was simply unthinkable.

"I am serious." Sigrid said loudly.

Cosmos shook his head and his mouth widened even further, he let go of the reins and clapped his hands, laughing as if he had just heard the most amusing joke in the universe.

She understood that he did not believe her, and it was fine with her.

"You can be a schemer without being evil you know. All those heroines in novels and movies, they scheme too but just because they scheme against the villain everyone cheers them on and hopes they succeed. Anyway, my mind is made up, I am going to be empress and I will be a good one."

"Right." Cosmos answered skeptically.

Sigrid huffed and closed the curtain, she found him to be as annoying here as he was in the bank. She made her mind up to show him and all those that doubted her that she would be a good empress. Who said that only heroines could do it?

It made her wonder where the female lead was, in this life she lad no plans of making a wedding dress for another woman. She would not do all the work only for the real female lead to swoop in and take the crown, one life of such nonsense was enough.

She thought about the novel plot, it had been written to favor the transmigrated female lead of the world. The crown prince that swore to protect her was not the male lead, the third prince was.

The son of the prime minister was the second male lead, but the novel became confusing because somewhere along the way with plot that made no sense. The crown prince died to protect the fake female lead Emmah.

The second prince and fifth prince fought for the throne for a long six years. In the end, both of them died protecting the fake Emmah as well.

The main lead chose to abandon the throne because he was overcome with guilt after death of his brothers and father so he rode off into the sunset to find the true meaning of life.

In the final chapter, the twenty year old sixth prince that barely showed up in the novel ascended as the next emperor and he took the thirty two year old fake Emmah as his wife which also made no sense.

Despite the plot holes, Emmah had a lucky halo and she was a tramsmigrator so the people cheered loudly and applauded, not one single person questioned the union.

"So ridiculous! that bad egg Emmah really made a mess of this world. I wonder if I can just kill her directly, it will certainly save me time and energy. But, do I really need to be pregnant to secure my place by Roland's side? Hmmm...a fake pregnancy could buy me sometime...no, no.....such schemes never end well. That Emmah will sure expose my fake pregnancy the first chance she gets."

"There she goes, scheming again..." Cosmos laughed and whistled. Sigrid's thoughts were wide open to him.