supriya_shukla

Reina Suzuki was an overworked office worker—until she died and woke up as Lavinia Devereux, the infamous villainess princess of the Elarion Empire.

She knows how this story ends: she’ll drink poison and die. A painless, easy death. So why bother changing fate? Villainy, revenge, redemption—sounds like way too much work. She decides to do absolutely nothing and let the story play out.

But her terrifying father, Emperor Cassius Devereux, won’t ignore her like he’s supposed to. He watches her, questions her, and—worst of all—starts acting like he actually cares.

Lavinia just wanted a quiet villainess retirement… so why does everything keep changing?

Too Lazy to be a Villainess

[Emperor Cassius Pov]

The wine tastes bitter tonight.

Strange. It's the same bottle I've had aged for fifteen years. Same grapes, same vineyard. And yet it grates on my tongue like ash.

Damn it. My mind won't calm down.

No matter how I close my eyes or count the breaths, my thoughts claw their way to the surface like starving wolves. Maybe I should train. Maybe I should carve through the air with a sword until the rage burns out of me. Maybe I should kill something. Something that bleeds.

"Uughhh…"

She shifts in her sleep—my daughter—curled like a kitten in the mountain of pillows. Her small hand stretches toward me, blindly, instinctively. And then she finds it—my fingers—and clings. Tight.

Whispers of War