Translator: Nox

Chapter 1

Where did it all go wrong?

Was it when I was possessed by a novel?

Or was it when I was possessed by the villainess in the novel?

I don't know.

Anyway, the important thing is that I'm trapped on a magical remote island with the male leads from the novel.

Yeah, life is inherently made up of shitty timing.

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When I first opened my eyes, I saw a calm and clear sky.

Then, I heard the sound of waves in my ears.

As I came to my senses and got up, humid air hit my face. Suppressing the soaring discomfort index, I carefully looked around.

I could see the waves receding beneath my feet. The place where I had collapsed was a sandy beach.

"Where the hell is this...?"

Palm trees densely surrounded the sandy beach. It was an unfamiliar sight. It didn't seem like Korea, at least.

A sense of unease gradually crept in. I rubbed my temples and turned my head to the other side.

"What's this again?"

Next to me, an unidentified man was lying unconscious.

The man, lying face down on the wet sand, was dressed in a fancy uniform. And he had beautiful black hair that resembled the night sky.

The moment I turned the man's shoulder to lay him on his back and checked his face,

Beeeeeeep-

A constant, intense tinnitus rang in my head.

"Ugh."

With a dizzying sensation, I covered my head with my hands and lowered my head.

The life of a woman named 'Margaret Rose Flone' swirled in my head. It was as if I were the original Margaret, and the memories were mixed up.

I accepted them without any sense of incongruity.

After a long time, as the tinnitus subsided, I realized.

Enoch, Langrid Empire, Flone Duchy. The names in Margaret's memory were not unfamiliar.

I was now inside a novel. Shit.

The beginning of the incident was as follows.

I was reading someone's practice novel that I picked up on the street while walking, when I was hit in the head by a falling sign and died.

What was more absurd than dying a sudden, accidental death was that after dying, I woke up in the very novel I had been reading.

As the villainess in <More Important Than Survival>, a 'high-level', 'tragic', 'romance fantasy' novel.

The novel begins with the Saintess, the female lead, and five male leads with high status, including the Crown Prince of the empire, the Magic Tower Lord, and the Archbishop, suddenly waking up on a deserted island.

The author vividly described the process of them surviving on the magical deserted island for a year, like a survival story.

And the title of the novel is <More Important Than Survival>, so what else would be more important than survival in a high-level novel? I'll stop the explanation here.

Moreover, they weren't the only ones on the island. There was also a foreign substance-like villainess, the villainess Margaret. That was me.

The point to note here is that the Margaret I possessed is killed by the male leads around the middle of this novel.

Because she envied Yuanna Lucy, the Saintess who monopolizes the love of the male leads.

Margaret persistently harasses Yuanna, and eventually even tries to kill her by pushing her off a cliff.

The male leads, who were going crazy while trapped on the island, learn of this fact and lose their minds. Then, they kill Margaret, who is a threat to Yuanna.

That's why the second keyword of this novel is 'tragic'.

Of course, what's important is not that, but that I woke up on that crazy island.

Right now, at the starting point of the novel.

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"What the hell is this situation..."

I looked at the man lying next to me again. Now I knew who this man was.

'Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.'

He was Enoch, the Crown Prince of the Langrid Empire.

And he was also the main male lead of the novel <More Important Than Survival>.

All the male leads in the novel hated Margaret, but the one who despised her the most was this Crown Prince Enoch.

Damn it, why this man of all people...

"Ugh."

At that moment, a faint groan escaped from Enoch's mouth.

As he showed signs of waking up, I became anxious.

If this was really inside the novel and I was possessed by Margaret, I had to hide from the male leads. They would kill me soon.

I needed a safe place to hide until the 'Gate' to escape the island opened a year later.

I quickly scanned my attire.

I was so glad that I was wearing an indoor dress instead of pajamas.

Of course, Margaret's usual taste was quite extravagant, so the indoor dress was also quite fancy, but I was relieved that it wasn't a more elaborate outfit. The shoes I was wearing were also flats.

After checking the dress once, I stared at the dense forest about twenty steps ahead.

Entering the forest recklessly would certainly be very dangerous.

But wouldn't it be better than trembling in fear of being killed by the male leads who despise me?

Having quickly made up my mind, I took a step.

Or rather, I was about to.

I could have moved forward if a large hand hadn't grabbed my ankle. As soon as I took a step, I fell straight onto the sandy ground.

"Margare...t?"

Enoch grabbed my ankle and frowned deeply as he raised his head.

Shit, my plan was nipped in the bud.

Yeah, didn't I say it? Life is inherently made up of shitty timing.