1 Prologue

Sitting on her bed, with crossed legs - a lady in her pajamas reading a book. More precisely, a romance book.

In this age, who doesn't want to dream about those fantastical love stories? If it is about transporting oneself to another dimension, isn't it cool that way? Becoming a villain in a story, isn't it thrilling enough to be adapted into a movie?

Jade was one of those people, and forever will be. She's an avid reader of love stories and had a large collection of that in her room.

"Stupid! How can he not see that he's being taken advantage of?"

Jade angrily yelled as she put down the book in her hands and took off her glasses. She had been reading this book for three days, and what she only got is a belly full of anger.

The story is about the common plot line of the popular handsome rich guy falling in love with a lower class poor girl.

That's not the reason why she is getting angry. Her reason is rather simple. The girl only wanted the male lead's money however the male lead turn a blind eye on this fact and continue loving the female lead. Such an absurd fact, right?

Jade touched her temples and hold the book in her hands again, placing her glasses on.

She doesn't have bad eye, it's just for the trendy nerdy look everyone is sporting.

"Let's see where you will end up, stupid story!"

"Jade! Come out your room right now and stop reading! The food is ready!"

"Just a moment!"

Jade replied to her mom shouting downstairs. Her mom had always nagged at her why is she always holed up in her room all day and just reading.

Oftentimes, if her mom would not remind her to eat then she doesn't eat. She's addicted to reading. Her life revolved around reading those piles of books.

Jade looked sharply at the book in her hands and started reading like crazy.

"Eating can wait, this thing cannot." She mumbled under her breath.

The scene she was reading was when the villain of that story finally ended her own life. She had a fallout with the male lead who was then her former fiancé before the main characters meet each other.

Due to the burning jealousy and hatred the villainness felt in her heart, she ended her own life. She knew, she's better dead than to see her man with somebody else.

Anyway, she had done her best effort to be deserving of him but he had not looked in her way even once. In those eyes contained only the cunning female lead. There is no one else.

Looking at those letters in that page, Jade felt like dizzy so suddenly. She don't have the urge to sleep but now, those letters are slowly lulling her to sleep. As if the letters were dancing and her whole world is spinning.

".... Jade...."

Before completely drowning in the darkness, she heard her mom calling her and the clicking of the doorknob.

An unending darkness stretched out from where she stands until to who-knows-where. It is endless. An infinite place of void.

Jade heard a female voice in her ears just like a whisper.

"I like Morris..."

"No matter what I do, why wouldn't you look at me even once?"

"I should be gone. Goodbye..."

A faraway voice, a stream of painful cries drifted in that dark space.

Jade felt a pull in her body and she willingly let herself be pulled by that unknown force.

Who knows where that dream will take her.

Jade didn't know how long her dream was. All she know was that her whole body is aching all over. God knows why she is feeling like this.

When she opened her eyes, the hurtful rays of the sun greeted her eyes which she squinted and tried to adjust her sight.

She closed her eyes again and, put her arms over her eyes and took a deep breath. She then slowly get up from her bed and stretched her body with a big yawn.

As usual, she felt around her eyes to remove eye mucus. She also breathed to her palms and smelled it.

"Oh! Gross!"

She is not finished yet. She straightened her index finger and put it inside - inside her nose to feel some boogers. Eww!

"Yuck!"

Then she flicked it to a wall. The wall is colored pink. She looked around and saw that her room is a spiking pink. Even her bed was pink with its cover designed of ruffles and cute laces.

"Does my room look like this? I can't believe I decorated my room with this pinky-things..."

She stand up and her long wavy golden hair cascaded down her shoulders. Jade stopped on her tracks and looked at her hair.

"Is my hair always this pretty? Isn't it frizzy, short, messy like a bird' s nest, and as stiff as wire? Wow, it's better be.. true."

She smiled foolishly and walked out of the door stretching her arms again. When she walked out of her room, a luscious chandelier with bright mellow lights hang in the ceiling.

" Ah... "

She doesn't remember their house to be this so luxurious. Since when did they become so rich? Her dad even loaned a good hundred thousand from the bank to renovate their oh-so-old house that's been built since the World War II. It's just too old.

" Did Dad won the lottery? I wonder how we got here."

She walked down the spiral stairs and looked around the beautiful house. It's her dream to live in this palace-like house.

Krooooook...

She heard her stomach growled in hunger. What is the time now? She is really, really hungry.

She walked down until she reached the lower floor and walked in circle.

"Mom! Dad! Clepe! Keab! Where are you? Are we playing hide and seek? Come out now!"

She then heard hurried footsteps towards her direction.

'Heehee... They still ran when I call. The power of being the youngest. Yes!'

Then the footsteps stopped behind her. Jade wanted to do something she's doing for her life every time her family arrived when she calls.

She turn around, and...

"Gotcha!... Ah... Eh....?"

There is a long line of women in their thirties wearing black and white formal outfits. They are bowing at her. Then a loud and harmonized voice sounded over the whole place.

"You called us, Miss!"

"Ah... Did I? Or did you? Sorry, outta here!"

Then Jade turn around and started to ran away.

Unexpectedly, her head collided with something hard.

"Ouch!"

She hold her head and would start to curse at that someone who would bump her.

She's ready to throw punches to that person. That person made her morning ugly.

She angrily raised her head and looked at that person.

What the —!

"Dad!"