Complot Calamity

When I was living in my world, my life had always been like a white, neat paper. There were no stories to write. No events to note. Nothingness. When I got transmigrated as a princess in Astrana, I chose to draw a beautiful picture of my own life. Everything was going according to the plan until one day. Then suddenly the sketch I have been preparing so far turned into a scribble. This was the day when my complot turned into a calamity. I tried everything I could to prevent this from happening but atlast, I ended up bringing the story two years earlier. In other words, I might die very soon.

Edward had already met with Flora. He didn't immediately fall in love with her as we all expected. When a beautiful half-conscious maid crashed on the stern-faced crown prince, he just frowned at her. That was something I expected as well but what followed left all of the people on that floor in surprise. The prince, promptly let the beautiful young girl fall to the ground without any hesitation. If only Nilo hadn't appeared there and caught her by somersaulting on the ground, she would have ended up in Astrana medical centre.

What Edward did had already brought frowns on all the people present on that floor. Even I felt bad for her. I could say that Victor's heart was shattered as well from his facial expression. I was ready to scold Edward then postponed it for a bit since I had to look at what happened to Flora in the first place.

Without even realizing his arrogant, cruel behaviour Edward turned to me to talk. "Little sister, hurry"

This had already ruined my mood even more. "There's no hurry. The event can wait" I replied him with a glower. "Why did you drop her in the first place?" I asked.

"Sister! You don't know! These maids usually fake fainting and fall on me now and then. I... I hate it!" though he was reluctant to say those words, he somehow spat them out.

'Oh yeah! Isn't he the male lead? I forgot. It is normal for the extras to fall for him and fall on him,' I clicked my tongue in annoyance.

"Brother, are you sure all the maids are the same?" I asked him as my nose flared even further. I was so angry. 'Why do these plots have to portray these innocent extras this way?' I thought. Now that I've become an extra, I hated it.

Edward was taken aback by my sudden impudence. He seemed a bit shocked as well. Since I was a pampered kid in that palace, even Edward was not talking back to me. When I saw him like that, I realized that it was not his fault. He was just playing the character given to him.

"Brother, I'm sorry" I bowed at him. "I shouldn't have talked to you that way" I continued. "It is just that she is not just any maid. She is my friend!" I finished.

Edward nodded in acknowledgement but he didn't apologize. I understood that since the qualities like apologizing for the mistakes will grow in him only after he falls in love. That's how the novel is. Also, I didn't feel sadder since he will be dotting on her for the rest of her life and will not even be living his. He will dedicate his whole life to her at the end of the novel. So it was ok for him to have a few privileges in the beginning.

"You go first! I'll be there brother," I told him and sent him back. He forgot about the queen since he was too shocked because of me so he went back to the event.

Not only him, even we somehow lied and made the queen believe that she fainted because of her health.

When I thought everything was settled down, the calamity spread in front of me.

It was three days after the event. Edward suddenly appeared in my chamber with the queen. He insisted on taking Flora in as his maid. The queen too agreed and nobody asked about my opinion on this. Finally, Flora was taken to the crown prince's palace!

When I realized that if only I hadn't blamed Edward that day, these two would just have been passersby, I couldn't forgive myself! It was my stupidity and I was tasting my own medicine.

Just within two days, I got to hear another bad news. I wouldn't say it was a piece of 'bad' news. It was a piece of nasty news.

Evelyn arrived in the palace and her marriage with Ed had risen as the hot topic in Astrana. Just because I've pulled the trigger by letting those two meet, everything had turned upside down. Since Evelyn had arrived, I wouldn't be able to live too long!

There was also another massive plot twist that happened. According to the novel, Evelyn had an elder brother James, who became the king in their country later. James was married at that time according to the novel. But now that I've brought the story two years forward, this James dude was still a bachelor and our fathers hastily betrothed me to him as goodwill. According to their logic, since they were marrying Evelyn to Edward, I will have to marry this James. There was also a hidden motivation behind all this. They wanted to make me a queen so they wanted me to marry a crown prince.

James was not that bad looking. He had brown hair just like Evelyn and he was taller than me. He looked handsome. Though he was not exactly my type, I was not in a position to complain. Also, I hadn't thought about marrying a guy here in this universe. Since that time my mind was only filled with my fate, I didn't bother much about this engagement at first. Soon, it grew into one of my headaches.

To be honest, I wouldn't have minded marrying James if he was a nice guy. Who doesn't want to be a queen? Not to mention I will be allowed to stay away from the evil Evelyn just by marrying him. It seemed like a nice tradeoff. But just within two days, I found out a big problem with him.

He was a womanizer!

Not just a womanizer, but the most famous one in that whole world. My parents had engaged me to the best womanizer out there. I didn't know if I should laugh at their stupidity or cry about my situation.

And just like this, my whole new world had collapsed in just a week from the occurrence of the encounter curse. I ended up pathetic.

Because of these ongoing issues, I chose to stay inside my chamber most of the time. Henry and Merlin were busy taking care of my prisoners in the dungeon. Nilo seemed a bit worried about Flora since she too had to go through a lot these days. He was helping her with moving her stuff to the crown prince's palace.

Victor was the only one who was left with me. Since I stayed silent most of the time, he too didn't speak. He was lost in his thoughts as well. He didn't seem happy with the ongoing arrangements. I understood that he wouldn't want Flora to leave the princess's palace. Still, I couldn't say a few comforting words to him since my condition was even worse than his.

Soon, as usual, I came up with a solution after brainstorming for hours. I found the way out of these problems. I chose to move forward with a 'No romance' plan!

If romance exists, I die. So I chose to cut off all those budding romances and I was even ready to pull out their roots as well.

Edward-Flora... Athena-James... These couples shouldn't be together for me to live in peace. Thus, I chose to break them apart. I named this group 'Shouldn't be couples'!

Have you ever wondered what can break a bond successfully? I strongly believe that it should be another stronger bond. So I came up with new pairings and matchmaking plans to overcome all my problems.

I devised plans to bring Edward-Evelyn together, and Flora-Victor together so that everyone can live happily ever after. I named them 'Should be couples'!

As for James and me, I didn't even want to be called a couple together with him. So I chose to ignore that fool for a while. I believed that he'll leave as soon as he finds out that I'm not his cup of tea and I have my standards. Additionally, if things go wrong, I had an alternative plan to abduct him and hide him as long as my parents break off this engagement!

Still, on the whole, there were a few plot changes. The future still remained unpredictable.

I thought that if Flora can beat her unknown enemies just by staying naive and sweet, I should be able to defeat my enemies with all this information from the novel. I still had a few rays of hope.

But soon, all my 'No romance' plans were shattered into pieces because of a romance. Not only the plans, but it had also shattered me, my ideologies and the worst of all, it shattered my selfishness.

It was not the romance between those 'should be, shouldn't be' couples. It was just a new romance. It was my romance.

At last, I, Athena fell in love!