How Should I Survive in Another World After Reincarnating as a Villainess?

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Bella was a transmigrator who had been born with knowledge of her past life.

She came from a wealthy, loving family and had no worldly worries. She kept her past-life memories a secret, and in every other respect she was a winner in life, aside from her frail health.

She was the sort of young lady who only needed to tend her flowers and read books.

There was nothing wrong with that. Miss Bella, who had "everything" and had "been everywhere," had no grand ambition to rule the world or become the strongest person in it. Unless her family went bankrupt or the Empire fell, nothing could stop her from enjoying her leisurely life.

But after her eighteenth birthday banquet, she spotted a very strange name on the list of newly hired servants at her home.

Bloodthirsty War God.

Bella: ...?

Watching the red-haired man chopping firewood in her backyard, Miss Bella fell into deep thought.

He was handsome, sure, but how had someone with a name like that managed to live this long?

[The second half of the blurb contains major spoilers. Revised on September 6.]

[This story will go premium on September 4, with a 10,000-word update that day. Thank you to all the lovely readers who have supported me!]

[Warning: The heroine is the hero's number-one simp and a hopeless romantic. Don't read if that's not your thing.]

After my fiance publicly broke off our engagement, I remembered my past life.

Oh, so I was a villainess.

Wait, what bad things had I even done?

While I was puzzling over this, my former fiance stripped me of my noble title and banished me from the country.

Facing an endless plain in front of me and an impenetrable forest behind, I let out a long sigh. I didn't have a penny to my name.

Surviving... probably wouldn't be too hard, right?

But just as I decided to learn how to live like an ordinary person, I was traveling in a major city with my new companions and a teacher I'd reunited with after a long time apart when I suddenly heard a rumor.

A hero from another world had appeared in Beilesila, the very country that had driven me out.

More importantly, that hero might be someone I knew.

They were about to set out on a quest to defeat the Demon King. As someone else who had come from another world, I was at a loss.

That's when I discovered a secret.

A secret concerning my life, hidden for eighteen whole years.

Reader's note: This is a lighthearted Japanese light-novel-style story, inspired by various Japanese light novels and manga adaptations. I love this genre, but the series I'm following either update too slowly or are too hard to read in the original Japanese, so I had no choice but to write the story I wanted myself.

P.S. The villainess-and-broken-engagement plot is a very common trope in Japanese light novels, not plagiarism. Writing is hard, so please be understanding.

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