After the Defection [Western Fantasy]

A stunningly beautiful, tragic heroine with a heart of gold and a devoted fan club x a host of unhinged villains * Bad news: I transmigrated into a book. Worse news: I transmigrated into a book without realizing it. By the time I figured it out, I was already a high-ranking member of the villain faction, and in two years the hero’s party would come and kill us all. Koh En: “…” No wonder her life had always been so miserable. It was because she was a villain! She needed to get out while she still could. She’d already missed her chance to leave early, so she might as well leave now. So, after years of dutifully playing the villain, Koh En finally ran for it, leaving behind all the other villains she’d become tangled up with in ways she couldn’t explain. But it didn’t last long. She was caught and dragged back. The villains, who were already crazy, went completely off the deep end. For some reason, this whole bunch of twisted, soulless lunatics started acting as though they were madly in love with her. They’d only ever been ordinary colleagues before. Who falls for a coworker, gets a thing for their boss, or takes an interest in a subordinate? * “The tyrant took everything from Tonas. So he raised his greatsword and embarked on a revolution to overthrow the empire.” Those were the opening lines of The Record of Sacred Artifacts, the novel Koh En had transmigrated into. It took years before she suddenly realized she had transmigrated into a Western fantasy power-progression novel starring an invincible male lead. Unlike the original, a feel-good story where the male lead slaughtered his way to victory, the real world was absurd and chaotic. Famine and plague, the worship of evil gods, wars and military campaigns all erupted one after another. Ordinary people were treated like blades of grass, never knowing if they’d see the next day. Their lives slipped away like sand through their fingers, and merely struggling to survive consumed every ounce of their strength. Koh En wanted to escape this place every waking moment. She wanted to go home. But it was like a curse: the more she tried to break free, the deeper she sank. In her eighteenth year after transmigrating, Koh En also discovered that the organization she’d been forced to join just to survive was the outright villain faction, locked in mortal opposition to the invincible hero and his companions. She’d spent years treading carefully, rising steadily through the ranks until she held a senior position among the villains. To the common folk, she was now one of the tyrant’s most brutal and despicable henchmen. * “Tears can never wash away fate.”, The Sword Forged This might, more or less, be a revenge story… Reading guide: 1. My own take on grimdark: an original-setting, dark Western fantasy melodrama, with a Mary Sue heroine. Everyone is evil (most characters barely meet the standards of being human), but they’re all gorgeous, having sacrificed their morals for stunning looks. 2. Female lead is straight; male leads are gay. A beautiful, tragic, universally adored heroine at the center of the story, an idealistic little saint accidentally caught up with a pack of mad dogs. 3. Includes: aggressive seduction and nonhumans. 4. A sea of love and hate, with plenty of hatred between men and women. 5. Everyone who meets her in this story will die a fitting death, so rest assured. This is written to indulge my tastes. If it’s not for you, stop reading in time. If you like it, read on; if you don’t, just drop it. No need to notify the author. In-line comments are now open. Weibo: Sharp Ruins Theme: She will never accept a world she does not believe in.