Chapter 1

Everyone Has Secrets
Smack!

Yoonseo opened her eyes to the burning pain in her left cheek.

“You and I are cut off from each other from this day forward, Rodi Evant.”

A middle-aged man with a stern demeanor was glaring down at her with a menacing look.

Sitting on the floor, Yoonseo stared at him in bewilderment.

Who is this man?

This was the first time she had ever been slapped by someone other than her parents.

She desperately wanted to ask why, but she kept her mouth shut.

She could sense that the atmosphere was such that one wrong move might get her killed.

“I’ll give you exactly ten minutes. Go to your room and pack your belongings immediately.”

The middle-aged man spun around and walked away.

Yoonseo blinked as she stared blankly at his retreating figure before slowly getting to her feet.

What happened…?

She couldn’t make sense of the situation at all.

She had definitely just worked overtime at the company, gone home, and played a little of the game Utopia.

But when she came to her senses, she had been slapped by a middle-aged man she’d never seen before.

Still dazed, Yoonseo stood up.

Ah.

At that moment, a tremendous headache crashed over her like a wave.

Various scenes flashed chaotically through her mind.

In most of them, a beautiful woman with pink hair appeared.

And she was always viewing that woman from a hostile perspective.

These scenes all look strangely familiar.

Then she realized something.

The situation spinning through her mind was exactly the same as the scenes from the game she had been playing moments ago.

Wait. That man just called me Rodi Evant. Could it be…?

Yoonseo hurried into the hallway.

Fortunately, the memories flooding into her mind accurately told her the layout of the mansion.

She hurriedly opened Rodi’s bedroom door.

To the right of the door, beside the vanity, stood a large full-length mirror.

Yoonseo slowly approached it.

Reflected in the mirror was a woman with long, wavy purple hair and pale skin.

She had slightly upturned, cat-like eyes, and her irises, framed by long eyelashes, were a fresh light green.

This can’t be.

She soon realized the truth.

She had possessed the body of Rodi Evant, the villainess of the otome game Utopia.

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Originally, Jeong Yoonseo’s life had been utterly mundane.

Everything I’m doing is all because I love you.

Her parents wanted their only daughter to enter the medical school of a prestigious university and achieve success.

Why can’t you even solve a problem like this?!

Yoonseo worked tirelessly to fulfill her parents’ wishes, but hard work does not always bring rewards.

In her senior year of high school, Yoonseo failed her college entrance exams.

My daughter is a failure!

The nineteen-year-old girl who couldn’t get into medical school was instantly treated like a loser.

Yoonseo attended a regular department at a university that was considered fairly prestigious, but in the end, her parents reclassified her from their “good daughter” to their “failed daughter.”

Do you have any idea how much we’ve sacrificed for your future?

You’re the most unfilial daughter in the world.

Throughout her university years, her parents constantly hurled verbal abuse at her.

Because she hadn’t gotten into medical school, Yoonseo was always treated like a sinner.

When she reached her fourth year and began looking for a job, her parents spoke again.

You absolutely must get into a major corporation.

Yoonseo realized that this was her opportunity.

Her final chance to earn her parents’ recognition.

From that day onward, Yoonseo worked day and night.

She constantly revised her applications, built up her qualifications, and repeatedly practiced for interviews.

This time, her efforts did not betray her.

She landed a job at a major corporation.

For the first time, she felt hopeful that her parents would finally acknowledge her.

Mom, Dad. I got the job!

But the response she received was cold.

You’re making such a fuss over something that was only to be expected.

Ah…

If you’d failed again this time, I would’ve disowned you.

Her father stared at her coldly.

You can’t be satisfied with merely getting a job. You have to rise higher and faster than everyone else.

Yes…

Suddenly, Yoonseo wondered:

When will the two of them finally acknowledge me?

It was a pointless question.

She had always been expected to quietly obey everything her parents said.

After that, Yoonseo began working at the company, striving to stay ahead of everyone else.

Her days were filled with endless overtime.

One day, while walking toward the subway station to catch the last train as usual, she noticed a game advertisement displayed on an electronic billboard.

—We invite you to a beautiful world, Utopia.

Yoonseo stared at the advertisement with exhausted eyes.

A beautiful world, huh.

…It would be nice if such a place really existed.

Those cliché words continued to linger in her mind.

Two days later, Yoonseo was installing Utopia on her smartphone.

If her parents found out she was playing a game, she knew she would be slapped.

So she secretly played Utopia only when she was lying in bed before going to sleep.

…It’s fun!

Her first experience with the game was sweet.

Yoonseo quickly became immersed in the world of Utopia.

Utopia was an otome game centered around four male protagonists and the heroine, Simone Gretia.

Yet among all the attractive characters, the one who captured Yoonseo’s heart was none other than the game’s villainess, Rodi Evant.

I’m jealous.

Rodi, the daughter of a ducal family, was always confident and arrogant, faithfully following her own desires.

Whenever she disliked someone, she humiliated them, spread rumors about them, and ultimately found their weaknesses, forcing them to kneel before her and submit.

In a way, she was an incredibly vicious and shameless woman.

By contrast, the heroine, Simone, was perfect.

She was kind, righteous, and even possessed extraordinary talent with the sword.

As the story progressed, she gradually captured the attention of all four male protagonists, each possessing a completely different kind of charm.

The head of one of the three largest merchant companies on the continent.

The strongest knight in the empire.

The heir to the head of the Magic Tower.

And finally, the Crown Prince of the Empire.

Simone, who received the admiration of these four dazzling men, was the center of attention wherever she went.

And that was precisely what fueled Rodi’s jealousy.

Of course, Simone, who had not a single flaw, never took it lying down.

Rodi was the one who lost in the end.

For some reason, Simone’s perfect life made Yoonseo feel strangely uncomfortable.

She actually found herself liking the villainess more—the woman who was true to her desires and acted solely to achieve them.

Despite feeling no particular affection for the heroine, there was only one reason Yoonseo enjoyed Utopia.

It was to see an ending where Rodi Evant became happy.

But no matter which route she took, Rodi was always met with an unfortunate ending.

She would die in an accident or from an illness, or be banished to some remote frontier.

What a terrible game!

After reaching even the conclusion of the final True Ending, Yoonseo threw her smartphone onto the bed.

…In the end, Rodi couldn’t be happy in any route.

Ding!

At that moment, an alarm sounded from her smartphone.

Yoonseo picked up the phone lying on the bed.

[New Update!]

It was a notification from Utopia’s official community.

[Additional Story Unlocked for Our Charming Villainess, ‘Rodi Evant’!]

“…!”

Yoonseo quietly cheered at the new announcement.

An update related to Rodi!

This was the first time anything like this had ever happened.

[The conditions for unlocking the additional story are 100% completion of each character’s individual route endings and completion of the True Ending…]

Yoonseo quickly scrolled down and, with an excited heart, pressed the Download button for the new version.

At the same time, the world turned upside down.

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And now.

Yoonseo—or rather, Rodi—looked around the room.

He said ten minutes.

There was no time to question whether this situation was real or not.

She had to hurry and gather everything she needed.

In the game, Rodi couldn’t accept the reality that she was being expelled. She just screamed and raged until she was thrown out without taking anything with her.

She couldn’t make the same mistake.

Rodi picked up a bag lying around the room and first grabbed all the jewelry from her jewelry box.

She stuffed everything else that looked expensive into the bag as well.

I still have five minutes!

After checking the time, Rodi hurried toward a room in the middle of the hallway.

“What? Weren’t you getting kicked out!?”

As soon as she opened the door, a dark-blonde-haired woman, the owner of the room, shrieked.

Ignoring her, Rodi walked straight toward the vanity.

On the vanity sat a jewelry box three times larger than the one in Rodi’s room.

Rodi began stuffing every piece of jewelry inside into her bag.

“Hey! What are you doing!?”

The woman, who had been shrieking beside her, grabbed Rodi by her long purple hair.

“This vulgar bastard! Have you finally gone insane?!”

The pain felt as though her scalp were being ripped off.

Rodi’s expression immediately hardened.

Using all her strength, she slapped the woman across the cheek.

Smack!

“Eeeeeek!”

Having been slapped for the first time in her life, the woman screamed and released Rodi’s hair.

“Sniff… I’m going to tell Father about this right now…”

Rodi looked down indifferently at the woman sitting on the floor and sobbing.

“Shut your mouth and stay quiet, Nila.”

Rodi knew exactly who the noisy, sniffling blonde woman before her was.

Nila Evant.

Rodi’s half-sister.