Unfortunately, I'm an Evil Villainess

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I was Lady Valentina Avington, the beautiful, wicked, and narcissistic villainess of a novel. When I recalled memories of my past life, I decided I wanted everything the heroine had.

Using my knowledge of the future, I became a fake saint, the successor to my house, the future queen, and won over the male leads. When the novel began, all I had to do was dispose of the female lead.

Yet nothing was as it seemed, and before I knew it, my perfect facade fell to pieces.

“You’re not who I thought you were.”

“I despise you, Sister.”

“It’s revolting to even look at you.”

Call it ambition or greed, I would get what I wanted, by any means necessary. No matter the cost, I would definitely win.

No need to like me, I have no excuses. Will you be cheering for my downfall, like the rest of them?

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Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2021
Author: lyharbour

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 327
Views: 269,350

Chapters(130 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

marcopoloqRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
People don't know how to appreciate a good villain. There are a few reviews complaining about how unlikable the main character is, they must have not paid attention to the title of the story then. Please be more petty, more conceited and more narcissistic.
Style:
You are thrown into a nice time point when the story starts. After that the pacing is relatively slow, most chapters don't cover a lot of time and the story makes use of time skips here and there. You read from the perspective of the MC only. The reader can think along with the MC and guess along with her at the motivations of others. Especially since her mind can be twisted, the reader can reach very different conclusions about what is behind the actions of other characters.
Story:
If you are a fan of the villainess trope, you will love this story. If you want to read about a character to root for you will still like this story if you can appreciate petty behaviour like me. Just don't read this if you want to root for a 'likable' character, I still like the MC as a character, but I can certainly understand people reading this who are hoping for her downfall.
Grammar:
The grammar is excellent, no mistakes.
Characters:
I think that the author does a very good job of portraying just how vile the MC thinks about other people.
After poisoning an innocent girl and getting away with it, the MC has to make sure that she doesn't laugh too hard along with her friends because she worries about exposing herself.
After 24 chapters we don't know a lot about most of the other characters, the other 3 characters that get the most time are the MCs family but we can only guess at how they behave when not in the presence of the MC.
Chapters 22-24 are very good:
Valentina is forced to compete in a meaningless competition against an innocent girl who was most likely dragged there by the queen just to be ignored after Valentina is successfully embarrassed. To punish the girl Valentina makes sure that the girl becomes a mute and
WeavervaleRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Let's talk about why this works OKAY I'LL BE HONEST HERE THIS WAS PART OF A REVIEW SWAP.
Fortunately for me, I just ...kept reading. It is very good. If you are expecting otome, then you are right there. If you like red mist, then you probably will like this. That said, it's in first person and it is a darling of a read.
grammar five out of five. This is professionaly written. I expect that this could be lifted up and easily published onto an ebook or audiobook right away with minimal changes.
style five out of five. I am partial to theway that first person is written now. You can do so much with it, and really set an internal dialogue or set a tone very well. I get a good sense of how the MC is as a person through the charace voice which rings out so well
Character five out of five. I adore the chracters and her use of prior knowledge is hilarious. The plot is something, but the characters kept me coming back. I binged like 16 chapters in a row.
story five out of five. this character is wicked competent and proactive. I like that. she's semi likeable which is what she needs to work on most, but she is learning the lessons she needs in order to become queen. side note: the best part of the story is when often she will remember parts of it from the saints perspective. These are the best and I have tried to reconstruct some of the original novels in my head as I went through.
In short, worth a read.
DeathbladeISSTHRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The title says it all, and other reviews point out the general idea of the story. The MC is not initially very likeable, but I think that's the point (although she's not as bad as some reviewers say. One of her first acts is to intercede and lower the punishment of a minion. Granted, that act benefits her, but the results are the same either way). I like how she uses her knowledge of the story to her advantage, to plan many, many moves ahead of her enemies. And I also like the fact that it's not the "bad guy with a heart of gold" trope from the get-go.
Evelyn AdelbergRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story follows one of my favourite isekai tropes, where the MC gets reincarnated as the villain.
The MC died at age 18, without having ever truly lived, back on Earth. She regains her memories when her new body is around 9. And yet, that girl takes away all the wrong things from what had made her past life, and what will make her new life, miserable.
She is a very flawed person striving for something that was never meant to be hers.
This is what separates this story, from all similar ones in the genre. Here, it is made very clear from fairly early on that the MC had no intention on becoming "the kindest and the purest" to avoid her scripted doom. Instead, she plots, and "metagames" and sets herself on a path she should be avoiding.
The style is your typical light novel style. There are few descriptions, information gets introduced when it's needed, ... it's exactly what you'd expect, and it works really well. (There are no typos, or tense misuses or anything like that either).
TLDR: this story is for those who have read a lot of vilainess reincarnation stories, and who aren't nesseseraly looking for a new spin on the genre, but rather more depth added to familiar tropes.
FuriozeRapidaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
If you want “good” villain, this story is not for you.
This is a story about a Villainess that embraces her villainy. She’s imperfect, flawed and downright immoral - except when she isn’t.
What I think most people who complain about her don’t understand is that she’s just selfish and selective. She’s good for herself, her family and her friends. And she is ruthless for others - it’s that simple. And when the novel starts, she is just spoiled brat without regrets.
Yet she grows, works hard to “survive” the plot, and improves over time. Improves on wearing a polite mask, her machinations and manipulations, and overall becomes more knowledgeable and powerful. Good arc if you ask me - she stays villain with glimpses of “doubt” about her nature. Nothing too sophisticated really, sometimes a little… vivid, but it works.
Story wise there are interesting angles you can look at it. The main engine is fighting “the heroine”. There are twists I find well done and it’s pleasant to binge.
Style is psychological-dialogue focused, with little to none sensory or descriptions, fitting the “otome” feel. It leans hard on existing tropes for fast pacing.
Hopefully, we’ll see this story through the end.
BirdsupremacyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've been reading for about 6 months now, and its got to be one of my favourite fictions. Its definitely my favourite ongoing fic.
Its one of those "reincarnated into an otome game" fics, so if you're into those you'll definitely enjoy this.
As to why; characters are generally not one dimensional, except for perhaps one particular character. The Main character can be categorised as evil, as in an actual villainess, which is rarely ever done "right" with these types of fics, although I feel the author does their best to make her likeable. Not evil as in cartoon-villainy evil, but more along the lines of an almost, but not quite, psychopath.
I'd go on, but I don't want to spoil anything, still I absolutely recommend if you're one of those people who love reading reincarnated villainess novels from NU.
DMSRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love this story! When I see a new chapter I always read it immediately. The main character feels like a person but also like a proper villainess. I can’t wait to see what happens! Keep up the good work! I have even read it twice! I might read it again!
zechampRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I've read quite a few otome villainness novels, but this is the first one that actually feels villainous. The MC is selfish, haughty, tragic and very arrogant – in short, she is perfect.
Now, some people may disagree with that statement and find her annoying. In that case, this novel is probably not for you. No fault of the writing itself – which I have no complaints about. It's a very pleasant read to get through.
An easy reccomend for people like myself who just want a villainness to go "ohohohoho".
Northern LightsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Perhaps you have read Villainness stories before. And maybe, like me, you always felt dissatisfied with the re-definition of that term, since (due to its trope-inversion roots) it's purely nominal, a role, not a de-facto description of a character; and you actually wanted a villainess, not a "Villainess".
If so, you don't need to know more, simply stop reading the review and start reading the story. You won't be disappointed.
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For everyone else, if you can't stand villains MCs at all, this won't be for you, but if you're at least curious, I'd urge you to try. It also doesn't require much investment; the story is entirely upfront. Simply read the prologue and see whether that character intrigues you -- she stays exactly like that.
The prologue actually is an excellent piece of writing: In a couple of hundred words, the author shows their skill by fully introducing her without making it an infodump. It's show, not tell, at its best. We quickly learn Jenny is a piece of trash, why she is a piece of trash, that she secretly hates being a piece of trash, and that -- like in any good tragedy -- she is unable to change, or perhaps rather, that her idea of changing herself is the exact opposite of what will bring her the happieness she seeks; trapped, as she is, by the confines of her own nature.
Jenny, in the prologue, is a perfect mix of A-grade bitch and broken emptieness inside, and this sets up the reincarnation as Valentine, a spoiled duke's daughter who (as yet) can have everything she wants, so the newly reincarnated Valentine decides she should have everything she wants, and didn't, in her previous life: Power, adoration, wealth, friends, family. And since Jenny never learned that life isn't a zero-sum game, she goes about it in the only way she knows how: By taking it from the story's heroine, by manipulating, lying and destroying.
That, my friends, makes for a good story. And a good (but not Good) MC -- she is a product of her circumstances, and her decisions a
ThinkerbellRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Its a good story, its diffrent from any other I have read on royal road. Hope the Mc pulls the classic move and marches her army down the capital to remove the bad advisors of the king and advice the royal family herself. The writing style is nice in my opinion and I enjoyed reading it.