Athena_Varinder

Falling for his warm touch despite his usual coldness, she loved him only to be disappointed and betrayed in the end. When love turns to darkness, it festers to be poisonous and consumes the soul. The naïve Arabella evolved. *** “Thank you for becoming my wife,” was her cold husband’s last words before he died, coupled with a smile that had never before graced his lips. Not on their wedding day. And not even at the birth of their only child. Emperor Ferdinand, someone Arabella loved so much, killed their son. She became a villainess and vowed revenge for her beloved child. For a decade, she used everything she could to make Ferdinand pay. Until finally… he fell to ruin! With her revenge complete, Arabella's life soon ended with her dead husband in her arms. But fate wasn’t done playing with her. All of a sudden, she was back two decades ago right after their wedding. Was it a curse or a blessing? It didn’t matter. Because there is only one thing she needed to do. “I will ruin you in this lifetime too!” This was her hateful promise to herself upon realizing she was reborn. But in her second life, Arabella was unexpectedly bestowed a gift to uncover the truth. Who was wrong and who was right? Only time will tell.

“I will never get married,” a young Anna had once vowed to herself a long time ago due to her experience with her parents. She promised that she would not allow herself to be wrapped in someone’s shackles and stay trapped in a cage. But as she grew older, she realized that she at least wanted a child of her own, especially now due to her grandparents. Her grandparents had been hounding her to get married but she still had a negative image of marriage that she loathed. She only needed the cute little angel but not the father. But when her grandmother’s health failed and the old lady kept wishing for a grandchild, Anna had to stop procrastinating and have the baby she wanted no matter how she got it. And in a desperate impulse, she ventured into a famous club to make herself a mother. And so started a journey that she never expected as she unknowingly got tangled with a Mafia Lord. She had a steamy night with a stranger and finally got her wish. She got pregnant. And she fully intended to raise it on her own. But the child’s father, whom she did not know was a mafia lord, suddenly appeared and insisted on marrying her. Will Anna compromise on her beliefs and get married or still raise the child on her own? (Gold Winner of WPC 285)

“If I am going to die anyway, I would rather be a villainess or turn the story upside down,” Yeong-ja vowed vengefully. Kim Yeong-ja was an avid reader who had read thousands upon thousands of books. She had often wished to be transmigrated as the main character of her favorite novels. But one day, she suddenly woke up as the best friend of the female lead of a badly written novel where she had to die so the female lead and male lead could have their happy ending. “Why do I have to die for them to be together?” Yeong-ja was furious that of all the good books that she had read, she had to be transmigrated in the novel 'Loving My Forever’ where all other characters were made merely to make the main character look good regardless of plot holes. Since she was a patient reader, Yeong-ja continued to read the whole novel despite how bad it was. She also wanted to know what would happen to the female lead’s best friend named Stella. Only to realize that Stella was killed off in the end. Now that she was Stella and knows of the future, Yeong-ja planned to change it if she could; even if she had to make the author furious. First, she had to make sure she survives her death flag. But how will she do it when upon transmigrating, she finds that Stella was already dying? Join Yeong-ja in her efforts to live and survive as a character inside a book. Would she be able to change her fate or was her destiny set in stone the way the author wanted? (Bronze Winner of WPC 263 2022)