Serene only wanted to meet a human, after being born with her family in hiding. Now she finds herself trapped in servitude to a King, and falling for the King's son Drakel. Will she and Drakel be able to forge their romance? Or will war breakout as the King realizes he's losing his newest play thing?

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this is just a book im reading and need the audio function! so dont waste time here im already in chapte 55 or something

When I was six, a nurse called out to my mother and asked to sign a book. That year, I came to realise that my mother is a famous literary author. 

"I want to read your books." I whined. 

"It's not as exciting as the stories you tell me." My mother smiled. 

When I was eight, I 'borrowed' my mother's books from nurse to read. That year, I came to realise that my mother is an amazing author. 

"Where did you get that?" My mother asked in surprise, recognising the book I borrowed. 

"I borrowed it from a nurse. Do you have anymore books I can read?" I asked using my all powerful superpower, sad puppy eyes.

"I do. But promise me that you will return that 'borrowed' book and apologise to the nurse?" My mother sighed helplessly. 

"Okay." I happily agreed despite being seen through. 

When I was nine, I finished reading all of my mother's works. That year, I came to realise how important I was in her heart. 

"That's because the female protagonists you write are always so brave and incredible! They're the best." I said when she found me hugging a romance novel she first published under a pen name. 

"Silly child. You're wrong. No matter how brave and incredible my characters are, they are only fictional. You are real. Remember. You are the bravest and most incredible person there is. To me, you are the best." My mother said as she began playing with my cheeks. 

When I was ten, I asked my mother if I could be the female protagonist in her next book. That year, my mother said she is retiring as an author to become an editor due to writers block.

"It's only for a little while. I'll write again soon." My mother comforted the crying me. 

"Really?" I asked.

"Really. I want to write the best book I can and have you read it first." She said with a sparkle of certainty in her eyes. 

On my 20th birthday, my mother published her newest work after a ten year hiatus. After being given a very special reading by the author herself, I realised why my mother took ten years to write this novel. 

"I want to read it." I said, surrounded by my family. 

"How about this, I'll read it to you. It's been a long time since I've told you a story." My mother pretended, not knowing I could see the obvious tear stain on her face. 

My mother then read it to me. She was by my side everyday, reading 'There Is Sweetness Within Bitterness, That Is Happiness'. When she couldn't read anymore, my father came. When he couldn't read, my brother came. Then on the last day, my mother finished the last page. 

But unfortunately. I was too tired to hear the ending.

“Lan’er. Didn’t you already read that?” Her mother asked, pointing to her newest novel in her hands. 

“That’s because the female protagonists you write are always so brave and incredible! They’re the best.” Huang Yue Lan proudly spoke.

Her mother reached towards her and lightly pinched her cheeks before shaking her head. “Silly child. You’re wrong. No matter how brave and incredible my characters are, they are only fictional. You are real. Remember. You are the bravest and most incredible person there is. To me, you are the best.”

Years later, surrounded by her family on her deathbed Yue Lan pointed at a book by her bedside. 

“Is that your newest book?” She asked softly. 

Her mother nodded and grabbed the book, ‘There Is Sweetness Within Bitterness, That Is Happiness’. 

“I want to read it.” She declared.

“How about this, I’ll read it to you. It’s been a long time since I’ve told you a story.” Her mother said with a forced smile. 

Yue Lan was too tired to argue so she simply nodded. She listened as her mother told her the story until the very end. Leaving with a smile on her face. 

In death, she received her second chance at life. In the world her mother created. In the world of ‘There Is Sweetness Within Bitterness, That Is Happiness’.

-Weekly releases-

Though the events that transpired a few minutes ago was intense and nerve-racking, the harmonious aura came back when they reached the bookstore.
Dandan carefully measured her boss' mood while they were walking towards the entrance and it seems that her boss has cooled down. She thanked all the gods and deities in this world that everything is back to normal again.
Once they were inside, Dandan excused herself so she can quickly pick the necessary items that the employees from the office wanted. She left her boss hanging around the fiction books section.
The bookstore was really crowded today so once Secretary Dandan has to queue, it'll take long before she could pay the office supplies she picked.
Xiulan's mood was serene again and everything that happened a while ago were swept away once she's inside the store. Bookstores are her happy place and it immediately alleviated her mood. She went to young adult fiction section to check the newest and trendiest books.
Since its young adult, it's full of romance and magic genre. The titles were all new to her and the stories seems promising.
Her attention was caught by the romance books with very vulgar covers in it. She liked the stories but the covers were quite distasteful for her. She thought that books these days are not so discreet in hiding what's inside. She remembered the books twenty years ago would have plain cover designs and people wouldn't actually know the book is erotic unless they read it. But now, these provocative book covers are exposed to children.
While she criticize each of the books' cover, she took her time reading each of the synopsis at the back as well. She seems to be so engross in reading them that she was not aware that some aunties inside the bookstore were gossiping about her.
"Is that Mrs. Xing? She's so tiny..."
"It's my first time seeing her in person. She's very pretty but she lacks height. Her dress is so pretty though!"
"The contrast of Hongqi's ex-girlfriends vs Mrs. Xing are too big! I'm pretty sure Hongqi has a tall, beautiful, model side chick."
"I am going to bet a slut could snatch Xing Hongqi from this woman. She's pretty but there are far more beautiful and sexier women."
"Look at her height, OMG!"
"Wow! Her waist is so small… but her height… err…"
"Hmph! She's not that pretty like what the people says!"
"Gong Yuming is prettier."
"Betting that they'll divorce this year. She's not that pretty like her husband's exes."
The constant degrading hush from the bystanders managed to catch Xiulan's attention. "Are they really gossiping about me, in front of me? I can't believe this. Are people really this boisterous in shaming someone?"
She had enough of this. When will people stop this kind of attacks on her? She can't just stand here and let them slander her like this. She could ignore this if it was a hearsay but they are slandering her in person. For some reason, the constant mention of her height irritated her so badly. Never ever criticized a woman's height in front of them.
Xiulan put down the book she was holding and coldly gazed at the gossiping women. She walked towards them with her high heels clacking so loudly. She stopped in front of them and savagely scolded them. "You women have a lot of free time to gossip about me. Instead of talking about my marriage and height, all of you should check on your husbands. A young, tall, beautiful girl might be with them right now."
The women gawked at her, they were all surprised by her words. They all thought she's meek and wouldn't even try to approach them. But here she is, standing in front of them with her thousand dollars dress, shoes and clear skin. They were embarrassed but they wanted to rebut to save face and bully her back but she's not finished in her scolding yet.
"And my short height doesn't undermine the continuous contributions I made for this country. What about you people? Is your gossiping helped the country's economy?"  Xiulan's perfectly plucked eyebrows were all way up. With her tiny height but amazing confidence, she intimidated these godforsaken gossipers.
The women were mummed and don't know how to answer back. They were just middle class people and a rich, upper class woman scolding them made them afraid to say something.
"I didn't know that Mrs. Xing has a lot of free time to scold people." A woman with very long fake eyelashes emerged. With her voice, she might be the person who mentioned Gong Yuming's name.
Xiulan lazily looked at this woman who appeared like a random mushroom, provoking her.  "Yes I have a lot of free time. What about it?" Xiulan rebutted and her eyebrows were still arched. It gave her a snobby and intimidating look.
The annoying woman scoffed. "Don't be cocky just because you are rich and married to Xing Hongqi. He can leave you anytime."
"Ad-hominem. Why is my husband being mentioned in this? So what if he leaves me? Am I not allowed to scold people who are slandering me? Hmm?" Xiulan was in the mood to scold people so she would continue this until Dandan is finished with her shopping. Hell, who cares about image now?
"People with class don't argue with people in public." The woman fought back.
"And who said that? Was it written in a manual on how to be classy?" Xiulan won't let this woman slide.
"You might be rich but your attitude stinks." The woman provoked. Her arguments were out of place.
"Judgmental. How come you say my attitude stinks when we've been only exchanging questions? I can't believe I am not allowed to scold people who slandered me." Xiulan bewilderingly asked. She doesn't get this woman's anger. She only scolded the gossipers but this woman is diverting the topic to something else.
"Just wait and your careful pure image will be trashed soon." The woman was about to leave since she doesn't know what to say anymore.
"I wouldn't mind that. Be careful on not losing your job too." Xiulan scoffed before she left the gossiping women and went to Dandan, who's busy in responding to the group chat with her co-employees regarding what to buy in the bookstore.
The woman halted her movements and nervously looked at Xiulan's retreating back. "She won't know my name and report it to my boss, right?"
"Dandan, aren't you finished yet?" Xiulan smiled at Dandan. Her face didn't display any irritation or negativity. It seems that she enjoyed the argument she had a while ago.
"Boss, I'll be next soon. You can wait in the car so you can relax." Dandan quickly answered. She was confused for a moment why the people surrounding them were looking at her boss quite differently.
"Okay." Xiulan agreed but before she leaves the place, she picked a book that has caught her eye a while ago and gave it to Dandan. "Add this to your cart. I want to read it tonight."
Xiulan left and went to rest inside the car.
Dandan confusedly took the book and stared at it. The title was "The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera" with a dog doodle on the book cover. Dandan thought it was a harmless novel but when she read the synopsis at the back, she can't help but question if her boss' marriage is currently on the rocks.


Song Xiulan's parents doted on her so much that they would even find the best bachelor out there to be her husband.

They were eyeing Xing Hongqi, a very respectable man and the most powerful in S and T city. But he is also a notorious player and womanizer.

Xiulan's parents believed that their impeccable daughter can change a man like Hongqi. 

Xiulan was willing to follow whatever her parents planned for her. But marrying a womanizer seemed too extreme. 

Now that she met the man and people around her seem to worship him and talk about his dirty laundries like it was fine. 

Xiulan is now conflicted about whether she should obey her parents or this time follow her common sense that marrying a womanizer is not fine!

But she suddenly finds out a secret that hinders her from not marrying him.

"Lucas, be on your guard I got a report that the prince were seen at downtown yesterday."

"Relax Elea, I'm sure everything will be fine. besides, if anything were to happen I know you can handle it." Shrugging off the warning, Lucas walk out of the waiting lobby towards the arena.

"I wish that would really be the case Lucas, I really do." He muttered to himself before leaving the other way.

The moment Lucas enter the arena the crowd went wild, and even wilder as his opponent entered. when they stand 30 meters apart, the referee calm the audience then spoke.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this would be the last battle for this tournament, I hope all of you are able to enjoy yourself these last few days. As for you, honorable champions, you all have done well to reach this far. Now, once more you will show us your courage, your strength! Let the match begin!"
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
"Vanessa how could you left Martin for that jerk Alvin! Didn't you said you would love him till death!"

"What?! The reason Vanessa was so in love with Martin is because of a charm spell and Alvin is actually the one betrayed?!"

"Sigh... This book is just as trashy as the others but at least it distract me a bit, well let's go back to magic practice."

If you are wondering about what happened, don't give it too much thought, there is just so much one can do in a dungeon.

Most of the books I've found was a trashy romance novel or yet another trashy romance novel, I think it was around two thirds of it? The rest of the books is either magic tomes, skill books, alchemy comporium, blacksmithing books, plant catalogue, mineral catalogue enchantments books, recipes books, history books, bestiary, etc.

There are some books to learn languages and market pricing catalogues and there are also some magic scrolls laying around, but the boon of all these is some research papers about the space element and time element.

The ideas are rough and mostly guesses but hey it's better than nothing. according to the papers, time is a force that free, formless but is etched into every matter and element, it is infinite yet finite, it is what affect every change and transformation of all matter be it solid to liquid or liquid to gas or gas to solid or any other way around. but time by itself cannot achieve this by itself and that's where space comes in.

Space, is both exist and non-exist, space is mass and mass create matter. Space contains time and time contains space, with the stimulation from time space may contract, tear, fold, or merge but time without mass would freeze then seize to exist.

Personally I think it's inaccurate but again it is better than nothing, these papers also state some spells for both time and space but I am still unable to use them.

The papers mentioned some untitled biography of some unnamed authors with an experience of being "out of time". According to them after failing their time or space related experiment the people around them started to forget them, things that written with mentions of their names disappeared, and after awhile they themselves started to fade into nothing. The experience is depicted as some energy seem to slowly corrode their body and breaking it apart but they could feel yet at the same time not feel the part that has fade away.

The papers speculate that these "out of time" phenomenon is caused by the failure of those experiments disrupted the stability and connection of time and space within them, allowing another element to invade their body.

What this element is are still not know and even it's existence is debatable for the lack of evidence and facts to proof it.

Leaving that aside during the last.. few days maybe, I have made a lot of progress in magic and learned a few spells in the six elements especially the dark element.

[shadow hands]!

Casting the newest spell, around six black tentacles made of shadow rises from my shadow. There are just no effort used for the dark element, it is almost like they are part of me unlike the others.

Dispelling the tentacles, I sat on the only chair in the room and stare at the crystal pod, my curiosity has been nagging me to open it but I felt like I should prepare first and so my magic training.

Even after killing and extracting that shade, the dungeon still operate like nothing happened and still spawn monsters or should I start calling them practice target? Anyway after all these times my status has finally reaches 4000 on all of them and my Lv rises to 21, that... actually turn the no longer hard monsters to effortless.

"System, show me my status and skills."

––––––
—status—
Name: Vayne
Title: Alchemy maniac, Lost child
Race: Magical Puppet
Age: 7
Main Job: adept Alchemist
Sub jobs: Apprentice Blacksmith, Hermit
Lv 21 exp: 2.833/224.719
Hp: 120,000/120,000
Sta: 100,000/100,000
Mp: 100,000/100,000
Str: 4000 | Vit: 4000 | Agi: 4000 | Int: 4000 | Res: 4000 | Cha: 167
Rewrite point: 10.221
Condition: fine

—Skills—
Special skill: Rewrite, Devourer, Extract Essence

Active skill: Body fortification, Mix Concoction, Throwing Lv3(2%), Hiding Lv8(21%), Mana Circuit Creation, Golem Creation

Passive skill: Observation, barehanded combat Lv 5(16%), intermediate alchemy knowledge, Herbalist, Hunter, Explorer, sword mastery Lv 4(24%), pain resistance Lv 9(36%), Smithery Lv4(12%), Metallurgy, Tinkering Lv4(2%), Tailoring Lv2(19%), Cooking Lv4(12%), Alertness Lv6(9%), Tracking Lv5(21%), Dagger mastery Lv4(44%), Thin presence Lv8(34%), Heat resistance Lv4(12%), Cold resistance Lv8(50%), Shock resistance Lv3(1%), Axe mastery Lv2(12%)

Spells:
->Virr(Fire):
→Fireball
→Fire blast
→Flame stream

->Nevear(Water):
→Water bullet
→Water torrent
→Water bubble
→Ice spears

->Vyn(Air/Wind):
→Wind cutter
→Cyclone
→Whispering wind
→Still air
→Lightning bolt

->Ewyr(Earth):
→Earth throw
→Earth shield
→Earth Spike
→Mud floor
→Earth to Stone
→Stone to Metal

->Aurora(Light):
→Magelight
→Healing light
→Sun Beam
→Shine

->Nyx(Darkness):
→Darkness
→Dark bolt
→Form shadow
→Shadow cutter
→Shadow Armour
→Shadow Blade
→Shadow bind
→Shadow minion
→Shadow hands
––––––

Never checking skills sure make you surprised once you check the progress eh. The weapon masteries are probably from using the weapons until they broke, the hiding and thin presence are probably from my hiding days and from stalking prey now days.

Well all these are nice but spending time reading and cursing those novels are probably the most helpful, I don't hear voices in my head, I don't have urges to kill, and I'm civil enough to not laugh like a maniac when killing.

...Back to training I guess.
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
"Damnit!" Cursing, Lucas block his opponent quick jabs, his weapon broken long ago.

It has been approximately 30 minutes since the beginning of the match, the moment it began they are already in front of him and his single palm strike shattered his sword.

Ever since, he could only block, evade, or counter with bare hands, it didn't make much difference though as none of his strikes hit his opponent.

Everytime his opponent would nimbly spun around his strikes and counter him with punches or kicks powerful enough to bend steel.

Lucas throw a wide swing but his opponent shift themselves lower, double jab his stomach then launches an upper cut on his lowered chin.

The hit disoriented Lucas focus and he took two step back before his opponent sweep his feet, grab then fold his hand behind him as they pun him down.

"Surrender." He commanded with a somewhat forced deep voice.

"Never!" Lucas bark as he struggles under his opponent.

"Alright then."

"Aaaaaaahh!" With a loud snap he howled in pain, his arm numb. He then felt pain behind his head and everything went dark.

His fate is not his.

His memories are not real.

And his soul is not his own.

Reincarnated into an another world, while meeting new people and learning new things, Vayne adjusts and tries to enjoy his new life as much as he can. 

The Rewrite System had come to change his fate. He had been brought by the goddess who felt touched by his past deed.

He never thought of it with much importance, but that turned out to be a mistake. The more he explored, the more he learned of the so called "fate".

Wanting to break the chains of damnation and create his own destiny, he must thrive to gain strength and keep his "real" self safe.
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author note:
he-ho! author here, this is my first novel that actually took form in a platform so if there's mistakes in spelling or tense do tell me since English not my first language and even my first language have many problems... so yeah that's that.

oh also the cover took a while to put up because many people suggest I should when I was so lazy to even care before haha. anyway it's there now, deal with it.

the cover is not mine and all credit of it belongs to the rightful artist and creator.

I think her pen name, or whatever the term is, was Willhem Lourage and her IG is rudou_akumari. so yeah go check out the original artist somewhere and give support *double thumbs up*
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Also HUGE shout-out to Cailinmatthews and Lostinfictions for the new synopsis ( ╹▽╹ ) do give their books a read and don't be shy to talk to them on discord.

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