Berlin: The Writer Lives the Life of a Time-limited Villain

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Someone was licking down her neck.

It must be part of a dream… a very vivid one. Electrical impulses sprung up through the blood vessels of her body.

“It’s you who planned tonight, but you’re treating me as if I’m the unscrupulous one.”

“What the hell?!”

I had to give up saying any more words. It was strangely stimulating.

It was like she was wearing someone else’s body and not her own. Her gaze stopped on the snake-shaped tattoo on his forearm.

“Um, maybe… Of course not… You’re not Red Ross, the Duke of Vermont, are you?”

“What answer do you want to hear? Do you mean you want to erase the night you spend with me from your mind?”

Red Ross, the Duke of Vermont, married Berlin of the Aphrin family. She was a villain who died a year after doing all kinds of evil, without ever being loved.

War, famine, raids by demons, natural disasters… A list of misfortunes that she had described for fun at random came to mind.

“I’ll leave in a year. I’m a different person now.”

It was unfair, but since the novel was written by me, I tried to change it somehow. But the original male lead is now obsessed with me?

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브렐린 : 작가는 시한부 악 역의 삶을 산다
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Recommendations
Waking up as Cinderella’s Stepsister (2)
Chronicles of the Kilner Family (1)
Duke (1)
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The Male Lead Is Mine (1)
Recommendation Lists
  1. Korea female protagonist 2
  2. SMUT(straight)
  3. Villainess
  4. Dropped
  5. NOT SAFE FOR YOU -- ONGOING -- (R18)

Latest Release

Date Group Release
07/02/22 Readhive v1c24
06/26/22 Readhive v1c23
06/19/22 Readhive v1c22
06/13/22 Readhive v1c21
06/06/22 Readhive v1c20
03/30/22 Readhive v1c19
03/23/22 Readhive v1c18
03/07/22 Readhive v1c17
02/25/22 Readhive v1c16
02/17/22 Readhive v1c15
02/09/22 Readhive v1c14
02/02/22 Readhive v1c13
01/26/22 Readhive v1c12
01/12/22 Readhive v1c10
01/06/22 Readhive v1c9
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Fellyciach
Fellyciach rated it
March 30, 2022
Status: v2
I really like the beginning so I decided to buy the book and mtl it myself. I've read 2 volume already and honestly it's getting pretty boring in the middle.

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Spoiler

Berylia suddenly changed 180° and Redross suddenly fell in love with her. There's almost no hitch, just him being helplessly in love with her while she kept on denying reality and wanted a divorce in 1 year. Pretty cliche.

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I'm not sure if I'll continue reading the rest of the volume or not since I was already quite turn off by now. <<less
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jasmin.stp
jasmin.stp rated it
April 25, 2022
Status: c2
So I came for the smut and I also liked the description of the story but this story already makes no sense for me in the first two chapters.

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Spoiler

So what happend was: the author of the story transmigrated in the body of the villianess, in the middle of spending the night with the og ml, her husband.

IN the original story she is using the ML for her own gains and mistreated him since childhood smth. like that and forced him in a marriage w/her

The next morning she wakes up and notices that she reincarneted in the story she wrote, as the villianess.

Everything was fine till then but suddenly the she is saying:

, , I am sorry for everything I´ve done. I am now a diffrent person and I know u hate me, so I`m leaving.

(like she is a diffrent person but how would the ML know? like how is she supposed to turn in a diffrent person in a single night yk)

And now the ML is also like

, , suddenly I find her attractive, her eyes became so clear-the greed that could me seen in them before is now gone..." and sh*t like that.

So this story is already complety unrealistic and I´m not staying for the smut of a story that makes no sense.

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Nom de Plume
Nom de Plume
July 7, 2023
Status: v1c24
I'm looking forward to the rest of the story, but it's too soon for me to give a confirmed rating.

This is a cliche story of an author who transmigrated into their own book as a villainous cannon fodder, but it has a good enough start to stand out within its genre. The author's initial death was so sudden and the death of her possessed body so certain that the story starts with some barely suppressed depression. The MC begins to plan out the only year 'Berlin' has left to live.... more>> The original's death was such an ambiguous 'fever' that she gives up overturning her own fate. She faces the characters she has written for the first time and feels some major guilt over making their lives so miserable as the author. This makes her determined to bypass some of the major troubles before the main plot begins. Then she can 'sign off' before wishing her husband and his destined second wife a happy ending without regrets. She is destined to die and accepts this. Her attitude is that she can try to enjoy the experience of living in her own book while editing the parts she regrets, right?

Things are starting to heat up as of chapter 24. Berlin has begun to take up power in her position as the precariously trusted wife of the Duke and network as Berlin the Queen of High Society. So far she seems to be doing alright despite her irredeemably bad reputation. I'm looking forward to finding out what happens next. The obstacles her character faces somewhat remind me of the MC from Living as the Villainous Queen. She marries high and faces absolute rejection. She forced her husband to both marry her and agree to a contract to conceive an heir. She doesn't have either the relevant memories or the skills to replicate the personality of the original. Her main strengths (so far) are her foreknowledge of the original plot and her determination to move forward regardless of the original hosts' path. The heroine of this book has it slightly easier in the sense that she appears at the very beginning of her marriage whereas the heroine of LVQ had already been married for multiple years, embezzled books, and funded a cult. Instead our Berlin had to face the mental burden and hard timeline of an unknown terminal illness. Here's to hoping (?) that it was poison or just bad health from the neglect of the servants.

I find it a little odd that the other reviewers found the Husband's change in feeling sudden. There are already strong signs of this that are completely traceable and not hidden whatsoever. Maybe the issue is in the Duke never treating his wife badly other than some light taunting? Here is my take: he had no reason to treat even the original Berlin badly let alone a version of her that has shown a willingness to change. Most of the events that would cause him to truly hate her have not occurred yet.
Spoiler

He married the original Berlin knowing exactly what she was like and what he was getting into. This marriage was a very clear financial transaction made to resolve the debts of the previous generation. He was reluctant to marry this unscrupulous woman and slightly angered by her attitude when she seduces him with ulterior motives after their wedding night. You have to realize here that he is disgusted by only Berlin's personality/actions, but is overall a person who respects women. He dislikes Berlin but hasn't really opposed her to her face. She is his wife and he finds her physically attractive, so he agrees to sleep with her. He is shocked at her responsiveness during the MC's confusion due to her sudden transmigration mid s*x scene. I honestly couldn't tell if they were in the middle of it already or just at the foreplay stage at the beginning of chapter 1, but it doesn't matter much.

The important development here is Berlin's reaction the next day. This attractive woman that he despises no longer shows any interest in him and is inexplicably a lot less disgusting. He can't put his finger on what is different and does not want to admit his attraction to her, despite a hot night. This change is enough for him to become curious and curiosity is the first step toward a deeper interest. He is not in love with his wife yet in the chapters I've read, but they have started to communicate and build a bond. It's not deep enough yet which evidenced by his feeling of betrayal when he hears that she has gone off with a man through only hearsay. The point here is that he had enough trust for her to feel betrayed in the first place. It also took accounts from multiple acquaintances before he believed the gossip. What they didn't tell him was that she was bodily dragged into that room. This misunderstanding was quickly resolved and he immediately drove away the offender without any victim blaming. This entire scene from beginning to end served to display his strong protectiveness toward his wife. He defends her literally without question when it matters. He doesn't allow his friends to joke casually about her previous promiscuity.

I can't in any way imagine him falling in love with her to be a sudden change with this premise even if I haven't read the future chapters yet. Their marriage now has curiosity, communication, and trust. It's very clear that she is performing exceedingly well in her new role as his wife. She is no longer annoying and seems to be genuinely concerned about the duchy. The Duke even had an inner monologue (mocking old Berlin) that what he looks for in his spouse is someone he can work together well with. I paraphrased this a little, but Berlin treating him like a colleague fits his tastes. It's clear that future chapters will have her resolving big hidden dangers one after another. The Duke being impressed so soon may have something to do with his originally negative expectations, but it's clear that he will continue to face more happy surprises in the future. Why shouldn't he fall in love with this woman who perfectly suites his tastes and has a shared (work) passion with him? I can imagine that he is going to treat her as seriously as she treats her responsibility. His feelings will only deepen when he finds out the true reason behind the deadline. This change is inevitable with these factors.

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Please don't give up translator! This story really seems to have some potential. <<less
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