Chapter 2: Changing Fate
After being stunned for around five seconds, “Adele’s” pupils suddenly contracted.
She had figured out whose name Adele was!
Ding!
Wasn’t that the abused female lead from the orange-themed revenge novel she had just been reading?
Combining that with her surroundings and the blonde vampire embracing her…
“Adele” came to a realization.
This was the early storyline where the real Adele gets locked in the changing room and “done as the perpetrator pleases” by Celeste, one of the Sequence Two antagonists!
Her hard-earned chance to transmigrate, yet she ends up fully involved into such a wretched situation!
Haha world, even if I was going to transmigrate, at least let me arrive during the overpowered, deliciously vengeful later chapters!
Getting sent to the abused early chapters is just asking for torment!
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Here, we must cover the original novel’s basic setting and plot overview.
The story’s female lead Adele is a vampire-human halfling, born with feeble magic and frail physique yet possessing breathtaking, country-toppling beauty – especially an elegant, porcelain-like fragility and aloof coolness in her eyes that made one itch to shatter her, to hear that piteous cry.
To see her utterly debased, stained by the world’s grime.
The orphaned Adele suddenly received a mysterious enrollment letter purportedly from her parents, inviting her to the renowned Chromwell Academy.
The impoverished girl thought it a turning point in her fate.
Little did she know, what awaited was a life akin to hell – which, in a sense, it truly was, her descent from rock bottom into the abyss.
It was here Adele first grasped her mixed-blood status and the academy’s dark secret – a elite institute founded jointly by vampires and humans to nurture vampire offspring.
Humanity allowed vampires limited freedom to survive and reproduce within their cities in exchange for the vampires’ aid in dealing with supernatural “containment targets” manifesting in the human world.
“Vampires are just lapdogs raised by humans, their pride long lost,” the monsters scoffed.
Chromwell’s students comprised human elites, purebred vampires, and halflings like Adele – the lowest class, with Sequence Fives at the very bottom.
Adele’s suffering began upon becoming a Sequence Five halfling.
On the first day, the Vampire Princess marked her as a plaything and living blood source for the Sequence One elites to “enjoy” alongside their “cake.”
They relished not just her blood, but her fruitless defiance against her cruel fate.
— Truly befitting the female lead, her spirit never broke, enabling the revenge that followed.
But Adele, at what cost?
The more you defied your fate, the harder the antagonist girls tormented you!
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The light left Adele’s eyes once more.
Why…of all the characters, why did she have to transmigrate as the maltreated Adele?
Following typical transmigration novel conventions, she should have possessed an antagonist to bully the originally overbearing female lead.
With her meta-knowledge as insurance, she could safely avoid death flags while developing romances!
Then fast-forward to making them her devoted companions!
Hehehe…
Alas, such fancies are beautifully cruel.
Adele had transmigrated alright – as the wretched lead in an abused protagonist storyline!
Did the author have a moment of madness?
In this day and age, who still reads abused protagonist stories?
People want either meow-meow-meow invincible protagonists, or saccharine-sweet doting tales.
Her current predicament fit neither archetype at all!
At this moment, Adele deeply suspected the author was a twisted deviant venting their frustrations over poor sales by tormenting the main character.
Nearly three-quarters of the novel’s length covered the heroine’s misery – being treated as a living lunchbox or walking blood pack by vampire girls, elite humans, even monster girls on missions.
To the point that when the antagonist girls faced crises, readers worried first about poor, victimized Adele!
“Tired? Drink Adele’s blood. Even dragon kings get slain for you!”
And in the remaining quarter’s “revenge” arc, the author still portrayed Adele with “Stockholm Syndrome” – dithering, overcautious, a mess of mixed feelings.
Artsy-fartsy tripe!
Per common reader consensus, she should have taken swift, bloody vengeance!
Or at the very least, turned the tables on her tormentors.
Instead, the ending left Adele the same pitiful, trauma-trapped victim.
Invincible yet utterly alone, having killed all who twisted to love her in atonement for their cruelties.
Perpetual torment from start to finish, agony even after becoming overpowered.
What a mind-blowingly awful train wreck.
Wait a second…
Could it be she actually did suffer a brain aneurysm from reading, transmigrating as Adele in the process?
Well…she wouldn’t put it past herself.
But if so, could she at least get a chance to delete her browser and computer history first?
Obviously, Adele was indulging in idle fantasies – a dead woman’s pointless wishes.
Yet since she now inhabited this “abused protagonist” world revived as Adele, for the original’s sake if not her own, she ought to make an earnest effort to live.
Protagonist or antagonist, meta-knowledge was still an edge.
If leveraged properly, perhaps her wretched fate as Adele could be changed.
Moreover, recalling her feelings while originally reading the novel, Adele frequently ached for the tormented main character – especially when she staunchly refused to break despite any torment.
More than once, Adele had thought: “You silly girl, just give in to them…if you cannot resist, at least enjoy yourself.”
“……”
That’s it!
If resistance is futile, then embrace full indulgence!
There’s even a saying about “tasting the bitterness to motivate resolve!”
Inspiration struck Adele with startling clarity.
Perhaps she truly could change the original Adele’s destiny – by utterly devoting herself to these antagonist girls from the start!
Who says an abused protagonist story can’t feature an invincible, doted-upon heroine?
Adele refused to believe it was impossible!
She would employ every trick to earn the favor and affection of these antagonist girls.
For when they became invincible, would that not be her own invincibility?