I Was Just Having Fun With The Time Limit – Chapter 1

Chapter 1

On the night I checked the acceptance letter from Korea University, a prestigious university not only in Korea but also internationally,

That day was very strange.

‘Where am I?’

The scenery was so different from the hospital room where I had been lying down all my life.

I could see a golden chandelier, and the walls were ivory marble.

The faint scent of flowers was also very different from the hospital room smell I was used to.

‘Where are the doctors? Where are the nurses?’

Hello?

I tried to speak, but……

“Waaaaah!”

A cry erupted.

‘Wha, what is this? Is this a hidden camera prank?’

I blinked my eyes.

My body wouldn’t move properly.

Ugh, ugh.

I put some effort into raising my hand. My arms were very short.

“Waaaaah!”

My throat was diligently spewing out cries against my will, and I barely managed to turn my gaze sideways to look at my short, stubby arms.

They looked like plump sausages.

A voice came.

“It’s, it’s a girl!”

I was a little shocked.

That language wasn’t Korean.

Nevertheless, as soon as I heard it, it was automatically translated.

As if it were my native language.

“The, the Princess has been born!”

Wow, I think I’ve been reincarnated into this world.

‘Or, could it be possession?’

I listened to the midwife’s words.

But then I heard sobbing.

“A girl in the Bilotian Imperial Family……”

I wasn’t sure, but it seemed like my mother, who gave birth to me, was crying.

It seemed that my mother wasn’t happy at all that she gave birth to me.

But I was quite happy.

‘Oh! Bilotian! I, I know this.’

Bilotian was the name of the Imperial Family that appeared in the novel “After the Terminally Ill Villainess Dies”.

They had a peculiar tradition of revering physical strength and believing that only strength proved one’s worth.

They were a heartless bloodline who only thought of their children as candidates for succession, and it was also a family where only male children had been born for 500 years.

‘Princess Isabel is born here. I guess that’s me?’

Bilotian’s swordsmanship has been designed and developed to suit the mana circuits of men.

In other words, it means that women can’t learn Bilotian swordsmanship.

In Bilotian, where strength is everything, being born as a girl was a curse for a girl.

‘The midwife is flustered, and my mother is sobbing. The Bilotian Imperial Family. The first princess born in 500 years. And my name is Isabel?’

The place where I woke up was definitely the world of the novel “After the Terminally Ill Villainess Dies”.

I’ve read it over 17 times.

I know most of the characters and have memorized the settings and the plot.

I’ve been bedridden all my life, and my only hobbies were solving math problems and reading novels.

‘Oh my, oh my. I guess it’s possession.’

Actually, it was much more convincing to believe it was a dream rather than possession, but I liked possession better, so I decided to think of it as possession.

“Waaaaah!”

Even while crying, I was happy.

It’s not a lie, I really liked the possession.

‘This is much better than Korea.’

In Korea, I was an orphan.

The man who was supposedly my biological father ran away before I was even born, and my mother also abandoned me and ran away shortly after.

I don’t even know their faces.

And when I turned 4, I was diagnosed with childhood cancer and started treatment.

I was often featured in the media as an unfortunate child.

Thanks to the support of many nameless people, I was able to hold on until now without being kicked out of the hospital.

Fortunately, I was quite good at studying.

『A miracle achieved in a hospital room!』

『Miracle child, accepted to Korea University.』

The news of my university acceptance was even broadcast on the news.

Countless people congratulated me and praised me.

I was grateful, but I wasn’t really that happy.

‘I’m going to die soon anyway.’

I had a definite premonition of death.

Even then, it was so painful and difficult.

I often thought that I’d rather die quickly and be comfortable.

‘Wow, everyone, my body doesn’t hurt at all!’

Even though I was crying loudly, it didn’t hurt.

I should be feeling a heart-wrenching pain.

I was so happy just because of that.

‘If I’ve possessed Isabel, I’ll die at 21, right?’

Isabel was terminally ill from birth.

This was because she was born with the ‘Mark of Narvidal’, a setting in the novel.

The Mark of Narvidal was an hourglass-shaped mark engraved on the wrist.

Small grains of sand continued to fall throughout one’s life, and when all the sand fell, one would meet death.

It was a curse from birth.

But who cares? I don’t feel any pain now.

At least until I’m 21, I can live a very healthy and happy life.

It was as if 21 years of life had been added to me, who was living day by day.

‘What a steal!’

I’m terminally ill, but I’ve possessed the very healthy and beautiful Isabel.

‘Wow, then I can eat cookies as much as I want, right?’

I’ve only ever eaten hospital food all my life.

I’ve never even had the common cola.

I once put exactly half a sip in my mouth, and the nurse scolded me a lot.

‘I wonder if there’s cola in this world?’

Unintentionally, I’ve become quite serious about food.

‘There’s no tteokbokki, right?’

It’s Korean food, so I guess there probably isn’t.

I know the recipe, but, no, what am I talking about tteokbokki in this situation.

……I thought so, but the flow of my thoughts didn’t stop.

‘C, could I try alcohol before I die?’

How delicious must it be to get addicted to it?

I heard it’s a bit bitter, but that’s probably a lie to keep kids from drinking it, right?

I really want to try it at least once before I die.

You know, it’s kind of like being an adult. Having a glass of wine while looking at a fancy night view!

It was a delusion, but if that was my wish, it was my wish.

“Woohoo!”

I shouted like that, but the sound that came out of my mouth was just a cry of “Waaaaah!”

Another voice came.

“Something useless has been born.”

It was exactly like in the novel.

「Something useless has been born.」

「He looked at the newborn girl with emotionless eyes. There was no sign of paternal affection in his eyes.」

I rolled my eyes and looked at the face that suddenly appeared.

And then I instinctively shouted.

“Waaaah（He’s handsome）!”

It wasn’t that I wasn’t surprised.

It was the first time I’d seen such a handsome creature.

The expression in the novel was spot on.

「Everyone did not hesitate to call him beautiful. Although he was called an emotionless doll, countless noble ladies suffered from lovesickness because of him.」

His black hair was rather short, and his eyebrows and eyes were very sharp.

His eyes were very fierce.

Nevertheless, that man, so beautiful that I couldn’t take my eyes off him, was definitely Ron, my father.

‘Hehe.’

As soon as I saw his beautiful face, I lamented my poor imagination.

‘You’re much more handsome than I imagined.’

He was so handsome that even I, a newborn, stopped crying.

‘Wow, your eyes are fierce, and even that is handsome.’

It was only natural in this world for him to treat me like this.

Because Ron loved his wife very much, but he never once loved his children as children.

I wasn’t that scared.

In the novel, Isabel, who was given a terminally ill life, grows up to be a terrible villainess.

‘She commits all sorts of evil deeds and eventually dies of natural causes at the age of 21.’

For your information, this iron-blooded Imperial Family also perishes on the day I die.

This is because the male lead, whom I brought in and tormented mercilessly during my childhood, awakens and returns to destroy Bilotian.

That’s why the title of the book was “After the Terminally Ill Villainess Dies”.

‘Anyway, it means that no matter what I do, the Imperial Family won’t lay a finger on me!’

So there’s no need to be scared.

My father turned away from me.

He didn’t give me even a single affectionate glance.

It was a little sad, but from the perspective of a reader who had read the novel many times, it was an understandable reaction.

‘Then my terminal illness diagnosis will be made around this time.’

At that moment, the midwife, who discovered something on my wrist, spoke.

“Your Majesty! The Mark of Narvidal is present.”

All children born with this tattoo die at the age of 21.

‘Then now my father will say he’s not interested and close the door and leave, right?’

A cold reply came.

“I’m not interested.”

Bang.

I heard the door close.

I didn’t feel particularly bad.

’21 years.’

I was given 21 years of life for free.

My mother’s sobs continued.

“My baby……”

Mom will apologize to me.

She’ll say she’s sorry for giving birth to me.

“I’m sorry for giving birth to you.”

“Waaaaah!”

No, I’m really, completely fine.

I wanted to tell her, but I couldn’t speak.

I decided to tell her when I could speak.

‘Even though I won’t be able to learn swordsmanship.’

I’m still quite smart.

But I know the future quite accurately. I also know the candidates for the strongest in the world.

‘There’s something similar to virtual currency in this world.’

Although the name is different, there’s something similar to coins in this world.

In about 10 years, the price will increase hundreds of thousands of times.

Not only do I know the creator of that coin, Narmore, but I also know the names of promising future mages, magic engineers, and businessmen.

If I think about it carefully, there seem to be quite a few ways to avoid the flags of destruction.

‘Wow, I think there will be at least ten ways to live these 21 years meaningfully.’

Ugh, ugh.

I wriggled my body.

‘This is fantasy after all.’

The newborn has performed the miracle of raising her body at will!

……Well, it’s not that surprising since I’ve possessed someone and understand everything that’s being said.

If I had to find a reason, it’s because I was born with the body of the Bilotian Imperial Family.

Anyway, I tried to move diligently.

The midwife recognized my valiant effort.

“It seems like she wants to go to the Empress.”

The midwife held me.

The feeling of my body floating was quite fun.

‘Being a baby’s body makes everything enjoyable.’

I was laid down next to my mother, Serna.

Ugh, ugh.

I wriggled like a caterpillar and burrowed into my mother’s arms.

It was the first time I felt my mother’s warmth.

Serna’s body was trembling.

She was shedding tears of emotion.

‘It’s warm and sleepy.’

A newborn’s body needs a lot of sleep. Eventually, I fell asleep without realizing it.

Holding onto my mother’s index finger tightly.

And a year passed.