The Charming Villain Just Wants To Be A Salted Fish

Translator: tarararawr

The First Night Part 1

Joyce rubbed her painful arm. It took her a long time to figure out what was going on in front of her.

She had transmigrated.

She was in the manga that her middle school sister treated as a treasure everyday and repeatedly read it more than a dozen times.

Her sister was about to take the high school entrance examination, so she had temporarily confiscated her sister’s manga and promised to return them to her after the high school entrance examination. She had flipped through it and ridiculed the king welcoming the knight and the interactions between the knight and princess… and then she transmigrated into this manga?

Right now, she was holding the pitiful princess in her arms, and the handsome knight was standing in front of her and had drawn his sharp sword at her.

She had seen this scene before.

At the beginning of the manga, Isabella, the most beautiful princess of Saidan, grew up to be cherished by thousands of people. However, she was coveted by the King of Karnia. It was rumored in Saidan that the King of Karnia was an evil dragon who had ruled Karnia for thousands of years. King Saidan could not bear it, but because of the disarray imposed by Karnia, he had no choice but to have his daughter marry the dragon.

Karnia was not like Saidan. The continent of Karnia was vast, but it also contained evil and mysterious elements.

Arrogant black mages and vampires hidden in the dark… were still alive in secret while the dragon ruled.

In order to protect the princess from them, the dragon sent his commanding knights to pick up the princess and bring her to Karnia for the marriage.

They were now going through the first crisis of the journey. The villainous vampires kidnapped the princess in an attempt to use her to threaten the King of Karnia to release the seals on the first vampire, Cathy.

The knight would then break into the vampire’s territory and rescue the captive princess.

Joyce felt that the manga had a hero rescuing the damsel in distress trope that was undoubtedly a bit cliche, so she abandoned it.

But right now…

The princess and the knight were here, but how did she become… the vampire who kidnapped the princess?!

When she had totally failed to wake up from such a nightmare, the underlings behind her seemed to notice her distraction.

“Your Highness Joyce, don’t hesitate to use her to threaten the King of Karnia to return the whole continent to darkness. That is our world!”

Joyce returned to her senses and looked at her underlings behind her with a complicated expression.

“Is the Primogenitor strong?”

“Of course.” The tall but deathly pale man behind her looked at her strangely. “The Primogenitor  is the strongest vampire!”

Joyce did not let go of the princess’s neck. She looked at the vampires surrounding the knight and wondered, “…Then why was she sealed?”

“…”

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Joyce saw that he had held back for a long time without an answer and her mind suddenly came to a realization.

She went through the plot. The vampires and the knight would fight over the old Demon Dragon’s bride, and even if the knight rescued the princess, the Demon Dragon would certainly find a way to end their vampire lair.

In addition, even if the imprisoned first vampire they mentioned could finally escape from the seal, she had already been sealed once and would never be able to survive past three chapters according to the tone of this otome manga.

It means that at this time, she, as a small villainous boss, would not know when she would die. If she did not die right now, then she would be dragged out to be killed…

“Go back and tell your king that if you want the princess to live, you will exchange her with the Primogenitor!”

While Joyce was still trying to figure out how to live for two more episodes of this kind of she’ll-die-either-way storyline, the underling behind her had shouted out a threat.

Joyce got a headache and massaged her head.

The knight was currently weak. However, after they took the princess away and let the knight go back to report what had happened, he would come back to kill them and save her.

Could she just not be this stupid villain?

Joyce’s underlings saw that she did not give any orders. They were not sure on what to do next for a while and glanced at her, one after another, searching for orders.

This she’ll-die-either-way situation was a thorny problem.

Joyce could not think of any feasible way to deal with this situation and her eyes fell indecisively on the knight surrounded by the vampires.

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The surrounded knight was a cold looking young man. Regardless of whether this was reality or a manga, the knight had amazing facial features. His features were like what almost all male manga characters had, and later on he would even save the princess, who was the female lead.

Joyce could smell a touch of sweetness from him at such a far distance.

At this moment, they had kidnapped the princess and wiped out all the guards. Their dead bodies covered the ground in chaos, and the smell of blood assaulting her nostrils made her feel inexplicably hot.

The same was true for the other vampires. Their eyes held a subtle touch of excitement because of the blood in the air.

She inadvertently looked at the knight’s neck and could actually smell the trace of sweetness amidst the thick bloody atmosphere. Her line of sight fell on his face again, and even though she knew that the sweetness seemed to be her body’s yearning for the blood flowing in him, she still found his face pleasing.

It’s just a pity that… he’s only a supporting character next to the male lead.

Supporting character… 

Joyce’s eyes lit up.

She looked at the princess softly crying in her arms, then at the icy knight. She held her hand up.

“I can let her go.”

The knight with the sword looked at her suspiciously, his eyes wary and hostile.

She took a closer look at him. This male knight that is the supporting character looks really delicious. Joyce’s lips rose. The more she thought about it, the more she thought it was a good idea. “You will come back with us instead of her.”