The Regressed Villainess Makes a Vow of Chastity

Lydia Evansy is a “perfect” noble villainess on paper: an old and prestigious marquis household, overflowing wealth, and striking looks—yet fatally bad taste in men. She pours everything—heart, loyalty, and power—into a prince of low birth, even helping him ascend to the throne, only to be betrayed when he has an affair with her distant relative, Giselle. Resolving to show them the true end of obsession, Lydia shares poisoned tea with Giselle, intending for them both to die, but the plan fails and only she is dragged off to a brutal labor camp, where plague eventually claims her. As she dies, she bitterly wishes she could go back and slap some sense into her past self. That wish is granted. Lydia opens her eyes on the very afternoon she had poisoned Giselle’s teacup. “Smack!” She literally slaps herself awake and chooses a new life path: no more foolish men, and meticulous revenge against three people—Richard (the man who threw her away), Giselle (who deceived her), and Devon (who bartered with her life). To do it, she decides she needs the Empire’s coveted sword, Arsen Edis. Lydia boldly approaches Arsen, openly reveals she has regressed, and asks for his help. Though skeptical, Arsen decides to watch her and live alongside her for a while. Yet as time passes, the way he looks at Lydia begins to change in a way she did not plan for, hinting that her cold “chastity and revenge only” life may not go exactly according to script.