Chapter 54 - New life plan

All the names of people in her life seemed so strangely familiar to fife year old Lily and when she met Elodie Perrin's five-year version. Everything exploded behind her forehead.

The shock was too big for her five-year-old body, she collapsed on the spot and was shaken for days with fever in bed.

Lily didn't want to die again, she didn't want to be murdered for a second time.

Everything she wanted was to wake up from this nightmare!

Unfortunately, she never woke up!

She cried in terror. While feverish nightmares from two lives haunted her every night. The whole situation had overwhelmed her as a five-year-old girl.

Which is why Lily made a plan with seven aims to survive in this novel world.

1. Cherish harmony and don't make needless enemies.

2. Be so lovely that your surroundings simply have to love you. Build a relationship with Pascal and Nadine. So they do not want to murder you.

3. Do not waste money. Start save up the money. You never know what will happen in the future. But savings for a rainy day would never be bad.

4. Do not get involved with the villains of the novel. Avoid unnecessary contact if possible!

5. Be the BFF of Protagonist. Maybe she could save your life and help you in times of terror.

6. Show no interest in other people's romance. Don't get in the way of faintly couples. You don't know how a jealous person would react. Jealousy can be murderous in novels.

7. Be a hard worker.

Half of her rules were no longer valid. She had clearly broken rule number four. She had married the biggest villain of the novel. What an irony!

Two had not worked either. Who knows what Nadine and Pascal are currently planning? Now she had to hang on Alexandre's sleeves to survive, since Elodie and Fabien were no longer there to protect her.

Lily lay down on the floor.

She needed new rules!

But now the end of the novel was no longer predictable. Everything was in motion. She had to be more careful now. Especially because she still needed to take care of Adrien.

What a mess! Lily had always wondered why she ended up in this book. But this could never be explained. There was no evidence at all. She knew in some novels she had read. The Protagonist shared name with the character in whom they had transmigrated. But she did not share the name with this side character of hers.

She did not read the book before she had died, as it happens in some novels to the main character.

Lily had read a lot in her past life.

She had often felt lonely. Books always gave her this little way out. An escape option to flee her everyday life. Her first life was not easy. She was born as a commoner. Her father, however, made things sometimes difficult. She never really had a lot of money. Even when the money blessing came, it didn't last long.

She saw a piano. Crowds. Loud music.

She pressed her eyelids together as memories of another life sprouted in her. Memories she did not want to think about now.

She pressed her lips together. It was so depressing. She should be thinking of something nice. But somehow her thoughts drifted back and forth to sad events. She felt this melancholy in her. Maybe yesterday's memories could not be banished to a box so easily. It even helped old wounds to emerge again.

Alright!

Unwilling side character, Lillian de Clermont, will now give it her all to lead a life of peace and mirth!

First, she needed new rules!

Lily bit her lower lip thoughtfully.

Rule one and two were still valid. Especially two! Because she knew there was a possibility that Alexandre went bankrupt. She should start saving in bigger tracks!

Rule three: Be a good mother!

Rule four: Build a relationship with Alexandre, so he wouldn't get rid of you in the future! Be as lovely as possible. Let him think you are a harmless animal that could not hurt him. Maybe he falls in love.

Well... It is very unlikely that he will fall in love with her, but she could try it. Perhaps, once the gods of love were on their side. Whereby she strongly doubted it. Men had never been interested in her. She was practically invisible to the world of men. This was quite bitter as she was inexperienced in two lives and her seduction skills were accordingly absent. Getting Alexandre to love her was a Sisyphean task.

Rule five: Avoid unnecessary contact with Pascal and Nadine and other miner villains of the novel!

That should be feasible now. After all, she now had two bodyguards on her side. Lily would no longer fall into the traps of the deadly duo.

Rule six: Be a hard worker! Never give up!