Became A Blind Villain
The world is not fair.

Edmund was speechless in his room thinking that the future had really changed since his return. 

Lady Ashlyn was supposed to be here taking care of him after saving him from execution. However, until the fourth day, the girl whom he had not expected at all her presence, had now really not come to take care of her.

Wh why?

Why, Lady Ashlyn didn't come? Did Lady Ashlyn also experience rebirth and find out who she really was, that Ashlan was Edmund who had made her suffer to the point of expecting death?

Was Lady Ashlyn really reborn to prove her last words?

Forever, even if time could be repeated, I would still hate you.

Thinking that, Edmund's heart felt pain until his chest tightened. He was terrified that the girl really hated him to the point of not wanting his presence anymore.

What he had to do, Edmund had promised that he had come back to correct his mistake and repay all the kindness of his master, Lady Ashlyn.

When Edmund was confused, the door suddenly opened. That was his teacher, Ramus. The gondrong man was carrying a tray of bread and Edmund's lunch ration soup.

"How are you feeling better?" Ramus asked as he placed the tray on the table and looked at Edmund.

Edmund also looked at him, Ashlyn had taken care of him, but now Ramus had taken care of him.

"Did Lady Ashlyn not come today?" Edmund could not bear to not ask. He really wanted to know why Lady Ashlyn had not visited him.

Ramus laughed low. "Why? Are you expecting her arrival?"

Edmund remained silent.

Ramus continued. "Do you think what you've done to the fish-cake shop owner doesn't scare Lady Ashlyn?"

Hearing this, Edmund's eyes widened. Yes, right, he had messed up the future by biting the man's neck. In the past, Edmund did not do it, he let the man insult Ashlyn as much as the man wanted, Edmund did not care to even agree to all the words that came out of the man's mouth.

Ashlyn deserves to die!

However, this time Edmund was very angry when he heard the man insulting Ashlyn. The man knew nothing about Ashlyn, how dare he curse Ashlyn to die. Edmund got out of control in anger and thoughtlessly bit the man's neck to death.

It should have been since then, Edmund realized that the future had changed.

"I don't know if Lady Ashlyn is afraid, disgusted or unhappy with your actions, but she seems to care less about you, didn't she ever tell you that your life and death she didn't care?"

Edmund agreed to this answer, this is also the reason Edmund hated Ashlyn first, the evil girl never cared for anyone and only cared for herself. However, in reality the girl only spoke in the mouth but another on the action, even though the girl was blind, she did not close her eyes and help people with bad temper. It made everyone look at her as an angry person and forget about Ashlyn's kindness in the blink of an eye as if she had never done anything good and had always done nothing bad.

Edmund used to think this way too, because even if Ashlyn took care of him, treated him and opened the way for him to become a knight, Edmund still thought that the girl was just looking for attention and trying to behave like Annabel, trying to take everyone's attention and it makes Edmund disgusted to every moment want to kill him.

In the past, Edmund really thought that Ashlyn was trying to be Annabel who liked to help people. Ha! How foolish was he who could not see Ashlyn's sincerity back then, and by the time he realized it, it was already too late.

Ashlyn hates him and doesn't give him a chance to fix everything. 

He remembered vividly that Ashlyn once said, "What use is sorry, something that has broken even if you really want to fix it it can never be the same as before."

Edmund squeezed the blanket and gritted his teeth. He'll fix it, all he needs is a chance.

"Where is Lady Ashlyn now?" Edmund wanted to meet him, kneeling before him asking for forgiveness.

"Do you really want to meet Lady Ashlyn?"

"Yes, so where is Lady Ashlyn now?"

"He's gone."

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Ashlyn sighed inside the carriage, for some people she might be considered as an insane person who does not love life. That day after he asked for the right to take care of the Daren Lynx residence, Duke Damien fell silent and said he needed to talk about it with Arabella.

Ashlyn knew that moving power was not as easy as turning the palm of the hand. However, didn't the Duke ask him what could make him believe in the Duke that the Duke was on his side. 

Then why didn't he give it to her?

Ashlyn had expected that Duke would never be by his side because the man loved his wife and stepson more.

Ashlyn smiled wryly, as Duke refused her request, she immediately decided to go to the Villa Ashlyn had always visited on weekends.

It was the Villa near Merlyn beach, where Ashlyn first encountered the dying Crown Prince.

The distance from the Daren Lynx Mansion to the Villa was quite a distance, it would take an entire day to get there.

No problem, Ashlyn did not mind as long as it meant that she could go away from that drab family.

He was really tired of this, people who hated him to want his death, a father who was never there for him, a mother and a half-brother who always kept him tight. She was just a blind girl who entered into the body of a blind antagonist, who was destined to be hated by everyone, where no one would want to hold her hand. 

Lie if he doesn't feel depressed.

Ashlyn thinks that this fate is too depressing and she begins to miss her family that has always been there for her. However, his family was not here, so he needed time and space for himself and calmed down.

"Carolin, have you ever visited Merlyn Beach before?" Ashlyn asked as she leaned her head against the hand resting on the window of the carriage.

Carolin looked at her employer who looked uninspired, even as her tone decreased, she did not snap at him.

The employer must be feeling sad.

"I once visited Merlyn Beach, Lady Ashlyn."

"Oh, huh? What's Merlyn Beach like?"

Carolin does not know why his employer asked about this, because his employer should have been very familiar with how the beach Merlyn, Carolin heard, his employer really likes the beach Merlyn and often visit there. However, perhaps because her employer was already blind and would not be able to see again what Merlyn beach was like, Lady Ashlyn asked her to refresh her memory of that white sandy beach.

"Hubber?"

"Yes, Lady Ashlyn. He said whatever you're going to ask he's going to answer it as if he knows everything. However, the price to pay is not cheap."

Ashlyn furrowed her brows, she knew that the clairvoyant existed, read the hand lines, predicted the future, but Ashlyn always thought that the clairvoyant was a fraud. 

The future cannot be read. However, ....

"You're not you."

Ashlyn squeezed her skirt upon hearing this. He actually went to the fortune teller Carolin meant to waste time, so who would have thought that this clairvoyant could actually read himself, how could that be done? Is it because this is a fantasy world where magic and monsters exist, then people who have the ability to see the future also exist?

"It seems like you keep a lot of questions for me, what if you go in and talk in a private room if you don't want others to hear what you want to ask."

Ashlyn again squeezed her skirt, what would she ask? Ashlyn hasn't ... Ah, no, he already knew what he wanted to ask. So, Ashlyn followed the astrologer's steps, letting Carolin and the knights wait for her outside.

The fortuneteller was an old man who had bowed, the path was very slow and careful. The man took Ashlyn to a closed place and allowed her to sit down.

"How do you know that I'm not me?" Ashlyn got straight to the point. He knew what the man said.

You are not you. This body belonged to the antagonist Ashlyn in this world, while inside her body was the soul of Ayana, herself.

"I see a new color in your body, but the old color has not completely disappeared."

Ashlyn's brows furrowed, "What does that mean?"

"your soul enters this body, but the old soul of the owner of this body has not been completely lost."

Ashlyn was shocked and could not help but ask. "What does that mean he ..."

"He's gone, it's just like the guy who farts in a closed room, sometimes that guy's gone, but when you get in the smell can still be smelled."

Ah, Ashlyn's face blackened, what kind of equation is this. Why should he use a fart to make him understand.

So, that sort of Antagonist's soul left a trace of his existence in his body. Then ...

"So he's gone, does that mean he's dead?"

The man looked at Ashlyn and asked her almost the same thing.

"Your soul's gone, too, so what do you think?"

Ashlyn blinked, she remembered how she had been hit by the building of her own house.

"But how can this happen, I mean ...."

"How could your soul be trapped in your body that I now do not know."

"But they say you know everything."

"I'm not God."

Ashlyn remained silent. Yeah, he said something stupid. People are human, they will never know everything like God.

"I only have the ability to see things that ordinary people cannot see, like peering into the future, but I am not God knows everything."

Ashlyn fell silent before asking, "Then what about my future, can you take a peek at it?"

The old man paused for a moment and said, "You're in a difficult position."

"Difficult position?"

"M. M., if I could describe your situation, you'd be on a cliff standing in the middle of the ocean, if you stepped forward, you'd fall, and vice versa."

"Whatchu mean? Does that mean to survive I can't go anywhere?"

"Yes, you can't go anywhere. To be able to live quietly, you can only endure."

Ashlyn again sighed as the sea breeze hit her face. The memory of him talking to the old fortune teller was still clearly recorded in his head.

"Preciate your life."

Those words were imprinted in his soul because they were already hundreds of times or even thousands of times spoken by his mother as he was about to give up and despair with life as he became blind.

However, the intention of the astrologer here is to tell Ashlyn to value herself more and appreciate the opportunity God gave her to be able to live in the body of the antagonist. Don't do anything stupid just because he's angry and feels it's not fair to him. The fortune teller did not say if he could be happy, the clairvoyant only said that he could live quietly if he did nothing like revenge.

However, to be honest with Ashlyn when she learned that she was being treated unfairly by everyone, and was almost killed twice, Ashlyn actually felt very angry and forgot her rationality. 

She thought that forever she would not be able to live quietly because of Annabel and Arabella. However, if taking revenge on them meant death for him, wouldn't he be the same as an antagonist who ended up losing and would only suffer in death?

Ashlyn closed her eyes and felt the waves sweeping her bare feet.

Ashlyn felt that the clairvoyant's words warned her that whatever her method for revenge, she was like standing on a cliff that was in the middle of the ocean, in the end he would fall pitifully if he tried to step up.

He will end in a miserable death.

Just like the antagonist in the story.

Does that mean he has to forget the injustice and suffering that the antagonist and himself have experienced that almost died twice?

How can the world be so unfair?