Valentina groaned softly as she rolled on the bed.
Her head was pounding, and her body ached horribly.
Where was she? What was going on?
The last thing she remembered was staring at her laptop in the office as she pulled overtime to get the marketing for a new product out.
As the newest employee at a startup and a recent fashion marketing graduate, she had no choice but to work hard to prove herself and keep her position.
She had been working like a dog for the past couple of months, and honestly, her body was on the verge of giving up.
But it was a decent-paying job and would help her tremendously in her career.
She had briefly taken a break and continued reading a novel she had found about a character who had the same name as her.
The character, Valentina Salazar, found out that her parents weren't really her parents.
She had been swapped at birth and had finally found her true family, which was one of the top aristocratic families in the country.
However, it wasn't a happy reunion.
She had been mistreated by her fake family as she was a sickly, unwanted child who they considered a waste of space and money.
She also had a weak body and a weak personality, and was unable to get along with her newly found sister and her birth family.
Surprisingly, both she and her new sister were entering the entertainment industry, but the difference between them was like heaven and earth.
Her sister, Aaliyah Salazar, was a wildly successful newcomer with the help of the Salazar family. She had booked numerous acting and modeling gigs, and her career was clearly on the climb.
On the other hand, Valentina was someone who recently got into the entertainment scene and was struggling to become popular.
She was relentlessly bullied by fans for trying to climb up using connections with no skill to back it up.
The only thing she had going for her was her otherworldly beauty, but even that caused rumors of plastic surgery and made many people jealous of her.
In addition to her cripplingly shy disposition that came across as unfriendly, she had difficulty making friends—she really struggled.
Although the original Valentina struggled, she was very excited to reconnect with her new sister after a very rocky childhood.
Thinking that she could get close to this sister, the original Valentina had done her best, but she didn't know that her good sister was still a pretentious white lotus character who hated seeing her as it reminded her of her poor origins.
The original Valentina kept falling into traps set by her sister and continued to disappoint her new family since they couldn't understand why she kept fighting and trying to frame her sister when the family had enough wealth to support another daughter.
No matter how Valentina protested and denied it, nobody believed her because she was a newcomer and had no proof she was being framed by the person she thought was on her side.
Since nobody seemed to be on her side, the original Valentina was tired of living, so she bought a bunch of sleeping pills and planned to take her life.
After the original Valentina's death, her sister Aaliyah Salazar had then gone on to live a very successful life; marrying one of the top men in the aristocratic social circle, becoming one of the most awarded actresses of all time, and generally living a happy life.
As Valentina read the story, she couldn't help but feel bad for the character.
The book Valentina was someone that life had given a bad hand, and she was trying to make the best of it, but life kept kicking her down.
As she was reading the story, she remembered thinking that if she could, she would help the original Valentina reclaim everything that was supposed to belong to her.
But… how had she ended up on this bed in this room?
Valentina sat up and held her pounding head as a bunch of blurry memories rushed through her brain. She briefly saw a woman take a bunch of pills and lay down to sleep in this very room.
Then, nothing.
Wait a moment!
Don't tell her she had transmigrated into the novel she was reading.
Wasn't this only supposed to happen in novels?
Now it seemed it had happened to her.
Before she could truly process everything, a screen suddenly popped up in her vision.
[Welcome to the Revenge of the Cannon Fodder Villainess System]
[Name: Valentina Salazar]
[Age: 22]
[Current Level: LV 0]
[Acknowledgment needed until next level: 0/100]
[
Current Specs:
Visual Beauty: 90/100
Acting Skills: 20/100
Vocal Skills: 30/100
Dancing Skills: 10/100
Body Health: -10000/100 (chronically ill, anemic, low energy, occasionally throws up blood, fainting spells, currently recovering from drug overdose. Please increase your body health as soon as possible!)
Current fame level: -1000000 (please do your best to improve people's perception of you)
Active effects: None
Skill Draw Available: 1 (First-time gift)
]
What was this?
As Valentina looked around the plainly decorated room, the floating screen didn't move and stayed in front of her vision.
[Would the host like to use a skill draw (1)?]
The screen was updated with new text.
Valentina decided to ignore it for now and slowly got up.
She looked around what looked like a hotel room and slowly made her way to the bathroom.
Even though her body ached with every step, she forced her body to move until she arrived in front of the mirror and gazed at herself.
Although the woman in the mirror looked 60% similar to her old body, it was still on a completely different level.
A pale, delicate face stared back at her in the mirror.
Bright green fox-shaped eyes were framed by long black lashes.
She had pouty cherry blossom pink lips, and her hair was long and curly, framing her face and falling down her back to her waist in a thick, jet black mass of shining ringlets.
Her body was on the taller side, and she appeared delicate and frail.
She was dressed in a simple white dress, and it hung on her and made her look even more fragile despite highlighting the slender yet curvy figure.
As she raised a hand to her face, a slender hand replicated her movements in the mirror.
If the random screen was to be believed, her current beauty was 90/100. In most universities, that was an A.
Bracing her hands on the sink, Valentina looked at the face in the mirror and then at the screen in front of her eyes.
Well, at least she was a human beauty and not a goat on a farm somewhere.
Okay, let's take it one step at a time.
It seemed she was no longer in her original body.
The person in the mirror and the faint memories in her head proved that.
If that was the case, she had to slowly figure out why and how she was here.
The first clue was the message [Welcome to the Revenge of the Cannon Fodder Villainess System]
She assumed she was the cannon fodder villainess here to get revenge for the original Valentina, who shared her name and was considered a villainess.
Since that was the case, let's do the skill draw to see what pops out.
She decided to think about the draw, and the message changed.
[Drawing a skill]
[Skill drawn! Graceful movements body acquired]
[Effect: The Host's body becomes more naturally graceful. Every movement is imbued with grace and charm that would make anyone green with envy and charm anyone.]
[Extra effect: Under certain circumstances, it has the option of triggering overprotectiveness in people not antagonistic to the host.]
[The effect will be automatically applied]
Valentine soon saw that a new status had been applied.
She now had the modifier – graceful movement applied to her effects.
She didn't feel any different, but she asked aloud.
"What are you? How did I get here?" Her voice rang out soft, cottony, and slightly flirtatious.
[Advising host to not speak out loud and think instead.]
[Host has been transported into this world and attached to the Cannon Fodder Villainess System]
[Host must complete missions to fulfil the final wishes of the original body or suffer the consequences]
"Or what? I don't want to be here. I want to go home." Ignoring the message, Valentina responded out loud
[Host's original body has expired due to overwork. If the host doesn't want to exist in this timeline, the host can be removed, but the host will perish permanently.]
[Does the host wish to be removed?]
…..
At the subtle threat, Valentina's face turned pale as she waved her hands.
"It's a joke, it's a joke! Let's not be too hasty. I don't want to perish eternally, but I want to understand what is going on here before I sign myself up for something. Please explain fully."