Second Female Leads' Playbook

When I woke up, I was lying on my oyster bed. Piles of books were stacked orderly on the table next to my bed. Bags and jars of candies were lined up orderly on the shelves in my room. Something was weird. My room wasn't this tidy. This looked more like the room of a certain god. 

I picked up a novel from the stack. 

'Miracle Doctor- The Empress'

'The Rebellious Vicious Miracle Doctor Princess'

So the trend these days was for royalties to study to be doctors? 

He never placed these things in my room, usually he would give it to me, or throw it to me, by himself. That's weird. 

I swam to the door and then I realized it was locked, or more accurately sealed with a spell. What did he mean? Now he wished to punish me? He had never once sealed me in my room under the lake in the past three thousand years. 

"Hey!" I cried. "What's the meaning of this?" I banged on the door. At the banging, two silver fish appeared and circled me. "Hey! What's the meaning of this? You thought I'll forgive you by giving me two tiny fish as food?" 

At the mention of food, the two silver fish shivered. They then tried to do some complicated tricks to entertain me. 

"Hey! Come out! What do you mean by this, giving me two idiotic fish as companion?" 

One fish gingerly swam closer and handed me a note. 'I'll be back soon. Don't try to escape.'

"I was asleep for thirty years and he couldn't have sneaked out during those times. He had to choose to leave when I was about to wake up?" I complained. And then the look of contemplation on my face turned into an evil smile. "Rachelle finally acted. The god of order can not stand her anymore. Good timing, Rachelle."

Knowing Rachelle, she was someone that attracted troubles. And without knowing it, she would instigate something. So what had she done that the god of order could no longer stand? Well who cared. First I had to escape this room. 

It's a spell by a god, so by no means I could break it with my own power. Especially when my power was as thin as paper. But what if it's his own power? I actually knew some of mortal's sorcery because I had been 'friend' with Rachelle. I learned a few spells from her. Spells were knowledge passed down from gods. I dug out a pen and papers from my too orderly cupboard. 

Now it's time for me to channel his power. I was very familiar with his power. I think I had more understanding with his power than my own. His spells had been encircling me for three thousand years, it's just normal to try to study them. 

"What other tricks do you know? Do you have names? The tricks you two did just now were absolutely fascinating!" I clapped my hands adoringly all the while my eyes stared at the eyes of the slightly larger fish I had chosen. 

The only tiny power I had left was my eyes' power to mesmerize and hypnotize. Of course it's only on weak individuals, such as the mortals who barged through the ward decades of years ago or the idiotic fish puppet made by god's power in front of me. My sweet smile turned evil as I saw the larger idiotic fish began to shiver and shimmer. 

I grabbed the shimmering and shivering fish with my hand and channeled the power I was so familiar with onto the paper in front of me. Then I started writing an 'unlock' spell. 

"Please work," I whispered in clenched teeth as I stuck the paper onto the sealed door. The remaining fish started to shiver in fear and swam in circles. A few seconds later, I tried pushing open the door. It opened. 

I swam up to the surface. It's my only chance to plot an escape. Never in three thousand years had the god of order left this place. Left his position of watching over me. Even though there's still a spell chaining me into the lake, leaving this room was still the first step to freedom. 

When my head was out of water, I glanced at the place beneath the shadows of silver leaves trees in habit. I was expecting an empty chair for the first time in three thousand years, but to my shock, a girl was sitting on the god of order's chair. 

Who was she? I flicked my tail to bring me further away from shore. The god of order's lover? He banished me to the bottom of the lake to spend time with his lover? I snickered and flipped my tail in annoyance. If it's really a date with his lover, all the better. An evil smile spread on my face. I curled at the hair hanging around my face and swam towards the shore. 

"Who are you? What are you doing in my home!" I yelled angrily. 

The girl with dark black hair shifted her focus from the trees with silver leaves to me. That's when I noticed a crow with golden feather was on the branch of a tree. The girl had bright red eyes the color of rubies. 

She raised her eyebrow and muttered, "I thought he said he sealed her in her room!" 

Anger filled my heart, so he did seal me in my room for his own date! I furrowed my eyebrows in anger and continued my act. "Who are you? This is my home!" 

"I'm a guest of the god of order," she replied with an elegant smile. 

"A guest?" I widened my eyes. "But... but he didn't tell me." I hung my head low and then when I raised my head again, I put on a strained smile. "You're sitting on his favorite spot. He never allowed anyone but him to sit on it. You must be a very important guest." I said with mild dejection. 

"Really?" the girl with red eyes asked the crow in shock. "You liar, are you trying to make me offend the god of order?" 

I lowered my head in fake dejection and through my eyelashes I observed the girl and her crow. The girl did not seem very familiar with the god of order, did I misinterpret their relationship? 

"So you treated this as your home, not your prison?" a cold voice asked. 

I abandoned all my fake dejection as I raised my head in shock. The god of order was back and he must have seen all my fake acting fooling that girl. 

I clucked my tongue in annoyance, "Look who's back in time? To save your lover?" My lips ticked up tauntingly.