Manhwa/Chapter 3

## Chapter Guide

**Third Time's the Charm** is the 3rd chapter of the Villains Are Destined to Die (Manhwa).The third chapter can be read online at Tapas in English and at Kakaopage in Korean.

## **Summary**

Penelope immediately realized where she had seen these choices before. She had to redo them twice at the beginning of Hard Mode. She had chosen wrong both of those times and the game had ended.

Right now she was in a game event. She already knew which choices would be a trap for her.

If she chose the 1st option //***"Are you insane?! Call the cook!"***(Flip the table)// - the poor maid would rush to the Duke and tell him of Penelope's wickedness. If the oldest brother hears of this, Penelope will be locked up without any water and starve to death.

She couldn't choose option 2 //***"How about you stuff yourself instead!"***(Feed the maid)// either - the younger brother happens to walk by right at that moment and witnesses the scene, and then after he pushes Penelope off the maid, her neck will be accidently stabbed by a fork on the floor, resulting in her death.

If this was still just a game on her phone, she would be annoyed and skip this event to go to another one. But this is reality, there is no "reset" button.

Penelope choose the 3ed option. //***(Eat)***//
Her body started moving automatically to the choice and she picked up the spoon to eat the moldy soup. She consumed the discussing meal spoon by spoon. She started questioning if this was even food?!
The maid was in complete shock at her actions. Penelope's body wouldn't stop, picking up the moldy bread as well. She wondered how much of this food will she have to eat to clear this event. The maid began to protest, and tried to stop her.

At that moment, Reynold came into Penelope's room to the scene. At first he didn't notice anything strange but when Penelope started coughing it picked his interest.

Penelope could only think about her suffering, she wasn't thinking about today, but about her family back in Korea.
This situation was familiar to her. She remembered her half-brother's words, how she would not get any attention from her father, how he would never believe her. How she was not a part of their family.
Food, school, life - these were the things her half-brothers would make hard for her. Her fathers wife had of illness before she was even born, but they acted like she was the enemy of their mother.
Because of the brothers, she would get stomach problems, she suffered through this all before.
Penelope realized that even thought this was the game world she still had endure the same suffering as her past self.

Reynold got worried when her coughing didn't stop and came closer into view of the food she was eating. He was shocked at finding the food be moldy. He demanded that the maid explains to him what she had fed Penelope. The maid scrambled to find an excuse. Reynold didn't give her the chance to explain and immediately reminded her of her status and Penelope's status. He told her to leave. He added that he will inform his father and brother about her actions and called for the butlers outside.
A butler and maid came in and restrained the maid. She screamed as she was dragged out of the room.

Reynold went back to Penelope to make sure if she was okay, carefully placing his hand on her shoulder and calmly asking her why she did such a foolish thing as eating this moldy food. He told her she should have flipped the table and screamed like she normally did it.
Penelope looked at him pissed thinking about how if she had done that, she would have ended up dead on the floor with her neck pierced by a fork, because of him.
She couldn't say these words no matter how much she wanted to, because there wasn't a multiple-choice window popping up.

Pink hair - she realized that it was thanks to the second son of the Duke that this event was resolved. But she also realized that that maid alone wasn't the main cause of the event either. She would not exaggerate if she said that all the staff here move as a solid unit. If it weren't for the fact that all the main figures of this house have turned a blind eye, this could have never happened.

Reynold still looked concerned and asked if she needs a doctor.
A new multiple-choice window popped up before Penelope:

1. *Don't bother.*
2. *Why do you care? Get out of this room.*
3. *Stop acting nice. It's annoying.*

Even after all this she had to be carful in her choice if she doesn't want to die. If Penelope knew nothing of this world she would have felt grateful for Reynold's concern. But she already knew that he doesn't mean any of his words.

She chose option 1.

## **Characters**

* Derrick Eckhart (mentioned)
* Reynold Eckhart
* Emily
* Siyeon's Older brother (mentioned)