# WebtoonLib — The Villainess Lives Again #138

## Series
- title: The Villainess Lives Again
- slug: the-villainess-lives-again-ba0a55

## Chapter
- number: 138
- release_date: 2025-03-13

### Summary
The narrative has unexpectedly shifted from Artezia's overarching political strategy to a deeply personal and tragic confrontation between her brother, Laurence, and the Saintess, Lisia. This development is driven by fragmented memories of their past-life relationship resurfacing for Lisia. Acting on these feelings, she offers Laurence a final chance at redemption, pleading with him to abandon his obsessive pursuit of the throne and elope with her to live a simple life. Laurence unequivocally rejects this, revealing his own distorted definition of love, which is centered on granting power and status rather than personal sacrifice. He cruelly dismisses her offer by stating she has "nothing to begin with," thereby choosing ambition over love and solidifying his irredeemable nature. This interaction serves as a definitive and bitter conclusion to their potential romance, highlighting their fundamentally incompatible ideals. More significantly, it confirms that the effects of the time regression are expanding, with characters beyond the primary regressors now experiencing and acting upon memories from the original timeline, adding a new layer of complexity and consequence to the unfolding events.
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- summary_verification: unverified

### Key events
- Lisia confronts Laurence with her resurfacing memories, but he chooses the throne over her offer of a simple life.

## Spoiler
- level: auto

### Safe teaser
The narrative has unexpectedly shifted from Artezia's overarching political strategy to a deeply personal and tragic confrontation between her brother, Laurence, and the Saintess, Lisia.

### Spoiler summary
The narrative has unexpectedly shifted from Artezia's overarching political strategy to a deeply personal and tragic confrontation between her brother, Laurence, and the Saintess, Lisia. This development is driven by fragmented memories of their past-life relationship resurfacing for Lisia. Acting on these feelings, she offers Laurence a final chance at redemption, pleading with him to abandon his obsessive pursuit of the throne and elope with her to live a simple life. Laurence unequivocally rejects this, revealing his own distorted definition of love, which is centered on granting power and status rather than personal sacrifice. He cruelly dismisses her offer by stating she has "nothing to begin with," thereby choosing ambition over love and solidifying his irredeemable nature. This interaction serves as a definitive and bitter conclusion to their potential romance, highlighting their fundamentally incompatible ideals. More significantly, it confirms that the effects of the time regression are expanding, with characters beyond the primary regressors now experiencing and acting upon memories from the original timeline, adding a new layer of complexity and consequence to the unfolding events.

## Status
- data_status: complete
- summary_status: generated
- transcript: Hardsub chapter — image-only

## See also
- [WebtoonLib — The Villainess Lives Again #138](/series/the-villainess-lives-again-ba0a55/chapter-138)
- for_series_detail: /llms-series/the-villainess-lives-again-ba0a55

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