
by L. K. Rune
The worst thing that can happen to a girl out to buy ice-cream is being slammed by a ten-ton truck while trying to shield your best friend from certain death... At least, that's what Vanessa had thought before she opened her eyes in a bed that was softer than anything Physics should allow, in a medieval fantasy world that looked suspiciously like the garbage romance novel Ellie had been screaming about the night before and wait for it--being transmigrated as the villainous sister of the villain who kills everyone... Really, a most fantastic afterlife, if it even existed. That is until she finds the Female Lead of the story, crouched behind a tree muttering something suspiciously like, "No no no NO—this is NOT happening, I refuse to be Isekai Trope Number Five! Truck-kun? Seriously?! Why couldn’t I get reincarnated as a dragon? Or a magical talking sword? Or literally ANYTHING that doesn’t get executed by that crazy villain-?!" She was clawing at the grass like she expected a menu screen to pop up and offer a log out button. Vanessa just stared. Because her best friend, the girl who tripped over a stationary bicycle, had now been reborn as the Saintess of the empire, who ALSO gets killed by her psychotic brother. Great. Just perfect. If this was karma for the stunt she pulled with the lady at Walmart, then Karma was more petty than she had thought. This was all that trashy novel's fault!
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 9 Oct 2026, 02:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 9 Oct 2026, 02:18 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
3%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Romance → Comedy → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Romance (1%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#3939 of 4,776 · 3889 below RS #50
By genre
beats 93% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 14% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.