Miss Ordinary: I Was Reborn To Love You!

"Tsk…so embarrassing!"

"She wanted to save him but was killed instead? What an idiot,"

Hmm, she was dead right? Why was she hearing voices?

Bella Lim felt her consciousness returned and slowly she tried to open her eyes. The moment they were opened, a blinding sight of white greeted her eyes. She looked up, right, and left but the only thing she saw was the infinite color white. Then, she looked down…

Gasp!

Shocked and terrified, she tried to hold onto something because when she looked down, there was no sight of solid ground. All she saw was bottomless white fog and she was floating mid-air!

She clenched her hands into fists as anxiety began to take over her body. However, as if being urged by something, her eyes wandered all over her body and realized that she was no longer wearing the dress she took from the drunk woman. Instead, she was wearing a white long dress. So white she thought she was an angel.

"You're no angel," that voice again.

Bella Lim observed her surroundings. She wanted to find the owner of that voice. That person had been mocking her since she regained her consciousness. 

But first, where was she? Was this heaven? Did she die a noble death that she was now floating in heaven? Yet, was heaven this plain?

"You don't need to know where you are. This is neither heaven nor hell,"

"Who are you?" this time, Bella Lim braved herself to ask. Her tremulous voice reverberated and echoed for quite some time. Actually, she wanted to yell at whoever was speaking to her, but under the circumstances where everything was too bizarre, she needed to be cautious.

Suddenly, a piercing golden light appeared in the void in front of her. Bella Lim felt that she could really become blind from staring at the light and instantly blocked the view with her palm. 

After some time, she noticed that the intense golden light was getting softer and smaller. Then, the enormous light shrunk into the form of a person. However, there were still waves of golden light emitted around that person which made it difficult for Bella Lim to tell whether this human-like form was a he or a she. However, there was an entity that she thought would fit the view in front of her.

"God?" she asked with uncertainty. Because, who was she kidding? 

"Oh, you're not that stupid," mocking again! Bella Lim was furious.

"You're not God," she said. The God she knew was kind and loving. For sure, the ruler of the universe would never ridicule her. No matter what! 

"Oh, you're really not that stupid," 

Again? Bella Lim felt that this was the last of her endurance. If she was insulted one more time, she was willing to sin by tainting the entity's pure appearance with a spit. 

"Don't worry. I'll not let you sin. It will be a waste of your paragon identity," 

"What do you mean?" she asked with a baffled expression. Everything that the entity was saying felt like an enigma. What's a paragon?

"A paragon identity refers to a pure soul that is untainted with sin while doing their trial on Earth," the entity was kind enough to explain. 

"So?" Bella Lim asked again. 

"You're given a choice. To be reborn or to live happily in heaven. What is your choice?"

"Huh? Both, I guess…"

"That's why you're dead. You're too gullible. You wanted to save the man by doing what? Running here and there, torturing yourself with weird body contortion. Then, in the end, you achieve nothing except to die stupidly,"

"Your brother was your sunshine? Your brother was the most important? Yet, you were willing to save another man and die for him? You're the epitome of idiocy! I never met an idiot paragon like you."

[…]

Bella Lim was ridiculed again and again. However, this time around, the effect was not anger but shame. 

Was she that stupid? The more she listened, the more she felt that she was indeed an idiot. But, even if she was an idiot, she would do it again. If there was another chance, she would attempt to save him again but with a better strategy.

"But your intention was good. That man was your benefactor. Without him, you and your brother would be long dead,"

Oh, so this entity also knew the reason why she did what she did? Bella Lim began to think better of the 'person' shrouded in golden light.

"However, you're really an idiot. Next time if you encounter a similar situation, you must think first especially when it involves the people that you love. Don't be impulsive,"

Yes, of course. She wouldn't take such a hasty plan again. Eh, what?

"What-what do you mean by next time?" Bella asked as she adorned a hopeful expression. 

"Didn't you hear me last time? I said you can choose either to live happily in heaven or to be reborn. And no, you cannot choose both," the entity was really a shrewd one. Bella Lim felt that he or she was making use of every chance to make fun of her.

"I choose to be reborn," she said without any hesitation. If she could, she would scream the same words until it reached God.

There was a silence moment until the entity spoke again.

"Bella Lim, since you died as a paragon, I, the messenger of God hereby announced the verdict of your death. You are hereby to be reborn to the same identity. Also, heaven has granted three compensations due to your unjust death. First, you'll bring along your work as the manager of Simply Café in your next life. Second, Ryan Lim will retain his current age as a six years old boy. Third, you'll find out when the time is right. This time, live your life without regret, but remember, kindness will always override evil!"

Then, the surroundings began to change as Bella Lim lost sight of the entity. Everywhere was a thick color of white which after some time was override by the darkness. 

"What irony…" she mumbled before her consciousness shut down.