***

“Vanessa.”

“….”

“Is life so tedious?” he drawled, incredulous. “That you’d waste it entangled with the likes of me?”

※ This novel’s chapters are half chapters, but they’re numbered normally to make things simple.

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And yet…

“Lord Castion is quite unfortunate, isn’t he. Out of all his countless memories, why were only the moments of his deepest love completely erased?”

Even he himself doesn’t remember it, but…
He was the man who had been my lover for seven years.

“Do you really think that child can overcome everything with love alone? That my son can be happy while bearing the harshness that has been ingrained by your hands?”

Because I knew he was someone far beyond my reach, I simply watched as he mistook my childhood friend for me and courted her.
Whether in ability or status, she was far superior to me, and he would be happier with her.

But then…

“You.”
“…….”
“Have we really never met before?”

Why must you come back to find me again, even beyond forgotten memories—

“You’re making me do things I’ve never done before. Things that drive me crazy.”

Why are you breaking down the final wall I had built so firmly within myself?

“You can no longer throw me away, Louize. Take responsibility for turning me into this mess.”

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“I like you.”

Where the male lead turned villainous, threatening to bring about the end of the world. A hopeless place.

“I’m serious.”

To prevent him from going mad, I tried to differ from the original story.

In the original story, his craziness stemmed from the pretty bottom’s complete disregard for him.

So, I confessed first.

Expecting to be rejected.

“I have someone else I like.”

“Yeah, I know.”

In the original story, his confession was brutally trampled upon by me, leading to him turning into a villain.

“I’m a guy too. And so are you.”

“I know that. I just wanted to say it.”

I was relieved knowing he would reject me.

“Can we still be friends?”

He frowned and then sighed before answering.

“Huh.”

I smiled wistfully in relief.

Because I was turned down.

“This is my fiance.”

“What do you mean engagement between men?”

When he questioned me in confusion, I cheerfully responded.

“Actually, I’m a woman.”

I assumed it would be okay since he had rejected me countless times before.

“What?”

The moment I saw the surprise in his eyes, I realized something was terribly wrong.

The vivid madness flickering in his gaze was something I had never seen before.

#RomanceFantasy #CrossdressingWoman #Possession #Nobility #ObsessedML #WarmFL #TalentedFL #EnticingML #CapableML #StatusDifference #LoveTriangle

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#Enemies #Rivals #ChildhoodFriendsOfSorts #Fantasy #BookReincarnation #SupportingMaleLeadShou #MainMaleLeadGong

Iann, the supporting male lead who was reincarnated in a romance fantasy novel where he gets horrifically murdered by the main male lead.  

To avoid his future death, tried to get close to the main male lead, Kallian, like any other reincarnated person would.

But the two were polar opposites and eventually ended up as bitter rivals.

Time passed, and as the novel’s plot unfolded, Iann, who occasionally bothered Kallian through the original female lead, began planning his escape.

Then, suddenly, Kallian’s demeanor changed.

* * *

Instead Kallian asked Iann once again.  

“If you’re serious about liking me….”  

“…….”  

“You’re saying I should kiss you, right?”  

“Ugh, yes! I’ve told you so many times. If you’re serious, then do it already…”  

Iann shut his mouth. In an instant, Kallian’s red eyes were now right in front of him.  

‘I-it seems like he’s serious. Should I just say it was a lie and run away…?’  

As he felt Kallian’s breath and warmth drew closer, Iann immediately regretted it. Should he try to escape now?  His hand twitched, but some lingering doubt held him back. Could Kallian really like me?

The truth was, from the moment Iann started worrying, it was already too late.  

Kallian hadn’t stopped moving once since taking that first step.

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“I’m retiring.”

Eagerly, I threw in my resignation to embrace a blissful retired life. But…

“You only have six months left.”

On the day I resigned, I was suddenly on death’s door due to the transmigration. To survive, I must be by the side of the person whose name is imprinted on me.

But the person who has imprinted on me is…

“Your fever is too high, Rienna.”
“I’m in so much pain… Your Highness.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll find a way to save you.”
“Your Highness…”
“Focus on me right now. See? I’m kissing you like this.”

Helios, the villain who was both my patient and employer.

A body whose aches and pains disappear only when it touches Helios.
Helios, the man destined to imprint with the heroine.

Will I survive?

#DoctorFL #MLRepayingKindness #KindFL #ObsessiveMaleLead #CureProvidingMaleLead #JustHoldingHandsAndSurviving(?!)
#FemaleLeadWithAbilities #OriginalVillainousMaleLead #RoleReversal #TwistedFate

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But the fact that he was also a villain wasn’t the problem.

“Priest Yeshion. Is it true that you dishonored the saint?”

“…Does my answer even matter? You’ll kill me no matter what I say.”

Transmigrating as a villain? It can’t be helped. Destined to die? That also can’t be helped.

However, transmigrating at the point of his death, only to return to the same moment after dying, is too much!

Thus, when Yeshion was killed for the seventeenth time and returned for the eighteenth time at the hands of Eldis, one of the main gongs…

“Whether you kill me or not, do as you please.”

“No way… Could it be… that you’re doing this to die?”

For the first time, Yeshion’s resigned (and genuine) remark changed the situation!

But it’s too early to relax… The villain who died at the beginning of the novel had done too many evil deeds.

So Yeshion set a firm goal. Just throw it all away and run.

However…

“You hold my weakness, don’t you? Hold on to it and use it to shake me. You can do that.”
The archpriest who killed Yeshion seventeen times–Eldis.

“Shouldn’t you stay by my side and entertain me?”
The Crown Prince who is rumored to be a madman–Adelio.

“My ideal type? If I had to choose… you?”
Even the main shou and saintess of the novel—Rosaline!

Just a mere villainous extra… But no one is willing to let Yeshion go.

Can Yeshion escape death and find a peaceful life?

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In front of me appears a duke who, saying I resemble his lost daughter, wants to adopt me.

It seems I’ve somehow possessed a character in a regretful family story.

But then…

“Try calling me ‘big brother.’”

With a strange eldest brother.

“Your innocent and cute expression doesn’t work on me.”

“Pardon? I didn’t do anything….”

“It won’t work.”

The second brother, who only spouts nonsense, becomes obsessed with me.

***

Then, I meet potential male leads.

“An angel’s presence sparkles around you.”

Is this his way of introducing himself?

A candidate priest who looks just like an angel.

“You’re welcome to marry me.”

My childhood friend, who out of nowhere tells me I can marry him.

“Finally found you. Thanks to you, I spent a few extra hours in that pit.”

Even the Crown Prince, whom I purposely avoided, is searching for me.

“INTJ? I’d prefer to be an F.”

“Unless the archduke  loses his memory, is reborn in a harmonious family, and develops healthy hobbies and relationships, changing his MBTI is difficult.”

Not even beating up the creator would help….

The northern archduke fixates on the MBTI I taught him without much thought.

Something is definitely off-kilter here.

Can I really accomplish my goal of securing a fortune before the real daughter returns, by finding the main male lead?

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I had reincarnated into the reverse-harem novel, ‘A Night of Entwined Serpents’, a story I’d read over and over in my previous life.

Determined to escape my fate as the Crown Prince’s mistress, destined to meet a miserable end, I fled straight to a foreign monastery. 

One day, I was fortunate enough to secure a decent life as a high level priestess, skilled at healing. But then, one day, Lionel—the female protagonist’s older brother—stormed into the monastery.

His entire body was drenched in blood.

My three years of peace in the monastery meant nothing; I was dragged back to the capital, now assigned as the personal healer for the protagonist, Vivian.

Thus began my perilous daily life, as the three male protagonists of the original story began to appear one by one at the mansion. 

The only thing keeping me going day by day was Lionel, who always seemed to show up at the right moment to rescue me from trouble.

“If you marry me, I’m sure you’ll abandon any thought of returning to the monastery.”

The man, once the embodiment of chastity in the novel, suddenly proposes…?

To make matters worse, the contract is filled with suspicious clauses: 

Celebrating every little anniversary, actively meddling in each other’s personal lives…

This love, this marriage, this novel.

It feels cozy, but is it really okay?

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“Why, why did I have to return to this time…?”

She thought it was fortunate that she could return to the past, but… of all days, why did it have to be the day after she hit the peak of her dark history!
Changing her relationship with her husband and restoring her ruined reputation seemed utterly far out of reach.

‘The best course of action now is to just get divorced as soon as possible.’

Having returned to her previous life, she planned to divorce and start anew, except…
Her dark history of being a wicked wife keeps coming back to haunt her…

Nina Bayern (21 y.o.)
A highly selfish and self-centered person who fell in love with her husband, Ash, at first sight and went as far as blackmailing him to secure the marriage. She ended her life in loneliness but reincarnated into the modern world and lived a reformed life until she returned to the day after she reached the peak of her dark history.
After her return, she transformed into a warm-hearted, cheerful, and hardworking person.

Ash D. Bayern (25 y.o.)
An individual who volunteered to be the guardian of his nephew, the son of his late brother who genuinely cared for him despite being the child of a second wife. He was blackmailed into marrying his wife Nina but decided to continue their marriage for one more year.
He has a high sense of responsibility towards his nephew and a cold personality.

Keywords: #Romance_Fantasy #Regression_Story #Former_Villainess_Female_Lead #Tsundere_Male_Lead #A_Spoonful_of_Childcare #Grumpy_to_Sweet_Male_Lead

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“I heard the Count got scammed again?”
“She’s covering the debts her older brother borrowed?”

A family that indulges in luxury and pleasure despite their dire financial situation.

“If there’s no one to work, then you’ll have to do it yourselves! Laundry, cleaning—there’s nothing you can’t do on your own!”

She fights every day, trying to raise her young nephew properly.

“Still, Lady Devon is really something…”
“With a face like that, who would marry her? She already looks so mean.”

Thanks to that, rumors of her being an ill-tempered young lady have spread all over the capital.
Naturally, marriage is out of the question for her.

Then, a prince on a white horse appears before her.
No, rather, it’s the crown prince of the empire.

“Lady Courtney Devon, will you marry me?”

And he’s outrageously handsome!
Though suspicious of his intentions, Courtney quickly accepts this unexpected blessing.

However, she soon learns the truth about him.

“For having acted without your permission, Master, I would love to have my… my cxck stepped on… by your foot…”
“Crazy.”

The Crown Prince, her fiancé, Richard, is a pervert.
And not just any pervert—a completely irredeemable one.

*Setting/Genre: #EuropeanAmbiance #Fantasy #CourtRomance

*Story Keywords: #DomFL-SubML #BDSM #Royalty/Nobility #CinderellaStory #MarriageBeforeLove #SweetRomance #RomanticComedy #HighIntensity #ForwardML #PlayfulML #GentleML #AffectionateML #SeductiveML #PassionateML #SecretlyInLoveML #DevotedML #InnocentML #PoliteML #BigPuppyML #QuirkyML #OrdinaryFL #InnocentFL #FeistyFL #SoftOnTheInsideFL #GirlCrush #EasygoingFL

*Male Lead: Richard – Crown prince of the empire. Behind his beautiful appearance and kind manners lies a dangerous taste.

*Female Lead: Courtney – Daughter of Count Devon. Despite her poor circumstances, her family’s reckless behavior has made her prickly.

*When to Read: When you want a (safe and consensual) domFL-subML BDSM story.

*Quote: “There’s no need to overthink it. After walking out that door and coming back in, I will obey every word you say. If you tell me to lick your shoes, I shall lick them. If you tell me to crawl, I shall crawl.”

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Finally feeling happy for a moment at the news of the original protagonists’ marriage, she returned after hearing about her mother’s passing…

…But why is everything all messed up?
No, more importantly, why was she in confinement?!

The original male lead, who was her childhood friend and fiancé, spoke.

“If I had known you’d fall for such a simple trick like a death notice, I would have done it sooner.”

The male lead, who she thought had married someone else, laughed at her with utterly crazed eyes.
Why was he like this now? He wasn’t like this before.

“You’ve got nowhere to run now.”

What’s going on here!

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It had been an unhappy life.

Despite possessing the power of purification, Irene was deemed the lowest rank, never having received anyone’s love or acceptance in her short life. Even in her final moments, she died alone and lonely, yet strangely, she found herself back in the past.

And not just any past but right before meeting her husband, Michael, the man she had ruined.

‘This is the first mistake I must correct in this life. That is…not getting involved with Michael.’

*

However, Michael seemed peculiar.

“I… I need you. Please purify me.”

He asked for purification first.

A paladin, this holy man, comes to me every night.

“Irene. My pair. My wife. Tonight, I want to be cleansed by you. Long and slow.”

You were definitely a paladin in a previous life who wouldn’t even lay a finger on me, right?

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