The Villain Wants to Change

What if having the perfect memory, solving any problem with ease, and being hailed as a genius wasn't the blessing everyone thought it was? For Choi Do-Woon, these gifts are nothing more than a curse.

Born with an unfailing mind yet trapped in an emotionless existence, his brilliance makes him seem more doll than human-alienating him even from his own family. In a grey world devoid of color or joy, it is only through his two younger siblings that Do-Woon slowly begins to grasp what it feels like to be human.

Little by little, he gets to know the subtle emotion called happiness, vowing to always be there for his younger siblings who give a new meaning to his life. But fate deals him a cruel hand when an incurable illness claims his life, leaving him on his deathbed with a heart full of regrets.

Following the death of Choi Do-Woon, he soon gets transferred into the world of the once-popular romance novel he last read before his death: Ways of the Mystic. As he opens his eyes, he finds himself residing in the body of the newborn, Lysander Blakesty, one of the future four Grand Dukes of the Izora Empire of the Novel, and one of the three leading villains. In the novel, Lysander gets stabbed in the heart by the prince's sword, for atonement of his crimes.

But with his sharp intellect and the knowledge of the past, he now holds the key to rewriting this doomed character's fate. No longer bound by the cold emptiness of his former life, Choi Do-Woon is determined to forge a new path, experiencing the warmth of true emotions for the first time with the people he truly cares about. But his choices ignite more than just a different destiny... What will he do when his path intertwines with the prince's, and sparks fly in a way he never anticipated?

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*This is my own original work. No other work was plagiarized, and if so is coincidental.
*Credit to the original owner of the covert art