A former slave trying to navigate his way through life, a myschievious Prince who doesn't believe in rules, a care-free commoner girl who's struggling to live.
Kerian craved for freedom, but after realizing the hard way it was beyong his reach, he stopped believing in freedom and bent to the will of the Fates. Just when everything looked as though it was over for him, he was saved by a boy with defiant blue eyes and a smile that made Kerian feel things he never felt before. He swore then and there he would follow this boy no matter what it took, but feel nothing else other than loyalty. When he was struggling to keep his feelings in check, he met a cheerful maid named Violet, when she was happy, so was he, confusing Kerian even more than ever before. In the end who did his heart belong to?
When Silas was 13 and he wanted to prove himself to his father, he decided he would go with the Imperial knights on the mission to save children his age and younger, being treated as slaves. That day he met a slave boy that drew his gaze like no other. An undeniable attraction he couldn't put his finger on. He took the boy with him, to sort out his emotions, only for the years to pass by and it only got worse. Silas ignored it until he saw the boy with another girl. Smiling in a way he didn't know the other was capable of. New mission: Make Kerian fall in love with him.
Violet struggled to make a living just enough for herself, her younger sister, and frail mother, so when she saw the fliers for a maid position in the imperial palace, she took it. There, she bumped into an infuriating boy who treated rules as though it was religion. With her circumstances, Violet has learned to be grateful for even the smallest things and opptimism was the only thing keeping her from falling apart from the pressure, but when she was with the boy, she forgets everything and allows her emotions to take control. Was the blood boiling under her skin from hate or something else?
After I suddenly died I possessed the body of what I thought was an extra within a novel.
From then on my life was mostly calm, though not fulfilling. Until one day I discovered I wasn't just a background figure; instead I was an insignificant character who'd end up being the villainous Grand Duke's secretary, only to die shortly after being near him!
But I had no choice, it was too late to change my fate, so I decided to live as obediently as possible under the orders of the sadist villain. But I still had a plan.
Even before the female lead makes her appearance, I will try in every way to make the villain a little more normal, or at least ensure that the two do not meet, so that no one will face a harsh death, including me!
And then, after the villain doesn't become obsessed with the female lead and becomes more normal, I will be able to resign and live peacefully.
So I just cleared all the suspicions he might have about me in order to not incur his wrath and die like in the novel.
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"I'll give you a choice."
The corner of his lips raised crookedly. Though that smile did not reach his eyes at all.
"One, don't resign and stay here forever..."
His gaze was enough to unnerve me.
"Two, let me kill those who dared to give you the idea of resigning...then don't go and stay here forever."
No, haven't I already made sure that the villain has become a little more normal!?
...What the heck is going on!? He shouldn't be like this!