A Blend of Romance and Fantasy - Chapter 1

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01.
“I need to possess someone.”
It was a phrase I’d grown accustomed to muttering.
“Stop it. That world is medieval times. Without phones and all the latest gadgets, how would you even survive?”
“Director, what if you possessed a slave? It’s a caste-based society, and you might not even meet the male lead.”
Whenever I lamented like this out of habit, my friends and coworkers would laugh and wave me off, but I was serious.
No matter how much I earned, my salary merely passed through my account like water. A semi-basement room I shared with insects and mold. Drab clothes and cheap cosmetics.
And though I could never tell anyone….
[ Send me some money this time. You owe me for raising you, don’t you? ]
[ Hey, I’m thinking of starting a business. Don’t you have a lump sum to give your older brother? ]
[ Sweetie, are you not thinking about marriage? I have a friend who’s considering remarriage…. ]
My life was no different from that of a pauper in South Korea.
Even after cutting contact, they’d find my company like ghosts and cause chaos—three times over.
They weren’t family; they were enemies themselves, and there were times I wanted to die.
So I escaped into novels. I didn’t want to live in this squalid reality.
My favorite genre was regret romance—where the bastard male lead eventually groveled at the heroine’s feet. The sight of his desperation was both heartbreaking and thrilling.
After becoming absorbed in regret romances and reading hundreds of them thoroughly.
One day, I found myself possessed into one of those regret romance novels.
Into a ten-year-old princess named Charlotte from a novel titled “The Saint Hides Her Holy Power from the Entire World.”
There was no doubt.
The pink hair in the mirror, eyes like emerald forests, skin like pearls.
A bedroom vast as a palace, furniture glittering with jeweled ornaments, countless ladies-in-waiting, servants, attendants, and even knights of the guard.
‘This can’t be real!’
…I tried denying reality for several days, but nothing changed.
What should I do?
I pulled the blanket over my head in bed and deliberated before reaching a conclusion.
Since this has happened, let me just think positively. A pauper from South Korea became a conglomerate heiress overnight—what’s so bad about that?
If I had to nitpick, it would be the lack of a smartphone…no, that’s not it.
The Charlotte I’d possessed was a villainess who tormented the heroine Aurora and gets her neck severed by the male lead Cedric.
That a crisis would befall the Sincester Kingdom ahead, and I’d need to resolve it.
Beyond that, I couldn’t quite remember the detailed plot.
And as befits a supporting character, I had no fantasy abilities whatsoever.
“Wait, there are more flaws than I thought.”
But that’s all in the future. As long as I change the original story going forward, it’ll be fine.
Besides, just the fact that the family pushing me into hell was gone felt wonderful.
“Alright, since I’ve possessed a beautiful, wealthy princess anyway. I’ll live this life successfully.”
After reaffirming my resolve, I got out of bed, and the first thing I said was, as expected, this:
“Say, in Sincester here, is polygamy permitted?”
* * *
Being beautiful, wealthy, and powerful was truly exhilarating.
Beauty had always been universally valued, so most people treated me with favor, and I could always punish the wicked with wealth and power whenever I pleased.
But I was someone who had learned democracy and human rights in South Korea.
I had studied the French Revolution’s ideals of liberty and equality, learned Gandhi’s philosophy, and above all, I was a descendant of Korea who had been taught the virtue of humility.
How could I ever oppress those who were small and weak?
I made every effort to treat everyone with kindness, and even toward the rude, I showed only the slightest hint of displeasure.
“If I may be so bold, I seem to be slightly superior to you.”
“My thoughts could be wrong, but it doesn’t seem like you did particularly well either.”
“This may sound terribly rude, but would it be alright if I had your father imprisoned?”
Abigail, who taught me etiquette, was not without moments of shock, but I could confidently say I never became as villainous as the original character.
As a result, my relationships with the main characters shifted as well.
First, Erdan, the king and pope of Sincester and my older brother, was originally the second fish in the heroine Aurora’s pond.
He pathetically brought many things to Aurora and punished my misdeeds without mercy.
The moment I possessed this body, I pitied Erdan’s gullibility while living faithfully to stay in his good graces.
Then Erdan gradually began to cherish me, and nine years later, his gullibility had mysteriously shifted from Aurora to me.
Like a novel tagged with #brother complex.
Surprisingly, I became friends with Aurora.
Aurora—a peerless beauty with shimmering platinum hair and azure eyes, a saintly maiden.
She possessed more divine power than even the pope Erdan, but lived in hiding because so many pursued her.
One might call it a harsh fate, but truthfully… Aurora was simply rather lazy and had a quick-witted personality.
Like most modern web novel heroines.
I found her absolutely delightful, and we quickly became close.
If the male lead Cedric appeared here and said “I actually liked you all along,” it would be the classic transmigration trope trinity, but Cedric never joined our circle.
Whenever he encountered me, he merely offered stiff expressions and formal words.
I wasn’t disappointed. Truly.
…It wasn’t as though I had been hoping for an ending where I’d fall in love with the male lead.
In any case, after my possession, I worked to neutralize the landmines of the original story.
Fortunately, the original narrative became clearer in my memories, and with Aurora’s help, I managed to prevent a crisis in Sincester.
Yes, my life could be called a success.
Until my nineteenth birthday celebration.

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