The Male Lead Is Targeting Me, Not My Younger Sister - Chapter 1

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

The Male Lead Is Targeting Me, Not My Sister — Episode 1
My sister is a bit lacking in the head.
“Sister!”
The way she chirped with that bright, innocent face was genuinely adorable.
“I bought a pretty jewel outside today!”
Though coming from an adult woman, it was rather hopeless.
Lydia sighed as she watched her sister, Sylvia Frastin, parade in some cheap counterfeit bauble she’d overpaid for.
This was already the fifth time this month alone.
Again today, Sylvia had fallen for some ridiculous con and returned home grinning like a fool.
Oblivious to her own mistake, she bragged about her purchase with perfect innocence.
It was enough to drive anyone watching to an early grave.
“Here, this is for you, sister!”
Yet watching her take such dutiful care of her older sister, Lydia couldn’t bring herself to scold her.
Half-resigned to her fate, Lydia accepted the trinket her sister thrust toward her with a complicated expression.
No matter how she looked at it, the thing was nothing but a worthless pebble dressed up in a shiny facade—a counterfeit through and through.
……Yes. What else could she do?
This world had been ‘set up’ this way from the very beginning.
‘At least I need to keep my wits about me.’
“Thank you, Sylvia.”
At Lydia’s words of gratitude, Sylvia giggled happily.
“I’m so glad you like it.”
She looked every inch the heroine of a romance fantasy—beautiful and endearing.
That’s right. The heroine.
Lydia smiled bitterly, watching her sister—a striking beauty who could captivate anyone at a glance.
This world was trapped within a vile Depraved Reverse Harem Romance Fantasy novel.
Her sister was the idiot heroine of that story.
* * *
“Lady in a Cage” had once been a sensation among romance fantasy novels.
Among countless romance fantasy works, there was one reason this deceptively ordinary-titled novel had captured so many readers.
Depravity.
‘There really was no substance to it at all.’
A beautiful heroine bordering on idiocy, paired with obsessed, deranged male leads who fought over her like animals.
In the story, the male leads—smitten with the heroine at first sight—wage a fierce competition, until eventually they reach a single agreement.
They kidnap and imprison the heroine, keeping her as their collective property.
‘So that’s why the title is “in a Cage”……’
It was a story devoid of all morality, yet its crude and sensational content made it wildly popular with a specific demographic.
A so-called Depraved Reverse Harem Romance Fantasy.
Being transmigrated into such a novel naturally displeased her.
‘But since I’m already here, what matters is how I survive from this point forward.’
How could she possibly survive in this world?
“Lady in a Cage” was a trashy novel with no redeeming plot, but it did have its own worldbuilding.
In brief, it went like this:
In this world, there existed beings called Transcendents.
Transcendents possessed superhuman abilities that surpassed the limits of ordinary humans, but the more they used these abilities, the more unstable they became—until eventually they went berserk. That was their fatal weakness.
To restore stability to a Transcendent, a Purifier was needed.
A Purifier was someone with special abilities in this world’s system, and through deep physical contact with a Purifier, Transcendents could regain their stability…….
The heroine, Sylvia Frastin, was a Purifier—and among them, she possessed overwhelmingly potent abilities.
But unfortunately for her, that was all she had.
Her house was in decline, she had no power to protect herself, and her mind was simple.
To make matters worse, the only blood relation she had in the world resented and envied her.
It was the perfect recipe for a tragic heroine to suffer and stumble her way through a depraved story.
And Lydia occupied the role of…….
A cruel older sister who grew jealous of Sylvia—coveted by the Transcendent male leads—and sought to harm her.
In other words, the villain.
‘Damned.’
In the original work, the villain Lydia met a terrible fate at the hands of the male leads.
The reborn Lydia had no intention of accepting such a bad ending.
She’d never envied her sister to begin with.
But through the intensive education of her past-life friend, Lydia understood roughly how these transmigration romance fantasy stories played out.
No matter how hard one tried to escape, the original plot would drag you in.
That was the fate of a transmigrator.
‘If I truly want to escape the original story’s trajectory, I have to leave far behind.’
Having settled on this calculation, Lydia fled her home in the dead of night on her tenth birthday.
It was a resolute decision to break free from the original narrative as quickly as possible.
And yet…….
“Sister……, where are you going?”
The moment Lydia saw her younger sister—disheveled from sleep, rubbing her drowsy eyes with her fists—reaching out to grab her, her breath caught in her throat.
By then, Lydia had already recovered her memories from her past life, so she had deliberately kept her distance from her sister, trying to sever her emotional ties.
Yet her guileless sister loved her anyway, laughing stupidly at her detached manner and following her everywhere like a devoted shadow.
Sylvia was six years old.
‘If I leave now…… what happens to her?’
The life of the original ‘Sylvia’ was, in a word, tragic.
A life spent dancing at others’ whims, forced into things she never wanted.
Of course, the male leads would shower her with affection—but would that truly be good for the heroine of a Depraved Reverse Harem Romance Fantasy?
“I’ll come with you…….”
Sylvia’s small fist gripped Lydia’s clothing tightly.
She held on with all her strength, terrified of losing her grip.
Yet if Lydia shook her off, she wouldn’t be able to resist.
‘Is it really right to leave her behind?’
Lydia had always thought of herself as cold-blooded.
She had never once considered familial affection.
And yet…….
As Lydia’s silence stretched, Sylvia began to whimper.
Perhaps she had instinctively sensed that she was about to be abandoned.
‘Your heart will weaken if you let it. Think of your future.’
Lydia steeled herself, repeating the words in her mind.
“Sister…….”
But at the sound of her little sister’s voice, Lydia’s resolve crumbled entirely.
That night, Lydia never left home.
Years of careful planning, overturned in a single moment—it was a night that rewrote her destiny.
* * *
Back to the present.
“How can you possibly do this!”
Bang!
A man whose face had flushed red and purple slammed his palm against the desk.
“Look at this! You must honor the agreement!”
Lydia gazed down at the desk with an unmoved expression.
A single document lay upon it.
Marriage Pledge Document
“See here? Your sister signed it, didn’t you see? We are betrothed—that is what this means!”
“And?”
When Lydia replied with casual indifference, the man’s fury erupted.
“What do you mean ‘and’! Honor your promise! Where is Miss Sylvia? My beautiful fiancée……!”
At that moment, Lydia picked up the pledge document.
Without hesitation, she tore it in half.
Rip!
“No, wait. What are you—!”
Witnessing the document tear, the man thrust his face toward Lydia’s.
He looked ready to seize her by the collar.
“Now listen, Miss Lydia! Regardless of who you are, you cannot do this! This is a sacred marriage pledge…….”
“Allen.”
Lydia shot him a chilling look.
“Enough.”
“Wh-what did you just……!”
“Do you think I’ve only met one person like you?”
Tear. Rip!
Lydia shredded the pledge document into fragments.
“You clearly deceived Sylvia. Promised her food, pretty stones, whatever—got her signature first, made up the contents afterward. It’s child’s play, isn’t it?”
“Wh-what sort of ridiculous slander is this! Why would I do such a thing! Don’t make false accusations!”
The man stammered, clearly flustered.
“Sylvia isn’t the type to fall for such trivial deceptions.”
“You’re right. Well said.”
Lydia had abandoned all pretense now.
“To be honest, Sylvia’s a bit of a scatterbrain—you knew that and took advantage of it. But did you really think I wouldn’t prepare for something like this?”
Lydia drew out a single sheet of paper she always carried with her.
“Look. This document proves that I am Sylvia’s guardian. Sylvia cannot sign any document that constitutes a change in her personal circumstances—a Marriage Pledge Document, for instance. More precisely, even if she signed a thousand times, it would have no legal force. Why? Because any document her guardian hasn’t reviewed is entirely void.”
Lydia pointed with her other hand at the Marriage Pledge Document, now torn to shreds.
“Which means this is null and void. If you understand, then get out.”
The man’s jaw fell open—he hadn’t expected such a thorough counterattack.
Lydia sneered at him.
‘If you’re so determined, go seduce my sister yourself.’
“Ugh—urk!”
The man sputtered indignantly as his wits returned.
Lydia gave the order to expel him without hesitation.
“What are you staring at? First time seeing a villain?”
“Aaaagh!”
The man looked furious enough to burst, but he couldn’t find a single word to shoot back with.
“You’ll regret this! Mark my words—I’ll return and make you pay!”
With that, he stormed out, his footsteps thundering against the floor.
Of course, Lydia paid him no mind.
‘Pathetic fool, acting up like that.’
That was right.
It had been twelve years since she abandoned her escape from the original story.
Lydia had brilliantly reinvented herself as a villainess.
The Male Lead Targets Me, Not My Younger Sister
Kichacha Long Novel
Author
: Kichacha
Publisher
: Taewan Gwon, Ucheonje U
E-book Publication Date
: 2026-10-07
Price
: 100 won (Episodes 1–5 free)
Provided by
: CL Production
Address
: Ace Art Forum 203, 62 Digital-ro 31-gil, Guro-gu, Seoul
UCI
G720:N+A014-20260921158
This book was published as an e-book by KWBOOKS under contract with the copyright holder.
Unauthorized reproduction of this book’s contents without permission from the publisher is prohibited by copyright law.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————