The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 2

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Episode 2

Chapter 1

My Fiancé is an Obsessive Male Lead!

“I don’t want to get engaged! I don’t want to, I don’t want to! I said I don’t want tooooo!”

At the tender age of sixteen.

While throwing a tantrum and rolling around on the floor because I didn’t want to get married, I accidentally tumbled down the stairs from the second floor.

“Oh my goodness, my child!”

“Cecil!”

“Young lady!”

I regained consciousness exactly two days after fainting while hearing my family’s shocked cries.

But I had to lie in bed for four more days after that. Whether it was from the shock of hitting my head, I suffered from wisdom fever as I regained my memories from my previous life.

‘Th-this can’t be happening… The world I reincarnated into is a 19+ dark romance novel world? Out of all the romantic comedies, healing stories, and childcare novels, it had to be a dark romance?’

I wanted to deny it, but there was too much evidence.

The familiar name Cecilia Roheim, and the rare water-colored hair and eyes I saw in the mirror.

Plus the family environment of being the spoiled youngest daughter who received abundant love from her family.

And… even a fiancé who was the 2nd Prince destined to become the next emperor!

“This can’t be happening. This must be a dream…”

“My child, did you hate the engagement that much?”

My mother, who had nursed me without leaving my side for even a moment while I was suffering, made a determined expression.

“If you don’t like it, we should call it off. The paperwork is still being negotiated and we haven’t stamped it yet…”

“N-no, you can’t!”

Startled by my mother’s words, I bolted upright and firmly grasped her hands.

“My child?”

“I was being short-sighted. Even if we haven’t stamped the papers yet, it was confirmed verbally, wasn’t it? If we try to back out without any reason, we might be accused of insulting the Imperial Family.”

Actually, there was one more reason why this engagement couldn’t be canceled.

However, since I couldn’t reveal what that reason was to my mother, I said that my mind had changed while I was bedridden.

“And! Didn’t you say His Highness the 2nd Prince is very handsome? If I’m going to get married anyway, I prefer a handsome man.”

My mother seemed flustered by my deliberately childish words, but soon stroked my shoulder and spoke affectionately.

“That’s right, we wouldn’t have carelessly chosen your husband. Not only your father and siblings, but everyone in the Imperial Palace praises him endlessly. They say he’s so sincere and upright that it’s hard to believe he’s royalty.”

“Ha, haha… I’m sure he is…”

But mother, when model students go astray, they cause major accidents that delinquent students couldn’t even imagine.

The male lead that everyone praised as being so sincere, humble, and upright becomes corrupted in an instant and turns into a crazy obsessive male lead…

Thinking of the unspeakable things he committed in the novel, I swallowed my tears and just laughed “hahaha.”

What am I supposed to do now!

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Using the excuse that I wanted to eat cookies my mother baked herself, I sent her out of the bedroom and sat alone at my desk, opening a notebook.

First, if I were to summarize the content of this novel in one line, it would be as follows:

‘A high-level dark romance novel where the male lead, who lived having everything stolen by his older brother, becomes corrupted after losing even the crown prince position and fiancée he thought were among the few things that belonged to him, then kills everyone and kidnaps and confines the female lead.’

How did I end up reading such a novel!

The obsessive male lead, Lionel von Altehaide, was born as the 2nd Prince of the empire, but is currently receiving strict and harsh education as the prospective crown prince to become emperor.

You might wonder why the 2nd Prince is called the prospective crown prince instead of the 1st Prince, and that would be because the 1st Prince Cayen is the root of all problems.

Born so sickly that he couldn’t bear the responsibilities and duties of crown prince, let alone emperor, he spent most of his days lying in bed.

So he periodically tormented his healthy younger brother out of jealousy for sitting in the crown prince position in his place.

By stealing everything his younger brother cherished and loved. Not just objects, but servants, nannies, even the pets he raised.

Cayen’s misdeeds didn’t end there. While Lionel was struggling in the dangerous Northern Borderlands, he suddenly became healthy and stole both the crown prince position that was promised to Lionel and his fiancée.

That being the female protagonist of this novel.

None other than Cecilia Roheim, ‘me’!

‘The 1st Prince grew up to be so arrogant entirely because of the Empress…’

The Empress, who felt great guilt about her eldest son’s illness, pampered him while showing almost no interest in her second son Lionel, raising him with discrimination that bordered on hatred.

To what extent? She judged that if Lionel remained in the Imperial Palace after losing the crown prince position, he would become a seed of future discord, so she even banished him to the Central Temple.

Thus, having lost everything and become corrupted, Lionel gathered forces from the Central Temple and the Underworld to stage a rebellion, and succeeded.

Sitting on the throne stained with the blood of his own family, he kidnapped and confined me, who was originally his fiancée.

This was the introduction of the dark romance novel I had read, whose title I couldn’t even remember.

‘The content after that was… well, it was all about doing this and that to me after kidnapping and confining me, so there’s no need to recall it.’

The important thing is that in the novel, the biggest trigger for Lionel’s corruption was having his crown prince position and fiancée stolen and being banished.

That’s why I stopped my mother from breaking off the engagement. I was worried that Lionel might already recognize me as his fiancée, which could accelerate his corruption.

‘Since we’ve only made a verbal agreement so far, it should be fine…’

But you never know.

We might have met when we were young, which I can’t remember.

‘That’s another cliché!’

A gloomy childhood stained with strict, harsh education and painful discrimination. Within that, something like tender memories with first love that bloomed like a single flower.

‘But I can’t remember it! Only the male lead has those memories!’

If that were true, then the me from back then might have thoughtlessly become Lionel’s only salvation and planted the seeds of obsession in his heart.

‘Moreover…’

Glancing at myself in the mirror, I nodded with satisfaction.

It’s a bit awkward for me to say this about myself, but honestly, even I thought it was a pretty face. I was even more doll-like and adorable when I was younger than I am now.

‘Right, honestly, it would be difficult not to fall for that face.’

Perhaps, the person who actually pushed for this engagement was Lionel?

‘If that’s the case, I can’t just run away recklessly. That might accelerate Lionel’s corruption.’

The engagement has already been made, and this cannot be undone.

So what I can do now is.

‘Prevent the male lead’s corruption no matter what.’

The flow of the 1st Prince becoming healthy and becoming crown prince… there’s no way to stop it. Because it wasn’t explained in the novel why he suddenly became healthy.

But I know the trigger for the male lead’s corruption, so can’t I prevent that?

No, I must prevent it.

For the sake of my happy retirement!

‘To do that, I need to see my fiancé’s face at least once.’

I needed to confirm at least what kind of feelings Lionel currently had toward me.

Having made my decision, I spoke directly to my mother when she returned with the cookies she had baked herself.

“Mother, how about we invite His Highness the 2nd Prince for a meal?”

“A meal?”

“Yes. He’s going to be my husband, isn’t he? I want to personally confirm how handsome the husband candidate that father and mother chose for me is, and whether he’s as sincere and humble as the rumors say.”

“Oh my, that makes sense too. Alright. I’ll send an invitation to the Imperial Palace.”

Thus, a few days later, I was able to meet my fiancé who would become an obsessive male lead after his corruption in the future.

But the situation was a little different from what I had expected.

“What? Where are we going?”

“To the Imperial Palace. He invited our entire family.”

Instead of the 2nd Prince coming to our house, our whole family was summoned to the Imperial Palace.

So, in a situation where the engagement wasn’t even confirmed yet, the Two Families ended up having a formal meeting first!

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