How to Tame That Gentle Male Lead - Chapter 1.2
After finishing her wash in such a tense atmosphere, Heejin saw the pale faces of the maids and thought that she must have possessed someone extraordinary.
“Ah. By the way, I won’t be wearing a corset starting today. This waistline doesn’t need a corset.”
“Ah, understood.”
The dress the maid brought fit her perfectly as if tailored to her body. Moreover, it was especially loose around the waist, so it wouldn’t look unsightly even after eating.
‘But who have I possessed? If the maids are trembling like this, it must be a villainous supporting character.’
Heejin tried to recall supporting characters with black hair and purple eyes. Since “The Name of Love” was the novel she had read the most, it didn’t take long to remember Resena Arnasus, the villain from there.
‘Let’s confirm it.’
“This is just to check, but.”
“Yes, my lady.”
Heejin looked around at the maids and picked out the one who seemed the most flustered.
“I want to see if the new recruit remembers my name. Can you tell me what my name is?”
However, a thick silence fell, and the guiding maids froze. The maid who was pointed out, truly seeming to be a new recruit, bowed deeply, not knowing what to do.
“It’s Resena Arnasus, my lady.”
‘Great! I was right!’
Clenching her fist inwardly, Heejin smirked.
‘Then, starting today, I’m becoming Resena Arnasus… Wait.’
For a moment, she recalled that the ending of “The Name of Love” led to the destruction of the world, but Heejin quickly erased that thought and smirked.
‘Since I’ve possessed her, the ending should be different too. If worst comes to worst, I could seduce the male lead.’
Or I could help prevent the female lead from dying.
But Heejin soon realized painfully that those thoughts were premature.
***
“No, waaaait!”
“You talk too much! Get in there!”
Heejin tumbled into the prison cell. Her bottom hurt, and she rubbed it, but the guard who had done this to her was already moving away.
“Come on, when someone asks you to wait, you should wait a bit. That’s how you build rapport. How can you treat people so roughly?”
Heejin, now Resena Arnasus, pouted her lips. But soon her body went limp, and she hugged her knees.
Just what difficulty level is this world?
Isn’t it something like hardcore?
‘Did I… like angsty stories for nothing?’
She had just been enjoying herself, but at the tea party she attended, poison spread due to her request. At the ball, the dark guild she had apparently already requested appeared and mercilessly massacred people.
Not only that, but her father, trying to cover for his daughter, gave away the family’s wealth to the rotten emperor, and the greedy emperor framed her father for treason, causing the family to fall apart.
‘It didn’t end there…’
Moreover, her younger brother, angered by this, confronted the emperor and was immediately exiled to the Desert of Martyrs, while Resena was dragged to prison for her past misdeeds.
‘I guess I thought it would be too easy…’
In the book, the process of Resena’s scheming wasn’t described, only the results were briefly mentioned, so she thought that if she just enjoyed herself, the evil deeds wouldn’t happen.
Resena sat dejected, her bottom on the cold floor, holding her breath.
‘Moreover, because I didn’t directly cancel such events, the male and female leads have become completely close. Hah… If I’m not careful, won’t this really end up with the world’s destruction ending?’
I’m getting goosebumps.
Resena spent the day in such a daze.
Every time she had to eat the truly tasteless black bread and thin soup for three meals a day, she thought, ‘I want to give up everything and just go back to my studio apartment.’
And on the third day.
The guards ran around urgently, shouting.
“Evacuate immediately! Leave the political prisoners, but let those who committed minor thefts out quickly!”
“Wait a minute! Why aren’t you releasing the political prisoners? Huh? What on earth is happening?”
They were releasing everyone but leaving her alone in prison. Bewildered, Resena grabbed the bars and shouted. But the guards didn’t respond and took everyone else away except her.
Seeing the cells suddenly emptied, she was dumbfounded. If they just leave her here like this, it’s the same as telling her to die!
“You bastards!”
She yelled angrily, but all she heard was her echo. Losing strength, Resena slumped down on the spot.
Even though the food was tasteless, at least they gave her three meals a day, but now she was trapped in prison, facing certain death.
“I’m going crazy. Really.”
As she leaned against the cold prison wall, tears streamed down. She couldn’t eat properly, couldn’t sleep well because of the cold. The sorrow of possibly catching a cold while shivering overwhelmed her.
“I didn’t even commit those evil deeds…”
But then.
As Resena was sobbing, a rumbling sound came from above, and dust fell on her head.
“?”
Puzzled, she looked up to see the entire building shaking and stone debris falling.
“Kyaaak!”
Resena hurriedly pressed herself against the side where dust wasn’t falling. As she clung to the wall, stones came pouring down outside the iron bars, and the building itself began to collapse.
Thud!
I’m going to die.
When Resena, who had been calling out to God, Buddha, Jesus, and Vishnu with her eyes closed, opened them, the iron bars had collapsed outward due to the lack of supporting stones.
What?
Did I survive?
“I can escape from here now?”
It seems her prayers were answered. Resena smiled brightly and gracefully stepped through the collapsed iron bars.
The building had iron bars on the corridor side as she had seen when being brought in, but the wall itself had collapsed, leaving a large hole to pass through sideways.
“Good. Let’s keep going like this. It’s escape time!”
Resena grinned. When she came to prison, just in case, she had gathered all the rings from home and made them into a necklace, which they hadn’t taken away.
In other words, if she could just escape from here, survival wouldn’t be a problem at all!
‘If the building collapses further, they won’t even know who escaped. They’ll think everyone died. So in the meantime, I’ll escape this empire and start a new life!’
She could bring her father, who had been so devoted to her, and find her exiled younger brother to set up a nice business together. Her brother was a Sword Master, so even if he was exiled to the desert, he wouldn’t have died.
‘Although I’ve only known them for three months, they were both so devoted to me. I can’t leave them to die, I must save them. Of course.’
Isn’t that what being Korean is all about? Jeong?
T/n: Jeong (정) is a fundamental concept in Korean culture that represents a deep emotional bond and sense of connection between people. It encompasses feelings of affection, loyalty, empathy, and responsibility towards others, and is considered an essential element of Korean social interactions and relationships. The sentence suggests that understanding and embodying Jeong is crucial to grasping the essence of Korean identity and culture.
Hehe. And food is strength.
