The Revenge Kidnapping Drama's Transmigrated Female Lead - Chapter 5
One of the male leads, Rezus Anocton, liked strong women. To be precise, he liked people who never broke under any circumstances. His taste was the complete opposite of Serdin, whose heart was moved by a woman’s vulnerability, but it didn’t matter. That’s why she even showed her weak side in the end.
Psyche glanced at the calendar.
One hundred days ahead. She just had to endure for one hundred days here.
According to the original story, she would awaken her ability and leave this place in one hundred days. Could she endure safely until then? She wasn’t sure.
In the story, the female protagonist endured all kinds of humiliation and hardships during her hundred days of captivity—being violated by the male leads and even having her arm broken early on.
Could she truly endure such things?
The thought of having her arm broken seemed unbearable. But what about the rest? As Psyche imagined her relationships with the male leads, she felt her body gradually heating up, and her shoulders flinched in surprise.
She quickly shook her head. This was not the time for such indecent thoughts. She needed to focus on figuring out how to prevent the war.
If she had to choose one thing she disliked most about Cruel Nights, it would be the ‘ending.’
The citizens of the Sicardo Empire had a special power. It was called a gift from the gods or a supernatural ability by the public. Typically, people awakened their ability between the ages of fifteen and twenty, but Psyche was different. She had not awakened her ability even at the age of twenty-two.
Awakening her ability at a somewhat later age, Psyche would later use her newfound strength to take revenge on the male leads. The tiresome war between Mathes and Arje finally ended with Mathes’s victory. However, perhaps because the emperor was assassinated during the process, the entire nation erupted into riots, and Mathes could not savor its victory for long.
To make matters worse, enemy nations that had formed alliances took advantage of the empire’s chaos and invaded Sicardo. Already weakened by the war with Arje and severe internal factions, Mathes was in no condition to mount a proper defense.
If the male leads had been there, they might have combined their powers to defeat the invaders as they always had before. Or, if only the emperor had survived, the nation wouldn’t have fallen into such ruin.
But the emperor and the male leads were no longer in this world, and in the end, Sicarado was destroyed. Watching her country collapse before her eyes, Psyche ultimately chose to end her life, and thus the novel concluded.
Clenching her fists tightly, she resolved not to let the story unfold as it had in the original. Above all, she had to prevent the war at any cost.
The war would begin before she awakened her ability—while she was still held hostage. Psyche planned to persuade the male leads to stop the war. If persuasion didn’t work, she was prepared to use force.
To do so, she needed to establish as many connections with the male leads as possible.
[A body that grows stronger through intimate relationships with the powerful—is it a blessing or a curse?]
It was a sentence described at the beginning of the first epilogue. Perhaps because she had been reading that part before the car accident, the detailed descriptions about Psyche’s body vividly resurfaced in her mind.
The reason the female protagonist of Cruel Nights awakened her ability at an exceptionally late stage was due to the overwhelming magnitude of the power dwelling within her. It was so immense that it took years for her body to fully adapt to and absorb it.
Originally, Psyche was destined to awaken her ability at the age of twenty-five. While awakening at twenty-two was already considered late, the fact that she managed to awaken it even earlier was attributed to her prolonged and frequent physical relationships with those who possessed strong abilities. In other words, her intimate encounters with the male leads served as a catalyst to accelerate the awakening of her powers—even though the nature of those relationships was coercive.
Moreover, Psyche had a unique constitution, enabling her to gain even more overwhelming strength through relationships with powerful individuals.
‘I have to use this.’
While her plan was to build favorability and persuade them to avoid war, there was no guarantee her persuasion would succeed. If it didn’t, there was only one solution:
She needed to accelerate the awakening of her ability, grow stronger, and prevent the war by force if necessary.
To achieve this, she had to engage with the male leads as much as possible during her time in captivity.
