When the Main Protagonists Broke Up

“Miss Belita, the carriage is ready.”

“Okay. I will leave now.”

At the words of Mary, the maid, I got up from the sofa and left the room.

After crossing the wide hallway, I continued to organize my plans for the day until I reached the carriage that stood in front of the mansion down the stairs.

Today was a very important day for me.

So, I made up my mind once again to never make a mistake.

* * *

It had already been six months since he had come here, or to be precise, since he possessed the body of a noble lady named Belita.

Who would have known.

The person who enters the novel after dying in a car accident will be me.

The first feeling, ‘Who am I and where am I?’ The same chaos, confusion, anxiety, worry, etc. I was adjusting well to this place to the extent that I could hardly feel it anymore.

But if there was a way to go back, I would have gone back right away.

But what if the present me really died?

Then how will I be?

Is there really a place to return to?

In the end, I couldn’t find a way, and when those scary thoughts came to bite my tail, I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t too bad to just continue living here.

However, there was a proviso that said, “If death can be avoided in this world.”

The first law of possession in fiction.

Of course there is no such thing. I made it the way I like it.

Anyway, I think the first law of possession in novels is that if the possessed person behaves differently from the original person, people around him will say, ‘What? He… What?’ that you will be interested in doing it.

No matter how you think about it, isn’t it strange?

Is it really possible for a person who has never had a crush on him to suddenly change his mind overnight?

It may or may not be possible, but this novel is not the right place to experiment with it out of my damn curiosity.

It’s because the male protagonist of this novel, Kane Maxius, was not that special or attractive to me to the extent of making such an effort.

‘Love and War of Three Families’

This romance fantasy novel I possessed was a story of intertwined love between people from three ducal families, each with their own unique powers.

The reason why I was able to immediately think of the title of the novel after being possessed was because of the power settings of each family.

Among them, the Duke of Heitz, the family of Belita I possessed, has prospered from generation to generation by using the power of fire.

He used it to grow his family.

On the surface, it seemed that the imperial family reigned over the three ducal families, but in reality it was not.

In fact, the three dukes have greater power than the imperial family, thanks to their unique power.

In order to stop the monsters that periodically invaded the continent and the empire, their strength was needed more than anything else.

Among them, the iron family, the Duke of Bayern, had the most indispensable power in this time of frequent wars.

Create powerful weapons.

They were gaining the absolute trust of the imperial people and the imperial family by making a large amount of weapons and armor using the power of iron.

Therefore, the Heitz family and the Maxius family formed an alliance to keep the iron family, the Duke of Bayern, in check.

And in order to solidify that alliance, they knew very well that the way to connect blood to blood was the best.

Fortunately, the two families had children born at about the same time, coincidentally a girl was born in the Heets family and a boy in the Maxius family.

Thus, the two had been engaged since childhood, and the marriage was set to take place after Belita and Kane’s coming-of-age ceremony.

In the original work, the story of the two people’s childhood is rarely mentioned.

Just a very simple passing story, it says that Belita fell in love with Kane at first sight and followed him around from a young age.

On the other hand, Kane constantly emphasized that he was annoyed with Belita and never paid any attention to her.

Perhaps it was to justify Kane’s attraction to Adela.

A man who gave no heart to anyone and was confined to his own world accidentally saw a beautiful woman at a banquet held in the imperial palace and fell in love at once, expressing perfect love.

However, Belita was a person with a difficult personality to cheer for the love of the two and step down from her role as the fiancée.

After learning about Kane’s relationship with Adela, she tried to harm Adela in every possible way.

However, whenever Adela was in danger, Guernsey Kane, the male

lead buff, appeared and saved Adela every time, and each time the love between the two only grew stronger.

In the end, Adela’s younger brother, Aiden Byan, punishes the villain, Belita, and the novel ends….

‘It’s unfortunate. I’m going to die of regret!’

A life like a squirrel on a treadmill, lonely but still worth living ended in a single traffic accident. ….

But, as I said before, there was no reason for me to act like a reformer to win his heart.

And above all, I didn’t want to have a big impact on the world by changing the flow of the novel.

The story in the book that I know is valid only when it ‘Flows as the original’.

At best, I know the ending of the book, which is like wisdom, but if the future is twisted, am I the only one who loses?

Fortunately, Belita’s memory was intact, and her words, actions, and thoughts have been passed down to me.

I took advantage of that and maintained the behavior of ‘Belita’ in order to break off the marriage with Kane as in the original story.

If he quietly broke up the marriage, he could have stopped interfering in the lives of the two.

However, since he was not supposed to die, he decided never to bother Adela.

Of course, for Belita to break off the engagement with the male lead and not bully the female lead is tantamount to destroying the original work, but she couldn’t stay still even though she knew she would die.

So, in order not to die again, I began to rationally judge what I should do in the future, and I have come to the current situation.

* * *

As soon as I got into the carriage, the carriage started quickly with the driver’s loud voice.

“My lady, what is the bottle in your hand?”

Mary, who was sitting across from me, asked me cautiously.

“This?”

I held up a very small bottle, only about the size of two fingers, to her and smiled happily.

“What do you think?”

“The red one… It looks like blood.”

Mary had a puzzled expression on her face even as she said that.

“That’s right.”

“Yes?”

“It’s blood.”

At my words, Mary’s face turned pale in an instant.

“That, why… No, no, whose blood is it?”

And he stammered to the end as if he was flustered.

“Of course it’s my blood.”

“Yes? Ah, miss….”

“If you put blood in a bottle like this and leave it secretly under the

bed, that person will fall in love with the owner of this blood.”

Actually, this wasn’t even my blood, and of course it was nonsense.

But in fact, in this novel, it was the method Belita used to make the male lead fall in love with her.

Well, in the end, the male lead fell in love with someone else, so it was a useless thing that had no effect at all.

“Ha, but… If the duke finds out….”

“Then you have to keep it secret.”

I hummed a song even pretending to be happy, like someone who really believes this spell will work.

And Mary glanced at me with sad and fearful eyes until the carriage reached its destination, the duke’s mansion.

As soon as I arrived at the Duke of Maxius, I looked for Kane.

Fortunately, when the butler said that I had to wait for him for a long time because there was a guest, I happily went to Kane’s bedroom.

“My lady, the duke is extremely reluctant to allow anyone else to enter your bedroom.”

But the butler hastily stopped me.

“This work was specially allowed by the Duke. If you don’t believe me, go and ask.”

I replied with a confident expression, and the butler made a puzzled expression at my attitude.

“Do you want to go and ask?”

“Then…. I’ll be on my way soon.”

The butler quickly disappeared toward Kane’s office.

When I couldn’t see the butler’s back, I quickly opened the door and entered the bedroom without waiting for him.

I had no intention of waiting in the first place, so I had no remorse at all.

When I entered the room, the bedroom was similar to that of a neat and boring man’s room.

I hurriedly took out the small bottle I had hidden in my bosom to get the job done before the butler arrived.

It was the bottle Mary had been wondering about in the carriage earlier.

And the bottle was only pushed slightly into the space under the bed, so that anyone would know at a glance that it was there.

It would be best if Kane found it first, and it didn’t matter if the servants of this mansion found it and reported it to Kane.

Anyway, the meaning of this action is to make Kane aware of the existence of this disease.

‘Succeded!’

Today, too, I made my way out of the bedroom and into the drawing room, having succeeded in accumulating obsessive and apparently insane behavior.

* * *

The original work already started three months ago.

For three months after becoming Belita, Kane was constantly engaging in obsessive behavior that he would hate. One day, an invitation to a banquet announcing the beginning of the original story came.

The banquet was held in the imperial palace for the first time in a while, and like Belita always did, I stayed close to Kane throughout the banquet.

Watching Kane at every banquet was her most important job, so she had no choice but to do it even if it was annoying.

Belita reacted sensitively and furiously whenever Kane looked at anyone or even when someone looked at Kane.

In particular, on days when he was in a particularly bad mood, he openly acted like crazy and prevented anyone from coming to his side.

‘Belita lived a very tiring life too.’

I had no choice but to watch Kane for three months, and he was, as I expected, a man with no charm whatsoever.

Always the same hair style, expression dripping with cold air as if no blood would be shed even if stabbed, clothes that were not disturbed at all, daily routine, etc. If you really humanize boredom and boredom, it was Kane Maxius. That’s how he first met love.

Despite Belita keeping an eye on it, Kane and Adela first met at a banquet.

Adela was weak from a young age and had to recuperate at home all the time until she became an adult.

Since he was born with weak energy, treatment was also difficult.

Her physical condition became normal for just one day, and that day was the day a banquet was held at the imperial palace.

So, when her body got better, Adela, who had never been to a banquet in her life, was attending a banquet for the first time.

I didn’t directly see the two of them meeting that day.

Just recalling the contents of the novel I knew at first glance, it is said that Kane fell in love at first sight when he saw Adela looking after a cat that roamed around the palace.

Adela, who had been unable to adapt to the unfamiliar banquet, walked out of the banquet hall for a while and strolled around the garden, and Kane, who escaped Belita’s suffocating watch and ran into the garden, met like fate.

It was the first time Adela had seen that day, besides her younger brother, a handsome man of the same age as herself.

Moreover, it is written in the novel that she felt a deep crush on Kane, who approached her affectionately.

‘It’s a feeling of kindness….’

It’s ridiculous.

What I experienced as Belita, Kane was not at all friendly.

Of course, I don’t know if he hid his original personality because he was annoying and hated Belita, but as I said before, he was a dry, uninteresting, cold-blooded person with no emotion on his face.

Anyway, from that day on, the two secretly developed their love for each other.

It was because Adela knew that Maxius and Bayern didn’t get along very well, and that Kane had a fiancée.

But Kane was different.

After awakening his love for Adela, he treated Belita as if she never existed.

He showered Adela with an endless barrage of affection, regardless of the eyes he was looking at.

Adela, on the other hand, kept throwing him away because Belita’s relationship with the family was at stake.

However, as a result of Kane continuing to court Adela for three months, Adela can no longer push him away and accepts Kane’s heart….

That was right now.

The day Kane first mentioned the breakup to Belita, and the day Belita vehemently rejected it, the day he decided to torment Adela in earnest.

Over the past six months, I’ve been doing something similar to what Belita did to win Kane’s heart.

Of course, Kane worked a little harder than usual to maximize the negative feelings he had for Belita.

Before the possession, Belita only came to the duke’s house two or three times a week, but these days I put my stamp on the duke’s house every day and never missed a day to show my face to Kane.

Wow, this was really hard even thinking about it now.

I’d driven an hour’s drive back and forth to see someone I didn’t want to see.

But for the sake of the future, I held back and went in and out of the Duke of Maxius.

In addition, I bought a servant of the duchy and received reports of his every move, which I could not see because I could not stay there during the 24 hours.

Of course, this method took a while, and, of course, I had planned it in advance.

And for a few days, I served as my watchman and gave ample compensation to the servant who was fired.

There were many other things I did with Kane deliberately planning to get caught, but the one I paid the most attention to was using aphrodisiacs.

Actually, I thought a lot before doing this method.

It’s an incident that appears in the original work, but I spent days and days trembling with thoughts like ‘Do I have to go this far?’ and

‘What if this method doesn’t work?’

If this method didn’t work properly, it was a situation where I could sleep with him without being able to take it out or beat it.

It was really the most dangerous gamble for me to the extent that I get goosebumps all over my body even thinking about it now.

Fortunately, however, as the head of a family that handles water,

Kane noticed at once that the liquor I recommended contained an aphrodisiac.

And because of that, I couldn’t see him for a while because he was so angry that he had almost no emotional change.

‘There was something else.’

He became so obsessed with Kane that it was hard to tell what he had done, and the results were always successful.

He now hardened his expression coldly just by looking at my face, or even when I spoke to him, he hardly dealt with me.

However, contrary to my expectations that if he bothered me that much, he would break up the marriage sooner rather than later.

It seemed that, apart from what I didn’t like, that level was tolerable because I only attacked Kane’s side, excluding Adela.

However, this betrothal relationship was finally over as of today.

To make that happen, I put a bottle of blood under his bed today.

I was sitting in the parlor waiting for Kane, immersed in so many thoughts, drinking tea when he came inside just in time.

And as expected, he looked at me with a colder and more brutal expression than usual, as if he knew what I had done.

“Has the guest just left? I was scolded for wanting to see you all day,

Duke.”

I spoke to him in a voice full of ecstasy, as if I had been waiting for the man I really loved, and as if I was so happy to finally see him.

But when he didn’t respond to me and just stared at me, I looked down and glanced at the object in Kane’s hand.

It was the bottle I left under the bed earlier.

There was no agitation at being caught so soon, as things proceeded as expected.

“This…. What is it?”

Rarely, an angry voice came from him.

“Ah oh… that is…. Did you catch me?”

I deliberately dragged on my words, but I answered with a look that it didn’t matter at all that I was caught.

Then, perhaps getting even more angry at my attitude, Kane squeezed his hand and crushed the bottle.

“Duke…!”

I didn’t know how to act in a more extreme and violent situation than I thought, so I rolled my eyes quickly for a moment.

And after quickly grasping the situation, I jumped up from my seat and quickly approached him.

But as I approached, he took a step or two back with an expression that seemed to make his teeth tremble.

“I, I would have told you.”

He gritted his teeth and spat out words as if chewing.

He was not hiding his emotions enough to guess how much Kane’s anger was now.

“Duke, you need to treat your hand quickly!”

In fact, I had no heart to worry about the wounds on his hands, but now I was a woman who loved the man in front of me.

I reached out to touch his hand, which had been crushed by the glass, with a touch of pity, but before he could reach mine, he pulled his hand back.

“Princess Heitz.”

Then he stared at me with cold eyes.

“That’s not the problem now-”

“Princess!”

He raised his voice and called me. Only then did I stop what I was doing, raise my head, and answer.

“I think I told you not to do this again.”

“I know. I know. But….”

I pretended to be unfair and pitiful as much as possible, pretending that there was a reason for that, and wept.

“Since the Duke doesn’t look at me at all, I had no choice but to do something!”

I spilled words that seemed to blame him, saying that it was only because of you that I was doing this.

Then, at my words, a tired sigh flowed from Kane’s mouth.

“I can’t stand to see the Gongnyeo’s atrocities any longer. No, I don’t want to see it.”

“It was a joke, a joke!”

“Are you kidding?”

“Yes yes! The Duke knows better that these things don’t work at all, right?”

“Did you just say it was a joke?”

“Yes, I’m just grabbing at straws-”

Kane looked at me with contempt and stared into space for a moment, as if the word prank had offended him even more.

At that moment, no matter how much I was, I was a little scared.

Then, when he met my gaze again, in that brief moment, his anger was completely erased, and he had returned to his original calm face.

“Let’s break off the marriage.”