Wrong Genre! - Chapter 1.1
[Look, Rueg Verdic.]
Rueg steadied his trembling lips as he looked down at the letter.
The elegantly curved handwriting was unmistakably that of his twin sister, Versha.
“I… I really don’t want to read this…”
Just what kind of blood-curdling words had she written this time?
“Please, let it not be anything strange…”
With hands shaking so badly, Rueg tore open the letter and checked its contents, and before he knew it, a curse slipped out.
[I can’t serve that dog of a Crown Prince anymore, so I’m leaving. Starting tomorrow, you go to work in my place. If you don’t like it, just quit too.
(P.S. If you’re going to work, don’t leave the Crown Prince’s side. Stick close to him at all times.)]
“…Sister!”
Rueg desperately called out to his sister, who of course could not answer.
* * *
There once was a romance fantasy novel called <Not a Lady, But a Power Behind the Throne>. It was written by his childhood friend who had suddenly declared she would become an author—a novel overflowing with absurd logic and utterly wild characters.
Every publisher they sent it to rejected it, and seeing his childhood friend weeping rivers of tears, Rueg had pitied her enough to read it just once.
That was honestly all there was to it.
‘So then, why!’
Why am I here?
With a vacant expression, Rueg let out a hollow laugh as he gazed out the window at the sky.
<Not a Lady, But a Power Behind the Throne> was your typical good-versus-evil romance fantasy novel. The transmigrated female lead ‘Yuri’ and the Crown Prince ‘Felix’ would overcome incoming crises and fall in love. It’s a common story, suffice to say.
And in these novels, there’s always a villainess who dislikes the female lead for absolutely no reason.
“But why, of all people, does it have to be my older sister…”
Rueg crawled up onto the bed and pulled the blanket over himself.
Versha Verdic.
In the novel, she tries to get rid of the female lead, Yuri, by pushing her into a lake. She even tries to frame her, using the fact that she’s the Crown Prince’s aide.
So desperate was Versha to win Felix’s love that she ended up committing acts bordering on treason.
And in the end…
“Why me, why do I have to die! She’s the one who did wrong!”
She dies, raging until her last breath.
Because of the gravity of the situation, not just the Verdic bloodline, but even the servants working at the Count’s estate were all executed.
In other words, her younger brother Rueg died too.
“…Haa.”
With a sigh, Rueg stared emptily at the ceiling.
When he first transmigrated into this body, it was so unbearably miserable it made no sense, but by now he had come to accept reality, at least to some degree.
Rueg Verdic.
It’s already been ten years since he went from the name Na Yeongwon to this bizarre one.
And for those ten years, Rueg did everything he could to turn Versha’s attention away from the Crown Prince and onto someone else.
“Sister, what about that person? He seems kind and gentle…”
“Kind? Gentle? That sort of naïve attitude won’t help you survive in this world. This won’t do. You. Come with me. I’ll show you how scary the world can be.”
He’d recommend someone decent, only to be lectured for hours,
“What about that man? He’s got a great body. And he’s handsome, too.”
“Handsome? …That one? Don’t tell me, are those knots in your eyes instead of pupils?”
Most of the time, she’d just criticize his taste.
But eventually, he succeeded!
After ten years of listening to Versha’s preferences. He found her a man who was violently strong, fierce, and obsessively attached. Exactly her type!
So he thought it would all end happily…
Happiness, my ass.
From the moment he transmigrated into this damned novel, there was no such thing as happiness.
The Verdic family had, for generations, served as aides to the Imperial Family.
In other words, if the Verdic family didn’t perform the duties of imperial aides, then, being otherwise unremarkable, they were at high risk of losing their title of Count.
The Verdic family had no typical noble business ventures, so if they didn’t do this work, there was no way to earn money.
The instant they lost their title, their income would drop to zero, and they’d be buried in debt.
Because, true to her role as a villainess, Versha was also a wastrel who squandered the family’s fortune!
“This is a plot hole if I’ve ever seen one! She’s supposed to be the aide! A genius aide who handles anything the Crown Prince orders without trouble! What kind of aide lives as if there’s no tomorrow? And if she’s so good at her job, how does not working even a day send them into debt? What’s so great about her work then!”
Rueg yelled, furiously kicking at the blanket.
No wonder this novel was such an incoherent mess.
“…Just wait until I see you again.”
That author.
Childhood friend or not, I’ll rip out every last strand of your hair and leave you bald!
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