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In a fantasy novel, I possessed the hidden younger sister of the Male Lead, ‘Astel’.

While my brother Cassian is struggling for the revenge of the family, it’s my job to find and deal with the final Villain that has not been revealed even at the end of the original novel!!!

In order to do that, I must first enter the Northern Duke Castle, where the family’s traitors are hiding.

Somehow, I became an “imprint of companion” of Duke Anais, a beast of beast and a leading candidate for the final villain.

Besides……

“Please kiss me now, Astel.”

In order to live, you’re required to have a daily skinship with your ‘imprint partner’.

There was no such thing in the contents of the original story!

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“Shall we go see your favorite sea today?”

“I……I don’t think I can. I have to meet Sir Cassian today.”

The Duke gritted his teeth with a cold face. I was slightly scared as I saw him. Maybe he’s teething? Because he’s a wild beast!

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One day, after I received the Duke’s favor and consideration. My older brother Cassian left his son to me for a while.

However, the Duke seems to have made a huge misunderstanding.

“It will become our child.”

“What……?”

“Cassian Gray will disappear from this world now, so you will not become his bride.”

Yes……?

When did I become Cassian Gray’s bride, aren’t we relatives?

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Disclaimer : I'm not the original author of this novel, my only intention here is to share this novel. And I have no intention of plagiarism.

Some Details of the novel :

The novel is a slow paced romance.

The Female and Male lead's feelings and trust build slowly from the bottom there again making it a slow paced novel.

MC/FL earns other's trust by her own effort while not being too ambitious about it.

Friendly reminder : So if you don't like slow paced romance this novel is not for you.

The story is quite slow paced and overstuffed I guess, when a new chapter comes out, there might not be a lot of excitement to read it or it might be boring so please bear with it and accompany me to see the ending.

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Also please try, the other novel I'm working on.

Beware Mr.Officer Please Tread Carefully.

Here's the Synopsis ↓↓↓

He, an enigmatic and cold-blooded soldier with a mysterious background.

She, a ruthless and bloodthirsty spy.

After she transmigrated out of the blue, she held a knife to his neck on their first meeting— marking the beginning of their twisted fate.

One day, she pinned him to a wall.

“I’ve been teasing you for so long but you aren’t reacting at all, you’re forcing me to…”

Before she could finish, he smiled wickedly and counterattacked.

“Good girl, this is what you call sending a lamb to a tiger’s mouth.”

Then, he sealed her lips with a kiss…

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The smell of blood, lingering on my nose, red paint like the blood that stained the white linen bed.

A man with a body that was too large to fit on my small bed.

With his lips torn, arms with deep scars with an unknown cause.

I swung the knife in my hand towards the man on the bed.

“It’s over.”

It took a long time to finish.

I put my knife down on the bedside table, and I quickly wiped the cold sweat flowing from my forehead.

And I carefully observed him. I trembled, feeling the anxiety, and my heart was pounding terribly, and I couldn’t calm myself.

If anyone has seen this suspicious figure and the surroundings, it would be mistaken for abduction and murder.

It was clear.

…Of course, I could never kidnap someone.

It’s just that, I’m a good healer who wanted to save the ‘Duke Anais’ who was injured in front of my house.

I moved the Duke to bed and even finished his treatment, so I have now become his ‘Lifesaver.’

This knife that I was holding was also used for his treatment, to tear the gauze and nothing more!

I whispered gently as I wiped the unconscious Duke’s forehead with the back of my hand.

“You may not hear this, but… The treatment was finished.”

Fortunately, the fever went down, and the wound was treated.

Well, the reason why this man, who boasted overwhelming power in the novel, got injured so far was unknown.

But the reason why he fainted seemed to be due to the outburst of his mana, so I prescribed a special medicine and fed it to him.

Now I am completely relieved that the treatment went well.

With a sigh of relief, I looked into his face carefully.

Certainly, he was the ‘God of the night,’ and he looked reliable.

Like the night sky, his black hair looks the softest of all his features.

Long shades of eyelashes, a straight nose, and a slight shade under the cheekbones created a sharper atmosphere.

Even if those eyes are closed, I think I could capture everything at once.

His eyes, however, were only obscured by his thick eyelashes.

“You must get better. Okay?”

I need to finish the treatment.

As I safely put the sleeping medicine into the man’s lips, I thought to myself ‘Oh my God!!’

“Because I’ve been waiting for more than three years to this day just to save you!”

Of course, even if I tried to think positively, I couldn’t overcome physical fatigue.

Maybe it’s because I worked hard all day, or perhaps it was because of the struggle of dragging this big and heavy man into the house.

“…I only have five minutes left to sleep.”

I thought so and started to doze off.

In front of the bed, while he was recovering.

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I decided to sleep only five minutes, but I couldn’t cope with the fatigue that had accumulated in my body for a short period.

I was deeply asleep and dreaming.

In my dream, my past unfolded like a panorama.

It was no coincidence that I saved the Duke of Anais today.

In advance, I knew that he would fall in the grass, about 10m away from the First Treatment Center outside the northern Duke Castle.

The Duke, traveling alone to hunt for monsters, was forced to fall in front of a small log house in the forest because of mana instability due to the last war’s aftereffects against monsters.

That’s why the manager of a nearby branch office ended up saving him.

The Duke of Anais takes the manager of the treatment center to the castle and gives him what he wants.

The reason I knew this was simple and clear.

This was a fantasy novel, 『Bloody Revenge』.

I was reincarnated as ‘Astel’, the younger sister of ‘Cassian’, the novel’s male protagonist.

Unfortunately, this novel, The Fate of Astel and Cassian had a tragic dark ending.

We were born to the Count Vietry family, the most prestigious wizard family in the Empire, but our family was framed and destroyed.

Sadly, our parents sacrificed their lives for us, using the forbidden stealth magic that no one could trace.

Thanks to that, we barely survived the bloodbath.

But what could a little child who knows nothing do?

Our childhood was challenging, sad, and helpless.

It was customary to be starving, and there were times when I was begging and begging for luck and was beaten.

Luckily, since my brother got a job as a stable keeper, we were able to eat even soiled carrots as one meal for a day.

Still, we enjoy living here. Initially, there exist adversities in one’s life.

However, when I was ten years old, the problem began when I realized that I had reincarnated from this novel.

“The genre was revenge, and even the ending was sad?”

According to the original content, Cassian, who grew up with his younger sister, tried to take revenge on our parents.

As a result, he uncovers the identities of some of the spies who destroyed Count Vietry and was cleared of the accusation.

However, after he thought it was a happy ending.

Cassian eventually died at the hands of the final Villain, which he didn’t even know existed.

‘Astel’ was also in a situation where she was attacked and killed while raising a nephew that her brother left behind.

The novel ends in bitterness, though it was not clear who the final Villain was.

That kind of fate.

When I realized that I had just been reincarnated, I was so scared of the future that I cried while walking and begging.

“Astel! We are beggars, so we have to work. You shouldn’t cry all the time.”

“Brother, what if we are supposed to die?”

Cassian responded calmly to my helpless question.

“Cassian, you stupid idiot. You know nothing! Just go away!”

He laughed without knowing that he was destined to die or that I’ll be living a miserable life with my nephew alone!

While he looked tense, I had an incredible realization from his words.

“Still… I like the saying ‘If the ending was bad, you should change it.”

If I catch and kill the final Villain that Cassian failed to catch in the end.

I would make him eat poisoned carrot soup until he dies. I’d make him eat until his belly burst with carrot soup and dies painfully!

After that, I’ll prepare to take revenge. Of course, it was the same with my brother.

“I want to take the Knights Templar entrance exam.”

“…”

‘Just wait ten years. I’ll tear off those accusations against our family and live in a nice house wearing pretty clothes.’

My brother didn’t share a lot of information about his revenge.

However, he was reborn as a hero of the Empire.

Cassian received the nobility status and connections with High-Level Information. I already knew that he would try to find the truth by meeting people from a dark guild.

He left me in a remote village, to walk towards his future path full of thorns.

“What’s with that expression!”

“It’s just….'”

“Cause I’m not good enough?”

“Yes. You’re not good enough…”

My brother looked shocked, but I couldn’t help it.

Anyway, if he fails. Then we all die.

So there was only one way to overcome this tragic ending.

Without my brother’s knowledge, I would help him uncover who the Final Villain was!

Only then could we truly survive.

I recalled several hints that appeared in the novel, where the Villain wasn’t revealed until the end.

First of all, it wasn’t impossible to know who exactly the spy was that infiltrated our family.

Since some of the most important hints were given.

One of the three spies who fabricated false evidence that Count Vietry was a traitor was a ‘human’, and two were ‘Shapeshifters’.

It was the fact that after they destroyed our family, they fled to the Duke of Anais.

If I caught them right away, find out who the final Villain was, and immediately deal with him…

With that, we could reach a happy ending.

If a problem arises, it won’t be easy to enter the Duke of Anais Castle.

There were complex political reasons for this. In the northern part of the Empire, the entire Duchy of Anais was the land of Shapeshifters.

The Shapeshifters hated humans who had enslaved them in the past, so they would threaten them when outsiders entered their land.

There were also a few humans who had died.

Of course, there had to be some humans who were able to enter the northern Duke’s castle.

First, I should get a job at Duke’s treatment center after a difficult journey.

However, the circumstances were different for the Duke, the vassal family, and Duke Castle, where the shapeshifters stay.

It was a dangerous castle where unauthorized persons could not enter and leave even if it were a guard.

The north Duke Castle was a place where if humans tried to sneak in their throats would be cut off immediately due to magic surrounding the castle.

As a human being, how would I be able to enter the castle without dying and spy on them without being suspicious?

After working in the treatment center for a long time, I finally found a good way.

That’s by being the lifesaver of Duke Anais!

It may be another matter of being a lifesaver and getting in without spilling blood in the Duchy.

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For a moment when I realized the contents of my dreams, I opened my eyes like I was playing a game.

Immediately I looked around in a hurry, and the Duke, whom I carefully laid on the bed, disappeared.

Maybe not everything in my dream was true.

Or, unlike in the original, Duke Anais is left without gratification for the benefactor who saved him…!

I stretched my shoulders and pressed my eyes, and then I heard a soft voice behind my back.

“Are you the one who saved me?”

It was a terrifyingly stiff tone to describe the phrase ‘the one who saved me’, but the low tone was so sweet that I was confused.

I turned my head and looked behind as if possessed.

At last, our gaze met in the center.

Black hair, bluish eyes.

He was Duke Anais, whom I saved.

The ruler of all the Shapeshifters in the north.

However, except for the title of “Duke Anais,” the truth about his race was unknown, so he was a mysterious figure in the north who was known as a dangerous beast.

And now, he was my only way to enter Duke Castle!

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“…Y-you woke up already?”

His gaze stayed on me. I didn’t say anything, but I could feel the tension that seemed to wrap around my body.

Soon his lips opened to speak, “I want to reward the person who saved me.”

The words he said were about the reward, but it felt like the message meant ‘I’ll kill you’, speaking with that terrifying expression on his face…

I’m not actually nervous, but I couldn’t help but feel scared of him.

But of course, this was the moment I’d been waiting all this time!

So I spoke confidently, “R-reward…? That’s great!”

This person would become a problem for my brother’s revenge, so I need to pave the path for our revenge.

Originally, even if the other person returned the favor, It’s still annoying that someone couldn’t receive it comfortably.

The Duke particularly has a fearsome atmosphere, and it scares me…!

“If so then, I’m your benefactor! Oh, and I have one little and precious request for the reward.”

The Duke tilted his head and stiffened.

“Okay, I’ll listen to it.”

“Well, I think it would take a long time to talk about it. Could we talk somewhere else? Because my house was small and shabby…”

It’s better to talk about it at Duke’s Castle, the forbidden fortress.

…I endured trying to say that.

He hasn’t revealed his identity as the Duke yet, so it’s not easy to confess what I really want.

However, God seemed to be on my side.

“Well, my mansion’s near here. If possible, we could go and talk there.”, The Duke replied.

I don’t know why, but things are working out my way.

‘Then, would I be able to enter the Duke’s castle as his benefactor that saved him as I planned?’

Once I step into Duke Castle, it would be easier to tell him, ‘Please let me work at the office of the treatment center!’

The Shapeshifters hate and despise humans, but they couldn’t spit ferociously at the Duke’s benefactor.

If I caught the spies while working at the internal treatment center in Duke’s Castle, I would steal the details of their background, then after that, my mission would be complete!

After all the calculations, I nodded with a sorrowful look.

Every time I met his gaze, my breathing became weird, but it didn’t matter. I inhaled violently and shouted as if to cheer up the atmosphere.

“Right! I think it’s better to talk at your mansion.”

Wait, does it sound too urgent? But strangely…

“Yes.”

…The Duke seemed more skeptical. With a fierce expression on his face, he replied without hesitation.

I tilted my head in a strange sense of incongruity, but he suddenly took my hand.

And he held it tightly My difficulty in breathing disappeared at the touch of our hands.

‘What’s this…?’

I couldn’t understand this sudden situation. At that moment, his face leaned closer in front of my face, and his nose and mine were close enough to touch.

“I was waiting for you to say that.”

Yeah, I think that’s what I’ve been waiting for, but more than that,

“…You waited for me to speak?”

Aren’t things going much easier than I thought?

Was this a trap card?

I doubted all kinds of possibilities, and I was aware of putting my life on the line.

Then the Duke whispered in a slightly harsh voice.

“Yes, I waited.”

I was even more terrified when I heard those words.

There was a guillotine in the castle that executed humans only a decade ago.

Could I really enter this easily?

This is definitely suspicious…

‘Calm down, Astel’

Even though it seems more dangerous than Duke Anais, it shouldn’t be embarrassing for some reason, even if this situation feels like a very sweet trap.

In preparation for meeting him, I wrote a script and practiced acting.

I straightened my face and smiled nicely. His gaze glanced over my face.

“Do you know me?”

“No, I don’t—”

I took off my pretense and showed a confident expression.

“You seemed to know who I was, but I guess it’s not.”

“No, I don’t! Never!.”

And there was one more thing.

“Right, I couldn’t really expect anything, even a little.”

The Duke’s eyes narrowed, but he no longer asked questions of doubt.

Instead, he slowly spoke to me, “We’ll go to the Duke of Anais Castle.”

“…Yes?”

“Because that castle’s my home.”

As far as I knew, he was cold and sober and more aristocratic.

Those perfectly drowsy eyes were staring openly at me, with no way to bend with laughter.

As I had prepared, I replied similarly to the director of the treatment center who had saved Duke Anais from the original 『Blood Revenge.』

“If that castle was your home if that castle? So, if you do, then you’re Duke Anais?”

“Yes.”, He raised his head and answered.

It was a very concise answer. I put my hand in front of my chest and sighed.

“I have saved Duke Anais! It’s an honor. By the way, it was really close to a critical situation for the north. Thank God, I’ve saved your life to the greatest of my ability.”

It seemed like overreacting, but I couldn’t stop

“…”

“I thought you were going to die, so I didn’t even notice your handsome face because I was just focusing on the treatment. Haha!”

This dialogue contained a lot of information from the words of the director who saved the Duke in the original. ‘Being not selfish and just a coincidence that I saved him!’

Also, I’m a nice person, and I’m also smart as a trader. After this was an unseen video.

(N: details pertaining to the original which were not mentioned. The author literally used the word VIDEO)

Similar to the original content, the Duke would say, ‘Okay. Then the details of the reward should be talked about after we arrive at the Castle.’

With my glistening eyes, the Duke nodded wearily.

And he replied with a sincere glance as if chewing on the information contained in the previous words.

“I’m handsome.”

“Yes, right now the Duke-, what…?”

Of course, it’s the right thing to say.

But now is not the time to say that…!

However, before I could even point out his reaction that seemed to be out of focus, the Duke opened his mouth first.

“Then, please tell me the name of my benefactor.”

Now I have the opportunity to tell him my name.

A bit of a suspicious and strange thing happened but as a result, I finally did it!

I opened my mouth and imprinted my name and identity on him, “It’s Astel, please call me Astel! I’m a commoner working at a treatment center outside Duke Castle.”

“Yes, alright.”, He answered simply.

I was worried that his attitude would change because I was a low-status commoner, but fortunately, there was no such thing.

At last, his languid eyes met mine.

“Astel.”

As the Duke called my name in an indifferent tone, my heart thumped and my face felt hot.

Why do I suddenly feel like my heart pricks? My breathing kept getting rougher, and it felt like something was pressing on my chest.

As a healer, I had unknown chest pain.

‘I never fell in love at first sight, but my heart felt very uncomfortable.’

I was in doubt, but the Duke reached out to me. I casually put my hand over his outstretched hand.

“Let’s go to the Duke’s Castle and talk.”

It was a polite escort that didn’t seem to contain even a little selfishness.

However, the moment I touched him, cool energy came up from my fingertips and calmed the mild fever that was burning my forehead.

…What is this??