**{5}**

Ain collapsed, his legs giving out. Fortunately, he hadn’t yet crossed paths with the obsessive Alpha, Alexei. As long as he stayed cautious, he could avoid the death flags.

Having read the original novel, he was in a favorable position as if he were a prophet of the future. Ain tried to calm his excitement and assess the situation rationally.

Since Lady Reina hadn’t died in the accident yet, there was still hope. With the help of a young servant, Ain changed his clothes and was guided to the playroom. It was filled with cute stuffed animals, storybooks, and wooden blocks.

He pretended to play with the toys while organizing his thoughts. He didn’t understand why he had been reincarnated as the villain in such a hardcore BL novel, but he needed to find a way to survive. For now, the most important thing was to keep Reina alive.

Count Charles loved his wife dearly. If Reina died, he would completely cut ties with his son.

In the novel, the villain character causes a scene on his birthday over an unsatisfactory gift. Reina, troubled by this, goes to a jewelry store immediately after the birthday party to buy a new gift. However, she is killed by a thief when leaving the store, despite having two knights as bodyguards.

The plot of the novel was as nonsensical as expected. Charles, believing Reina’s death was caused by the villain, abandons his role as a loving father.

The villain, unable to tolerate his father’s coldness, reports him for child abuse and seizes his position. Of course, the incompetent villain cannot protect the family’s vast fortune. Servants and maids steal all valuable items from the house, leaving the villain destitute.

Meanwhile, Charles starts a business with a small amount of capital and becomes incredibly successful. When the villain seeks help, Charles rejects him with contempt. The rift between the two is beyond repair.

Ain pretended to feed a carrot toy to a rabbit doll while sneakily glancing at the young servant, feeling embarrassed by his first attempt at acting.

..."I can’t wait to get my birthday present~."...

..."Young master, are you looking forward to your birthday so much? Hehe. You should see how hard Lady Reina has worked. You can look forward to it tomorrow."...

He was startled. If his reincarnation had been delayed by just a bit, he would have been on a one-way train to hell. In the novel, the villain’s life falls into a pit starting from his birthday. As an adult, he turns to sell his body to Alphas and engages in prostitution.

That’s how Alexei was introduced.

Since Ain was already in the body of a rich kid, he wanted to live a peaceful, safe, and ordinary life. He would be satisfied with just drawing and having three meals a day. To achieve that, he needed to save Reina. This was something he could resolve fairly easily.

While playing with the boring toys, he wondered why noble families didn’t hire tutors for children of this age. He recalled that the villain in his childhood was such a social misfit that Reina hadn’t hired a tutor.

Ain opened a storybook to check if he could read it. As expected, he couldn’t. He asked the young servant to read it for him. The boy approached and read aloud with familiarity.

..."Once upon a time, the Creator made the world. On the first day, he said, 'Let there be land,' and land appeared. On the second day, he said, 'Let there be sky,' and the sky appeared."...

Ain was fascinated by how the storybooks in this world resembled Biblical stories from reality. Of course, that didn’t make the boring storybook any more enjoyable.

He turned his attention away from the young servant and started playing with the wooden blocks. The boy chuckled as if he had anticipated this.

‘Hey, did you just mock me? Do you think I’m dumb? Just so you know, I graduated from a four-year university in Seoul.’

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