Karin had been about to tear at her hair, but stopped when her still-healing head began to throb, and instead pounded the cushions.

‘Ugh, what is this? How did I end up in this situation?!’

She had been someone who worked grueling days in Korea, finding solace in reading web novels from time to time.

She clearly remembered falling asleep while reading a novel. But when she woke up, she had become a character from the very novel she’d been reading.

And of all people, she had become Karin Wendis, the villainess who stood between the male lead Luke and the female lead Alicia!

‘No way, I hate this. I won’t do it! First, let me get the female lead and male lead to meet. Then they’ll naturally get together on their own. Perfect. Let’s try that.’

Even though she had ended up engaged to the male lead, things would work out somehow if she did that. Karin steeled her resolve.

* * *

After the attendants left, the door clicked shut. Luke, who had been staring at the door, slowly turned his gaze toward Karin. Her body flinched instinctively.

‘This… wasn’t supposed to happen. How did things end up like this?’

Something was wrong. By now, the male and female leads should have been happily together, and she should have been out of the picture. Instead, she found herself spending her first night with the male lead. Karin froze in place.

Luke’s lips curled into a faint smile.

“Why are you so tense?”

“…I don’t know about you, Your Grace, but this is my first time.”

“It’s not ‘Your Grace’ anymore, but ‘honey’ or ‘darling,’ isn’t it? Aren’t I your husband now?”

Luke said this while approaching Karin. Even though Karin had nowhere to run, she pointlessly glanced behind her.

Luke’s large hand settled on her round shoulder. His hand gripped her flinching shoulder firmly, but not painfully.

Then in an instant, he pulled her gown down.

“Ah!”

When her chest was exposed, Karin’s face flushed red with shame and she tried to pull the gown back up, but Luke’s other hand was already at the gown’s ties. When he pulled the gown’s strings, the front opened wide, revealing her bare chest and lower body completely.

“W-wait…!”

“Wait for what?”

Luke responded with what seemed like mockery and grasped Karin’s br*ast. At twenty-one years old, her firm, perky br*ast had a red n*pple at its tip that stood er*ect even without being touched.

Luke’s rough fingertips brushed and passed over that n*pple. Karin couldn’t resist like before. She couldn’t refuse this. Though her desire to refuse was overwhelming and made her body tremble.

“Relax.”

Luke gazed intently at the trembling white body and spoke informally.