The Prince Is Dead, So Let’s Start Over Everything Again!

It was fortunate that as soon as I realized I was in the world of the novel, I had organized and memorized the plot.

If I hadn’t, I probably wouldn’t even remember the protagonists’ names by now.

Anyway, the content of <That Northern Grand Duke and the Baron’s Daughter Do Not Love Each Other> was as follows:

In the perpetually cold North…

The so-and-so Grand Duke, who grew up harshly in that desolate land and doesn’t know love, somehow meets the so-and-so Baron’s daughter, who has the charm of a wildflower’s purity and the tenacity of a weed.

And for some reason, they end up in a contract marriage…

‘…No, let’s think again. The protagonists’ names aren’t “so-and-so Grand Duke” and “so-and-so Lady”!’

I struggled to remember the protagonists’ names. But I simply couldn’t recall them.

Well, it’s not strange that I can’t remember. The names of this novel’s leads are all unnecessarily long and difficult.

The names are so grandiose that sometimes I even get confused about the name of the character I’ve possessed.

With five or six middle names, how on earth am I supposed to memorize all that?

‘Can’t be helped. The protagonists’ names aren’t that important, right?’

I cleanly gave up on the content I had already forgotten and started to trace the novel’s plot again.

“Why should I marry a daughter from such an insignificant family?”

“Because only I will not love you.”

Hmm, let’s skip ahead…

“What? That so-and-so Grand Duke is going to marry a mere Baron’s daughter? How dare they insult me, Hariella so-and-so Lulupel, like this?”

Good. I finally remembered Hariella’s entrance scene.

Hariella, who has been in love with the Northern Grand Duke since childhood for some reason, can’t accept the fact that he’s marrying a daughter from an unremarkable Baron’s family.

So she orders her nominal fiancé, the so-and-so Prince, to seduce and kill the Baron’s daughter.

The so-and-so Prince, being a powerless puppet, couldn’t disobey Hariella’s orders.

As for why the so-and-so Prince, a member of the royal family no less, became Hariella’s pawn…

‘…Hmm, I can’t remember this either.’

There must have been some reason.

Anyway, the so-and-so Prince immediately heads north.

And as if by a twist of fate, he falls in love at first sight with the so-and-so Baron’s daughter…

“That’s it! This is it!”

Suddenly, a brilliant idea struck me. I unconsciously shouted out loud.

Soon, I heard the sound of blankets rustling from the maid’s room. It seemed that Anna had jolted awake, startled.

“……Are you perhaps awake, Young Miss?”

“Oh my. I was. Sleep talking. Mmmm mmmm.”

“Ah, so it was sleep talking. How unusual……”

I quickly deceived Anna using my excellent acting skills, honed over many years.

Anna seemed to be reassured and lay back down on her bed.

Phew, this amazing acting ability. It’s all natural talent.

I breathed a sigh of relief and observed the situation for a moment.

Anna must have fallen back asleep quickly, as all was quiet.

Only then did I carefully slip out of bed.

My destination was the desk.

‘There should be some paper around here somewhere… Ah! Found it.’

After sitting at the desk, I carefully searched for the necessary items.

I couldn’t turn on the light because of Anna, but the moonlight coming through the window was bright enough that it wasn’t too inconvenient.

Fortunately, even 8 years ago, my things were in similar places. I easily got my hands on paper and a fountain pen.

‘The contract marriage of the so-and-so Northern Grand Duke and the so-and-so Baron’s daughter…’

I wrote down everything I could remember about the original story on the paper.

I didn’t forget to write in Korean instead of the imperial language, just in case.

‘…And this is the most important part.’

I put down the fountain pen I was holding and picked up a new one. It was a pen filled with red ink.

Holding the red pen, I drew a big circle around the words ‘Hariella’s nominal fiancé, the so-and-so Prince’.

Five stars, a long underline, and pigtail dots.

Then I added below it, ‘Sixteenth birthday, 3rd Prince’s life in danger’.

The only achievement of my 3rd life.

It was that I finally managed to learn a bit about the contents of the letter sent from the imperial family!

In the 1st and 2nd rounds, it ended with Count Lulupel just looking serious while reading the letter.

Thinking about it that way, I could say I had achieved quite a feat in the 3rd round.

‘The 3rd Prince is probably dead, right?’

The empire’s land was vast. Even with a magic messenger, it couldn’t deliver a letter overnight.

If the sender’s life was in danger when writing the letter, there was a high probability that the 3rd Prince had already passed away by the time the messenger arrived at Lulupel.

The death of the 3rd Prince.

I had a vague hope that this might be the cause of my regression.

Because tomorrow, I’m scheduled to receive a marriage proposal from the 3rd Prince.

The beginning of the regression is the 3rd Prince’s proposal. And the end of the regression is the 3rd Prince’s death.

It smelled very suspicious.

‘…Should I try meeting the 3rd Prince this time?’

In my past three lives, I had never once met the 3rd Prince.

What good would it do for a villain like me to become acquainted with the protagonist?

That was the shortcut to throwing my promising life into the gutter.

I didn’t want to meet either the female or male protagonist, but the one I least wanted to meet was definitely the sub-male lead, the 3rd Prince.

There was absolutely nothing good that could come from me getting involved with the 3rd Prince.

The 3rd Prince, who falls in love with the female protagonist, kills Hariella who stands in her way, and then self-destructs.

This was the unfortunate fate given to the villainess and the sub-male lead.

Anyone in their right mind wouldn’t want to get tangled up with someone who would become such an ill-fated connection.

……So, was my mind slightly askew?

4th round of regression. Even I thought I might have gone a bit crazy.

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