1. The Villainess of a Dark Romance Novel Wants to Survive

“Ah! That hurts. Could you loosen your grip a bit?!”

“Hmm…… Anyone watching would think I’m forcing this. I’m just making a legitimate request written in the contract.”

This man lifting one corner of his mouth with a face full of satisfaction as if he had succeeded in hunting is Felix Benedict Solium.

The second prince of the Solium Empire and the sun and male protagonist of the Rated-R dark romance fantasy novel ‘The Villainess Defiles the Sun’ that I possessed into. Then who am I? The villainess who defiles him.

“The, the contract didn’t say you could hurt me like this, you know?”

“You should be grateful that I’m only holding your hand like this. The contract didn’t say I should only hold your hand either.”

I was left speechless by his shameless words. In the original work, I definitely defile this man. How? Because the villainess I possessed had the ability to control him!

But this possession is somewhat strange. It feels like he’s defiling me, not the other way around.

“Your hands are quite cold.”

“Ah, hot…… It’s boiling again. What exactly are you excited about this time?”

“There are many things that excite me.”

Felix’s eyes sparkled as he answered. It was the momentum of a predator who wouldn’t let go of prey that had fallen into his grasp. Even though we were just holding hands, when I saw his piercing gaze, I often felt like I might be devoured if I said one wrong word.

Soon Felix’s thumb began to gently stroke down the back of my hand. I bit my lips, startled by the tingling sensation.

‘I should have waited for the ambulance to arrive like the sergeant said back then……’

My past life’s final moments came to mind under Felix’s gaze. It was useless to regret it now, but still, isn’t this too much? I had only tried to save someone at the valley, yet I transmigrated into the body of a villainess who meets a burning execution ending.

“Marina. What are you thinking about?”

The sun— no, Felix, who sat in front of me, raised his eyebrows and asked. Unable to confess the truth, I desperately changed the subject.

“Well…… how did I…… no, how did we end up like this?”

“It sounds like you’re saying you hate being like this with me.”

“Ah, well, it’s not exactly that……”

“It’s not exactly that?”

Right, I don’t exactly hate holding hands with Felix. He’s so handsome that anyone would gape at first sight. With his lustrous black hair and sparkling red eyes, masculine jawline and sharp nose bridge, plus his tall height. The reason this situation of holding hands with such a man is uncomfortable is because of my future.

Marina Enchester, whom I possessed, is a villaness who defiles the sun, and gets burned at the stake as hot as the sun for the crime of toying with the second prince Felix Benedict Solium, who possesses a powerful sun power.

“Haha. Yes, well, that’s right.”

“Even if it’s just words, it feels good.”

Felix’s expression began to gradually calm down. He completely buried his face in my hand. Feeling his hot heat subside, my mood also became refreshed. Soon a faint moan escaped from Felix’s lips as he closed both of his eyes.

“Haah……”

‘The sun’s power seems to be calming down.’

He was born with unprecedented tremendous power even among the imperial family of the Solium Empire who are born with the sun’s power. Including the portion that should have belonged to his older brother, the first prince, Kervic Rus Solium.

「The sun’s power that the second prince possesses is cursed! I, Kervic Rus Solium, as the first prince, command that the name Solium be erased from the former second prince Felix Benedict Solium and that he be confined!」

So in the original work, Felix went berserk due to Kervic’s conspiracy born from jealousy of Felix’s power.

‘The original novel starts from here, right?’

Marina Enchester is the only person who can offset Felix’s power, which has the danger of going berserk. Since killing Felix might cause the sun’s power to consume the empire, Kervic confined him and used Marina to suppress his power.

‘But God gave Marina the ability to handle water, but didn’t give her money……’

Marina was the daughter of a fallen noble family with only a title in name and no livelihood. She participated in Kervic’s plan because of money and ended up being burned at the stake by Felix.

“It’s amazing every time. That I become this refreshed when I touch you……”

“Yes, yes…… I’m a human sprinkler right here……”

Felix, who had regained his senses, murmured lowly while caressing my hand that had a cool energy. I muttered quietly and tried to smile brightly as if nothing was wrong. Seeing me like that, Felix suddenly turned his head away sharply.

‘What. Now that you’re done with your business, you’re going to pretend not to know?’

I squinted and glanced at Felix’s reddened profile.

“Now that you seem to have calmed down somewhat, and I seem to have finished what I needed to do, I’ll slowly get up.”

I slyly pulled my hand out of his grasp. Then Felix’s hand followed like lightning.

“……No. Not yet.”

“……?”

“Just holding hands isn’t enough to calm me down anymore.”

“What……? Then what……”

He quickly approached close to my lips. My body tensed up and I flinched. Even his fine hair came into view.

‘Why is this guy acting like this lately……!?’

My body trembled like prey caught by a predator. My recent feelings toward Felix were not business but ‘fear.’

I tried to avoid getting involved with either prince to escape the original ending, but my plan turned to bubbles. Just like the day I transmigrated, because of this damn meddlesome nature!

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Before my transmigration, I was a rookie patrol officer at the quiet rural Seocheon branch police station.

‘Passion! Effort! With just these two things, anything can be solved!’

I endured my police exam preparation life with that motto and finally became a patrol officer. Honestly, I had a rather passionate personality, and my sense of mission to become a police officer who helps people was tremendous to the point of overflowing.

“Patrol Officer Lee Su-jeong. It’s cold, why don’t you stay by the heater for a bit before going?”

“I’m fine, Sergeant! I’ll patrol the area one more time and come back!”

“Then at least wear gloves.”

In winter, I would clear the snow piled in the alleys from early dawn, helping people commute safely to work. No one acknowledged it, but I felt proud. Watching me like that, the senior sergeant always said I was hopeless.

Though clumsy, I was active and hardworking, which earned me trust from those around me…… But passion didn’t always bring good results.

“Hey, Lee Su-jeong! Is it you again!”

“Ah…… I’m sorry. But I couldn’t just stand by and watch……”

There was the incident where I tried to catch a wild boar that appeared in a residential area and ended up being chased by the excited boar along with the sergeant, and there was also the time when I was patrolling rural roads and helped repair a pipe that supplied water to rice fields, only to have the pipe burst completely and get drenched.

“You’re a complete water ghost. A water ghost.”

The senior sergeant called me that whenever I caused an accident—because, like a water ghost, I dragged people into the scene with me.

The day I transmigrated was a day when we received a report of flood damage due to suddenly swollen valley water and were dispatched. In front of me and the sergeant who had responded, black muddy water was flowing rapidly down the torrent.

“There’s someone over there!”

Vacationers pointed to one spot in unison.

“The paramedics…… when exactly is the ambulance coming?!”

I pressed the sergeant who was on the phone with the paramedics. After hearing the paramedic’s response, the sergeant turned pale and shouted.

“What? How does that make sense?”

“Sergeant, what are they saying?”

“Oh no, this is bad. They say the ambulance can’t get in right away because the water has risen too much.”

“What? So when will they arrive?”

“I don’t know. They say they’re taking a detour, but there’s only this road……”

It was one disaster after another. It had been raining like crazy since morning, and both the ambulance and vacationers were stranded.

“No, Sergeant! So you’re saying we should just watch this situation?”

“Hey, hey! If you keep that up, you’ll really become a water ghost! Hey, Lee Su-jeong! Don’t go!”

In the rushing water stream, a woman was desperately clinging to a tree on the bank. Vacationers gradually gathered around the valley.

“We told them so many times that the water would rise because of the rainy season, honestly……!!”

The senior sergeant just rubbed his head with a frustrated face.

Why aren’t you rescuing her, if you’re police you should jump in right now and save her. The gathered people were each throwing out comments as if they could solve this situation immediately.

“Excuse me, could I borrow this?”

I borrowed tubes and life jackets from the vacationers and threw them, but it wasn’t enough. Every time the woman clinging to the tree reached out to grab the rescue equipment, the rapids hit even more violently.

“Please save me!”

The woman barely holding onto the tree seemed to have reached her limit. Hearing her desperate cry, I instinctively felt I couldn’t just stand by and watch. I hurriedly took out a rope from the police car. It belonged to the sergeant who had climbing as a hobby.