The softness she felt was unlike anything she had ever experienced before. The pleasant sensation brought an involuntary smile to her face.

How could anything be this soft? The cozy blanket and bed provided such comfortable tranquility that she felt the urge to stay in bed all day.

It was while she was turning in the blanket that it happened. The moment Alicia regained consciousness, she realized something was wrong.

Did it make sense that she was lying in a soft bed?

Her room had only a hard bed, not a soft one. What was going on…

As her eyelids fluttered open, Alicia’s vision was filled with an unfamiliar ceiling. Her eyes widened in surprise at the elaborate patterns she had never seen before.

‘Where am I?’

Belatedly coming to her senses, Alicia hurriedly sat up and looked around.

Good heavens!

No wonder the blanket felt soft and the bed plush. She realized she was lying in a room she had never seen before.

Alicia continued examining the room with startled eyes.

With its classic atmosphere, this place resembled a man’s room rather than a young woman’s.

Why was she sleeping in a man’s room? What had she done last night to wake up in a stranger’s room?

Alicia tried to recall her last memory before falling asleep.

What was it? Nothing unusual seemed to have happened.

No matter how much she thought about it, she hadn’t done anything special. Her last memory was washing up and going to sleep in her own room.

With a puzzled expression, she looked around and began to speak.

“Where am I…”

Alicia stopped mid-sentence. A deep male voice had come out of her mouth.

‘Why does my voice sound like this?’

Just as she was about to wrap her hands around her throat, Alicia realized something was wrong with her body.

‘Why is my neck so thick?’

Her typically slender, long neck felt unusually thick today. And what was this protruding Adam’s apple?

When she quickly looked down, she barely managed to suppress a scream. Her neck, hands, everything was not her own. Even…

‘My, my br*asts are gone!’

Her full br*asts had disappeared, replaced by a hard, flat chest. Alicia’s eyes grew round like a startled rabbit.

She hastily removed her hands that had been feeling her body. She was clearly in the body of a man with an impressive physique and solid build, leaving her mind in such turmoil that she didn’t know what to do.

‘Am I dreaming?’

Even if it was a dream, she needed to confirm what she looked like, so Alicia hurriedly got up and headed toward the mirror hanging in the corner.

With each step she took, she felt unfamiliar sensations. The solid, heavy feeling was quite burdensome.

Stumbling along in this unfamiliar body, she stood before the mirror and her mouth fell open in shock.

Good heavens!

Pitch-black hair, intense gray eyes, a prominent nose bridge, sharp jawline…

Alicia knew all too well who the large man reflected in the mirror was.

Cassion, Duke Lowden.

She had seen him only once at a social gathering, but he had made such a strong impression that she could never forget him.

Having never seen him this close before, Alicia needed to check her appearance again. No matter how she looked at it, the man in the mirror was indeed Duke Lowden.

The only difference from when she had seen him before was that instead of his neatly styled slicked-back hair, his dark hair was now completely disheveled.

What kind of man was he again?

He was known as the aristocrat among aristocrats, the head of the Lowden ducal family, with a proud disposition.

Though he appeared gentlemanly on the surface, he exuded an intimidating aura that kept people at a distance. When others crossed the line, he didn’t hesitate to reveal the sharp blade hidden within.

The apex predator of the food chain.

That was the best way to describe him. Once he found his prey, he was a man who would never let go until he had torn it to pieces.

Having inherited the Lowden duchy at a young age and leading the family, the modifier “best” suited him well in everything.

He was the empire’s wealthiest man and a brilliant businessman. Moreover, he possessed handsome features, overflowing dignity, and restrained, elegant manners.

These qualities had captured the hearts of many women, making him recognized as the most eligible bachelor in high society.

However, despite his handsome appearance, his unapproachable aura meant that while many women admired him, they couldn’t easily approach him.

Alicia, a poor country noble, had no connection with such a remarkable man. She had heard that he once had a brief acquaintance with her father, but that was all.

Her younger sister Natalie, like other young ladies, had also lost her heart to Duke Lowden, but had never even spoken with him. And yet…

How on earth had she ended up in the body of a man with whom she had no connection?

Alicia looked into the mirror once more with disbelieving eyes.

Perhaps it was his intense aura. When she slightly frowned, she felt a fear that he might bite her neck at any moment.

This is a dream. A terrible nightmare.

Because the situation happening to her made no sense, Alicia wanted to believe it was all a dream.

Worried she might wake up, she pinched her cheek. The texture felt different from usual.

Her skin was soft, but the man’s skin felt much firmer. Because of this, she felt only a vague pain that was neither clearly painful nor painless.

Should she pinch both cheeks?

Alicia pinched her cheeks with all her might, but she didn’t wake up from the dream.

What’s going on here!

While she continued staring anxiously at the mirror, there was a knock at the door. Knock, knock.

Should she answer or not?

While Alicia hesitated, the knocking sound came again.

“Your Grace? May I come in for a moment?”

When there was no answer, the man who had knocked seemed ready to open the door himself. Feeling she couldn’t ignore the situation any longer, Alicia managed to open her stiff lips and spoke.

“Come in.”

She tried to speak with as much dignity as possible, but it felt subtly different from the Duke Lowden’s voice she had heard before.

‘What should I do?’

She only knew Duke Lowden’s outward appearance, not what kind of man he really was. So she worried about making a mistake.

Alicia had no choice but to remain tense until the door opened. Gulp. Her mouth kept drying up, and no matter how much she swallowed, she still felt thirsty.

Just then, a thought flashed through Alicia’s mind. What state was her body in right now?

‘Surely Duke Lowden isn’t occupying my body like I’m occupying his?’

The mere thought was dizzying. She wanted to believe it wasn’t true, but given that she was now in a man’s body, there was a high probability that his soul was residing in her empty physical form.

‘What might the arrogant Duke be doing with my body?’

Wasn’t Duke Lowden a proud and haughty nobleman who had never bowed his head to anyone in his life?

So if they had truly switched bodies, she had an ominous feeling that today would not pass quietly.