For My Derelict Favorite

At first, I believed it was a vivid dream.
I drifted off while rereading a romance novel that I indeed had completed before.
When I opened my eyes, an unfamiliar place was brought into view.
No, to be honest, it wasn't unfamiliar since this place was none other than a novel I had read.

It was a really peculiar experience.

It was a novel and not a novel at the same time.
To put it another way, this place is obviously fictional, but in reality, it has become a reality that touches my skin**.

**(피부에 와닿다/I can feel it on my skin= to realize/sink in)

From that day onwards, I enjoyed the story that felt more graphic than VR.
Fortunately, the wealth I had was abundant for no reason; therefore, I poured all this money generously into achieving good things.

In order to see the main characters up close, I bought the status of the Fallen Nobility with money in advance to enter the noble's gathering.
How excited I was as a true fanatic to witness all of the main characters passing by in front of me.

First of all, the female lead, as described in the novel, has long pink hair with a subtle pearly hue.
Bright eyes with a mysterious mixture of blue and green, like the color of the sea at Hyeopjae Beach**.
Perhaps it was because she was the most beautiful woman in this world.
Wherever she strolled, light powder seemed to scatter.
As the role of providing the strongest cider** in the novel, she was very bold.

**협재/Hyeopjae= Beach on Jeju Island in Korea

**사이다/cider= Famous drink similar to sprite, a slang for satisfaction and refreshingness that we can feel when an injustice situation is solved

It was a minor abrasion to my fortune, but after paying a considerable donation and meeting the saint, it was truly worth the money.

There are also another two individuals who had no choice but to rank first place in the beauty rankings along with the heroine.

The male lead, a Crown Prince, who is a dignified man, and his best friend, a young marquis, a sub-male lead who acts as a barrier between the male lead and the female lead.

The male lead perfectly fulfilled the demands of black-haired male maniacs.
A combination of black hair and golden eyes.
In addition, just as though he was the best man in the world view of a movie, he had a body if it was a body, a head if it was a head**and even his innate status as the crown prince.
It was a character that the writer was resolved and written solely the best.

**몸이면 몸, 머리면 머리/body if it was a body, a head if it was a head= ?

The opposite of the crown prince is my sub-male lead.
Although he was initially cold-hearted and would sometimes create cruel decisions for his own sake, he was the sweetest man in the world when it came to the heroine.
And in spite of his desperate love for the woman, he was an unfortunate man who was not selected by the female lead in the end.

The original plot was as follows.

Diana was a saint with healing powers referred to as divine power.
A great priestess of the gods who always offers devotion by the side of the powerless.
Her heart was as beautiful as her looks, and she was named the only hope in an empire where all kinds of greed and trickery were rampant.

There were two men who yielded their hearts to her.
Crown Prince Helios and his best friend, Marquis Caelus.
The two men, through their position and their fortune, assisted her side by side and supported her in making the world a better place.

“Diana, you are always right.
I will join you.”

“Don't forget that I'm always behind you, Diana.”

Of course, there were also villains who defied the protagonists.
Mainly The Duke of Orcus, the head of the nobility, and his daughter, Princess Letona.
He was a typical villain who would not hesitate to commit unscrupulous crimes for their own benefit.
As the protagonists confronted them, the love and love triangle of the three main characters deepened.
The villain Letona, who opposes the heroine, tormented Diana.
She was supported by an influential family that was not afraid of the emperor together with a desire to marry Helios and become the future empress.

Her words were as followed, “Doesn't the noblest of the blood befit the noblest of the Empire? Unlike this woman with low blood.”

“If the Empire does not wish for the Duke of Orcus to establish a new principality, you will have to accept this marriage, Your Majesty.”

The emperor's authority was shaken without mercy by the interference of the nobles.
Hence, the Crown Prince was coerced into an undesirable marriage over the woman he loved.
In the end, the sub-male lead didn't hesitate to release the gun** as soon as he discovered evidence of the crimes his duchess had committed for his friends and loved ones.

**총대를 멨다/release the gun= to take on a common task that no one is reluctant to take on as a representative.

“The only way to uproot the duke's villainy is now.
The imperial family might face a counterattack if they come forward.
Hence, this time I have no choice but to move alone.”

Here, the decisive reason why the sub-male lead was not chosen by the female lead appeared.
It was the duke and his daughter who drank the poison on their own.
Although they ended their lives by suicide, the sub-male lead had exterminated them regardless.

The female lead fiercely criticized the behavior of the sub-male lead.
It was the decision of the sub-male lead who cut off the buds in advance** for fear that the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Haengnyeo would receive only lenient punishment and would face the prince and the saint again, but the heroine rebuked this as cruel and immoral.
Moreover, she pointed out, it is clear that he, who was only her marquis, allowed the duke and princess to die at will.

**미리 싹을 잘라냈던/cut off the buds in advance= the problem must be prevented before it becomes more serious

“Caelus! How can you force someone to choose death on their own? What a vicious way to punish them…