Chapter 2

2. A Novel Not Read to the End

A room decorated with colorful chandeliers.

A woman with light pink hair was lying down on top of a bed in a cold sweat.

“So the child was miscarried?”

“Yes, unfortunately, it looks like she had a miscarriage.”

“Ha.”

Eric sighed deeply at the words of the doctor. Without looking at the woman lying in bed, he turned his back and tried to go out the door.

“Don’t worry about your wife. She’ll get better and wake up soon.”

Slam!

Before the doctor could even finish speaking, Eric walked out the door.

“Tsk. She’s your wife, but why are you so indifferent towards her?”

The doctor clicked his tongue and looked at Rose, who was lying unconsciously. In the eyes of the doctor, Rose looked infinitely pitiful. Why is such a bastard clinging to something good?

There is no one in this entire empire who does not know that the marriage was made possible through Rose’s passionate courtship.

At that time, Rose, who had collapsed as if she was dead, clenched her fingers and slowly began to open her eyes.

“Madam! Are you awake?”

“Madam….?”

An unfamiliar man’s voice was heard. When she opened her eyes, a middle-aged foreigner was saying something to her.

“After three days, you woke up.”

It’s been three days….

She recalled her last memory before losing consciousness.

‘I remember the building collapsing and falling down…’

Suddenly, the ground caved in and the building collapsed. She thought she would have died, but she didn’t and seemed to have been rescued.

‘……I wanted to die.’

It was a life where she couldn’t even die.

Because her husband was taken away by a friend she trusted, and she was miserably abandoned.

‘……Where the hell am I?’

It was too fancy to be a hospital, and it was strange for the stranger in front of her to speak fluent Korean.

“Where am I?”

After waking up after three days, even her voice seemed to have strangely changed. It was one tone higher than the original voice, and it was more refreshing than the original one.

“Yes? ……This is the Madam’s room. Are you alright?”

The doctor looked at Rose with a worried look. You don’t even know that this is your room and ask where you are.

“My… Room?”

She looked around with a confused look.

‘A luxurious room that can’t be compared to my shabby studio apartment is my room.…?’

While looking around, she hardened like a stone when she saw herself reflected in the mirror.

Why is there a woman that she has never seen before in the mirror?

She stood up slowly, staring blankly at the mirror without saying a single word.

She heard the doctor say that she shouldn’t get up yet, but she ignored it and started to stagger towards the mirror.

“What’s going on…?’

A slender and beautiful woman, completely different from her original self, stood in front of the mirror.

Suddenly her legs lost strength and she staggered, and the doctor who was beside her hurriedly supported Rose.

“Madam Wens, are you okay?”

And he even called her Madam Wens……?

Despite being in the midst of chaos, the name of the male protagonist in the novel that she had once read came to mind.

She didn’t remember the names of the main characters in the novel well, but she remembered this name clearly.

Because he was the male protagonist who was cursed for being a count like ‘Wens’.1

‘Of all things, possession…‘

Rose was sure with her splitting headache. That she was confident that she possessed Madam Wens, the heroine in the waste novel she abandoned just before she died.

Rose de Wens.

It’s the name of the character in the novel that she possessed.

Rose was the only child of a fallen count, she was the daughter of a family that was pretending to be friendly with the Wens family….2

It was the setting that Rose’s parents fell ill after she had fallen in love with Eric at first sight and chasing after him, perhaps?

After the doctor left, Rose sat in bed blankly and organized her situation.

But because she read it so cursorily, she couldn’t remember the details.

What she could remember is that Eric didn’t like Rose, as opposed to the fact that Rose couldn’t fall out of love with Eric.

At that time, a maid knocked on Rose’s door and came in.

“Madam. I’ve prepared the bath. I also sprinkled lavender petals.”

“Bath? The doctor told me to take a light shower and take a bath in about two weeks because my condition still isn’t good. And my period isn’t over yet.”

Rose was unaware that she had a miscarriage. This was because the doctor was not able to tell Rose, who looked extremely distressed, and instead only told the maid this fact.

Hearing the word ‘period’, the maid’s face turned white.

‘She has short term memory loss just as the doctor said…..”

Rose was unaware that she had a miscarriage. This was because the doctor was not able to tell Rose, who looked extremely distressed, and instead only told the maid this fact.

She looked at Rose with a very sad expression, recalling the doctor’s words saying that she might have even forgotten that she was pregnant in the worst case scenario.

The maid thought for a while about what to do in this situation. She greeted Rose with an awkward look and hurried out.

“I wanted to take a shower. Should I just sleep tonight?”

The maid thought for a while about what to do in this situation. She greeted Rose with an awkward look and hurried out.

Her body felt very heavy. Her whole body was drooping to the point where she thought she was pulling herself from off the ground.

Rose began to doze off like a sick chicken. It was because she fell asleep when she was lying down.

Soon after, Rose completely fell asleep. In her room, only the resonating sound of Rose’s breathing was heard.

She thought that the night was going to pass without any incidents occurring.

Squeak!

Someone opened Rose’s door and came inside the room.

He must have known that Rosé fell asleep because the lights were off and he couldn’t feel her presence.

The person strode towards the bed, perhaps it didn’t matter if Rose, who had just fallen asleep, woke up. The man stared at Rose, who was sleeping.

Did he just wash up and come out? The man’s hair, who was looking at Rose, was wet.

“Did she fall asleep?”

He murmured, touching Rose’s cheek as she slept. At his touch, Rose buried herself deeper into the sheets as if tickled by his hand.

As the man slowly took off the robe that was draped over his body, his strong, muscular body was reflected in the moonlight.

The naked man laid on top of Rose’s bed. He caressed Rose with a soft touch.

“Hmmm…….”

Rose, who was asleep, tossed and turned before rubbing her eyes and opening them.

‘It tickles…..’

A black object flickered faintly in front of Rose, who had blinked her eyes open with a hazy mind.

‘What?’

Her vision, which had been clouded like a mist, became clearer and clearer. She definitely fell asleep alone, but a man was staring at her gently.

“Kya!!!!”

Rose, who belatedly discovered the man, screamed and buried herself into the sheets.

“Don’t scream so loudly.”

The man grabbed Rose and frowned at her angrily.

“Who-Who are you?”

Rose stared at the man, terrified.

“You’re kidding me. What do you mean who’s your husband?”

It was Count Eric de Wens, her husband, who entered Rose’s bedroom.

“Husband…?”

At Eric’s words, Rose looked at him with a questioning expression.

“Madam!”

Upon hearing Rose’s scream, the maid and the knights opened her door and couldn’t hide their embarrassment when they saw the two on the bed.

“Aren’t you leaving? You don’t want to see the secret affairs of a couple.”

At the harsh words of Eric, the employees rushed out of the door.

Only then was Rose convinced that the person in front of her was Count Eric de Wens and her husband.

‘Rose fell in love at first sight and chased after him…..’

Only then was Rose convinced that the person in front of her was Count Eric de Wens and her husband.

He was a man with an appearance that seemed be able to make anything possible.

He swept his black hair back once and sighed before staring at Rose.

“You said you’d give birth for me.”

“Pardon…?”

“You said it. You could give birth to 10 people. However.”

Rose, who had been staring blankly at Eric at the sudden remark, had no choice but to stiffen her expression when she heard the next words.

“Why can’t you give birth? I was finally relieved since it’s been three years that you finally got pregnant, but then you had a miscarriage.”

Miscarriage….?

“Don’t fail this time. Because I won’t be with you forever.”

“I miscarried….?”

“What, you didn’t hear about it yet?”

Eric frowned and muttered, far from worrying about her seemingly dazed reaction.

“….When did I miscarry?”

“Three days ago, when you fell. Then they said you had a miscarriage.”

Hearing Eric’s words, Rose could guess what part of the novel she possessed now.

Right after miscarriage…… Okay. That’s after it happened.

The day Rose witnessed Eric’s affair for the first time. With the shock of that day, Rose eventually miscarried the child.

Why the hell did this cheating man shamelessly come down here tonight?

Does the cliché of ‘I found out that I was possessed and found that he was a good person unlike the novel’ applies to her as well?

Apologizing for cheating and coming to comfort her when she’s heartbroken…….

‘….No way.’

As soon as Rose looked at Eric, she realized that her expectations were useless.

He was too naked for a person who came to comfort someone. Rose quickly turned away when she saw Eric.

His intentions seemed too clear. You just came to satisfy your own needs. She wouldn’t think he was here, naked, just to apologize.

“….Get out.”

Do you have no consideration for a wife who is not even feeling well?

Rose turned her back coldly without giving any attention to Eric.

“I don’t want to.”

However, Eric didn’t care about her reaction, whispered as if to tickle Rose’s ear, and hugged her waist from behind.

Rose’s whole body was stiff because of Eric who was holding her.

‘I almost forgot.’

That this novel was a tragic novel.

In the novel, Rose tried to confirm his love through the night she spent with Eric. Unfortunately, Eric didn’t like Rose, but she was always convinced of Eric’s love.

In the novel, Rose did not reject Eric who came late at night. However, she who possessed Rose’s body, was different.

‘I lost consciousness and woke up today, but I can’t believe you’re pushing me like this.’

Rose was completely dumbfounded by the lack of affection that was non existent in Eric’s actions, which had no consideration at all.

“If you don’t want to go, I’ll leave.”

Rose shook off Eric’s arm and slowly tried to get out of bed. Then Eric pulled Rose onto the bed.

Rosé fell helplessly onto the bed. Eric climbed on top of Rose’s body and muttered irritably.

“Just stay still.”

After saying those words, Eric finally got up from the bed. Seeing Eric’s naked appearance, Rose quickly turned her head and buried herself into the bed sheets

“I’ll go.”

Eric picked up the robe that fell onto the ground and put it on slowly.

‘You’re the one who refused. No matter what I do in the future, don’t cry and faint like that day.”

How dare you say that so confidently after having an affair?

Rose couldn’t say anything out of the absurdity of his words and looked at him. She knew it was common to have a mistress in romance fantasies, but she couldn’t believe he could say this to someone who collapsed due to the affair.

Eric, who was angry, left Rose alone and closed the door with a bang.

“…..In the novel. you glorified the male lead.”

Eric was more trash than what was described in the novel.

Impossible to be reused, he is someone who can’t be saved.

‘I have to live in the same house as him?’

Rose knew the thorny path that would unfold in the future, so a chill went down her spine. Rose’s life in this novel was never a happy one.

‘The first thing I need to do in this novel is to break free from the female protagonist role in the tragedy.’

Having an affair is a daily thing while the family is on the trajectory of decline, what do you do with a male protagonist who can’t even be saved.

Rose made the decision to get out of this place within a day after possessing this body.

And her wish will soon come true.

Because an unexpected meeting was waiting for her.

***

The next day, Rose left for a walk.

“Even if the mansion is big, it’s too big.”

The scale of the grand mansion was very unfamiliar to Rose. She was walking while wandering around because she didn’t know the geography of the mansion yet, but a loud noise coming from the other side caught Rose’s attention.

“Well, I’m not a maid of this house?”

“Did she eat something wrong?”

“Why is this diligent girl suddenly like this?”

“Doana, you haven’t been working for a few days so we’ve been doing your job instead!”

Rose slowly stepped into the place where the noises could be heard.

There were several maids in uniforms and a woman in an old dress. The maids surrounded the woman and were visibly angry.

The woman was leisurely sipping a cup of tea in the midst of the commotion and muttered.

“Why is this dream so vivid? Why am I not waking up after a few days?”

Doana and Rose’s eyes met while she was looking around and drinking tea.

Doana glanced at the colorful clothes Rose was wearing and her own clothes alternately.

“……I think it would look better on me.”

Doana muttered, putting her frizzy blonde hair behind her ear. The maids around her saw the Countess, and they couldn’t help but stiffen immediately at the soon to be heard words of Doana.

“Doana! Are you crazy? What are you talking about in front of the countess?”

“I’m sorry, Madam. Doana has been out of her mind for the past few days.”

“Hurry up and apologize!”

The maid forcibly grabbed Doana’s body and held her head down.

“What’s wrong with you! You’re not going to let me go?”

Doana shook off the hands of the maid holding her and said in an annoyed voice.

“Who are you touching? If it wasn’t for me being inside a dream, I would have called 112 right now! People like you all need to be sued before they come to their senses.”

Hearing Doana’s words, Rose couldn’t help but flinch at that very moment.

‘What do you mean 112… Did I hear it wrong?’

It was a very familiar word. But it didn’t fit in here. Rose doubted her ears and stared at Doana with a strange look.

Rose, who was looking at Doana uncertainly, could be sure of her feeling once she heard Doana’s following words.

“Ha…. I don’t even have a cellphone. I’m so tired.”

That she was also possessing someone in this novel.