"This is driving me nuts. Seriously."
I quietly clicked my tongue. It was the break of dawn and everyone was asleep. In the meanwhile, I sat on a chair by my lonesome with a slim book in my hands.
There was no title on the lime-green leather cover of the book I was holding. This was a given since it wasn't a book sold on the markets. Rather, it was a book I wrote myself. Evidently, the book was written entirely in Korean, and not in the letters used here.
The first chapter was filled with rows of disorderly texts, exposing my urgency when I came to possess this body. At the time, I had only focused on randomly writing down the contents of the novel whenever I remembered them. The letters written in the book were thus too shoddy to be called sentences. The handwriting was so messy that if someone had seen it, they wouldn't be able to tell if it was words or a drawing of an earthworm.
I, the writer, couldn't make out several things either, meaning it would be a pain to organize this later on.
I flipped page after page, and then arrived at a part which made my hand freeze.
Unlike the previous parts, it was written in clear handwriting.
[1. Breaking the engagement with Elena Edelweiss. Be careful of any anomalies which may occur in the future. ]
"Careful, my ass."
I scratched the paper with my fountain pen as if I were going to dig the letters out. I crossed out the line several times.
Now, I mused about what had occured today while staring at the unreadable sentence. Obviously, if things had gone as planned, our meeting would have either ended with a canceled engagement or a simple greeting for the sake of formality. So how did things turn out this way?
The last thing she said was still echoing in my ear.
Then shall we get engaged? Formally, I mean.
"Why would you say that…"
I even passed the decision over to Elena, letting her make her own choice. I did so because I didn't think she viewed our engagement in a positive light, but the outcome was different from what I imagined.
Oh, my God. To think that THE Elena Edelweiss offered an engagement to me.
I don't know what kind of face I made when her lips uttered "let's get engaged," but I know for sure it was a dumb one.
Based on her personality from her novel, I had prepared dozens of questions and answers for today. However, none of them addressed the engagement offer she made. It's because I've never once expected her to bring such an offer up.
"Did Elena ever say that to the other Male Lead candidates in the original work? I have no recollection of it though."
If there was someone, they wouldn't have been referred to as a "Male Lead candidate."
In the novel centered around Elena Edelweiss, male characters were connected to her since the genre was a romance fantasy.
In fantasy novels, there were many heroines around the male protagonist. Similarly, there were several male characters who were in love with her. However, it wasn't clear who would end up with Elena, so everyone just called them candidates.
It had not been explicitly mentioned which candidate Elena had affection for. The men, who liked her, did all sorts of things to be of help to her, leading to a butterfly effect. Elena would then take care of the aftermath. It wasn't a typical romance fantasy where a male and female would openly court or date each other.
Well, there may have been a romantic development with a male lead being chosen if the story had continued until the end. Unfortunately, the novel was not complete. I also hadn't read anything about her personally liking someone.
At the time, Elena had been greatly hurt from her relationship with Damian and had firmly shut all men out. The Elena before me now was not the same so that might have been the reason why. But, to my knowledge, she did have a childhood friend by her side who was a Male Lead candidate.
He had been the variable that made me feel secure as I came up with my plans.
On one side there was Edelweiss of Dawn, one of the seven great towers in the continent, and on the other side, there was Artwein of Twilight.
The one I had in mind was Richard Artwein the Great Mage, eldest heir to House Artwein, who will come to be known as the World's Link in the future.
In the original work, Elena and Richard's relationship wasn't bad. They were childhood friends, and it had already been stated that Richard was secretly in love with her for a long time. I thought if Elena had to choose between the two of us, she would definitely pick Richard.
I don't know what Elena thought of him since it had never been described in the novel. At the very least, it's clear she's closer to him than she was to me, who only met her today. That's why I expected Elena to break the engagement since she had Richard.
But did she see Richard as nothing more than a friend?
My prediction had been completely off the mark.