(A/N: Their relationship dynamic progresses and doesn't stay exactly like it is at the start (The one-sided love doesn't last long). Pacing is also relatively fast at the start, but slows down in the future in romance arcs.)

In his old life, he was an assassin, invisible, efficient, and utterly alone.
His only escape came from the pages of a fantasy novel, Crown of Thorns, and the character no one else seemed to understand: Lady Evelina D’Arclight, the proud and brilliant villainess fated to lose everything.

After his death, he wakes up inside that very story, not as a hero, but as Cael Arden, a student at Eryndor Royal Academy. The world is just as he remembers it, right down to the woman destined to fall.

But this time, he’s not a bystander.
With a lifetime of deadly skills and the knowledge of what’s to come, Cael sets out to rewrite the story itself, to protect Evelina, rise through the academy’s ruthless hierarchy, and change a fate written in stone.

As alliances form and secrets surface, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur.
And in a world built on power and prophecy, he’ll prove that even a villainess deserves her happy ending.

I slammed my head on the training room's walls as the frustration finally caught up to me.


After all those breakthroughs, I still couldn't cast a single advanced light magic spell? Even if its formula was fundamentally different from what I was used to.


All the cheats I had should be able to brute force it, right?


Unfortunately, I was wrong. Unlike Julius, I didn't have the broad, unwavering sense of righteousness needed to wield it as effortlessly as he did.


I patched up the wound on my head, rubbing my temples as I thought of another solution to increase my proficiency with light magic.


Math and Equations... that was supposed to be the language of magic, but of course, it had limits; the gods can't just let mortals surpass them, after all...


Chapter 85 - My Own Version of Righteousness