I Was the Villain, So I’ll Rewrite Everything
Ethan Cross lives an ordinary, forgettable life on Earth—until his dreams begin to blur the line between fantasy and memory. Night after night, he relives the life of a cruel noble from a brutal fantasy world, a man remembered in history and in a popular game as a villain. At first, Ethan believes the visions are symptoms of mental illness: false memories, emotional hallucinations, guilt borrowed from a character that isn’t real.
But the more he plays Fate of the Silver Throne, a game told from the hero’s point of view, the more horrifying the truth becomes. The villain he despises is not fiction. It is him—a weak, talentless duke’s heir who publicly shattered his engagement, humiliated the woman destined to become the “villainess,” and set in motion a chain of events that led to her downfall, the rise of the Demon King, and his own meaningless death.
When Ethan dies once more—this time with full awareness of his sins—the world itself responds.
He awakens again at fourteen, before the engagement was broken, before everything fell apart. Still cursed, still weak, and publicly judged as a failure, he receives a single chance granted by the World: a one-time authority to double anyone’s talent. Defying fate and unseen beings who expected him to choose another, he chooses himself—and shatters the curse that suppressed his true genius.
Now hiding limitless potential behind a false SS+ talent, the once-pathetic heir begins his second life with a single goal: to save the woman he destroyed, reconcile with the family he disappointed, and defy the fate written for him . As he trains in isolation, uncovers forgotten sword arts, and enters the academy where legends are born, ancient forces begin to move—chief among them, the Daemon of Retribution and creator of the Demon King.
This time, the villain refuses to play his role.
A redemption fantasy of regret, love, and defiance, this story follows a cursed genius who challenges the world itself to rewrite fate—and protect the villainess who was never meant to fall.