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Former name - Rebirth: The Villainous Young Master Doesn't Want to Follow the Script 

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Not all villains are evil. Sometimes, their experiences and the way others treat them shape them into who they become.

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In his first life, for reasons unknown, he was betrayed, framed, and stripped of his status as a noble. Branded a "traitor"—or worse, a "villain"—he was condemned by the very world he once belonged to.


As he faced execution and prepared to meet his end, an unknown entity known only as the [System] suddenly appeared before him. It offered him a chance to become a Dimensional Traveler, a being capable of traversing different worldlines and carrying out various tasks across countless worlds.


The [System] also promised to fulfill his greatest desire should he agree to bind himself to it.


With no other choice, he accepted.


After millennia of transmigration, however, the [System] unexpectedly gave him a new directive.



To return.
To return to the very life he had long since forsaken.



And so, he was reincarnated once more into his first life—
As the "Villainous" Third Young Master of the Marquis Chevalier Household of the Stellarus Empire.


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Even now, whenever the servants addressed him as "Young Master Ezekiel" or "Third Young Master," it grated against him.


There were moments—brief but dangerous—where he nearly lashed out.


Moments where he almost forgot the role he was meant to play.


Someone who had endured suffering at the hands of the Marchioness.


And not Eclipse—the observer, the outsider, the one who stood detached from it all.


A full week had already passed since that incident. Ever since then, the servants assigned to him had limited their duties to merely delivering meals outside his quarters.


Chapter 29 - 29. Where the Flowers Bloom in Blood