(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 looked around, but all I saw was darkness. An all-consuming void that seemed to devour everything but me.


I was the only thing alive, the only presence, the only constant.


A throne—familiar yet foreign—with someone sitting on it.


Beelzebub, the strongest demon prince of hell, sat there, and the path that led to him, a road of black flames that seemed to urge me on. There was nothing else I could do.


The moment Cael stood up, everything erupted into black flames. Nothing was spared: the walls, the turrets, the air itself. Even Fiona's body began to crumble into ash as an unnatural, unending fire devoured everything from within.


The leaders of the Shadow Society, watching from outside, knew they had done something they never should have.


Chapter 150 - Possessed by Black Flames