(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.

Every step I took on the black flames felt like it seared straight through my soul. All the training I'd done to resist pain suddenly felt useless. I was just a kid again, staring at his first fresh wound.


Beelzebub's voice echoed through the void, clear and inescapable, even though his mouth never moved.


How many have I lost by now? How many have I let die because of my own incompetence? Fiona was the last straw.


She was my last and longest student, the one who survived mission after mission without losing her brightness, no matter how dark the job got.


Chapter 151 - Fuck Logic!