Noel... Hollywood's beloved A-list darling... has two secrets:

1. He's gay.
2. He plans to retire after his final film and finally live openly for the first time in his life.

But fate has never liked him.

During the final scene of his tragic romance movie, the heroine is supposed to pretend to stab him.
Instead... she grabs the wrong knife. A real one.

Thanks to that, Noel dies on set.

And wakes up inside the very movie he was filming.

Now reborn as Noel Hartwell, the spoiled youngest son of a wealthy noble family in a European-styled 1900s world, he quickly realises two things:

One: He is engaged to Evelina... the same obsessive heroine who murdered him, the male lead, in the film.
Two: He absolutely refuses to die for romance a second time.

Breaking the engagement should solve everything... except his new family won't allow it, Evelina falls even more violently in love with him, and the scripts of both fate and insanity seem determined to drag him to the same bloody ending.

And then there are the men. THE MEN!!!

Noel just wanted a calm retirement. A peaceful life. Maybe even a normal romantic relationship with a man... something he was never brave enough to pursue before in his original life.

Instead, he gets a death flag... infested engagement, four dangerously attractive men circling him for reasons he does NOT understand, and a story that keeps twisting the harder he tries to escape it.

He refuses to die like the original male lead.
He refuses to follow the script.
And he definitely refuses to fall in love with anyone who could stab him in the future.

This time, Gay Romeo isn't dying for anybody. 

Not the heroine.
Not fate.
And especially not for some brooding hot guys with unfair shoulders and massive weapons of destruction under their zippers 

But he might accidentally seduce half the cast while trying not to.

The Hartwell company entrance was wide and well-kept — polished stone steps, a brass-handled door, two potted trees on either side clipped into perfect spheres. Staff moved in and out with the brisk, purposeful energy of a working morning.


Rowan noticed the police before Alaric did.


Four of them. Standing just inside the entrance hall, their dark blue uniforms crisp, their posture the particular kind that meant they weren't waiting for just anyone. One of them spotted Rowan the moment he came through the door and said something to the man beside him. They all turned their heads to look at Rowan and that's when Rowan knew something was wrong. 


Alaric was still talking to him... something about the stationery items, where they needed to be delivered, of course, to Noel's desk—when the senior officer stepped forward.


Chapter 81 - Rowan To Be Executed?