(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.

Several observers paused mid-movement, glancing toward the main overseer like he'd just suggested setting the campus on fire. To be honest, he probably kinda did.


The main observer kept his eyes on the dormitory district—the one currently being shredded apart by violet tendrils and abyssal blades.


Two silhouettes kept clashing at the center like natural disasters wearing human skin.


"Nothing complicated," he said lightly. "Just a little incentive."


Another one cleaving straight through my eyes.


At this point, the entire street looked like it had been chewed up and spat back out. Walls perforated. Asphalt gone. Lamp posts twisted like wet rope.


Reminded me of when I was deployed to a battlefield to eliminate a high-value general.


Chapter 107 - A Hundred Point Bounty