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Something hit my face. Even though I tried to avoid it, it still attacked me indiscriminately.

“Oh my god! What is this!”

I screamed, and a bunch of leaves entered my mouth.

“Eek, Thoo!”

I spit them out everywhere. Finally, I could see my surroundings.

I was in the forest. And I was sitting on a…

“…running darkness?”

It was a cheesy line, but what I sat on was truly darkness itself.

I soon realized, what that running darkness was, it was a black horse.

“Ah! Why, Why horse? Why am I riding a horse?”

The horse shook its head roughly, seeming to read my bewildered expression.

“Neeeeigh!”

I instinctively grabbed the reins that I was holding without realizing it. With a rough neigh, the horse’s front legs kicked up into the air. My vision flipped upside down in an instant.

I grabbed onto whatever I could get my hands on and sprawled out. The unidentified bag I had grabbed tore apart with a loud noise. Small pebbles spilled out of it.

My body lost its balance and fell backward. When I hit the ground with a thud, stars flashed before my eyes.

Oh, crazy, it hurts too much.

Moaning in pain, I hunched over my body. It felt like each vertebra was twisting in agony. Luckily, it was a thick grassy field. If it had been a rocky field, my back would have been broken.

As I rubbed my aching lower back, I felt a rustling fabric.

I looked at my clothes. I was wearing a robe that covered my entire body and a navy blue dress that was loose and flowing down to my ankles.

These aren’t my clothes.

Just a moment ago, I was wearing a white T-shirt and jeans. I had only seen long dresses like this in movies. I had never worn a dress before.

“What’s going on here…?”

I looked around.

It was different.

The appearance of the trees was unfamiliar, and even the smell of the air was subtly different.

But before I could conclude where I was, dozens of blades suddenly sprang out of the darkness that seemed empty.

I was surrounded in an instant and couldn’t move.

One of the blades passed chillingly under my chin.

“Look up.”

I cautiously raised my head, wary of the cold blades. A pair of blue eyes glimmered with malice as they stared at me.

The owner of the blue eyes pressed the blade deeper against my neck, and a hot liquid trickled down my throat.

Shwaaa.

The wind blew. The rustling sound of leaves colliding with each other filled the air.

The man’s wavy hair shook over his pale skin. Even in the darkness, his silver hair shimmered like mist, giving him an enigmatic quality.

The shadow of the tree fell over his arched, straight nose, and his delicate lips held a hint of anger.

He was imposing yet beautiful.

My mouth opened unconsciously, and my head felt like it was spinning.

Of all the unreal situations, looking into his eyes felt the most surreal.

The man flicked my hood with the tip of his sword, causing my hat to fall off and my hair to spill out.

What? What is this coming out of my head?

My hair had always been in a short bob. I had never grown it out. But now, my hair cascaded down my back, swaying enticingly. And that wasn’t the only difference.

I held my long, flowing hair in both hands, amazed by its mysterious, expensive-looking flower-pink color that I would never find in even the most expensive hair salons in Cheongdam-dong.

It even shimmered with a glossy sheen.

This color and shine couldn’t possibly exist in bleached hair.

Is this still a dream?

“Dahlia. It was you after all.”

I snapped out of my daze at the sound of his icy voice. The name was familiar.

Dahlia. I repeated the name in my mind.

With memories brushing through my mind, the back of my neck twitched.

It was definitely… the name that appeared there.

In the midst of my tough life, my only solace was the web novel “The Crown Prince’s obsession.”

I remember the character Dahlia, who was neither the female lead nor the male lead.

She was the noblewoman of the Levanovik family and had deeply admired Crown Prince Versus since she was young. Despite being ordered by the emperor to marry the second prince, Etienne, she couldn’t give up her love for Crown Prince Versus.

In the end, she stole her husband Etienne’s wealth and weaknesses and offered them to Versus, but was caught and divorced.

It wasn’t as if she received Versus’s love after the divorce either. In the end, she was rejected by Versus as well, then she blackened and attacked the female lead with a sword. And she was killed in an instant.

The comments were full of insults toward her, but I secretly felt sorry for Dahlia.

<Wow, Versus is quite something. He won’t even accept her love, yet he gladly accepts her help? He should have rejected it from the beginning. Then maybe she would have given up> I thought, recalling the brief encounter with the guy I had a crush on.

“Yes, he’s just like that bastard. He asked me to wait for his confession, but he ended up dating someone else who was prettier and took everything I gave him,” I had commented with fervor, thinking of that guy. It didn’t necessarily mean I wanted to be Dahlia.

“Where did you hide the wealth?” the cold voice snapped me out of my thoughts, and I quickly regained my composure.

I’ll think about whether I really became Dahlia later. For now, let’s get rid of this sword.

From what he said, it seems like she got caught while trying to steal the wealth.

Even in this moment, after possessing Dahlia…

My luck was still terrible.

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