The Male Lead Knelt Before Me

Vol.
1: Secret Proposal

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Every time I blinked, the beauty in the mirror blinked back at me.
Indeed, a truly magnificent beauty.

If this beauty makes up her mind, she can easily hold the entire country in her palm, shake it and ruin it.

Dark purple hair, reaching till the hips gave her a mysterious look while the slightly raised tips of eyes made them look arrogant yet seductive.

I raised my hand slowly and smoothed my cheek.
Then, likewise, the beauty in the mirror smoothed her cheeks.

“A dream……?”

Not my usual voice, but a totally unfamiliar voice resonated in the room.

In addition, the language was not the native language I had been familiar with, but the language I heard for the first time in my life.

But the strange thing is that I could understand and interpret it really well.

As if I’ve been using it all my life.

I’d like to pinch my hand at least, but I didn’t dare to do so because my appearance in the mirror is so stunning.

But I could realize it without having to do so.

That this isn’t a dream.

Because I could clearly remember the memory of me being dead.

 

It was a car accident.
The cause wasn’t very grand.

I got a notification that the next chapter of my favourite genre novel was uploaded, so I was reading it frantically, but I was hit by a car while crossing the street inadvertently following the person next to me without checking the crosswalk signal.

When I realized the car hit me, the first thing I thought of was my parents, then my friends, then my dream to become an actor.

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And the next thing that came to mind was the novel  which became the main reason that caused my death.

 was a novel that I had started enjoying reading.

Yoo Young, a friend who I met at the same acting academy when I was in high school, recommended that I read it.

‘Soeun, why don’t you read this?’

‘A novel? What is it about?’

‘It’s a Romance Fantasy genre novel called “Flower of Elphida” and it’s fun.
I used to read it alone, but maybe because the heroine has the same name as yours? I wanted to show it to you.’

‘The heroine has the same name as me, you say?’

‘Yes, the heroine’s name is Ji So Eun.
Of course, her name changes after she is possessed, but I think she’s still similar to you.
She likes theatre plays just like you, and she has learned kendo for self-defence since she was young.’

Hearing that the heroine has the same name as me and even what I like and what I learned is similar, I said that I would be more than happy to read the novel.

It was unfamiliar at the beginning as it was the first genre novel that I experienced but I could quickly adapt and read it.

Before reincarnation, the novel  began when a female protagonist with the same name as me regained the memory of her past life when she fell while riding a horse in front of the Imperial Knights to catch the eye of the male protagonist, Caleb Egon.

After the accident, she realized that she had been reincarnated to another world into a Marquis’s household, named Vivian, and felt ashamed and sceptical of her actions.

 

She was barely reborn as a glorious Marquis’s daughter, but she fell off the horse just to catch some attention from a man!

Caleb, the male lead at the time, didn’t know well because he wasn’t interested in Vivian but she was feeling embarrassed alone and Vivian desperately avoided Caleb by reflecting on her past behaviours.

However, unlike before, Vivian and Caleb never had to face each other properly, but when Vivian decided to avoid Caleb, strangely, the two kept meeting again and again and eventually fell in love.

Looking at the content, I was envious of Vivian.

Because Caleb Egon was really my ideal type, the man I dream of.

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In the story, Caleb is so cold that he didn’t pay any attention to other women until he fell in love with the heroine.

In addition, Caleb Egon, who was polite by nature, was always treating Vivian really well when he first met the female protagonist, and even after the relationship progressed.

His personality alone is enough to shout ‘Pass!’, but additionally, he’s so handsome, the youngest duke, the head of the Royal Knights, even known as the best in the Empire.

I saw many main characters in the script I read while dreaming of becoming a musical actor, but I was very excited because I had never ever seen such an ideal character as Caleb.

On the day I read the novel at the recommendation of my friend, for the first time, I couldn’t get up for something that wasn’t related to a musical, wondering what will happen in the next chapters until dawn.

‘Now, I won’t read it anymore, forever.’

All of this was still vivid.

The sound of the clackson ringing loudly, the car running at high speed and hitting me, the images of the paramedics telling me not to let go of my conscience, the sound of the machine telling me that my heart has stopped, and my last thoughts.

‘I haven’t even read the end…….’

Funny!! This was the last thought I had when I was still conscious at the time.

Anyway, I must have died that way, but I didn’t know how I was still alive.

More than that, who is this woman?

I blinked my eyes blankly, and in the mirror, this woman’s silver-grey pupil turned into a shade of gold when came in contact with light.

Many thoughts crossed my mind one after another in a moment of a daze at the mysterious appearance.

‘This is not reincarnation.….
is this what people called by being possessed?’

After clarifying one thing, my head got congested.

But why did I suddenly become possessed?

Is this woman dead like me?

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What if someone who knows this person comes in?

In fact, if I say I’m a different person…….
I’d be treated like a madman of course.

When I reached that point, my body moved by itself.
By instinct, to somehow grasp who this woman is, apart from my confusion.

As I turned my eyes away from the mirror and looked through the room, I saw numerous cosmetics and colourful dresses that were placed in a mess.

‘It looks like she used to wear it as a musical prop.’

I picked up a dress on the floor and looked around.
The clothes themselves were colourful, but the fabric was not good.

‘It’s like a nonwoven fabric when I squirmed it.’

As I touched the dress, I noticed a small booklet on the table.

As soon as I realized it looked like a scripted play, I came out of bed bewitched and picked up the booklet.

“Song About Love……”

When I turned over the booklet, I saw lines in a very familiar format, sheet music and lyrics in the middle.

‘This is a play script.’

I was a college student who dreamed of becoming a musical actor until I died.
I’ve been dreaming of becoming one since elementary school, and I have been constantly attending an academy to receive an education.

The script was no stranger to me.
Of course, there was quite a difference from the play script seen in modern times, but the basic form was similar.

At first, I only unfolded it lightly, but before I knew it, I was reading the script frantically.

It’s definitely my first time reading this play script, but why is it so familiar? It feels like I’ve seen it somewhere…

“Ah!”

I remembered! It was .

Well, it would be more correct to say that the play is what brings the two main characters together at the beginning of the novel.

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I recalled the story of the novel while reading the play script I was holding.

I mean, the heroine who was reincarnated as Vivian was allowed to go on an outing after more than a month of treatment and care after falling from the horse, right?

Later the Marquis sticks some escorts to Vivian out of concern for her safety.

However, the heroine, who wanted to go out for a long time and watch the play comfortably, deliberately wandered around crowded places and buildings, outcasting her escorts and walking alone.

Vivian thought that because it’s the capital city and there are a lot of people around, the security must be really good, nothing would happen to her.

And Vivian realized how complacent her ideas were, confronting bad guys.

Of course, Caleb, the male protagonist who went on patrol just in time, finds the scene and saves her.

The male lead offers to take Vivian to the Marquis’s mansion, but Vivian refuses.

She came out to see the play in the first place, and the play was a reenactment, so she didn’t know when she could see it again if she didn’t see it this time.

When Vivian says, “I’ll make sure I’ll just watch it and go back”, Caleb politely offers to escort and accompany her.

And the title of the play that they went to see together is ‘Song About Love’ like the title of the play script I’m reading right now.
That’s what I mean! I remember the story well, maybe because it’s my favourite novel.

As I passed the script blankly, I stiffened.

So it’s the ‘Song About Love’ play script from  novel, I, who died in a car accident and woke up with the body of a strangely beautiful woman, found……..

‘Is this even possible?’

My fingers tremble when I hold the script.

No, that can’t be true.
I can’t have been possessed by a character in a novel story, did I?

But I already knew it wasn’t a dream.
And I even have the play script in my hand.

I had no choice but to admit in the face of clear evidence.

I think I’m possessed by a character in a novel that I usually read.