by Aurelia your husband
Lucien Vale had one goal after being reincarnated into his favorite otome game: Survive. Unfortunately, he has reincarnated as Lucien Vale, the younger brother of the game's infamous final villainess. In the original story, his older sister, Seraphina Vale, becomes obsessed with Prince Adrian after he breaks off their engagement for the heroine. Her descent into madness eventually plunges the kingdom into war. And Lucien? He dies somewhere in the middle of it. Naturally, Lucien decides that the sensible solution is to stay far away from the plot. Unfortunately, his family has other plans. When he realizes that changing Seraphina's fate might prevent his own death, Lucien begins secretly manipulating the story from behind the scenes. He sabotages the prince's romance. He pushes the heroine toward the supposedly doomed second male lead. He prevents assassinations. He exposes traitors before they can act. He even manages to stop his sister from becoming the villainess. Everything goes perfectly. Too perfectly. Because Lucien makes one tiny mistake. While trying to pair everyone else together... he accidentally becomes the love interest. Now the kingdom's most dangerous duke's heir is pursuing him, his former villainess sister is actively supporting the relationship, the heroine thinks Lucien is her best friend, the prince keeps asking him for romantic advice, and half the nobility believes he's secretly manipulating the entire kingdom. Lucien, meanwhile, is desperately trying to escape. He has fake identities. Hidden money. Safe houses. Escape routes. Even an underground network of servants willing to help him disappear. Unfortunately, his pursuer has already discovered every single one. And the more Lucien tries to avoid becoming part of the story... the more important he becomes to it. Because perhaps the future he remembered wasn't the original story at all. Perhaps someone else has been changing the plot. And perhaps Lucien wasn't reincarnated into this world by accident. ..........
| # | Title | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Villainess's Brother Has Absolutely No Intention of Following the Plot[its was an experiment] | — |
| 2 | Chapter 1 — The Sensible Plan | 0 |
| 3 | Chapter 2 — A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Paranoia | 0 |
| 4 | Chapter 3 — The Unscheduled Variable | 0 |
| 5 | Chapter 4 — The Matchmaker Nobody Asked For | 0 |
| 6 | Chapter 5 — Try Not to Die | 0 |
| 7 | Chapter 6 — The Art of Strategic Avoidance | 0 |
| 8 | Chapter 7 — A Reasonable Number of Safe Houses | 0 |
| 9 | Chapter 8 — Things I Did Not Put On The Flowchart | 0 |
| 10 | Chapter 9 — The Ball Where Everything Almost Went Wrong | 0 |
| 11 | Chapter 10 — Welcome, Outsider | 0 |
| 12 | Chapter 11 — The Trouble With Forged Handwriting | 0 |
| 13 | Chapter 12 — North | 0 |
| 14 | Chapter 13 — What The North Remembers | 0 |
| 15 | Chapter 14 — The Ambush I Did Not Put On The Flowchart | 0 |
| 16 | # Chapter 15 — The Book That Knew My Name | 0 |
| 17 | Chapter 16 — Small Wrong Things | 0 |
| 18 | Chapter 17 — The Story Remembers Itself | 0 |
| 19 | Chapter 18 — A Reasonable Amount of Denial | 0 |
| 20 | Chapter 19 — The Boy Who Knew Too Much | 0 |
| 21 | Chapter 20 — Replace, Not Restore | 0 |
| 22 | Chapter 21 — Old Paper, Older Questions | — |
| 23 | Chapter 22 — The Man With No Reflection | — |
| 24 | Chapter 24 — What They Learned, What We Learned | — |
| 25 | Chapter 23 — The Missing Hour | — |
| 26 | Chapter 25 — The Relic Beneath the Rose Garden | — |
| 27 | Chapter 26 — A Theory With Several Holes In It | — |
| 28 | Chapter 27 — What Noah Wasn't Telling Me | — |
| 29 | Chapter 28 — The Night the Estate Burned | — |
| 30 | Chapter 29 — The Plan Nobody Loved But Everyone Agreed To | — |
| 31 | Chapter 30 — The Archive That Didn't Burn | — |
| 32 | “THE NOVEL IS FINALLY DEAD— I MEAN, COMPLETE.” | — |
| 33 | Chapter 31 — The Story I Forgot I Wrote | — |
| 34 | Chapter 32 — Aftershocks | — |
| 35 | Chapter 33 — People, Not Pages | — |
| 36 | Chapter 34 — The Editor | — |
| 37 | # Chapter 35 — The King Who Forgot His Own Name | — |
| 38 | Chapter 36 — Too Many Fires | — |
| 39 | Chapter 37 — The Chapter I Was Supposed to Die In | — |
| 40 | Chapter 38 — What Almost Happened | — |
| 41 | Chapter 39 — The Night Before | — |
| 42 | Chapter 40 — When the Moon Rose Full | — |
| 43 | Chapter 41 — The Man Who Sounded Like Grief | — |
| 44 | Chapter 42 — What the Editor Left Behind | — |
| 45 | Chapter 43 — Names Nobody Wants to Say | — |
| 46 | Chapter 44 — The Ruin Nobody Named | — |
| 47 | Chapter 45 — What the Vale Took With Us | — |
| 48 | Chapter 46 — Building the Argument | — |
| 49 | Chapter 47 — Where Stories Go to Wait | — |
| 50 | Chapter 48 — The Argument | — |
| 51 | Chapter 49 — What the Founder Chose | — |
| 52 | Chapter 50 — The Morning After the War | — |
| 53 | note plz~~~ | — |
| 54 | Chapter 51 — The Chaos and the Quiet | — |
| 55 | Chapter 52 — What Seraphina Built | — |
| 56 | # Chapter 53 — A Prince Who Chose His Own Story | — |
| 57 | Chapter 54 — What the North Approved | — |
| 58 | Chapter 55 — The Flowchart's Final Entry | — |
| 59 | Chapter 56 — The Ordinary Business of Healing | — |
| 60 | # Chapter 57 — Graduation | — |
| 61 | Chapter 58 — The Wedding | — |
| 62 | Chapter 59 — Allowed to Live | — |
| 63 | Chapter 60 — Epilogue: Every Ending Is Also a Beginning | — |
| 64 | Side Story I — Seraphina: What He Told Me Over Breakfast | — |
| 65 | Side Story II — Cassian: The Boy Who Wouldn't Look at Me Twice | — |
| 66 | Side Story III — Elena: The Boy Who Told Me About Maps | — |
| 67 | Side Story IV — Adrian: The Prince Who Never Got Asked | — |
| 68 | Side Story V — Hiroki: The Boy Who Performed for an Audience of No One | — |
| 69 | Side Story VI — Noah: Two Years Alone | — |
| 70 | Side Story VIII — The Founder: The Day I Stopped Being Only an Author | — |
| 71 | Side Story IX — The Other Self: What I Watched From Outside | — |
| 72 | Side Story IX — The Other Self: What I Watched From Outside | — |
