chapter 9
9 – Back to the Academy
Strange. No matter how you think about it, it’s so different from the original.
As she left the auditorium, she looked back at Mikhail.
Lily von Adamas, or Han Seol-ah, recalled the contents of the original work she knew.
‘How to tame a rude man’ is not a well-written romantic story even with empty words. The setting holes seen here and there were not at a level that could be covered.
The content was also a problem. The heroine, who is torn between the prince who is enamored with herself and the grand duke of the north, tames ‘how well’ and enjoys love with both. She’s really literal, she somehow manages to fix her law and then she marries them both.
Honestly, probability is a kindling fire that has been eaten without rice. However, Seol-ah liked that the female protagonist was a real anti-fishery manager, which is rare in Romance.
Lily pretends to be a lovely, intelligent, and confident woman with her natural appearance and bright aura, but inside she is a sneaky woman burning with ambition. She puts an iron plate over her face and goes back and forth between her two men, sending all the women who stand in her way to hell.
Originally, the standard romance heroine is a heroine who is active in everything, but only passive towards her enemies. From Seol-ah’s point of view, she doesn’t want to admit it, but it’s true.
If you think that normal romance heroines wait for men to clear their enemies, Lily’s appearance of passively pretending in front of men and actively plotting only when she clears her enemies is quite different. .
The appearance was new, so Seol-ah fell in love with ‘how to tame a rude man’ in an instant.
She stayed up all night reading Sanamgil. And as the morning sun rose, the moment she opened the last episode, she fell asleep. When she opens her eyes, she realizes that she has possessed the heroine of the novel she was reading.
A family with only names remaining, siblings who burst into tears, and good but incompetent parents.
Seol-Ah’s eyes darkened. She spent her normal school days in an ordinary family in Korea. Scheming her dark schemes or taking advantage of men is too difficult for her.
However, Seol-ah’s worries completely disappeared on her 17th birthday, a year after she possessed Lily. Lily’s 17th birthday is the starting point of the original story. In her original story, Lily goes to play in the capital for her birthday and she accidentally runs into the crown prince.
Seol-ah wanted to spend her birthday quietly without getting involved with the crown prince as much as possible. She didn’t want to get entangled in the original story for nothing. Because she doesn’t have the confidence to walk a tightrope between two men.
But she couldn’t avoid going to the capital. She swallowed her words up to the top of her neck telling her not to go, looking at herself and seeing the delighted faces of her parents.
Lily’s appearance was excellent both subjectively and objectively. She even liked her hair. Like Lily, she is capable of graduating from the academy with distinction, although she is not conspiratorial.
She was confident that she would find a decent marriage partner, even if it wasn’t for the future Emperor and Grand Duke of the North. Let’s find a man who will love her in moderation and who I can love too. A year ago, Seol-ah had long erased the option of returning home from her mind.
However, despite Seol-ah’s promise, she somehow ended up facing the crown prince. Lily couldn’t remember everything about where and how she went that day, so if she was right then she was right. As if the two must meet, the prince and Lily met under very similar circumstances.
And the moment she and the crown prince met like fate, she became Lily von Adamas instead of Seolah Han.
It was magical. All sorts of scenarios played in her head. She saw the consequences of her words and actions. Her tongue also moved naturally. Even her academy Best Actress would have given her a standing ovation if they had seen her.
Seola was embarrassed by her ability. However, she eventually decided to be true to her desires. If you have this ability, just enjoy dating with two handsome and talented men in this world. She might send you home if you ever reach the end of the novel. Her longing for her hometown, which had been dulled over the course of a year, was rekindled.
In this way, she faithfully followed the path of the original protagonist. She ran into the crown prince by chance and showed a confident appearance that was not intimidated. She worked so hard that she hit the prince on her tail, leading to her breakup with Cordelia.
Anyway, in the original work, the prince fell in love with her Lily at first sight, so she was the first. Originally, the one who fell in love first loses. She remembered her words from her previous life. It was a word she had never realized in her previous life, but it was different here. She wasn’t a housewife, Han Seol-ah, but a pretty, smart, and confident Lily von Adamas.
She carried the contents of her original work well until she entered the academy. All that remains is to provoke Cordelia on the eve of the festival, get her beaten up in front of everyone, cancel her admission, and half-bury her in the aristocracy. To be honest, I don’t know how the prince achieves that. Even in the original, it was not explained properly. Because it just happened that way.
Honestly, Seol-ah didn’t have that much ill feelings toward Cordelia. Rather, she felt a little pity. She still remembered her normal life on Earth, and she was understandably reluctant to leave a huge stain on a person’s life.
She still has no choice but to proceed with the story. Seol-ah tried to rationalize her self.
She wanted to get rid of the story to the end as soon as possible. She wanted to go home after playing and eating comfortably. In fact, she firmly believed that no one else would be able to go home, even though she never assured her. Maybe she pretended to believe that she didn’t want to look back at her misdeeds.
Seol-ah carefully hid her prepared capsule of her blood in her molars. Later, when she is hit by Cordelia, she chews it up and bursts it. She intends to create dramatic effects through bloodshed. The preparation is perfect.
However, at the eve that started like that, Seol-ah saw someone she shouldn’t have.
Heir to the Grand Duke of the North. Mikhail Von Sirius. Black hair, black eyes, black like the night sky. Rather, black hair and black eyes are rarer in a fantasy world, so there is no way to wrong him.
In the original work, there was no depiction that Mikhail participated in the eve. But Seol-ah thought it might be. If he only participated and didn’t do anything, he wouldn’t even have to appear.
However, Mikhail began to act differently from the Mikhail Seol-ah knew.
He walks around arm in arm with his fiancé. In the original story, when Lily and Mikhail first met, Mikhail had already broken up. The fiancée’s name was not even mentioned in the original story. It’s not even an extra level. I thought this could be too. It could be that we broke up because we fought after this day.
I lead my fiancée to the stage and dance. The original Mikhail hates dancing. His first and last dance is to dance alone in the garden at night, where no one can win against Lily’s constant angst. However, she is dancing with her fiancé as if she is having fun.
Seol-ah’s fine eyebrows wrinkled. In the original work, the dance scene between Mikhail and Lily is a very important scene that opens the closed mind of Mikhail. When Mikhail meets Lily, he learns the feeling of love and gradually becomes more human.
I felt that something was wrong. She bit her nails
First of all, we need to meet Mikhail directly.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince. Are you familiar with Archduke Mikhail?”
“Not so much. Why?”
When Prince Wilhelm was alone with Seol-Ah, he used a friendly tone instead of a weighty tone. He even asked her to let go of her words. Although she decided that it was better to keep a reasonable distance, so it was canceled.
I’m thinking of breaking down the wall a little after I’ve built up a good rapport with Mikhail. In addition to the crown prince, there must be another secret corner to maintain balance in the relationship.
“I want to have a conversation with you. It’s not something you see often, is it?”
“hahahaha. It’s hard to see that friend’s face. This is probably the second time I’ve seen it myself. Alright, I’ll make room for you.”
The crown prince smiled at Seol-ah’s words and readily accepted. After dancing, he approached Mikhail and his fiancée, who were out of breath.
After a while, I saw the prince’s gesture to come here and approached them.
“Nice to meet you. My name is Lily von Adamas.”
I greeted them with a perfect smile. Even in the midst of this, Seol-ah did not forget to look at Mikhail’s expression. A flushed face and shaking pupils. Seeing her behind her must have been her bewilderment.
After seeing Lily for the first time, Mikhail in the original work is embarrassed by feelings he has never felt before, but she never shows off. It is because he has always been hiding his emotions since he was born.
While Seol-ah naturally led the conversation, she continued to look sideways at Mikhail. He’s saying as little as possible, stepping back a bit and staring at himself.
She decided to poke Mikhail slightly here.
“Come to think of it, I know that Archduke Mikhail doesn’t enjoy this sort of place… After all, rumors are just rumors.”
Mikhail flinched when he heard the question. It is clearly an expression of disapproval. It’s too human to be Mikhail. At least in the original he doesn’t show any emotion at this point…
“My fiancé wants to show off too.”
Seol-ah almost fainted at his answer, but thanks to her superhuman self-control, she did not show any agitation.
There are no romanticists because they are not humane. It’s a completely different person from the original. Wait, someone else?
Seola’s heart started beating very fast. She was possessed by the world of her novels. There is nothing strange about her even if there is at least one other person like her. The unprecedented case and the existence of one are completely different. It’s a very probable story.
Are they really earthlings? If you are an earthling, which country are you from? Since it’s a Korean novel, you must be Korean, right?
Seol-ah felt excited about her hometown. Afterwards, when she made a sarcastic comment about Michael’s prince, she briefly thought that he was a nerd, but it didn’t matter much.
Seol-ah was thinking of a way to leave her own mark on Mikhail. She approached blindly and asked if she was from Earth or from which country, but she was one. Of course, the road to the ending also becomes distant.
In fact, considering how twisted the story must have been with Mikhail’s appearance, it would be incomparable to that level, but Seol-ah put that thought aside for a while.
After thinking about it for quite some time, she decided to just move on with her original plan.
No matter how much she pondered, she couldn’t come up with an appropriate method. After all, there is plenty of time. The academy is a 4-year course, so there will be an opportunity someday.
The plan was like this.
First, make sure that Cordelia is moderately drunk. After that, she told Wilhelm that she would never step forward no matter what happened to her.
“Are you really okay?”
Wilhelm asked anxiously.
“Yes. Are you okay. I just really want to have a genuine conversation with Lady Deneb. If she hits me, it’s okay as long as it relieves her anger.”
It can’t be okay. If she is right, Wilhelm will go on a rampage and cancel her admission. Seol-ah had already finished all her calculations.
‘I’m sorry, Cordelia. No ill feelings Aren’t you supposed to go home?’
Seol-ah went to Cordelia’s side while repeating herself.
“Oh, Lady Deneb.”
Cordelia looked back at Seol-ah. After checking her face, she turned her head away again with the attitude of seeing the invisible. It’s obvious that she doesn’t want to talk much.
This is what I expected. Seol-A went right up to Cordelia. She pressed her face close to her so that her breath could reach her ear, visible through her red hair.
“What if I ignore you, Lady Deneb whose fiancé was stolen by the daughter of a baron. Can you tell me how you feel right now?”
Cordelia shook her shoulders as if she was taken aback by the sudden whisper. She then chews on the contents of the whisper,
“You b*tch!”
She’s hot-tempered, but she’s drunkenly, so she can’t see anything in her eyes.
Okay. As planned. If you continue to scratch Cordelia’s temper like this, get hit once and chew her blood capsule hidden in her molars, it’s over.
Seol-Ah’s plan is to stamp out the stigma of a failure in a person’s life with a bang.
Seol-ah continued to tease Cordelia with her crafty tone. At last Cordelia came towards her and raised her hand.
‘Will it hurt? I heard that my eardrum burst, but what if it really bursts?’
Seol-ah closed her eyes tightly and waited for the blow to hit her cheek.
‘Huh? Why don’t they hit me?’
She opened one eye that she had closed. Then, in front of her eyes, she saw Mikhail holding Cordelia’s wrist tightly and heading this way.
‘I don’t have a conscience when I told you not to step out after seeing Wilhelm, but he’s really cool’
Seeing him looking at her with a frown as if he didn’t like the situation, Seol-Ah really shamelessly fluttered a little.
And she was a little relieved. She was worried about letting her Cordelia go completely.
Lily’s body moved mechanically contrary to Seola’s impression. Hundreds of cases run in her head.
Seol-ah was almost certain. The Mikhail she is now, she knows, never interferes in the affairs of her others at this point. Not interested in the first place
I don’t know if his personality has changed or if he’s a completely different person, but the current Mikhail von Sirius is not the Mikhail Seol-ah used to know. She needs to revise her plans.
‘I didn’t hit myself, so even Wilhelm wouldn’t be able to push that hard. As much as she hates Cordelia, she will bring up the story of her cancellation, but if someone objects.’
She shook her head eagerly. Conclusion thus drawn.
‘Cordelia’s cancellation of admission is nothing. Instead, it is through her that I tell Mikhail what kind of person Lily von Adamas is.’
If he were the same as the original Mikhail, only with a different personality, he would continue to show interest in Lily anyway. Because that’s what a sub male lead is. Because you have to become close in order for the story to progress.
Through her one year with Wilhelm, Seol-ah had a near-convinced belief. The male lead has no choice but to hang around her female lead.
But what if Mikhail avoids Seola somehow? What if he was really someone like himself who suddenly fell into this world from Korea?
She was a lonely stranger in this world and desperately needed her friends. She will keep him close somehow.
The incident continued even while Seol-Ah calmly organized her thoughts. Mikhail dared to confront Wilhelm and tried to prevent Cordelia from having her admission revoked. She stopped Wilhelm at the right timing.
Cordelia’s admission was canceled.
After a while, Wilhelm left the auditorium with a slightly childish line. Seol-ah also followed him. Her hand is withered. She liked Wilhelm’s face, but she hated the occasional cheesy side.
As she left, Seol-ah turned around once more and looked in the direction of Mikhail. The three remained in one place. Perhaps Cordelia will explain what happened.
I don’t care about first impressions. Seol-ah was confident that she would get along with Mikhail. She will be feeling as lonely as he and she herself.
‘I don’t know who it is, but don’t go anywhere and wait. Really.’
Beside me, Wilhelm whined, saying that he also wanted to stop it because he felt like it, and said, “What the hell is that bastard doing like that?” However, it did not reach Seol-ah very much.