Prologue
Frill Brenthio.
The only daughter born between a wealthy mother and a father from a martial family whose very name made people tremble.
On top of that, she inherited their superior genes and possessed natural beauty.
In this life, everything was perfect.
I realized this world was from A Fine Line Between Love and Obsession the moment I heard the name of the empire — “Karotia.”
“How could you figure that out from just the empire’s name?”
Well, in my previous life, I enjoyed this novel so much that I even changed all my nicknames to “Escape from Karotia.”
That didn’t mean I had ever wanted to come into this novel.
Why? Because, as the title suggests, the female lead’s love turns into obsession, leading the story down a dark path of ruin and captivity.
But I wasn’t worried.
After all, my name never appeared in the story.
In other words, I was just a background extra — a nameless passerby with not even a single line.
Still, it wouldn’t hurt to organize what I remembered of the original plot.
The male lead, Raon Hart, was the classic type popular back then — a man with a tragic past.
The Karotia Empire was a strictly stratified society, where discrimination based on social status was deeply entrenched.
And yet, there was someone who dared to break that rule for the sake of an impossible love…
That was Dirove, the young viscount of House Hart and heir to the northern Magic Tower.
He fell in love with Liana, the assistant who came to work under him, and after persistent courtship, the two became lovers.
The problem? Liana was a commoner.
When his father found out, he was furious and forced them apart.
Liana, hiding the child in her womb for Dirove’s sake, left the territory.
In the end, Dirove wasted away from lovesickness and died. The child who was born fatherless — and tragically so — was none other than the male lead, Raon Hart.
To make matters worse, his mother passed away soon after, and Raon was entrusted to his grandfather’s care.
That was when the greatest hardships of Raon’s life began.
Yet thanks to the “male lead buff,” Raon eventually rose to become the Master of the Magic Tower.
When he finally revealed himself to the world, his unmatched beauty drew marriage proposals from every direction.
Rumors about Raon even reached Michella Christine, daughter of the High Priest.
She attended a conference as the temple’s representative to see him in person, and fell for him at first sight.
Naïve and inexperienced with women, Raon accepted Michella’s advances without suspicion.
From then on, he became her personal “pushover,” enduring her frenzied and obsessive love.
Readers dubbed them the “Real Couple,” but…
To me, it was nothing more than a story of obsession, captivity, and emotional ruin.
It only didn’t look that way because Raon was too innocent to reject her.
“Shouldn’t you save Raon from sinking into that quagmire?”
“You’ve been given the reincarnation buff — shouldn’t you at least do that much?”
Nope. In this life, I intend to live long and comfortably, so I’m steering clear of trouble.
If I ever happened to cross paths with them, I might try to make use of the situation… but as I said, I’m just a passerby.
As a third party, my position now is no different from when I was just a reader.
Whether they love each other to death or obsess each other to ruin, it’s none of my business. I’ll just focus on my own life.
My goal in this life is to grow up quickly and achieve the dreams I couldn’t fulfill in my previous one.
I’ve got a wealthy patron family and plenty of ability…
Just thinking about everything I could do already brings a smile to my lips.
From here on, it’s nothing but a road of roses!
Why would I ruin this blissful life by getting tangled up with the male and female leads?
They were people I thought I would never meet in my entire life.
Or so I believed.
