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ITETD 01

ITETD | Chapter 1

~Chapter 1~


“Rena…”

A ridiculously handsome man was crying as he looked at me. His outstretched hand trembled pitifully, and his black eyes shook as if he didn’t know what to do.

“Rena, it’s really you, right? Or… have I finally gone crazy?”

“……”

“Please… say something.”

Even when he came closer and touched my cheek, I couldn’t say a word. I just froze.

‘I’m doomed.’

Meeting Calix here wasn’t part of my plan. How did this happen?

I bit my lip in frustration. But the man kept talking, ignoring my silence.

“I knew you were alive. Even when everyone said there was no hope… I still believed you were alive.”

His voice trembled with both happiness and fear. He lifted my hand and kissed it again and again.

But inside, I was thinking about something else – How can I get out of this situation?

What should I say to a man seeing his first love, who faked her death and disappeared, after five years?

As I stayed quiet, his grip on my arm tightened, as if he was scared I would disappear again.

“Rena, I really…”

“I’m sorry… but who are you?”

“…What?”

His voice stopped suddenly.

“I don’t know you. I think you’ve mistaken me for someone else.”

“…Is this a joke?”

“It’s not a joke. This is my first time seeing you.”

I acted like I didn’t know him. I knew he wouldn’t believe me, but at least it would buy me some time.

“Rena… did you forget me?”

“…I’m sorry, I don’t remember.”

But I was too naive. He was smarter than I thought.

Calix, the male lead of this novel, lowered his eyes sadly and said,

“…Rena, we were married.”

When did that happen!!

Everything got messed up because five years ago, I failed to escape from this novel. Actually, it all started seven years ago when I suddenly woke up inside this story.

I was sitting in a carriage, captured by Calix, and I remembered the day I first entered this novel seven years ago.


The day after I fell asleep reading my favourite romance fantasy novel, I woke up to see a strange ceiling. As soon as I realised it was odd, I looked at my hand – it wasn’t mine.

‘It’s small… like a child’s hand.’

Then, a loud voice called out.

“Regiana! I told you today the young master of the Hertreo family is coming.”

Hertreo family?

As soon as I heard that, a strange feeling of déjà vu washed over me.

“Hertreo… that’s the male lead’s last name in the novel I read yesterday.”

At that moment, the door burst open. I quickly looked up.

“Regiana, how long are you going to sleep? I told you many times to wake up early and prepare today.”

A woman with red hair looked at me with a scolding face. Still confused, I looked down at my small hands again.

My head was spinning with all this information. Then it hit me like lightning.

“The novel I read yesterday…”

I let out a small groan and closed my eyes tightly. The woman in front of me looked puzzled, but I couldn’t care. I had to understand this situation first.

Regiana Lohello Troxia. A side character in the novel I read, who dies before the real story even begins – the male lead’s first love.

I had possessed her body.


The male lead of the novel was Calix Excel Hertreo.

When he was 14, he lost his childhood first love because her family, the Troxia family, was framed for treason and destroyed. After that, he closed his heart until he met the novel’s heroine, Prenia, who helped him uncover the truth behind the false charges. They fell in love as they revealed the real culprit. It was the usual and expected plot.

And I had possessed the body of Calix’s first love. The girl who dies at 14.

At that time, the body I woke up in was 12 years old. If the story went as planned, I would die two years later and leave this world.

But I wasn’t too worried. If I died here, maybe I could go back to my original world. That thought gave me hope.

It seemed like a good idea, so I decided to follow that plan. If I played my role as ‘the male lead’s first love’ well, I could leave the story.

If it worked, I could return home without changing the novel’s plot or causing trouble. It was the perfect plan.

It bothered me a bit that I woke up just before meeting the male lead for the first time, but it wasn’t a big deal. For the next two years, I lived quietly as Regiana.

After meeting Calix for the first time, we spent a year together as friends while he stayed at the Troxia estate.

The next year, he only stayed for three months before going back to his home, the Hertreo duchy. As he left, he looked sad and promised to see me again.

I watched his carriage leave and thought:

‘The next time we meet will be when I die.’

Because on the day the Troxia family was executed, Calix would come to try to save me.


And then, the next year came.

Behind me, the Troxia mansion was burning. In front of me was a steep cliff. I closed my eyes and waited for him.

The male lead, Calix Excel Hertreo, who would see my death and be traumatised forever.

‘I feel sorry for giving him such a shock…’

In the original, Calix saw Regiana executed on the gallows. Jumping off a cliff seemed less cruel.

I had to end the story properly to escape, so this was the best option I had.

Calix would see me die, be shocked, and then seven years later the original story would begin.

If that happened, I would die and leave this world, going back to my real life. I felt satisfied that everything was going as planned.

The smoke from the burning mansion reached me. I tried not to cry as I looked away.

I stared at the dark sea waiting to swallow me. Soon, I heard someone running towards me.

“Rena!”

Calix called out desperately.

‘He’s here… my male lead.’

When his voice got close enough, I turned around. We were close enough to hear each other but too far to touch.

Behind him, the night sky was lit with flames and smoke. He reached out to me, like a scene from a movie.

His eyes shook with fear.

“Rena, why are you standing there? Come here. Let’s go to the Hertreo estate together. I’ll hide you. No one… no one will find you.”

“……”

“Please, Rena. You’re scared of the sea, aren’t you? Come here.”

As I stayed silent, he spoke again, desperately, like he was calming a child.

“Okay, just stay there. I’ll come to you. Don’t move… please…”

His face twisted with sadness, but I thought:

‘I’m not scared of the sea.’

When he first came to stay at the Troxia estate, he caught me looking at this cliff.


‘Why do you look so scared?’

He asked, and I laughed awkwardly.

‘I’m just… scared of the sea.’

‘The sea scares you?’

‘Yeah… it just does.’

He probably saw fear and sadness on my face then, and he never forgot it.

I heard a twig snap under his foot, bringing me back to reality.

As soon as he took a step, I stepped back.

“Don’t come closer.”

“Rena, please.”

“If you come any closer, I’ll jump.”

That stopped him like magic.

I glanced at the burning mansion. There wasn’t much time. Soon the soldiers would come, and if Calix was caught here, it would be bad.

I looked down at the cliff edge. Even that small movement made his face crumble.

“Rena, please… let me come to you.”

“I’m sorry.”

What could I say to him? That he would be okay? That this was my fate?

No matter what I said, it would just be cruel. Nothing would change. I stayed silent and stepped back towards the cliff edge. There was nothing but empty air beneath me now.

My heart pounded like crazy, as if trying to suck in as much oxygen as possible before it ended. Soon, this body would sink to the bottom of the sea, cold and lifeless.

I looked at Calix’s face one last time. I was human too, so it hurt to say my last words.

I knew my death would hurt him. That thought made my throat tighten.

But I had no choice. I still wanted to go back to my real life. So in the end, I said the same thing.

“……I’m sorry, Calix.”

“Rena!!”

As I heard his desperate scream, I threw myself off the cliff without hesitation.


In the end, my suicide failed.

I was found by fishermen. When I woke up in a strange hut, surprisingly alive, I was so shocked.

I thought I would open my eyes in my real world… but no.

The shock and despair I felt seeing that unfamiliar ceiling was just like when I first came here.

Was I too hasty?

But back then, it seemed like the only way. I had been counting down the days, clinging to the hope of leaving this world.

Failing to escape became a bitter memory for me.

For the next five years, I lived quietly. I guess I finally accepted living here. After my failed suicide, I didn’t have the courage to try again.

I dyed my almost coral-red hair black and cut it short. Using the magic I learned at the mansion, I lived as a healer in a small village. I was good at magic, so it was enough to survive.

That was my life for five years.

‘I thought I was hiding well!’

But as soon as Calix realised who I was, he hugged me tightly so I couldn’t run and brought me straight to his carriage.

I awkwardly looked out the window, thinking about this huge disaster.

About how I had just acted like I had lost my memory right in front of Calix.

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I Tried To Escape Through Death

I Tried To Escape Through Death

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Status: Ongoing Type: Author: Artist: Released: 2023 Native Language: Korean

~PLoT~

I possessed the body of the male lead’s first love in a romance-fantasy novel.
Not only that – I became an extra who is destined to die in two years after her entire family is executed for treason!

Originally, my role was simply to leave a traumatic scar on the male lead before exiting the story.
However, I wasn’t too worried. If I died, wouldn’t I be free from this world anyway?

As planned, I decided to commit suicide right in front of the male lead.
Up until that point, I thought it was the perfect plan – I wouldn’t twist the original plot, and I could go home.
…That was until my suicide failed.

Five years later, I met the male lead again, and he cried when he saw me.
He said he knew I was alive.
But I pretended not to recognise him.
After all, what could the last surviving member of a family executed for treason possibly do?

“Who are you?”

As I desperately acted like I had lost my memory, the male lead said:

“We were married, Rena.”

When was that supposed to have happened?!

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