"To remove the curse, you'll need to share my bed for a while. To properly guide your mana and expel the curse, I need to infuse my mana in the same way."... more>>

Roina felt her heart sink at those words. So this was what Rutan had been hiding. Even the kiss just now had been nothing more than a healing act. A sharp pain pierced her chest.

"I've been searching through all the ancient texts, hoping to find another way, but they all take too much time or are simply impossible to achieve now. I still have more to look at, but I don't think there's any other way.

In the midst of the old library, bathed in the quiet moonlight, a man with long black hair and golden eyes sat beside her, his voice polite yet tinged with pain. Roina pressed her hand to her chest, her heart pounding. A spirit continued to shelve the books, but every book in this library seemed to have passed through this man's hands today. He had gone to such lengths to avoid sleeping with her.

"I'm sorry. Maybe there's something else I can do..."

"No, really, it's okay. I'm, I'm fine. Please, just infuse your mana in the same way."

"...Are you sure?"

The man's golden eyes, shining intensely, met hers. Roina closed her eyes tightly. She wanted to get rid of the prince's mark as soon as possible and was willing to take the fastest route. But the truth was, she wanted Rutan so intensely that this felt like just an excuse. <<less

Katie, on a special mission to prevent war, infiltrated the Empire.... more>>

The enemy she met again after thirteen years was no longer the scrawny, dying young boy he once was. He was a powerful beast with a massive body and gleaming golden eyes.

"How about we make a deal? For your information, it would be in your best interest to accept. Only then will I bury yesterday's events, today's answers, and all the suspicions that have grown because of them."

"What are the terms of the deal...?"

"You satisfy my other curiosities."

This was a simple condition. She had expected him to demand money, someone's life in her stead, or information.

The problem was that his curiosity was extremely private.

"Do you think you can satisfy me by crying like that? Cry more beautifully. So I might feel like letting you go." <<less

A major ordeal has struck someone like me, a socially inept person who finds everything in life bothersome.... more>>

Thanks to my average looks, I had been coasting through life effortlessly, but suddenly, I found myself the center of unwanted attention. And, as expected, I’ve somehow become Baek Eun-Seong, an extra whose sole joy is tormenting the main characters before ultimately meeting their downfall.

Apparently, I’ve been kidnapped by the male protagonist, Cha Gil-Do…

“Can I take a nap now?”

“Are you out of your mind? Do you still not understand the situation?”

“…Yes.”

I might be slow to grasp things, but hey, what’s life, anyway? I’m just an extra, so I figure staying quiet will do the trick. I just want to be left alone to rest, but why are you keeping me locked up instead of dealing with the heroine? <<less