Chapter 1
“Ophelia.”
He looked down at me, his gaze filled with adoration as if honey was dripping from his purple eyes.
He had a very charming look.
“I love you.”
The women of the empire would do anything to receive such sweet whispers from him.
Because he was the crown prince of this empire.
Sadly, however, there was only one answer I could give to this expression of his love.
“Cheep.”
That’s right. Whoever was in front of me, this was his bedroom, so none of the women who adored the Crown Prince could have entered. It didn’t work.
Because I was only a yellow little chick now.
“You’re so cute. Just the kind of person I chose.”
Clementz Resta Dushingen, who was smiling like he was dying of love, was a prince with silver hair.
He was the one who brought me in, a foolish aristocrat, to live trapped as a chick day and night in this painful palace separated from my family!
“Cheep! Cheep!”
I flapped my wings in protest. Y-You crazy– Do you know what kind of sorcery is going on in the palace right now?
“Cassius.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“Ophelia didn’t eat anything. What happened?”
It’s because of you!
“Oh, no, she doesn’t seem to like the finest new Moi. I’ll tell them to change it back to the one she used to eat.”
“Lovely Ophelia, the prince’s chick with such a frugal appetite. It is indeed an example of this empire.”
What are you guys talking about?!
Even the most capable man in the empire, Marquis Cassius Dupre, was seriously supporting the prince’s play with his pet. Is the Empire going crazy because of me?
Clementz wasn’t the one who listened to me even when he saw what I was. I wonder what intentions he had. I don’t know what to say.
Having lost the will to resist, I sank into the bowl. My name “Ophelia” was carved in gold on a sophisticated Moi bowl. No matter how angry I was, I felt miserable for that precious man who just kept staring at me with awe.
“My Ophelia, do you have any concerns?”
Yes, it’s you! You are the cause of all my worries, anxiety, and disruptions!
Strange. Obviously, in the novel I read, Clementz was not a dork in a nutshell. He was a male protagonist, praised by all readers for his sweet attitude towards the heroine.
And even when he gets killed by my beloved female protagonist, Bellarusia.
As a reader, I couldn’t stand the tragic incident. So, I tried to stop him from dying after being possessed in a fictional world. By erasing all the misunderstandings between the male and the female leads so that they could be sincere to each other.
But things have been messed up in a good way and this was the result. It’s good that I am alive. But why did you take me, who’s just a chick, instead of the heroine? I was only an extra friend of the heroine.
“Your Highness, Crown Prince! Give Ophelia to me! Isn’t it my turn to take care of her lunch today?!”
A loud bang on the door rang through the room. There was only one person who dared to knock on the prince’s door like that.
Camille de Bayless, the daughter of Marquis Bayless. A beautiful woman with blond-green hair.
The woman who was most likely the candidate for the Crown Princess.
And in the novel, the woman who evilly wanted the attention of Clementz until his death.
But now, she was just a fiery competition to Clementz for having me, who was now a chick.
As soon as he saw me hearing Camille’s voice, Clementz’s expression hardened coldly.
“Return her back.”
“Leave it to me.”
Glances of planning a solemn strategy were exchanged between them before Marquis Dupre approached the door, leaving an afterimage of his red hair.
Camille, who knew I was here, wanted to come in, but Marquis Dupre lied from behind the door.
Camille was not a pushover. It probably took a while.
“You have nothing to worry, Ophelia.”
Meanwhile, Prince Clementz whispered sweetly, picking me up on his palms.
As if she was some lover I needed saving from.
Funny – Why is everyone so sincere to this chick?
“Cheep! Cheep! (I wanna go back home!)”
“Yeah, I feel the same as well.”
“Cheep! (You read my mind.) Chee. (Wait, you’re already there.)”
“There has never been such a cute being as you in my life, and there will never be. Next month…… let us have a ceremony with the elders of the imperial family.”
“Cheep. (What do you mean….?)”
He blushed in such a suspicious manner that it gave me the chills. This nuance was somewhat strange, but I tried to ignore it.
Finally, he removed the cover from the silver platter on the desk.
Below it were a white cotton dress, small rosebuds, and a tiara made of pearls.
“I wish to spend the rest of my life with a cute little thing like you.”
He couldn’t be more careful when he patted my head.
“Do you like it?”
I tried not to get stressed no matter how absurd it sounded.
I couldn’t stand it any longer. My wings and feet trembled uncontrollably on Clementz’s hard calloused palm.
Just as my father-in-law with high blood pressure collapsed while holding his back in the middle of a drama, I also went backwards, bending my small orange feet up.
A fluffy sound erupted when my body made contact with his broad palms.
“What’s wrong, Ophelia? Do you not like the dress?”
Uhh, how did things get like this?
Others may have possessed a dark supporting role or an extra, but at least they’re human.
I recalled my memories when I first entered the novel.
I was the daughter of a lowly aristocrat and entered the same province as the maid of honor of the daughter of the most influential Count.
Bellarusia Reyunis Monahan.
It wasn’t until I heard the lady’s name that I realized.
I was transferred into the free serialized novel “Beauty and the Beast” that I was reading.
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“This can’t be happening!!”
The sentence on the screen remained the same even when I saw it after tearing my head off.
[That’s how Clementz Resta Dushingen died.]
“Hnnnnn…..”
A groan broke through my lips. Tears welled up in my eyes.
[Because he fell in love with the woman, he did not want to save himself.]
“Argh!!”
I couldn’t stand it, so I threw my cell phone. It bounced off my mattress and roughly contacted the floor. The fact that the installment agreement remained for it for more than a year did not even enter my mind.
I knew it was ridiculous to make this mess over the content of a web novel, but I really liked this novel, “Beauty and the Beast”. From the first episode I read, the novel was according to my taste, and I was waiting for the new episode that was uploaded every day.
The novel had always set a mysterious aura to the air. The origin of the mystery that lied in the female lead, Bellarusia.
Bellarusia Reyunis Monahan, the girl who used to turn into a black leopard every night under the curse of a devil.
Prince Clementz Resta Dushingen, the male lead, ran into her while visiting the west.
Although she was seemingly a calm and mature daughter of a Count, Bella was hiding her untamed wilderness. In the novel, Bella expresses her attraction to Clementz, desiring to eat him in her true nature. I wanted to break it.
Clementz was not an ordinary man either. He was definitely a human being, but somewhere, there was a part of him that wasn’t human. On a moony night, a deeper sense of dark aura always lurked around him.
[The first novel in which the FL wanted to eat the ML every time she saw him, literally……]
[Kya, I’m outta here.]
[This tense atmosphere. Is this novel suitable to read?]
[I don’t think it’s the bloody tension up there. I think it’s because of the style that emphasizes the atmosphere.]
I read the responses of the readers.
Anyway, the most beautiful women were attracted to him. However, Bella, the female lead, could not approach Clementz because of her curse, while Clementz grew more curious about her who was secretly pushing him away.
They go back to the palace together, riding a thrilling flirtatious journey through the novel, filled with the mysteriousness of an unspeakable secret in the middle.
However, there was Camille de Bayless, a social leader, who was considered a strong candidate for the position of Crown Princess.
Camille, whose world was turned upside down when she spotted Bella next to Clementz, tried her best to keep her weak feet planted on the ground.
[Camille; she was so annoying.]
[I was so confident. I was speechless when it happened. This is so frustrating.]
[Is this a good read?]
[Am I the only one who thinks he purposely did that as an excuse for Camille to fix Bella’s weakness?]
Immersed in the novel, I could feel Bella’s psychology, which was repeatedly expressed with heavy descriptions as if it was my heart. And Clementz’s love, which was always there for her, was also described beautifully.
Therefore, I put up something to defend my beloved main characters in the comments.
[Thinking of Bella’s condition, there was no way he could stand up to her in such a situation. Why are you doing this to Clementz? ㅠㅠ He was madly in love with Bella.]
Clementz died, filled with every affection to his last breath. And in Bella’s hands! It was literally a bolt out of the blue.