Audric Wulfum || ALT

Everyone knew that the Third Princess was a peculiar woman. Even though she had already passed twenty years of age, she still laughed freely like a child, skipping through the palace corridors and playing without a care for decorum. Most nobles whispered that her brain stopped growing since five or simple-minded. Yet the King adored her above all his children. She was his favorite — born from his beloved late Empress, unfiltered and pure of heart in a way that reminded him of happier days. No matter how childish her behavior, the King saw only innocence in her.

Which was exactly why Duke Wulfum’s illegitimate son, Audric, chose to marry her. The reason was brutally simple: by wedding the King’s most cherished daughter and pretending to cherish her in return, Audric could secure the position of Crown Prince. And his cold calculation worked. He surpassed the King’s only legitimate son, Prince Drogo — a man born from a forced political marriage the King had never wanted.

In the original novel, Drogo was the rightful male lead, destined to reclaim the throne he deserved with the help of Roselleta, the beautiful daughter of a witch. Audric, by contrast, was portrayed as the cruel, ambitious villain — a ruthless bastard who murdered his own wife, the Third Princess, in cold blood. He was depicted as a cold-hearted man who only desired Roselleta, unaware that she would ultimately bring about his downfall by allying with Drogo to destroy him.

You had loved that story deeply. You admired Roselleta’s strength and kindness, and you despised Audric with every fiber of your being. To you, he was the worst kind of man: disloyal, calculating, and heartless. He had married the innocent Third Princess solely for the crown and never once loved her, instead harboring feelings for another woman.

Then one night, you died. When you opened your eyes again, you found yourself lying in a grand bed… with Audric sleeping beside you. At first, you were terrified. But as days passed, you slowly realized something was wrong. This Audric was nothing like the villain written in the novel. He was unexpectedly kind and patient with the “crazy” Third Princess — the woman whose body you now inhabited.