IRMY Chapter 1

“Please get in, Your Highness.”

“Wait a minute… Yuro!”

It was the bluish dawn, even before the first crow of the rooster. As Yuro hurriedly tried to board the carriage, someone ran and tugged at his sleeve.

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It was Clope Lechis, his half-sister and the original owner of this carriage.

“Sister.”

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Clope, looking up at Yuro with tears welling up in her eyes, was in a thin nightgown with her hair disheveled. Over her shoulder, a maid could be seen rushing out of the detached palace, holding a shawl.

Yuro, silently gazing at Clope, reached out and took the shawl from the maid who approached, panting. Then, with a sigh, he draped the shawl over Clope’s shoulders and said,

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“You’ll catch a cold.”

“You never said you were leaving this early.”

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“The Duke’s estate is at least a month away by carriage. It’s natural to depart early.”

“But still, leaving like this… without even a moment to say goodbye to your family…”

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Finally, Clope, who had been on the verge of tears, began to sob. Instead of giving his weeping sister a warm hug, Yuro lightly patted her shoulder and stepped back slightly.

Contrary to Clope’s wishes, there was not a single family member in this castle, besides her, who would be sad about Yuro’s departure.

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An illegitimate child who appeared suddenly one day – that was Yuro Lechis. He learned that Madame Helen, once the king’s mistress, was his biological mother, and the King of Norden Kingdom was his biological father, around the age of seven.

Helen, driven out of her position as mistress and left to live out her life in a shabby hut in the slums, was not a good mother to Yuro. She suffered from alcohol and opium addiction, and often forced Yuro to take unidentified drugs.

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Then came a certain day. Helen, who usually woke up at dusk, intoxicated with alcohol and opium, strangely woke up early in the morning and busily moved about. Due to their difficult circumstances, she had sold all of her jewelry. However, even in such poverty, there was one hairpin she hadn’t sold.

A luxurious hairpin decorated with red rubies. It didn’t suit the shabby dress she was wearing at all, but Helen, with the hairpin in her neatly combed hair, seemed determined about something.

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After burning all the remaining firewood to boil hot water, Helen thoroughly washed Yuro, dressed him in his cleanest clothes, and caught a carriage in the city.

The destination, absurdly enough, was the royal palace. The guards at the entrance dragged Helen away like a sack of potatoes as she persistently requested an audience, but she held tightly onto Yuro’s hand and shouted at the top of her lungs until sunset.

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‘Your Majesty, your son is here! I gave birth to the Prince of Norden!’

Despite her careful preparations, Helen’s appearance was a mess from the struggle. Like the hairpin precariously hanging from her tangled hair, she looked extremely vulnerable.

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However, Helen did not give up, and Yuro went from being a slum beggar to the Prince of Norden in a single night. In return, Yuro never saw Helen again after that day.

“Sister.”

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“…”

“I won’t ask you to forgive me for what I’ve done. But I didn’t have any ulterior motives. My obsession with you… was because, in this cold and indifferent palace, only you treated me like family.”

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“Yuro.”

“This marriage is my repayment for your kindness. So if you think you owe me, you must marry the one you love.”

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Yuro smiled and wiped Clope’s tears. She then grabbed Yuro’s hand, buried her face in it, and wept.

This was why he decided to leave secretly early in the morning. Clope’s tears stemmed solely from her affection for her younger brother who volunteered for a political marriage in her place.

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However, it would never appear that way to others. Because there was no proof that Yuro was truly the king’s biological child.

Yuro, who became the Prince of Norden led by Helen’s hand, was indeed Helen’s biological child. As proof, he had bright orange hair like hers.

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However, every single member of Norden royalty was born with silver hair, without exception. Because of this, the queen and even the nobles questioned Yuro’s origins.

However, the king disregarded all verification procedures and dismissed all doubts. This didn’t mean all suspicions disappeared.

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Moreover, Yuro’s usual behavior fueled the suspicion. He showed excessive attachment to his half-sister, Clope, the only one who warmly embraced him as a true sibling.

Therefore, the current tearful farewell between Yuro and Clope was the perfect fodder for gossipmongers.

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“Promise me, Sister. That you’ll marry His Highness, the Crown Prince.”

“…”

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“You must.”

The northern kingdom of Norden became a vassal state after its defeat in a war against the Paltrieon Empire long ago. Legally, it was an independent nation, but in reality, it was under the empire’s control.

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Paltrieon’s Crown Prince Gale and Princess Clope of the vassal state Norden had been lovers for a long time, but their marriage talks were stalled due to the emperor’s opposition.

Then, the Paltrieon Emperor suddenly and unilaterally ordered a marriage between the Norden royal family and the empire’s Duke Spioren.

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As Clope was the only princess of Norden, the emperor’s order was solely directed at her. Therefore, naturally, the person riding the carriage to the Duke’s estate should have been Clope.

However, the emperor was blinded by this obvious assumption when he ordered the marriage, without clearly specifying the gender or the individual. Yuro, seizing upon this loophole, volunteered to marry in Clope’s stead.

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“Yuro, even though Duke Spioren is said to be unable to have an heir… If you go instead of me, I don’t know what kind of humiliation you might face.”

“There are ways to deal with that, so you don’t have to worry. Same-sex marriage and adoption are common in the empire.”

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“But the Spioren family…”

“You should worry about yourself, Sister. Since the emperor has even resorted to forcing a political marriage, marrying the Crown Prince won’t be easy.”

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“…”

“But you must do it. Will you grant me this request?”

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At Yuro’s earnest plea, Clope nodded vigorously. Only then did Yuro seem relieved, carefully releasing her hand and boarding the carriage.

However, as the coachman was about to close the door, Clope squeezed in between and took off the shawl she was wearing, offering it to Yuro.

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“Yuro, aren’t you dressed too lightly? At least take this shawl.”

But Yuro stared blankly at the shawl Clope offered and then placed it back around her shoulders, fastening it securely.

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“Sister, have you forgotten? The Duke’s estate is in the south.”

“…”

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“It’s a very hot place there. Unlike Norden.”

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Inside the jolting and rattling carriage, Yuro’s face contorted in a grimace as he stared out the window.

“This ride is fucking rough.”

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Having spent his entire life traveling on well-paved roads in cars, he couldn’t stand the shaking carriage as it sped along the dirt road.

“Anyway… I really hope Clope marries the Crown Prince. If that marriage doesn’t happen, I’m dead.”

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He felt like he was about to die from the terrible motion sickness, but that was just a feeling, a far cry from actually dying.

Yuro Lechis… no, ‘Kim Yuro,’ who had possessed him, knew this fact better than anyone.

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Kim Yuro. A former main vocalist of a failed idol group, a man of misfortune who had participated in three different idol survival programs—only to be eliminated every single time. That was who he was.

Cast as ‘Yuro Lechis’ in a musical based on the popular novel ‘Lechis’ solely because their names were similar, he played the role of a character killed by the villain early in the story.

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His idol group had long since disbanded, and he had repeatedly failed to make it into the final debut group in survival shows. As a result, Yuro had decided to leave the entertainment industry and return to life as an ordinary person.

Then, luckily, he was cast in the musical. It was partly due to his name, but also thanks to his fans, who desperately tried to prevent his retirement by mentioning him in every virtual casting for the ‘Lechis’ musical on various social media platforms and online communities.

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The role of Yuro Lechis was just a supporting role, but it had a solo song and was quite challenging. Even though he hadn’t redebuted, Yuro’s singing skills were exceptional, so he secured the opportunity with just one meeting.

In order to repay his fans’ hard work and support, Yuro not only read the original novel but also devoured all the behind-the-scenes settings posted on the author’s SNS before taking the stage for his first performance.

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He couldn’t miss the chance to continue singing. He successfully completed his solo performance, and all that remained was to die by the villain’s sword…

The problem was, he actually died.

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The actor playing the villain had stabbed him with a real sword. He didn’t know where the real sword came from, or whether the stabbing was accidental or intentional, because he was already dead.

It was suspicious, to say the least, to simply call it the result of bad luck, but struggling because of the injustice wouldn’t change anything.

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The real problem was something else entirely. He had been possessed by ‘Yuro Lechis,’ who was destined to be stabbed to death again.

The only fortunate thing was that he had been possessed at the point in time one year before the marriage talks between Clope Lechis and Duke Melione Spioren, which were briefly mentioned in a flashback as the cause of all the events.

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Clope Lechis was found murdered a year after her unwanted political marriage to the Duke, and her husband, Melione, was identified as the sole culprit of the incident.

Naturally, Crown Prince Gale, her lover, was enraged, and Yuro Lechis, who also admired her, was consumed with a desire for revenge.

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The result of Yuro Lechis recklessly confronting the Duke was death. So now, Yuro was on his way to marry Melione, the villain who killed him, in Clope’s place.

“Ugh… I really feel like I’m going to throw up.”

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Yuro muttered, lowering his head. 

Please, let me not die again. 

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He mumbled, desperately suppressing the rising nausea, and squeezed his eyes shut.