The Dragon’s Obsession with Water is Difficult

I learned that the place I was reborn into was from a novel when I was fourteen years old.

“Cough, cough!”

As the sound of intense coughing reached my ears, a nanny rushed over from a distance, startled.

“Oh my, young lady. You should take your medicine.”

With a worried voice urging me, my body trembled, but I shook my head with a bitter expression.

“No, it’s too bitter.”

I could tolerate it to some extent.

Just like the numerous medicines I had taken before.

But the medicine I recently switched to was so bitter that it felt like a deadly poison being offered to me.

“It must be difficult to bear such bitterness.”

As the taste of consideration for a child crossed my mind, my expression involuntarily twisted.

“Cough!”

However, desperately refusing the medicine, I noticed that there was red blood spreading on the hand that covered my mouth.

“…”

“…”

A moment of silence passed, and the nanny spoke with an expression of concern.

“Oh my, blood, blood…! If you don’t take the medicine, I’ll tell Sir Serkan!”

“That’s not allowed! Calm down. I’ll take it, I’ll take it.”

Sobbing, this damn body…

The petite body, so small that it could easily fly away, was said to suffer from a rare disease called “Lisbeth.”

If I didn’t take the medicine that stopped the coughing in time, the bitter blood rising up would be truly unpleasant.

I glared at the vial filled with bubbling green liquid with resentful eyes, and then I quickly swallowed it all at once.

“…!”

That was a terrible mistake.

Indeed, it was undoubtedly a deadly poison.

“Cough, cough!”

Overwhelmed by the unbelievably bitter taste, I grabbed my throat and collapsed on the spot.

“Oh my goodness! Young lady!”

The legendary medicine that couldn’t be obtained even with a fortune turned out to be a foul-tasting stamina recovery potion concocted by a quack doctor.

Upon learning this fact, my father became furious and tried to kill the quack doctor, but he had already fled after taking his illicit gains.

And while lying in bed and drifting through a hallucination, I had an astonishing experience.

It was absurd, but memories from a distant past came to mind.

In my previous life, I lived a completely different life in a completely different world from the present.

Strangely enough, I was an ordinary office worker in South Korea, living in the harsh reality.

Memories of suppressing the desire to quit my job dozens of times a day flashed through my mind.

Even while riding the hellish subway on the way home, I spent my time reading novels…

‘They said it was the conclusion. I have to go home and watch the final episode.’

But unable to reach home, I couldn’t help but think about the headlights of a speeding car violating the signal on the pedestrian crossing.

‘…That jerk, he probably got caught by the police.’

I remembered the sight of the person who hit me running away in a panic, without even considering calling an ambulance.

“Sigh…”

Three days after collapsing from taking the medicine, I woke up and regained my strength by eating all sorts of delicious food that the nanny brought.

And I thought to myself.

‘Could it be that I was reborn into a romance novel?’

It was a highly reasonable suspicion because this world closely resembled the atmosphere of a romance novel. However…

‘I’ve read too many. I don’t even know which novel it is.’

There were quite a few supporting characters with the name Sierra.

Although it might have been due to the shock of collapsing for several days, there was no miracle of the original work suddenly coming to mind.

Above all, memories of my previous life only surfaced little by little, and they were still hazy, like a fog.

At first, I had various suspicions, but as time went by, I thought, ‘Well, whatever.’

Whether this place was inside a romance novel or not, it didn’t matter to me, who would spend my entire life in this mansion.

Even if it resembled a novel with never-ending incidents and accidents, I wouldn’t get entangled with the main characters.

‘That’s somewhat fortunate.’

Even after that, as I continued to live an excessively peaceful daily life, I became convinced that my thoughts were correct.

I thought that was the case, but…

“Say hello, Sierra. This is Arzen, the son of Duke Selver.”

During the early summer, as I met a boy who visited the mansion, I realized that my thoughts and sense of relief were completely wrong.

“Nice to meet you, Sierra. My name is Arzen Selver.”

“….”

A delicate hand reached out in front of me, and I lost the words I was going to say.

“Sierra?”

Arzen raised his head, examining my stiff expression.

At that moment, when I faced his transparent blue eyes.

‘What, what is this?’

I silently let out a suppressed scream inside.

It was because of the novel I had read among countless romance novels, which was infamous for being the worst, <In the End of Twisted Love is Doom>.

The transparent, chilly silver hair, sky-blue eyes that seemed to have captured the essence of the sea.

What definitively confirmed it was the blue butterfly pattern under his right eye.

“….”

Although a breathtakingly beautiful face shimmered in front of me, I froze as if I had seen a ghost.

‘Is this for real…?’

In the midst of the subway, in the midst of hellish commuting, in the novel that had held my attention, could it be that very same world?!

Once my conviction took hold, the contents of the original work slowly began to resurface in my dizzying mind.

Now that I knew whose body I had been reincarnated into, I chose to faint rather than face it.

“Sierra! Are you okay?!”

Arzen, who grabbed me by the back of my neck to prevent me from collapsing, spoke.

“Sierra, your face is so pale! Are you in a lot of pain?”

No, my health is relatively good compared to usual.

However, my face has turned ashen because I realized that the reality I am in is more tragic than I initially thought.

‘…This is bad.’

Of all things, it’s to the extent that those words involuntarily come out!

As the people frantically gathered around me became blurry, I ended up losing consciousness.

Blinking, when I opened my eyes again, I saw the distant ceiling.

It seemed that everyone had moved away from me for my stability, as the room was silent.

I absentmindedly pinched my cheeks while lying on the bed.

“Ouch-.”

It hurts.

It’s not a dream!

Simultaneously, a burst of tears welled up.

<In the End of Twisted Love is Doom>, shortened to <Twisted End>.

Not only the title, but the actual novel surpassed all imagination in terms of being a disaster.

I recalled Arzen whom I had met a little while ago.

‘He had a shocking face.’

He was so strikingly handsome that I can’t even describe it. He could easily be the male lead’s brother or something.

Arzen didn’t appear frequently in the original work, but his name was very familiar.

‘Arzen, I will definitely seek revenge. And in return, I will release you from your grudge, big brother.’

It’s no exaggeration to say that half of the lines of the heroine, Jenna, are about avenging my brother.

And the target of that merciless revenge is none other than…

‘Me.’

I’m seriously going crazy.

Feeling that something has gone terribly wrong, I grabbed my head.

The content of “<Twisted End>” can be summarized as follows:

Jenna, the princess of the Duke of Selver, who went missing as a child and miraculously returned like any other romance heroine.
With her purifying abilities, she naturally becomes entangled with the empire’s lunatics.

The male leads, who are top-tier ability users, are mentally unstable due to a cursed-like power and live in the torment of their rampage.

[I’ll help you. My power will undoubtedly free you from your suffering.]

Jenna becomes their exclusive purifier. Despite being a princess of sunshine, Jenna sincerely helps the lunatic male leads rather than treating it as an obligation.

Of course, at first, the male leads treated Jenna in a disrespectful manner due to their initial irrational behavior. However, as they realize her sincerity, their attitudes gradually change.

In the end, as in any typical romance novel, they fall in love.

‘If it had just followed that path, it wouldn’t be a trashy melodrama.’

The worst sweet potato villain appears.

Sierra Drenihan, the daughter of the highest-ranking authority in the empire, becomes obsessed with one of the male leads, Ludwig. Even Sierra, who was seen as a crazy person by others, had no sanity when it came to her infatuation.

Naturally, Ludwig had no interest in her, not even as much as a fingernail. Sierra, consumed by jealousy, became enraged.

In the end, she tried to kill Jena at the Night Festival but made a foolish mistake…

[It’s not J-Jenna…?!]

She mistakenly kills Jenna’s twin brother.

In the darkness, unable to distinguish between similar-looking siblings, she made a mistake due to her blind jealousy.

Yes, Sierra, blinded by jealousy, was a foolish villain who accidentally killed the heroine’s brother.

That became the turning point where the healing story turned into a revenge drama.

Even though Jenna lost her sunny smile from that point on, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say so.

Darkened Jenna uses the male leads to begin avenging her deceased brother.

The male leads, blindly devoted to Jenna to the point of barking if she commands, eventually bring down the powerful Drenihan family and turn Sierra into a miserable figure.

Although many details are omitted, the revenge of the male leads becomes cruel to the point where Sierra elicits sympathy in the end.

Since Sierra was suffering from a rare disease and couldn’t live past her early twenties, Jenna also prevented her from fulfilling her destiny.

After completing her revenge, Jenna and the male leads were supposed to love each other and live happily ever after…

‘This is a sad ending.’

No matter how crazy Jenna might be, there was a reason she was called the ultimate antagonist.

In a typical over-the-top melodrama like this, Ludwig, who was born with a strong dragon’s bloodline, goes out of control.

Completely losing his reason, Ludwig goes on a rampage, and the other male leads who tried to stop him eventually lose their lives.

[What’s going on?!]

[Author, why are you doing this? My stocks are crumbling…]

Comments like these flooded in as the scene of Ludwig slaughtering them was so brutal that it sent shivers down one’s spine.

Jenna desperately tries to purify Ludwig but fails…

Eventually, after a week, Ludwig succumbs to his own uncontrollable power and self-destructs, ending the nightmarish rampage.

With the disappearance of those who supported the kingdom, darkness befalls the empire, and Jenna, no longer in her right mind, conceals herself, ending the story.

I was reading that exact part on the subway.

There were only about five episodes left, and I didn’t get to see the ending, but even without seeing it, it was undoubtedly a video-like sad ending.


[What the hell, how could it end like this…]

I couldn’t believe it either.

The prince was rescued, but he was killed by Ludwig.

From that moment on, it was so absurd and unbelievable that it left me speechless.

“Haha…”

I could only express gratitude to the quack doctor who first gave me the garbage medicine.

Thanks to his medicine, I collapsed, and I remembered everything from my past life to the contents of the novel.

Oh, wait. Cold sweat is running down my forehead.