The slap came first.

The reality came after.

He woke up as Kainar, the infamous crown prince of a romance fantasy novel,
a reckless tyrant destined to destroy his empire and die a miserable death.

This time, he refuses that ending.

The empire is already rotting from within.
Corrupt nobles circle like vultures.
The emperor suffers under a mysterious curse.
And betrayal runs deeper than blood.

So he makes a simple decision.

If the empire is broken, he will fix it, no matter the cost.

Traitors are purged without mercy.
Power is seized without hesitation.
And the story that once condemned him begins to crumble under his will.

But changing fate is never simple.

The heroines of the original story no longer follow their roles.
The truth behind the emperor’s curse points to something far greater.

And the more he reshapes the empire through violence and politics…

the closer he comes to becoming the very tyrant he was meant to be.

In a world where love, power, and destiny collide,

can a “villain” truly save the empire,

or will he simply create a new kind of ruin?