Once, he was just an ordinary man from Earth — a gamer, a reader, and a dreamer. But fate played its cruel tricks more than once.

The first time he transmigrated, he awoke in the world of a gacha harem dating sim, as the main villain — doomed to die in every route. Yet, unlike the original, he defied fate. He died not as a tyrant, but as a hero — saving the four protagonists he was destined to destroy.

Now, for the second time, he finds himself in another world — this time inside the Murim novel he once read. He becomes Geomma Seonin, the Blade Demon Immortal, a being feared by both the Orthodox and Evil Factions.

His fury and madness ignite after the death of Eun Seoryeon, the Silver Snow Witch of the Northern Palace — the woman he once saved from her destined death in the original story. She was supposed to live… but the endless war between light and shadow took her life again.

Enraged, Seonin unleashes a rampage upon the entire Murim world, cutting down saints and devils alike until both factions unite against him. Surrounded, pierced by countless blades and arrows, his blood stains the battlefield crimson. As his vision fades, he feels no regret — only sorrow.

But death does not claim him.

When he opens his eyes again, it is in a familiar yet foreign body — Lucian Azrael Von Blackstar, his former self from the first transmigration. But the world around him has shifted in strange, inexplicable ways.

The princess who once annulled their engagement now acts as though haunted by regret. Her eyes, once sharp and cold, now soften whenever they meet his. She sends gifts she pretends are from others, visits under the guise of formality, and lingers in silence — as if afraid that looking away might make him vanish again.

And the academy’s notorious villainess — the woman famed for her cruelty and disinterest in all — has become his unseen shadow. He feels her presence in the moonlight outside his dorm, in the rustle of curtains at midnight, in the faint scent of her perfume carried by the wind. Her gaze, once venomous, now trembles between hatred, fascination… and something dangerously close to longing.

As Lucian walks between the threads of two worlds — the gacha game that birthed him and the Murim realm that broke him — he begins to sense a deeper truth. The memories of his past lives blur, the people he once knew return in unfamiliar forms, and the cycle of death and rebirth tightens around him like a noose woven by unseen hands.

Love, fate, and vengeance intertwine — and in the quiet corners of this world, where hearts remember what souls forget, Lucian must uncover the shadowed hand that has bound all his lives together.

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