My name is Ji-eun, a name that means wisdom and purity.
What an irony… for neither of those virtues had ever truly been mine.
I was not wise. I had spent nearly all my money on romance novels—the kind where the hero finally meets the heroine in the last chapter, and the two live happily ever after.
Nor was I pure. There were moments when I cursed the villainess with all my heart, wishing she would simply die in the very first chapters.
Still, I was overjoyed when I received the pay from my part-time job.
Not to save it… but to spend it on yet another novel—even though I hadn't finished the previous one.
The moment I returned home, I shut the door and turned off my phone so no one could disturb me.
I sat on my bed, opened the novel with eager hands, and began to read.
And when I reached a certain chapter—
Suddenly, without warning, I felt as though some unseen force was pulling me away.
When I opened my eyes, I was no longer in my room.
I was lying in a vast, luxurious chamber.
Around me stood several maids in heavy silence, their faces pale… as if I had committed a crime against all humanity.
Wait…
Did I say a large room?
This isn't my room.
Where am I?
What is happening?
Could this be a dream? A strange one… perhaps even a nightmare?
Or… has what I feared truly happened?
Did I… enter the novel?