Chapter 0
Prologue
The male lead went bankrupt.
[…But what should we do? Our hero, Grand Duke Cassis Luwin, has gone bankrupt!]
No matter how many times I rubbed my eyes and checked again, the quest text didn’t change.
The system declared the bankruptcy of the man destined to become the empire’s hero and the male protagonist of this game.
With trembling hands, I continued to read the quest.
[The bankrupt Grand Duke is likely to focus more on his own family than on the continent’s political situation or the empire’s survival.
That’s right!
The empire is currently facing the threat of destruction!]
Ha.
[At present, the empire’s only hope is the player, ‘Irina Seike’.]
Ha……
It may be hard to believe, but the male lead went bankrupt.
The reason is simple.
It’s because I slightly altered the original story of the game I was possessing to pay off our family’s debt.
I really only tweaked it a little, but I didn’t expect it to have a butterfly effect that would lead to the male lead’s family’s downfall.
No matter how desperate, I shouldn’t have messed with the original story.
In other romance novels, when you alter the original story, the male lead falls for the person who possessed them, or the villain falls for them.
Why does the male lead go bankrupt in my case?
[‘Irina Seike’.
Please pay off the debt of the empire’s hero, Cassis Luwin, and save the empire from destruction!
The main quest, ‘Prevent the Empire’s Destruction’, will proceed simultaneously with the linked quest ‘Repay the Grand Duke Luwin Family’s Debt’.
Do you want to accept the quest?
<Accept>
<Decline>]
I quietly muttered curses.
I could feel Cassis flinching beside me.
After dismissing all the quest windows, I slowly raised my head to see Cassis, disheveled from the rain.
Black hair, red eyes, and a cool face that rarely showed expression.
Add to that a sturdy body built through consistent training.
He was truly a typical northern man.
But if you add worn-out clothes, weary eyes, and a gloomy face to this, you can easily guess how unfavorable Cassis’s situation is.
‘F**k.’
This man went bankrupt, and now the empire is on the brink of destruction…
And now they’re telling me to pay off his debt.
F**k.
F***ing hell.
I had just managed to pay off my student loans, and now this felt like my parents’ 700 million won debt from 10 years ago, when they abandoned me, had come back to haunt me.
