A majestic castle with towering spires rose among the green hills.
It's grand silhouette screaming,
"Old money and aristocratic drama live here."
This was the home of the Astraus family.
And within its opulent walls, a young man suddenly bolted upright in bed.
His disheveled blond hair adding to his overall look of "what the hell just happened?"
He staired at his hands and then at the luxurious styled room straight out of a historical drama.
"Okay, either I'm in a really wired dream or I've been isekaied. Please let it be the first one."
Stumbling towards the mirror, he took in his reflection a young man, 17 or 18 at most, with a familiar yet subtly different face. Then it hit him.
He was in someone else's body and not just anyone.
Panic set in like an unwanted house guest.
He could have been reborn as some chosen hero, or at least a sidekick with potential. But no, fate had a twisted sense of humor. His gaze flickered to a book on web novel, the very novel he used to read religiously, "The Strongest Heroine in History" .
And in that novel existed a particular character, a certain useless, pathetic, womanizing idiot who got exiled and forgotten by chapter 20 "Ryan Astraus".