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Stop Saving Me, I'm The Bad Guy

He didn't die like a villain. He died like a man who had already given up. Caelus Valerius — third son of House Valerius, the Empire's most despised noble — felt the blade before he felt the sheets. Twelve years of playing the monster. Twelve years of secret sacrifices dressed in cruelty. And in the end, the woman he loved swung the executioner's blade herself. Then he woke up. Eighteen years old. Same room. Same face. Same world that destroyed him. But this time, something woke up with him. A System — cold, merciless, indifferent to his grief — brands a countdown into his wrist and delivers a single verdict: Good deeds drain your life. Evil deeds keep you breathing. Deviate from the villain's script — and die. Caelus has no choice. He straightens his spine, pulls on the black Valerius coat, and steps back into the role that already killed him once. What he doesn't know is that Sylvia von Aethelgard woke up too — sword in hand, tear on her cheek, and a terrifying vow burning behind her eyes. She remembers every truth they uncovered too late. She remembers what kind of man was really behind that villain's mask. And she has already decided: she will shatter his plans, chain him to safety, and burn down anyone — or anything — that tries to take him again. He is trying to be the bad guy. She is sharpening the blade she once used to kill him. This time, it isn't for him. It's for anyone who gets in her way.
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