002 Crash Landing on You (2)
I muttered my name, ‘Jesse Jeong’ to myself once.
“Prince?”
The eyes of Benjamin and his attendants were focused on me. I was speechless and stood tall.
A fictional character with the same name as me and someone I know.
That’s just ‘Jesse Penetian’.
“ah······.”
Suddenly, my eyes turned white and I felt dizzy.
It felt like all the blood in my head was draining out.
“Prince!”
“Are you okay?”
The bewilderment of the young attendants poured over the startled Benjamin’s voice.
I leaned my staggering body against the armrests of the sofa.
As I slowly sat down and raised my head, my dizziness subsided and my vision became much clearer than before.
First, you need time to sort things out.
Seeing the faces stained with worry and anxiety, I smiled as if nothing special.
“It seems that recovery is slow. Could you please leave me alone for a while?”
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“no wonder.”
As I sat still, the words came out to me. Somehow it looked familiar.
I didn’t meet Jesse Penetian. This is because the fan art that Eunseo has shown in the past has been plentiful.
“yes?”
The young attendant, who had brought a bag at my request, looked at me with wide eyes.
It was the luggage that Jesse Penetian, the owner of this body, brought from the New Kingdom.
I felt sorry for having surprised the child for nothing, so I told him to go and rest as gently as possible because it was nothing.
After watching the boy close the door and leave, he sat on the floor and unpacked.
“Can you really come here empty-handed like this?”
I’m living as a hostage, but it’s strange to come with presents, and even the clothes are all managed by the imperial family, so what are you going to do?
He robbed the small pocket inside the bag, but found only a small notebook and a few simple clothes that he had worn on the journey.
There were no weapons, no treasure, no money, nothing.
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Or the imperial family has already taken it all.
“Gosh.”
I got up from a cross-legged position and opened my notebook.
I expected that he would leave a short diary when he came, but not a single drop of ink was found in the notebook. lazy child.
I wondered if there was some kind of magic that I didn’t know about, so I brought it closer to the fireplace and turned on the light.
There was no rattle.
“He’s a pretty easygoing guy, this one.”
After a brief evaluation of the prince, he returned to the first page of the notebook.
Anyway, in order to teach what I know, I need a piece of paper to write on, so I thought I would write it down and keep it privately.
I sat down at the table and awkwardly raised the quill on the other side.
When the pen tip is pressed against the notebook, a round black liquid seeps out.
At the top, I wrote the title of the work I entered.
＜I retired and a princess from another world>.
As if my hands were shaking for nothing, I took a deep breath.
“Jung Eun-seo, what have you done?”
I muttered my brother’s name and started squeezing out everything I remembered.
After I retired, I became a princess from another world, abbreviated as ‘Toegye-Gong’. A best-selling romance fantasy novel that took Korea up and down.
The romance fantasy genre is often referred to as ‘Ropan’ for short, but Toegye-Gong was a super-hit mega hit, rewriting the history of Ropan and achieving new sales records day by day.
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On any platform where you can read web novels, Toegye-gong was ranked first in the Ropan category, and was always listed in the real-time, daily, weekly, and monthly bests as well as the steady seller rankings.
Even those who did not read Ropan knew the title and cover of Toegye Gong.
As it is an unprecedented million-seller in the Ropan industry, it has been active in advancing into other media as well.
The webtoon was just the beginning, and it was so popular that the server of the largest webtoon platform in Korea went down ahead of the release of the first episode.
There was also news of an animation production that received a large investment.
The Toegye-Gong drama CD featuring a large number of famous voice actors sold out within two minutes of pre-order opening, and the additional quantity had to be increased by 300% thanks to the support and swearing of the fans.
Recently, I brought in top actors and recorded an audiobook, which contains the official OST of Toegye-gong.
The theme song of the main character, sung by the most popular idol these days, topped the music charts as if it was natural.
How do I know all of this?
“I don’t know if this is fortunate or unfortunate.”
It’s because my younger brother, Eunseo Jung (20 years old, college student) is a big fan of this work.
Even the adjective of fervor seems to be an understatement, but it was.
Toegyegong was a work that started serialization around the year Eunseo turned 19, that is, around January of last year.
Toegye-gong was a wonderful escape for Eun-seo, who was sharp at the thought of going to be a real high school senior in March.
Toegye-gong was a great comfort when I ruined the mock exam in June, and when I did well in the mock exam in September, I liked that it gave me strength thanks to Toegye-gong.
When the SAT was a hit, what? nothing to say
‘My life is a novel, seriously. How am I going to live when this is over?’
Eunseo is 9 years younger than me and 12 years older than my brother.
Me and my older brother raised the youngest brother like a daughter, and were soon swept away by Eun-seo’s love for Toegye-gong like a typhoon like a flyer at the gym.
I opened up the server time page, which I had never seen before after registering for college, and waited for the drama CD pre-booking, and my brother who works at home’s labor song was the Toegye-gong OST.
It was because of Eunseo’s insistent insistence that streaming should be turned back.
When our three brothers and sisters sat around the table to eat, Toegye-gong was always a hot topic.
Eun-seo analyzed the contents of the serialization that day, and vomited why the sub male lead ‘Jesse Penetian’ should be the male lead.
‘Sereggi is really bad. Again, we sinned against Kristel. Continuing with Jesse is the answer.’
At first, it was very awkward for a character with the same name as me to come and go in Eunseo’s mouth.
But, like everything else, I got used to it. After all, he’s a character in a novel.
‘Is the male protagonist’s name Sereghi?’
‘Oh, bro. You asked about that last time.’
‘Because what you’re doing is a bit garbage, so the fans call it Sereggi.’
Eun-seo asked my brother and I to read Toegye-gong several times.
However, the older brother, who had been reading hard until the middle of the day, announced that he was leaving because it didn’t seem to be his taste, and Eun-seo was sorry but did not force it any more.
As for me, in the beginning of last year, I was busy physically and mentally preparing to leave and change jobs.
After I got a new job, I struggled to adjust to it again.
There were three or four web novels I was reading before, but I couldn’t even listen to them.
Knowing such a situation, Eun-seo did not recommend me more, and when Eun-seo, who had passed college, sighed, naturally, the publicity of Toegye-gong had ceased.
My brother used to say that it was more fun for Eun-seo to talk about Toegye-gong than Toegye-gong.
I’ve never read Toegye Gong, but I always quietly agreed with him.
Yes.
I was not a reader of Toegye Gong. damn it
“I didn’t even read it, so I was possessed.”
It was ridiculous and I laughed out loud.
However, knowing that I am Jesse Penetian, the reason for the possession is roughly expected.
This is because Eunseo cried when she saw the serialization that was uploaded last night.
After making a fuss about his tingling in the back of his head or having to send a note to the writer, he declared, ‘I’ll wake up and think about it.’
Jesse Penetian died in the latest episode.
“Did he even return to his possession?”
Seeing the dead guy still alive, someone must have sent me back to the past to save this guy.
I think it was probably because of Eunseo, my younger brother, that I was possessed in a strange way, even though I am not a reader.
No, wouldn’t it be better to possess Eun-seo, who has rewritten the original several times and knows every little bit of setting? why did you send me
Eun-seo was an active and independent child.
If something like this happened, I would take the initiative to solve it myself, not me or my hyung.
So Eun-seo’s sadness is the cause of possessiveness and return, but is there someone else who actually sent me here?
“There is no answer, really.”
The more I thought about it, the more complicated it seemed.
First of all, I decided to start with what I can do step by step, and figure out what I can figure out one by one.
I wrote my name in my notebook, the name I will be called here.
I also wrote briefly what I know.
∙ Jesse Penetian
The person I possessed. Toegye-gong’s sub-man. prince of the new kingdom.
For unknown reasons, he was taken hostage and imprisoned in the Juliet Palace.
He later died protecting the Crown Prince in the war.
And the main character’s name was written under it. ‘Kristel’…
“What was the last name? Sarkozy?”
not really. I don’t think this was it.
Eunseo usually called her ‘our child’ or ‘our Chris’, so it was not easy to remember her last name.
∙ Christel
The protagonist of Toegye-gong. Pink long wavy hair, light blue eyes. wild personality.
The setting is that a retired office worker is possessed by a person from another world.
Being called a princess, she seems to be the daughter of a high-status family.
The reason I remember the color of my hair and eyes was because I often saw the cover of Toegye-gong.
I also remembered the face of the man who was holding her waist and guarding her side in the picture.
“What was Sereggi’s real name?”
What was Namjoon’s name?
He had a cool and cool feeling like a male lead, but he couldn’t remember it because his younger brother only called him Sereggi.
I’m sure it starts with ‘three’.
∙ Celebrity
Toegye Gong’s main male protagonist. prince of the empire. Black hair and red eyes.
There is a big difference in height with Kristel.
I think I’ve heard of Sword Master.
It is said that humanity has exploded.
Eunseo was able to remember that Namjoo was the Crown Prince, thanks to her frequent swear words that began with ‘A man equal to a prince…’.
It’s a pity I didn’t read the original, but I’m glad that it was worth listening to my brother’s chatter.
I’d like to see a lot more of what I’ve picked up in the future.
From then on, I wrote the facts that spread in my head at random.
The things my brother cried and complained about last night, the things he said last week, and the things he heard while eating out last month.
It was wise to take notes when you remember them, as you will forget or confuse them over time.
It was good to memorize as it was repeated as I wrote it.
By the time I filled up the paper, the sun was already in the middle of the sky.
I wrote the last item.
∙ My Goals
If my guess is correct, I came to possess this body to save this body that will one day die on the battlefield.
There is only one sure way for a fighter to survive. Not participating in the war in the first place.
There is only one way for a man to lay down his life in place of the Crown Prince. Not affiliated with the Crown Prince.
There are many ways to avoid getting involved with the Crown Prince, but for one thing, the key point in this work was that the Crown Prince and I had a romantic relationship with a woman.
Eun-seo said that Jesse Penetian had saved the prince and threw herself for Kristel’s happiness.
So, those who do not even get involved with the main character, Kristel, will have a higher chance of survival.
Without further ado, I wrote the last sentence.
∙ My Goals
Don’t get involved with the main characters, survive until the end of the war and go home healthy!
Don’t be shy, keep quiet, eat well and save your life.
Act according to your conscience, but don’t jump into something that others can solve.
Do your best to treat your superiors or your subordinates as much as you can.
“Well, it’s not a big deal.”
I don’t know if it’s about having to intervene in their relationship, but I was more confident than anyone about becoming a complete stranger.
The trust that only a single mother can have filled her heart with pride.