Oh No, I Possessed a Male Character! (13 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 3
“……”
I looked at the pendulum clock placed in the corner. Today, Princess Elfride was supposed to have tea time with Klaus, so with any luck, I might be able to catch him.
I would take Rumi away. It was time to stop wandering in fantasy and return to reality as soon as possible.
How to leave this world remained an unsolved problem, but as the saying goes: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
If Rumi and I truly wish to return to reality, we will surely find a way.
After a short while, the Crown Prince finally rose from his desk. At the sound of his movement, I too put down my pen and stood up.
Footsteps approached steadily from beyond the wall—Lord Klaus passed through and appeared with an elegant stride.
Instead of leaving immediately, he stopped right beside my desk, directly in front of the office entrance, and fixed his violet eyes straight on me.
“Muzel. The tea time with the princess will be held in the courtyard garden. If anything urgent comes up, come find me there.”
“Yes, understood.”
I bowed slightly and saw him off. Soon after, he left the room accompanied by his steward.
Only once he was completely out of sight did I finally straighten my back.
“What incredible focus.”
I couldn’t help but admire Klaus’s work ethic.
Truly without exaggeration—he arrived earlier than me this morning and hadn’t left his seat once until tea time, diligently handling state affairs the entire time.
Ministers kept coming and going to report, yet he never wavered in concentration and stayed firmly at his post until the end.
I was astonished. So this was the standard expected of a Crown Prince.
“Alright, enough admiration!”
I lightly tapped my cheeks to snap myself back to attention.
Now I had to hurry. I needed to catch Rumi—who was possessing Elfride—right after she met the Crown Prince in the courtyard garden.
Before leaving my seat, I neatly organized my desk, locked all important documents securely in the drawer.
As the Crown Prince’s direct aide, I had to be thorough in my duties to minimize unexpected complications.
“Whew, let’s go.”
Just you wait, Durumi. I’m coming to get you.
[This is the timeline separator]The courtyard garden of the Crown Prince’s palace featured a well-maintained greenhouse. I peeked toward it and, as expected, found the two of them already drinking tea inside.
I decided to wait nearby the greenhouse first. Once tea time ended, the male lead would leave first, so it would be best to swiftly enter the greenhouse right after and confront Rumi, who was possessing Elfride.
“……”
Nervously, I hid myself among the shrubs.
Suddenly, I grew worried—what if the Crown Prince walked into my empty office while I was meeting Rumi?
But there was nothing I could do.
Meeting Rumi was my absolute priority right now.
Even if it meant angering the Crown Prince and getting dismissed as his aide the moment the story began, I didn’t care. To find a way home, I had to meet Rumi.
I waited like this for who knows how long.
“……!”
Finally, the servants started bustling about. Just as I’d expected, Klaus stepped out of the greenhouse.
This was my chance!
I crouched low and nimbly slipped through the shrubs. After quickly confirming that Klaus’s attendants were trailing behind him in a line, I dashed into the greenhouse like the wind.
But just then, another group heading toward the entrance stopped dead in their tracks upon seeing me.
“Lord Muzel?”
“Oh my, Lady Muzel!”
I froze like ice the moment I came face-to-face with a cat-eyed beauty with fiery red hair.
Princess Elfride—the empire’s highest-ranking noble and the original story’s villainess—was as stunningly beautiful as described in the novel, yet carried an unmistakable air of arrogance.
While I hesitated, a sharp, raspy voice rang out.
“Lord Muzel. What is the meaning of blocking my path so suddenly?”
I stared straight into Elfride’s eyes and whispered so only she could hear.
“Durumi.”
“!”
Elfride’s expression changed dramatically beyond description. Her furrowed brows instantly relaxed, replaced by an expression of utter shock.
There was no doubt—this was Rumi.
“Could you please clear the area for a moment, Prin… cess?”
The title “princess” felt unbearably awkward on my tongue.
At my words, Rumi spoke with a pale face.
“Everyone, leave.”
“Your Highness…!”
“Go! Now!”
The hesitant maids scattered like startled birds and fled out of the greenhouse.
Finally, we were alone. I lifted the corners of my mouth into a wide smile.
“It’s really good to see you here, Rumi. You’ve practically become Princess Elfride now.”
“!”
Elfride—or rather, Rumi—gaped at me with wide eyes.
Relieved at having finally found Rumi, words tumbled out of me without restraint.
“I never imagined you’d actually get reincarnated into a web novel! But anyway, it’s a relief—I managed to find you like this.”
“W-who…?”
Red-haired Rumi trembled visibly, looking utterly pitiful.
But I was too caught up in what I wanted to say to take Rumi’s state seriously. Without even revealing my identity, I blurted out my main point out of urgency.
“Let’s go back, Rumi. Do you have any idea how worried your parents must be right now?”
“Who are you?!”
“!”
His sudden shout made me clamp my mouth shut.
I hadn’t expected this at all—was Rumi really this reluctant?
Of course, since he’d chosen this reincarnation himself, I hadn’t expected him to welcome my suggestion with open arms. Still, this level of anger seemed excessive.
I needed to calm him down first before any real conversation could happen. Raising both hands in surrender, I calmly revealed who I was.
“It’s me—Jin Yi. Eojin. I’m not some stranger, so please calm down a bit.”
“Jin Yi? You’re Jin?”
Rumi looked me up and down with an utterly incredulous expression.
I knew exactly what that look meant.
With a heart heavy enough to make me want to cry, I retorted.
“I’m not a guy. I’m very much a girl.”
“What?”
His already cat-like eyes shot even higher in disbelief.
“But Muzel is a man!”
“That’s exactly it—I got reincarnated into a male character, but I’m still a girl.”
I hung my head low in frustration.
“I followed the instructions in your email exactly. Something must’ve gone wrong—I never thought I’d end up in a side male character.”
“You mean Muzel is actually a girl now?”
Rumi still eyed me suspiciously as he spoke.
But honestly, Muzel’s true gender wasn’t the issue right now. I needed to get back to the point.
“Anyway, Rumi—let’s go back first. While you’re enjoying yourself here, your parents out there are crying tears of blood.”
Yet Rumi, wearing a stranger’s face, instantly refused.
“No.”
“Huh?”
For a moment, I stupidly echoed his words. Had I heard him correctly?
“I already said it—no. I like it here. This place is the perfect world made just for me.”
“Hey, Durumi!”
My chest tightened painfully. Why was he being so stubborn?!
But what he said next was even more unbelievable.
“Don’t call me Durumi!”
“!”
An angry, sharp voice echoed through the greenhouse.
“I am Princess Elfride! The one with the noblest bloodline in this entire empire! And soon, I’ll become the Crown Princess…”
“Hold on, Rumi.”
I hastily cut him off—but still deliberately called him by his real name.
“Snap out of it! This isn’t reality—it’s just a novel. You’re Durumi, a citizen of the Republic of Korea, a free democratic nation…”
“This is my reality now!”
Rumi’s eyes gleamed fiercely.
I stared at him, dumbfounded.
Was he truly insane? To believe a novel was real—this level of over-identification was pathological.
Rumi continued firmly.
“This world is far happier than that miserable place! Jin Yi, if you’re truly my friend, you should support me in finding happiness!”
For a moment, I couldn’t utter a single word.
Truthfully, Rumi had lived an unhappy life. It must have been incredibly difficult for him to fight off the depression that had plagued him for years.
His family and friends, including me, had done everything we could to help Rumi feel even a glimpse of happiness.
We’d added him to group chats just to share mundane gossip, and sometimes dragged him outside even when he resisted.
Yet Rumi’s condition barely improved. His despair ran that deep.
“Jin Yi… I want to be happy too. I just want to live a normal, decent life like everyone else. I’ve finally caught my breath…”
His voice was already trembling with tears.
“You don’t understand anything—not how hard it’s been, not how agonizing it felt to thrash in pain!”
“……”
I fell silent.
I’d come here determined to drag Rumi back to reality no matter what. But now, that resolve wavered slightly.
Was it right to leave Rumi in this world?
If I thought only of Rumi, it almost seemed like the right choice.
His reality had been nothing but misery—endless despair, hopelessness, and the self-loathing he felt watching others live fully while he struggled.
Honestly, I couldn’t say I completely failed to understand why he clung to this world.
But Rumi still had parents waiting for him with tears in their eyes, and his life hadn’t completely fallen apart yet.
He still had so much left—modern medicine could treat his illness, and people like me were willing to help him.
Therefore, my conclusion remained unchanged.
“Still, let’s go back, Rumi.”
“!”
Rumi glared at me with burning red eyes. His gray irises looked utterly unfamiliar.
Right now, what we needed was compromise. I refused to give up on him—but I didn’t want to drag him out by force either.
So I said,
“I’m not saying we leave right this instant. If you ever reach the conclusion that you can’t find true happiness here, then we’ll go back together. How about that?”
Though I spoke those words, I was certain of one thing.
Happiness enjoyed within a dream—not reality—was nothing but an illusion.
Rumi saw this fantasy as a utopia only because he didn’t truly understand the world he was in.
With time, he would realize it himself: there is no such thing as a perfectly happy world anywhere.
So if I just waited a little longer, Rumi would eventually awaken from this illusion on his own.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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Waiting for rumi to either mature up for once or to just get out of the picture 🫠
Waiting for rumi to either mature up for once or to just get out of the picture 🫠
“If he had never learned that Muzel was a woman, he might have mistaken it for deep friendship”
I had this thought, and this semi confirmed it for me: Klaus seems to like Muzel no matter the gender. He maybe bi, but it maybe only for Muzel. Like Shang from Disney’s Mulan