Breaking off the engagement is the only way to survive!! <50 Ways to Leave a Psychopathic Villain>
Hello~!
Today, I'd like to introduce a romance fantasy series
featuring a sunshine female lead who desperately wants a broken engagement.
Obeying her family and fiancé all her life,
Evelyn Florence has lived purely as a supporting character.
After witnessing her fiancé's affair, she gets drunk for the first time in her life,
only to open her eyes in the bed of none other than the cruel psychopathic villain of the original novel,
Duke Hartheon.
Between the Duke's chilling obsession demanding she take responsibility for taking his purity,
and the marriage consent form she has already signed,
Evelyn chooses 'breaking off the engagement'
as her one and only survival strategy.
Evelyn's tearful and hilarious struggle
to get dumped by Hartheon first is depicted in the Naver Webtoon
<50 Ways to Leave a Psychopathic Villain>.
Let the review begin!
A bedroom heated with a steamy atmosphere.
"...Can you really take responsibility, Evelyn?"
Unlike the man who is still full of worries even as the night deepens,
our main character Evelyn is entirely unhesitant.
"...Of course.
I'll take responsibility."
"So don't stop."
Thus, their intimate night passes by,
and the bedroom brightens with pouring sunlight.
Tossing and turning in her sleep, Evelyn snuggles into a warm embrace
and whines unconsciously.
"Honey, I can't breathe..."
At that exact moment, a thought strikes her that something is very wrong,
and her eyes snap open.
'C-Crazy!'
Realizing she is in the arms of a stranger, Evelyn
is horrified beyond words, but...
'Who is this handsome guy?!'
The reason for her shock is less about his identity
and more about his looks.
A ruggedly muscular body contrasting with baby-fair skin.
Scanning the sleeping man with her eyes, Evelyn only then
realizes she is completely naked.
Shocked by the fact that she had a one-night stand with a stranger,
Evelyn hurriedly gathers her things and leaves his bedroom.
-It was a good night.
Thank you.
Get home safely!-
Leaving just a single note like that behind.
The protagonist of this incident, and the main character of this story,
Evelyn Florence.
As the daughter of a mere Count, she was an 'extra' in this world
who only needed to live a peaceful, ordinary life, but
a single night's mistake ruined absolutely everything.
A few days ago, suddenly recalling memories of her past life,
she realized that this world is identical to the '18+ romance novel'
she had read in her previous life.
At the birthday banquet of the male lead, Crown Prince 'Ian',
the female lead, Princess 'Reina', appears, kicking off
this romance novel.
The reason this ordinary love story was slapped with an '18+' rating
is precisely because of the man standing right in front of Evelyn right now.
Waving the note she left last night right in front of her face,
he is the man who came to reprimand Evelyn for leaving without a word.
The rare psychopathic villain and final boss of this novel.
Duke 'Cael Hartheon'.
Falling for the female lead at first sight—kidnapping, confinement, gaslighting...
he is a scumbag who commits unspeakable crimes without hesitation.
Furthermore, his obsession is so severe that any extra
who gets into even the slightest altercation with the female lead is sent straight to hell.
He truly was a terrifying man.
Since discovering she possessed a character in the novel,
Evelyn, a mere extra, swore she wouldn't so much as lay a fingertip
on the three main characters...
But that one drunken night completely shattered
that vow into pieces.
Realizing that the abs she saw last night belonged to
the psychopathic villain, Evelyn recalls
his appearance as described in the novel.
So beautiful it's mesmerizing, yet somehow
spine-chilling, blood-red eyes...
After confirming several times over that he is indeed
the novel's villain, Evelyn asks with a trembling voice.
"U-um, how did you get here..."
Then, the man replies with a firm voice.
"You're not asking because you don't know."
"I m-made a mistake..."
"About what?"
"Huh?"
"I'm asking what mistake you made."
At his words, Evelyn recalls the events of last night once again.
Evelyn had gone to the banquet with her fiancé, Edwin.
Her conservative parents had gone down south
to see her younger brother off on his trip. Taking advantage of this,
she had wanted to stay out late without a curfew, but on that day,
she witnessed a shocking scene in the banquet hall gardens.
She got a live view of Edwin's bare butt
as he was rolling around with another woman.
Evelyn declared their engagement broken off on the spot,
and furiously returned alone to down some whiskey.
The last thing she remembers is laughing to herself
saying it was a loveless engagement anyway, and it worked out for the best,
before completely blacking out.
"I'm sorry. U-um, I actually don't remember what happened yesterday.
It was just a one-night fling anyway..."
At her last words, Hartheon's demeanor turns icy.
"A one-night fling?"
"T-Then, a one-night comfort...?"
With a suppressed voice, Hartheon drives the wedge in.
"Does my lady comfort people with XX?"
Evelyn completely freezes at those words.
Hartheon doesn't stop and continues to interrogate her.
He claims she seduced him with sweet words, stripped him bare,
and now acts like she's done with him after sleeping together.
She grumbles inwardly.
Isn't this how a one-night stand normally works?
Were they supposed to eat tomato stew together at sunrise
to cure their hangovers or something?
Evelyn barely manages to squeeze out her voice and speaks.
"I'm truly sorry... I apologize.
Since I made a mistake, I'll give you some form of compensation..."
Then, as if he had been waiting for this, Hartheon
pulls out a piece of paper from his coat.
What he handed over was a marriage contract that was already signed.
Handing Evelyn the contract stating a one-month dating period,
Hartheon wraps up the conversation with words
that ensure she can never run away.
"It is the purity I kept for the woman who would become my wife.
Since I gave that to you...
You should rightfully take this much responsibility, right? Evelyn."
Forced to take on immense responsibility for just one night.
From dating and marriage with Hartheon, who exudes breathtaking beauty
along with the choking danger that he might actually kill her—
will she be able to escape safely?
Check out
<50 Ways to Leave a Psychopathic Villain>
on Naver Webtoon!
