The Seventh Prince Wants to Bail
After an exhausting day, a Korean office worker opens a fantasy novel and wakes up inside Dark Header as Ran Abaran, the empire's infamous seventh prince. The original prince is a minor villain with no real power and a very definite ending: execution in three years. His replacement has no intention of playing along. He plans to keep a low
Synopsis
After an exhausting day, a Korean office worker opens a fantasy novel and wakes up inside Dark Header as Ran Abaran, the empire's infamous seventh prince. The original prince is a minor villain with no real power and a very definite ending: execution in three years. His replacement has no intention of playing along. He plans to keep a low profile until the novel's protagonist arrives, then slip out of the imperial palace and disappear. But the plot starts moving ahead of schedule. Palace trouble spills into the backstreets, and the man trying hardest to avoid attention finds himself quietly cleaning up disasters that could ruin his escape.
What makes this transmigration setup engaging is the mismatch between rank and safety. Ran has a prince's title, but not the protection a prince ought to have; his body's previous owner has also left him a hostile reputation. Instead of pursuing the throne, he treats the palace as a place to survive and eventually leave. The early arrival of the novel's events turns his planned noninterference into constant damage control, giving the story room for both dry irony and calculated decisions.
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The protagonist wants to leave the imperial family, not conquer it. The premise's tension comes from foreknowledge that stops being dependable, a hostile court, and the need to act discreetly despite a notorious identity. Romance is not established as the central plot in the official synopsis.
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