Even If I Successfully Break Off the Engagement

Synopsis

On the night of the party celebrating their coming-of-age ceremony and the beginning of their final year, the normally aloof Theodora got drunk and, for the first time, poured out her desperate feelings in front of Aiden.

“I want to be number one! Waaah!”

Aiden, the academy’s top-ranked student, felt sorry for Theodora, who was sobbing her heart out on a bench in a corner of the academy. She was always in second place.

After being reincarnated into a book and given a second chance at life, I had to graduate first in my class!

Only then could I break off my engagement to the Crown Prince and escape my death flag.

But no matter how hard I tried, I remained stuck in second place.

Feeling utterly miserable, I drank far too much at the coming-of-age party. When I opened my eyes the next morning, there was the person sitting beside me—

My damn rival, the number-one student, Aiden van Wolverlake, the Grand Duke’s heir?!

‘Wait… Did I sleep with him?’

In any case, I managed to persuade him to keep our night a secret. Thankfully, that number-one student was surprisingly easy to reason with.

And on graduation day, I finally graduated first in my class, just as I had dreamed.

I returned home and demanded that my father fulfill his promise.

“My wish is to break off my engagement.”

Aiden’s heart had been filled with excitement at the thought of marrying his fiancée, Theodora. So when a notice of their broken engagement arrived at his residence, accompanied by a detailed explanation of the circumstances, he was left utterly dumbfounded.

Aiden soon crumpled the letter in his fist.

A quiet, obsessive darkness flashed in his eyes.

“I didn’t give up first place for this.”