CHAPTER 1

 I take care of my body

I'd rather have something like a novel happen to me. I thought as I staggered along the Yanghwa Bridge.

And regretted.

I didn't become an acupuncturist for this. I didn't know that it would close less than three years after it opened. I really didn't know I was going to be in debt like this.

But at this time, I had no premonition.

I fell off the Yanghwa Bridge.

Become the Imperial Prince in the novel.

Kicking the back of a vampire.

Sticking a long needle into the dragon's wings.

I honestly didn't know at the time that I was going to be called the godly of the world in the novel.

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'Ugh, it's hot.'

A voice tapping in my head.

At the unfamiliar sound, Li Han furrowed his brows. Somehow, I felt the heat even as I slept.

Maybe he's still sober.

Or maybe you're suffering from a nasty hangover.

Perhaps.

On the Yanghwa Bridge, where I was walking a while ago, a fierce wind blew in the middle of winter. If you fell asleep in the corner there, you would have to feel the cold. No, actually, I am....

'Dropped.'

Li Han shrugged his shoulders for a moment.

Then I remembered.

I didn't mean to fall.

It's just that my chest is so cramped.

I thought I'd shout out while I'm drunk.

He grabbed the railing of the Yanghua Bridge and raised his voice.

Then he fell over the railing.

"So I'm drowning in the Han River in the middle of winter."

A death I didn't want to die for. I was scared. Somehow, strangely, it wasn't cold.

It was rather hot.

I felt fortunate.

A smile appeared on his lips.

But that was then.

"... Come on, Your Highness."

An unfamiliar voice knocked on my ears.

A voice full of concern taps again.

I called this.

"Your Royal Highness, are you sober?"

It didn't end there.

The palm of the soft texture squeezes this shoulder. He shook it as if he were anxious.

... Wonder.

I'm devoting my whole body to checking the temperature of the Han River (?)I'm sure they're doing it. Maybe 119 has already been dispatched quickly? Maybe that's why he rescued me from the water before I died.

"After all, the Republic of Korea 119."

Li Han laughed contentedly.

Luckily, he didn't die.

That's it. You just have to be alive. I'll be able to start over. The debt accumulated from taking down the signboard of the clinic is scary, but at least it's better than dying.

'Let's do it well this time.'

You're going to have to go through a lot of trouble to pay off your debts.

But let's be brave.

Let's start anew.

I opened my eyes with a firm determination.

Then I was stunned.

"... Huh?"

The scenery in front of me was so different from the Han River.

The person in front of him was not a member of the 119th either.

"Your Highness! Do you see me?"

A man who cries and shakes this side.

I was a foreigner.

It was also a middle-aged man who exuded great handsomeness. A sleek face, brown hair and a mustache. If you mix Hollywood stars Brad Pat and Tom Krub in a 5:5 ratio, you'll look like you're going to make it like a bunch of.

Li Han swallowed his hesitation and asked involuntarily.

"Hey, who are you?"

"... Yes?"

I just asked you one word.

The middle-aged man's face became even more depressed. There was a hint of crying in his voice as he returned.

"Hmm, hmm...! Your Highness, don't you remember me? Still, I will continue to follow your Highness. After all, I'm His Highness's personal physician Gardin!"

"...."

Something is wrong with the situation.

At first, I thought he was joking.

But it wasn't.

The crying was too real for an acting.

What if that's acting? The Grand Bell Award, or even the Academy Award for Best Lead Actor, would be quite possible. Moreover, the view from the middle age was also strange.

'It's indoors. Plus, it's insanely gorgeous. Here, what?'

Li Han only rolled his eyes.

With a bit of exaggeration, it was a 100 pyeong room. But the walls and ceilings were extravagant.

I wonder if he noticed such a sign of this.

The man who identified himself as Gardin spoke quickly.

"Do you remember? This is His Highness's bedroom. I was away just because I was writing in my journal... He didn't call me for a long time, and when I came in, he was vomiting blood and fainting."

Bedroom? Here it is?

'But let me tell you? Why?'

I don't know more and more

It's confusing.

Li Han tried to keep his cool.

He turned to the middle-aged man who was still crying.

"Hey, I'm a little thirsty. .... you water"

"Here it is!"

Before he could finish speaking, the man held out a glass of water at lightning speed. It was an enormous goblet of gold, silver, and precious stones.

"...."

The diamond embedded in here, I don't think it's a cubic just by looking at the cancer. The more I look at the handle, the more I see this... That's 24k beeping.

When I tried to put my mouth on it, I felt a little embarrassed.

But thirst came first.

Received a glass of water.

Listened.

Gulp, boom, drank heavily.

Then, by chance, my eyes landed on a large mirror in the distance. There was a young man in it who looked strange and pale.

"...."

A man who only lifts his upper body from the bed. A man drank a glass of water and fixed his gaze in the mirror. However, the glass of water held by the man in the mirror was not unfamiliar.

24k gold handle.

It is studded with diamonds, which are different from cubics.

It's so amazing and ecstatic that I want to even say it.

Holding such a glass of water, I quenched my thirst....

"... Puou

Squirted.

Neither this nor the man in the mirror.

At the same time, it spewed out a lot of water.

"Hey, Your Highness!"

Gardin stunned, pulling out a towel. I wiped the corners of my mouth and the front of my mouth as if they were gold or jade.

All the while, Li Han stared in the mirror. In the mirror, Gardín was wiping the corners of the young man's mouth.

'Is that me?'

He wasn't in his early 40s.

He was in his early twenties.

Moreover, its appearance was strangely familiar.

I'm sure I've seen it somewhere....

"... Rakiel Adriatic Magentano."

I remembered.

Clear.

That pale face.

A prickly expression and a prickly look.

A novel I read until the afternoon.

"Emperor of the Demon Sword"... He is a character in the so-called "Demon Sword Emperor". It's the same illustration of the crown prince in the novel. No, it's as if it's been put on reality as a slap in the face.

'By the way, I'm Rakiel?'

Is this a true story?

No, it sounds like a dream.

But no matter how you look at it, it was real.

I can't believe it, but I don't feel my body or the scenery around me. It was too vivid and vivid to be dismissed as a mere dream or an illusion.

"Hah, haha...."

A new realization.

I couldn't help but laugh.

I don't know what to say.

I felt like the shackles were being lifted.

'So I've become the prince in the novel?'

Apparently so.

The meaning was clear.

The bankruptcy of the clinic left a huge loan debt and interest. It means that you have been freed from that bondage. It also means that you no longer have to live on a limb to pay off your debts.

"Ha, hahaha, haha."

This is exactly how you feel when you pick up a lottery first prize slip on the street.

I was overwhelmed.

I jumped to my feet.

But that was then.

"... Huh?"

Blooding.

Just like that.

Suddenly.

The world spun.

Anemia? Dizziness?

I didn't know.

It just gave out my legs.

Thanks to this, I couldn't even get up half of it and had to sit down on the bed.

"Oh? Me, Your Highness!"

The frightened Gardin quickly came to his aid.

"Ugh, me... Why ...?"

I wonder if I don't have so much strength in my whole body.

It was strange.

It didn't make sense.

When you're in your early 20s, you're in the prime of your life. But I feel like I've been starving for ten days. I was in my 40s, and I was much more helpless than my original body.

"... Wait."

Yihan paused.

His gaze turned to the mirror.

"...."

Then I remembered.

The story at the beginning of the novel The Demon Sword Emperor.

Prince Rakiel is not the main character. He is just a background character and a supporting character who appears briefly in the beginning.

A chronic illness that had plagued him since childhood worsened.

Gurgle in bed and squawk.

He died at the age of only 22.

After that, the empire is engulfed in a great war. In the midst of that chaos, the real protagonist walks the path of a true hero.

That was the beginning of the novel "The Demon Sword Emperor".

'... Let's sum up That's why I possessed him at the beginning of the novel as a sickly prince who suffers from a chronic illness and dies of a slap in the face.'

He said he had become a member of the royal family.

It's the end of my troubles.

The feeling of being blown away subsided. Enlightenment came like a wave.

I'm telling you for sure.

If this is really a true story.

I'm done.

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"Phew. This is real."

Half an hour passed.

Yihan, no, Rakiel was facing the mirror of courtesy. In it stood a pale-looking silver-haired man. It was the Crown Prince, Rakiel Adria Magentano.

'It's amazing.'

It wasn't that it wasn't, but it was really amazing.

That's how you look in the mirror.

Honestly, I couldn't believe it.

'But that's not the point.'

Rakiel furrowed his brows.

Crown Prince or whatever.

Whether you hold power and money or not.

If you die with a quack, it's game over.

Moreover, the more I learned, the worse it got.

"Gardin. I'm 21 years old?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

"...."

He is currently 21 years old.

What is the development in the novel?

"Even if you take it as long as you can, you only have one year left in your life."

The thought of it brought a deep sigh.

He wondered how he had ended up like this.

'This is not some kind of novel.'

How did he become a character in a novel?

I didn't know.

I couldn't understand it.

But there was one thing that was certain.

"I've become a very high person, and I'm able to live comfortably."

But there is an obstacle.

The obstacles are a bit too big.

"I don't have to live for a year and die."

Rakiel recalled the development of the beginning of the novel in a sigh. Luckily, I have a very good memory, so I was able to retrace most of the material.

"Rakiel was a crown prince, and he received all the treatment of the Imperial Family."

I had all the best medical care.

He also received numerous clerical blessings.

But all to no avail.

Despite pouring all the resources of the imperial family into the bones, the crown prince in the novel Rakiel died without being able to overcome his illness.

"So there's only one answer."

There is no hope of survival with the medicine here. The same is true with the mobilization of outstanding clergy. That's a failed method in the novel. Knowing this, I had no intention of relying solely on the medicine here.

Then?

There is only one way left.

Rakiel concluded.

"Do you think I'm going to die in vain, like in fiction, when I leave the promised wealth movie imperial life?"

I never want to die.

I'm going to do everything I can.

Luckily for him, he had a Chinese medicine technique that had never been tried before.

"Phew. Gardin?"

"Yes, Your Highness?"

Rakiel turned to Gardin.

"From now on, acupuncture... No, I have work to do, so go out and get me a needle, it doesn't matter the size, as much as you can."

"... Yes?"

Gardin flinches.

Rakiel grinned.

I made up my mind.

If you are a prince who is about to die.

But if you can't save yourself with the medicine here.

Improving the constitution, rejuvenating the body, nourishing the tonic and enhancing vitality.

From now on, I'll take care of my body.