The Detective's Second Life as an Earl's Heir

Kim Sungwon was once a sharp-minded detective in modern-day Seoul—brilliant, logical, and coldly efficient. But even the most calculating minds can be undone by betrayal. When his trusted partner pushes him off a rooftop, Sungwon plummets to his death… or so he believes.



Instead, he awakens in a world eerily reminiscent of Victorian Britain, inhabiting the body of Arthur Ashbourne—the heir of a brutal and aristocratic family known for its merciless survivalist upbringing. The world is familiar, not because he belongs to it, but because he's read it before. Ashes of Vengeance—a dark physiological novel he clung to in childhood, drawn to its bleak honesty. In that story, Arthur was a footnote—a minor character doomed to die before the plot even began.



Armed with his memories as Kim Sungwon and knowledge of a fictional world that now feels disturbingly real, Arthur resolves to defy his destined death. But survival is only the beginning. When his father vanishes during a secret sea expedition, rumors call it a tragic accident. Arthur knows better.



It was murder.



And now, it's time to uncover the truth buried beneath aristocratic masks, forgotten alliances, and a conspiracy far greater than fiction ever told.