I was killed.


    I was on my way home after the company dinner party.


    When I got home, I thought I could feel some movements behind me. And abruptly, something sharp stabbed me in the back.


    I collapsed at the sudden attack, and the criminal in a black hat ran away.


    Blood draining from my body gradually pooled on the ground. My consciousness blurred and flickered.


    And when I open my eyes, I am here.


    I was lying on a bed.


    At first, I thought it was the hospital, but I soon realised that was not the case.


    Because there is no room like this there.


    No hospital would use wallpaper with such geometric patterns.


    There is even a chandelier.


    Above all, the room was very spacious, but there was nothing else besides a chandelier hanging from the ceiling and the bed I was lying on.


    Medical equipment was nowhere to be found after I had searched around.


    Hence, this must not have been a hospital.


    At this point, I would normally think that I had been kidnapped or something like that, but I had a rough idea of ??where this place might be.


    At that moment, the door swung open and a girl in a maid outfit entered.


    Contrary to the brisk entry, the girl faltered when our eyes met.


    I tilted my head.


    “Miss! I have something to tell you! I can’t do this anymore! My salary has been delayed for five months. But you don’t have to pay me. So, could you just write me a letter of recommendation, please…”


    Unlike the explicit start, the girl’s voice became smaller the more she said, blurring at the end.


    A lady, in a maid outfit, and a structure reminiscent of a Western mansion.


    I got up, passed the girl, and headed towards the window.


    It was night, so I could see myself reflected on the window glass.


    I muttered a little as I looked at my reflection.


    “This is insane…”


    I felt the girl flinch when she heard my voice, but I didn’t care.


    Because I looked nothing like myself in the window reflection.


    I opened the window and looked outside.


    There was a purple crescent moon hanging in the sky.


    A purple moon that I could never see in the world I knew.


    Looking at the moon, I felt fed up.


    I’m back here again?


    A strange world, yet, I had been to this place before.


    ???


    It was when I was in high school.


    It was one summer vacation, I was on my way to school to take a reinforcement class before school started.


    It was boiling outside that day, I got struck by the heat waves and fell into a manhole. When I opened my eyes, I was in an unfamiliar world.


    The name of the world I fell into was ‘Cliff Empire’.


    It was precisely the name of a country.


    The Cliff Empire was a completely different place from where I used to live.


    Language, clothing, architectural style, and even my appearance.


    It was difficult to accept reality at first. But after a day, two days, and a week passed, I had no choice but to acquiesced. That I fell into another world, and that I might die there.


    There was no one to help me.


    I did everything I could to survive. I somehow managed to save up some money, and with that money, I set up a small group of merchants.


    I, who was quite good at business, grew the group brilliantly, and when I came to my senses, the small merchant group I once established had become the best guild in the empire.


    I even had more wealth than the emperor.


    At that time, it had already been over ten years since I fell into that world, and I had completely forgotten about Korea.


    Then once, I was on my way to sign an important contract. Suddenly, my carriage shook and there was a commotion outside.


    When I peeked my head out to check, all those who were escorting me were dead, and there were strangers in white cloaks approached me with blood-stained swords.


    I was helplessly cornered. I could do nothing but to freeze in place and look at them with horrified eyes. And so I died with my head sticking out.


    And when I opened my eyes…


    I was lying in the hospital, wearing an uniform.


    At first, I could not grasp the situation very well.


    But when I saw the homeroom teacher with a depressed expression next to me, it hit me.


    Oh, I’m back.


    Back to the world I used to live in.


    ???


    Returning to being an ordinary high school student, who was at the top of the class, I had to adjust to reality…And I did a quite fine job I would say so myself.


    After dealing with only those who wanted to make a little profit every day, I felt a little more alive when I returned among the students.


    I studied hard like any other student, passed the KSAT, entered university, took on assignments, graduated, became a job seeker, then got a job and became an office worker, being reprimanded by my boss every day.


    That period lasted for 9 years. ‘Cliff Empire’ and ‘merchants guild’ had long since disappeared from my mind.


    But once I died, I came back!


    This time, in someone else’s body too!


    I was frustrated that I died, but God just wanted to play a huge prank on me, so he moved me in dimensions and made me possess others’ bodies.


    I closed the window and looked closely at my reflection on the glass. I wanted to look in a mirror, but I couldn’t. Because there was no other furniture in this room.


    I’m…so pretty.


    That thought first came to mind as soon as I saw myself.


    Long, thin platinum hair like a skein of refined threads and eyes of cool blue colour, reminiscent of that of a lake in the winter. Skin so white that it felt as if all the blood veins could be seen, together with a small, slender neck.


    She must be a lady from a prestigious noble house just by the look of it…


    The problem was…


    I looked back.


    There was a maid still looking at me, unsettled.


    The maid held out her hands to me.


    “Please write me a letter of recommendation!”


    Her fingertips were trembling.


    I let out a deep sigh.


    I had a bad hunch that this had to do with some unpleasant things. An annoying feeling was already creeping in.