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A dark reverse-harem novel recommended by my younger sister: 'The Villainess Lady Renelle of the Duchy Does Not Want Three Obsessive Male Leads!' It's a romance fantasy novel full of clichés. Curiously, the names were changed for the Japanese edition, which made it feel fresh enough to read. The writing wasn't bad, so I read it to the end, but the ending was a total mess where all three male leads died, so I skipped the side stories. But why of all things... Why did I have to be transmigrated into 'The Villainess Lady Renelle of the Duchy Does Not Want Three Obsessive Male Leads!'? Why me? ...Ah, you're asking who my favorite character is? It's the tyrant emperor, Narumi Gen. First of all, Narumi is handsome. Truly. Every time I saw the descriptions in the novel and the occasional illustrations, I loved how beautiful and handsome he was. It wasn't just his face that I liked—though his face was about 80% of it. I couldn't help but love him because he was smart. His backstory was great. Narumi was the Emperor's first son, born to a maid who became a concubine. Because of that, he lived under the Empress's threats since childhood. Despite this, he rose to the throne through his brilliant mind, superior martial arts, and cruel nature. Well, he had to become cruel. His mother died, he was discriminated against as a bastard, and he lived under constant threat of assassination. He ended up killing the former Empress, all his younger siblings, and finally the former Emperor to take the throne. Later, he encountered the villainess Renelle while she was out in secret. Seeing her brilliance instead of the villainous reputation he'd heard of, he fell in love and became obsessed. Narumi is the strongest in the empire—an Archmage and Sword Master—a tyrant obsessive male lead with a cruel streak. The second male lead is Ichikawa Reno. Ichikawa was the second son of a Viscount family, but after his entire family died, he became the Viscount at a young age, reviving the family and territory to become a merchant guild leader. With his honest personality, he won the heart of the heroine Renelle, and people debated whether he was the true male lead. But my taste is bad boys, so he wasn't for me. ...Wait, I thought Ichikawa was a soft younger-man type, but it turns out he was a crazy obsessive male lead who uses black magic. The third male lead is Hoshina Souichiro. I hated him from the start because we share the same name. Even his face in the author's illustrations looked similar, which I didn't like. Souichiro was the heir to a Dukedom in the south. A prodigy who became the heir during a time when swordsmanship was declining and magic was taking over, excelling in both. He had a youngest brother, five years his junior, who had been dead for about a year: Hoshina Soushiro. There wasn't much detail, but because Renelle was the only one who protected Soushiro when everyone else looked down on him, Souichiro gradually fell for her and became obsessed. Souichiro is a Sword Master and nearly Archmage-level, a sly and obsessive male lead. So now, of all people, I've transmigrated into Hoshina Soushiro, who is destined to die soon. It feels weirdly awkward since we have the same name. I'm currently 18, which means I have two years left until I die. Within that time, I have to solve this 'High Mana Syndrome' and escape from this crazy romance plot.