I Met the Male Lead in Prison

I Met the Male Lead in Prison Chapter 1

Chapter 1.
What? Meeting the male lead in prison?

It was a day of wilting flowers and falling summer leaves.
I finally accepted my situation.

Three months ago, I opened my eyes and found myself in a totally different world, a world of a book that I had read in my spare time.

I had transmigrated into a book.
And it obviously wasn’t your typical transmigration.

I hadn’t transmigrated into a fancy room with a lavish bed or one in a dilapidated wooden shack.

I had transmigrated into…a prison.
Right in front of me were a group of people dressed in drab clothes of striped gray patterns, with prisoner numbers hanging near their chests.

…I mean, how could I have opened my eyes to a prison!

Even if I was only dreaming, I would rather have a different dream than a pathetic one like this.
But though it was the most pathetic place for transmigration, this prison, ‘Kambrakam,’ was definitely the setting from that book I had read before.
I could tell from the strangely familiar ‘European Middle Ages’ setting.

Of all stories, why did I have to transmigrate into this X-rated tragic romance novel.
The book was something I had casually read to pass the time, so the details were fuzzy, especially of the male lead.
I only remembered that he was super handsome, but a bit peculiar.

I was in a sort of special prison cell with other prisoners.
In a time period in which human rights were thrown out the window, we were given proper meals and even taken to a place for daily exercise.

This was because all the prisoners here were of noble class.
As for me, my character was in prison in my father and older brother’s stead.

“Hey, Iana.”

I didn’t know what exact crime I was here for, but I knew I was some sort of extra character named Iana that hadn’t even been worth mentioning in the novel.

“Hey, hey.
You listening?”

“Ah, yes, yes!”

Though I didn’t know everyone’s last names, the people in this prison cell with me were nobles, so I assumed that I was part of an aristocratic family as well.

I turned my attention to the middle-aged, pot-bellied man sitting in front of me.
He cleared his throat and continued speaking.

“The reason why we don’t have personal rooms and have been stuffed into a prison cell together? Simple.
They want to set an example.
That aristocrats can be punished too.
It’s a show of the emperor’s authority.”

“Aha, I see.”

Baron Paladis, who had been caught and imprisoned for selling fake money despite his smarts, was a useful confidante.

“So that’s why all the nobles are imprisoned in here.”

Here’s a rundown of what I remembered of the pretty strong plot.

The female lead.
A lovely, kind, and friendly lady, Francia was imprisoned in Kambrakam in place of her father.
This innocent lady couldn’t control her always insatiable curiosity, and one night, took a secret tour of the prison, only to get lost in the deep parts of Kambrakam.
She chanced upon a prison cell with a single man imprisoned inside, but…

[Who are you?]

The man who had been chained by his hands to the wall, was the longest-term prisoner in the history of Kambrakam.
In other words, the male lead, Heinrich Dorean von Hel.

The future Archduke of the Hel estate.

An incredible power was passed down to the sons of the Hel family, but unable to control his powers, he had been imprisoned in the depths of Kambrakam, and wouldn’t be released until there was someone who could help him with his control.

It was because this incredible power apparently turned the wielder into something like a ‘beast.’ Strictly speaking, one would gain power that surpassed human strength but would lose human awareness and reasoning.

[What a pitiful person…]

The kind and innocent Francia pitied the male lead after hearing about his situation, and released him from his bonds.
But because of his power, as soon as he was free, he became a beast and ended up knocking down the female lead.

[Ahh~…!]

Ehem, you can guess what happened next.

Anyway.
After an intense night together, the female lead became the male lead’s ‘companion,’ the only one who he allowed to free him from his shackles.
In this case, ‘companion’ referred to a lover to the duke that was connected to him by their souls.

And then there’s more stuff about the villain and such, but for now, the male lead, the supporting male lead (villain), and the female lead developed their relationships with this prison as the setting in the X-rated novel.
So, a love triangle was formed.

The love triangle concept continued throughout the story because the male lead had a relatively unstable personality and the villainous supporting male lead was consistently fixated on the female lead.

“The contents are quite…what a relationship those three must have had.”

As far as I knew, the villain and the male lead were of rival aristocratic families, so the love triangle persisted even in high society.

I stood outside the male lead’s prison cell as I thought to myself.

“Hmm, so I guess that’s him.”

Though I couldn’t see that well because of the darkness

“Ugh, I can’t see.”

I could make out a shape, but it wasn’t clear.
Though the cells on the second and third floors had windows, this cell didn’t have any.
Maybe because it was situated in the basement? Though they could have probably installed windows in the