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LOTM: Before the Protagonist

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OngoingLOTM: Before the Protagonist
Jake, an 18-year-old first-year medical student, wakes up in the body of Jace Liebert—a shy, brilliant 16-year-old scraping by in Cherwood Borough, Backlund—four years before the Fool's arrival. No grand system. No gray fog. Just the shock of realizing he's inside Lord of the Mysteries, the novel he once read obsessively.
He decides to follow the Seer pathway and live with his head down.
That is until a thought of stealing Safira Castle froms in his Mind
But unexpectedly, his careful path veers into a very different world.
Beautiful and dangerous women—witches, scholars, mysterious heiresses—who are drawn to the quiet boy who knows things he shouldn't.
Pleasure and power tangle together, pulling him deeper with every accidental encounter.
What began as cautious survival becomes indulgence he never planned for.
And in a world ruled by gods and madness, even unintended temptation can lead straight to the abyss… or to something far greater.
R18 – Explicit smut, mature romance, dark themes.
Chapter List
- Chapter 1 1: Crimson Awakening
- Chapter 2 2: Settling in
- Chapter 3 3: Decisions
- Chapter 4 4: Neighbourly Check-ins
- Chapter 5 5: The Scarred Bartender
- Chapter 6 6: Bargain Struck
- Chapter 7 7: The First Step
- Chapter 8 8: Seer: a different air
- Chapter 9 9: Gathering in Cherrywood
- Chapter 10 10: The Host
- Chapter 11 11: You know
- Chapter 12 12: The Acting Method
- Chapter 13 13: Co-operative relationship
- Chapter 14 14: Catherine
- Chapter 15 15: The Encounter
- Chapter 16 16: Intuition
- Chapter 17 17: Jane!?
- Chapter 18 18: Thoughts
- Chapter 19 19: Potion Digested
- Chapter 20 20: Exchange
- Chapter 21 21: intimate ?
- Chapter 22 22: Clown
- Chapter 23 23: Café
- Chapter 24 24: Pleasure is all mine
- Chapter 25 25: interrogation
- Chapter 26 26: Why Resist ?
- Chapter 27 27: The Night (R18)
- Chapter 28 28: After night
- Chapter 29 29: Literal Clown
- Chapter 30 30: First kill
- Chapter 31 31: depression
- Chapter 32 32: Hunting a hunter
- Chapter 33 33: Messenger
- Chapter 34 34: alcohol
- Chapter 35 35: An artifact
- Chapter 36 36: The night
- Chapter 37 37: The Murderous Clown
- Chapter 38 38: Act Complete
- Chapter 39 39: Success
- Chapter 40 40: Difficult Advancement
- Chapter 41 41: Magician
- Chapter 42 42: Powers
- Chapter 43 43: Return
- Chapter 44 44: Meeting again
- Chapter 45 45: Settling account and more *
- Chapter 46 46: Interrogation
- Chapter 47 47: First regret ***
- Chapter 48 48: Next day
- Chapter 49 49: First Mission
- Chapter 50 50: Found him
