The Murderer Targets Brunettes

Reincarnated into the pages of a novel she knows all too well, Selenia opens her eyes as a green-eyed brunette—the prime target of a serial killer who preys on that very description. Armed with foreknowledge that the murderer will be captured within a year, she clings to a singular, desperate strategy: isolation. Barricading herself in her room, she hopes to simply wait out the clock until the threat is neutralized. But her carefully laid plans shatter when her adoptive father, driven by his own agenda, betrays her and has her forcibly dispatched to the mysterious mage tower that looms over the kingdom. Upon arrival, Selenia is plunged into a nightmare far worse than she ever anticipated. The tower’s master is none other than Eon de Grandnoir—the very killer she has been trying to evade. Yet nothing about the place matches her expectations. The entire staff is composed exclusively of green-eyed brunettes, just like her, and they move about their duties with an unsettling air of contentment, claiming to serve of their own volition. There are no chains, no visible terror—only an eerie normalcy that chills her more than any dungeon could. Trapped in the lion's den with a murderer who wears the mask of a benevolent archmage, Selenia must unravel the truth behind the tower’s macabre workforce before she becomes just another face in the crowd. Every smile she receives feels like a warning, and every shadow seems to hide a secret. With the clock ticking toward the killer's supposed arrest, she quickly realizes that surviving this ordeal will require more than hiding—she must confront the mystery at the heart of the tower and decide whether the monster she fears is truly the one she should be running from.