[Deluded Romance, One Female Lead]
In his previous life, Ivan was a theater director who won three international awards. In this life, he's a magic-proof death-row inmate who'll be burned at the stake tomorrow.
The good news: In this world, "if you believe, it exists; if you don't, it doesn't."
The bad news: He doesn't have even a speck of magic.
The even better news: He has a way with words.
In just one day, he had the Royal Court's Chief Archmage kneeling and calling him "mentor." In just one week, the Church's youngest Inquisitor, tasked with hunting heretics, moved into his home with her notebook in hand. The former is his number-one believer and his most devoted plant; the latter is the entire continent's only clear-eyed "anti-delusion" expert. She can see through everything, except why her heart keeps racing.
He also has a mongrel at his side that calls itself "this beast" and feeds on lies. It rates his acting as "the most delicious Michelin three-star cuisine on the entire continent."
Everyone thinks he's a god. Only she keeps recording his slips, one, two, a hundred of them. Then, on the title page of her report, "100 Ways to Spot Lord Ivan's Posturing," she writes a single line:
"You fooled the whole world, but your heartbeat has never lied to me."
What he doesn't know is that the gods of this world are created by people's faith. Every lie he tells is becoming real history.
