“Bryce, look over there.”
It was a winter afternoon with white snow piled high.
While walking down the road with my younger brother, we spotted a rabbit.
“A rabbit, Sister.”
“Yeah, a rabbit.”
A black rabbit had collapsed in the grass, its body trembling.
Drops of red blood were scattered across the white snow, so it seemed to be badly injured.
Seeing it, I made a pitiful expression, then immediately grabbed the back of my brother’s neck as he tried to walk past like it was nothing.
“Bryce! We need to take that rabbit with us—what are you doing?!”
My brother, caught by the collar, looked at me like I was overreacting.
“You! That rabbit is shaking! Aren’t you going to take it? Is this how your sister raised you?!”
I pointed at the rabbit again and shouted for him to hurry and pick it up, but…
“Why are you telling me that? You take it if you want.”
My fourteen-year-old brother—Bryce Artiela, the male lead of the novel I reincarnated into—completely ignored me.
He brushed my hand off and walked away without another word.
Hey! That’s not just any rabbit!
That’s the female lead!
On the way to the knight order.
The rabbit in my arms let out a weak groan.
Its body and ears drooped limply.
“Rabbit, are you okay?”
I looked down at the heavy but adorable rabbit with concern.
Bryce… not taking such a cute rabbit. He’s my brother, but he really has no eye for things.
‘Still, I finally found her.’
A being with incredible healing power, capable of reviving even those on the brink of death.
Someone who could instantly cure the rare disease I suffer from.
The heroine of the novel “The Little Rabbit Wants to Be Loved,” Lili Selverdin!
“Division Commander, what is that?”
“A rabbit.”
As soon as I entered the office of the Golden Lion Division of the Erne Knights—the First Imperial Knight Order—the knights’ gazes all turned toward me.
Naturally so, since their commander had brought in a strange black creature.
“Is it a monster, Commander?!”
“I said it’s just a rabbit.”
“A rabbit?!”
The knights murmured in confusion at the sudden appearance of the rabbit.
Holding it in one arm, I walked across the headquarters.
From afar, Dezer, a senior knight, came running toward me with an excited face.
As soon as he reached me, he stretched out his hand to pet the rabbit.
“Are we raising this adorable creature in our order now?! Let me hold it too!”
“No!”
I hugged the rabbit tightly and quickly turned away, waving him off.
“Go away!”
“Commander, why?!”
“It’s my rabbit.”
Even if it looks like this, she’s the female lead—I can’t let her be held by some random guy!
Anyway…
“Is the veterinarian in the infirmary?”
“No, he should be at the stables.”
I headed there with the still-trembling rabbit.
If he could treat horses, surely he could treat a rabbit too, right?
“Oh dear, the wound is quite deep.”
“Will it be difficult to treat?”
“No. If I can’t even fix this, I wouldn’t be working as the Erne Knights’ veterinarian.”
That’s a relief.
I carefully placed the rabbit on a clean cloth.
As the veterinarian infused it with divine power, I could see the wound slowly closing.
“The rabbit looks sturdy—it’ll recover quickly. But where did it come from?”
“I picked it up.”
“As expected of you. You’re very kind.”
Well, I didn’t pick it up because I’m kind…
I took the rabbit to my office, laid it on the sofa, and covered it with a blanket.
“What should I give it when it wakes up?”
I gently stroked its still slightly trembling body.
It must be hungry. Should I feed it first…?
I’ll leave that to Bryce for now.
But this rabbit… it’s bigger than I expected.
When I read the novel, I thought it would be smaller.
‘Still, there’s that mark on its ear showing it’s under a spell.’
A red diamond-shaped mark on the pink tip of its ear, visible through the black fur.
Which meant—this rabbit really was the heroine.
“Please take care of me, rabbit.”
“Heh, Lady Lize. Are you planning to raise this rabbit?”
I smiled and nodded. The rabbit that would save my life looked unbelievably lovable.
Rabbit, hurry and become close with my brother!
The novel I transmigrated into, “The Little Rabbit Wants to Be Loved.”
As the title suggests, it’s about the male lead picking up a small, adorable rabbit—the female lead—and caring for her, eventually falling in love.
The male lead is Bryce Artiela.
‘My younger brother.’
A boy with beautiful red hair and green eyes, destined to become the empire’s greatest knight.
And although he’s not quite “too precious to even look at,” he’s still pretty cute—my little brother.
In the original story, he suffers every kind of misfortune in his childhood.
After our parents die in a carriage accident, our uncle—who inherits the title by imperial law—targets him.
The uncle wants to eliminate Bryce, whose talent threatens his position.
‘Not only were there attempts on his life, but he also bribed people around him to betray him.’
After going through all that, Bryce becomes completely hardened and darkened.
Then he happens to pick up a cute rabbit.
That rabbit is the heroine, and they fall in love—that’s the original plot.
And I am Bryce’s older sister, Lize Artiela.
‘In the original, she lived a frail life and died before even reaching twenty-three, pushing Bryce further into darkness.’
Originally, I lived exactly like that too.
Until one day at thirteen, when I realized this world was the novel I had read in my past life.
Unfortunately, that was also the day our family had the carriage accident, and even after regaining my memories, I couldn’t save our parents.
But I could change the course of my life.
‘I won’t live like the original.’
Instead of being weak, trembling under abuse from our uncle’s family and only apologizing to Bryce, I decided to grow strong enough to physically protect both of us.
I chose a completely opposite path and vowed to live a long life.
So I took up the sword, and after relentless effort, I rose to become a division commander of the First Imperial Knight Order, Erne.
But the problem was…
“…Ugh.”
No matter how healthy my body became, there was one illness that never left me.
‘It feels like my whole body is being crushed…!’
A mysterious disease that causes unbearable pain, as if being sliced by blades, whenever I’m exposed to moonlight on a full moon night.
‘Did I die like this in the original too? Will it happen again?’
The pain was so severe that I often thought that.
I endured it with painkillers, but it only grew worse over time.
‘I might die young like in the original.’
On nights when the pain nearly made me lose consciousness, I couldn’t help but think that.
As my twenty-third birthday—the age I was supposed to die—approached, those thoughts grew stronger.
‘What should I do…?’
And then, at that moment—I found this rabbit.
In other words, Lili Selverdin, the heroine.
‘If it’s Lili’s healing ability, she can save me.’
A cheat-like power given only to the heroine: absolute healing.
A power that can cure any illness, but only blooms when she meets someone she truly loves.
In the original, Lili used it to revive Bryce’s dying comrades.
‘If Lili falls in love with Bryce and her power awakens…’
Then she can definitely save me too!
I had tried to find Lili before.
But in the original, she lived in her mother’s hometown until she turned fourteen, and no matter how much I tried to recall it, I couldn’t figure out where that was.
Anyway, from the moment I found this rabbit today, Lili and Bryce’s love would begin to blossom—leading Bryce to a happy future, and me to a healthy life.
‘That’s how it was supposed to go.’
But my idiot brother didn’t take the heroine…
So I had no choice but to bring her myself.
“Bryce!”
At the Artiela estate.
In the hallway of the old annex.
I waved vigorously at Bryce, who was dragging himself toward his room.
He only sped up a little after I called his name again.
My younger brother, not even fifteen yet, had recently started ignoring me. He used to be such a sweet kid who followed me everywhere…
Your sister is about to cry, Bryce.
No… he’s just preparing to become independent as the male lead…
“Bryce, let’s live together forever.”
“…What’s gotten into you, Sister?”
Even though my heart said one thing, something else came out.
Bryce frowned and brushed it off.
“What is it? Did you come just to say that?”
“No.”
I held out the basket I was carrying.
Bryce suspiciously lifted the cover.
“Whoa! What is that?!”
“It’s a rabbit!”
“You think I don’t know that?!”
Startled by the sleeping rabbit, Bryce stepped back.
He almost knocked over the basket, so I quickly tightened my grip.
“Bryce, be careful! What if you hurt it?!”
“No, why do you even have a rabbit?”
“You’re raising it!”
Bryce looked completely dumbfounded.
“Is this the same rabbit from earlier?! Why did you bring it?!”
Because it’s the heroine!
Your future bride!
But I couldn’t say that.
“This rabbit is special.”
“What’s special about it?”
Can’t you tell?
“It’s cute.”
“This? This muscular rabbit?”
…Now that I look at it, it really is kind of muscular.
And a bit big.
Its muscles are pretty well-developed under that black fur.
It feels more sturdy than adorable…
