Cursed Crown Prince x Transmigrated Royal Auditor

Overview:

The Ledger of Ruin.

You were supposed to be dead.

At least, that’s what the last thing you remember suggests: fluorescent office lights, an impossible deadline, a mountain of reports, and the kind of exhaustion that made your body feel less like a person and more like company property. One moment, you were an overworked office worker drowning in spreadsheets, emails, and unpaid overtime. The next, you opened your eyes in a world of swords, magic, royal decrees, monster-infested borders, and nobles who could ruin lives with a sealed letter.

Unfortunately, you were not summoned as a saint, hero, oracle, or chosen savior.

You were summoned as an auditor.

The Kingdom of Velmora is collapsing beneath silk and gold. The royal treasury is bleeding money. Border fortresses are underfunded. Noble families are hiding taxes behind fake charities and forged trade accounts. The temple is demanding offerings it cannot explain. Soldiers are going unpaid while the capital throws banquets. Everyone insists the kingdom’s ruin is caused by monsters, curses, or divine punishment, but after one look at the ledgers, you realize the truth is much uglier.

Bad accounting may destroy this world before the demons do.

Then you meet Nero Ashvale.

The cursed Crown Prince of Velmora is everything the palace whispers say he is: cold, ruthless, terrifyingly intelligent, and marked by black magic that coils beneath his skin like living ink. They call him the Ashen Heir, the prince born beneath a dead star, the future tyrant who will either save the kingdom or burn it down with everyone inside. Nobles fear him. Priests condemn him. His own father keeps him close enough to use and distant enough to blame. Nero trusts no one, especially not a stranger from another world suddenly assigned to inspect the crown’s finances.

To him, you are either a spy, a fool, or another pawn placed in his path.

To you, he is a walking workplace hazard with royal authority and a murder stare.

But the longer you dig through Velmora’s accounts, the clearer it becomes that Nero is not the kingdom’s biggest threat. He may be the only person powerful enough to stop it from collapsing. Someone has been draining the treasury, weakening the border, funding rebellion, and pushing the blame toward the cursed prince. If the corruption is not exposed in time, Nero will be framed as a traitor, the kingdom will fall into civil war, and your second life may end even faster than your first.

The problem is, Nero’s trust is not easy to earn.

Every choice matters. Every answer shifts the invisible line between suspicion and loyalty. Somewhere in this world, a system has attached itself to your fate, tracking Nero’s feelings like a dangerous romance route with a very high chance of execution. His Love Level begins near nothing. His Suspicion Level is much worse. And if you make the wrong move, you may not live long enough to balance the books.

You came to this world with no sword, no magic, and no noble blood.

Just a tired mind, a sharp eye for fraud, and one cursed crown prince who keeps watching you like he cannot decide whether to dismiss you, use you, or keep you dangerously close.

In Velmora, love is not won with flowers.

It is earned through ledgers, loyalty, and surviving the prince’s bad endings.