Raymond transmigrated into a viscount whom the nobles derided as both crippled and ugly.
His title was a castoff; his family was a castoff; even his love was a castoff.
Yet all of these had originally belonged to his handsome, flawless brother Dean.
He was mocked for lacking any gift for magic.
Behind his family's back, Raymond won admission to the Imperial Academy of Magic by virtue of Alchemy.
But before he could speak the good news, his brother Dean returned.
*
Framed and shut away in a dark attic, Raymond dragged his broken body and kindled a fierce blaze with his own hands.
When they met again, it would be time to settle all accounts.
[Die in ashes, born a king]