The Male Lead Must Die

Kaida Everard could be described in three words: Bold. Wicked. Irredeemable.



In Marshal Luke’s novels, the villains always win, and love always loses. The plot is simple—strip the female lead of everything, then kill the male lead. The male lead always dies.



Lingling always found these types of stories fascinating. She loved the dark twist of it all—until the day she was hit by a truck and woke up inside the last novel she’d read.



Now, it’s her job to kill the male lead, but Lingling has no idea how to play the villainess. Worse yet, the male lead seems to be… smarter than usual.



Except…



“Kaida, I just lost my wife, and now you’re here, seducing me?”



“Thane… do you know what you smell like? You’re the adrenaline that gets my blood pumping. So what if your wife is dead? I’m prettier. You can belong to me now. After all, it was only a marriage of convenience.”



Kaida Everard has always been the pampered, favored daughter of the Everard family, spoiled rotten by her father and eleven older brothers. She’s free to terrorize the whole of Kaldora in peace. But now, Kaida isn’t just a character in the story—Lingling is trapped in her body.



With the ruthless mind of Kaida and the uncertainty of being a villainess, can Lingling follow the plot and kill the male lead, or will she rewrite the entire story? More importantly, can she control Kaida’s darker impulses—or will Kaida, in all her wicked glory, consume her instead?