This time to be a villainness

A nameless, withdrawn woman finds herself disillusioned by a romance novel, The Crown Prince and His Wife, whose toxic depiction of love eerily echoes her own traumatic life with an abusive father. Her chance meeting with a mysterious bookseller leads to a surreal proposition: the opportunity to disappear. When she accepts, she awakens in a strange, opulent world as a younger girl named Lily Hartwell.

Now living in a noble estate with fragmented memories and no explanation for her sudden reincarnation, Lily navigates a life bound by legacy, expectation, and hidden pain. Her parents, executed for heinous crimes, left her brother Julian to bear the family’s disgrace alone. As she begins to reclaim a sense of purpose, Lily pledges to protect him.

But the palace holds its dangers. A fateful encounter with Prince Alistair ignites tensions she doesn’t yet understand, and cryptic dreams hint at a dark future—one where love turns violent and escape feels impossible. As past and future blur, Lily must confront whether this new life offers redemption or simply another cage.