The Villain Who Stayed

I died without a name.



I woke up with one the world hated.



Caius Val’Rendall was meant to be a footnote — the weakest son of a powerful Duke in a crumbling empire, scorned by his own blood, abandoned by magic, and doomed to die a villain before the story ever truly began.



But when a soul from another world awakens inside his broken body, everything changes.



Because he’s read this story before.



He knows how Caius dies.

He knows who lives.

He knows which heroes rise… and which innocent lives are discarded.



And he refuses to follow the script