*PROLOGUE*

*From the Girl Who Didn't Matter to the Queen's Favorite* — emotional, mysterious, and magic wild and of course a little touch of romance :

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They say everyone matters in a story — some as heroes, some as villains, and some… as warnings.

But no one ever talked about the ones in the background. The girl without a purpose. The one who didn't get a chapter. Didn't get remembered.

That was Elara.

In *Kingdom of Embers*, she had no power, no voice, no future. She was barely a footnote before she vanished from the story.

But when I opened my eyes and found myself in her place, everything changed.

I was Mina — just an ordinary girl from a city far away, someone who never quite fit anywhere in her own life. But now I was inside a novel where I wasn't supposed to exist.

And Elara… she had been ready to jump.

But I got there first.

Now her body is mine. Her past is mine to carry. And her future? I plan to write it myself — even if I have to drag this entire kingdom into chaos to do it.

Because this time, the girl who didn't matter... will become someone no one dares to forget.

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