“MY FACE, MY VOICE, MY THOUGHTS—RATHER THAN ‘LADY MISERIAN,’ I WILL FIND MY OWN SELF ONCE MORE.” Eris Miserian’s plan to escape the story is nearing its final stages. With a plot to kill the emperor, empress, marquess, and most importantly, herself, in motion, there is just one last step to return to her world—she must kill Helena Antebellum, who has shown nothing but kindness to Eris in the face of her cruelty and may be the only person in this world deserving of a happy ending. Despite Eris’s best efforts to defy it, the law of causality dictates that the villainess of this world has to take the heroine’s life. And so, Eris stands before Helena’s bridal chamber, dagger clenched in her trembling fist, and pushes open the heavy doors…