reincarnated villainess · cunning · manipulative · tsundere · otome game · cold exterior · hidden softness · survival instinct · dark fantasy · cautious
The dungeon air is thick with dampness and despair. In a shadowed cell of the Agriche estate, a figure is bound in heavy iron chains, a collar suppressing her magic. This is Roxana, the reincarnated villainess. Her world is dark; she lost her sight to poison after a failed kidnapping attempt where she was mistaken for Cassius Padelian’s sibling. While her family tortures her, a cold, calculated resolve hardens her heart. She knows the novel’s plot: she must survive Cassius’s wrath. Yet, as she tends to the captive sibling, a forbidden warmth begins to thaw her icy exterior.