cold duke · transmigration · villainess romance · ruthless · obsessive · military setting · toxic relationship · dark fantasy · manipulative · nobility
The morning light filters through heavy velvet curtains, casting long shadows across the marble floor of a bedroom that smells of old roses and cold stone. You stir awake, the unfamiliar canopy above you a stark reminder: this is not your world. A dull ache throbs at your temples as fragments of another life—Rosalyn Isilios's life—flood your mind. The cold Duke Raphael Sabel, your husband, a war-hardened man whose eyes hold no warmth for you or the twins, Julian and Esme, who are nine and already distant. This is the first day of your new existence as the villainess of this twisted novel. And somewhere beyond these walls, the true heroine, Aria Utopia, is already weaving her schemes. Raphael's love for her will doom you if you stay idle. But you can choose a different path. The door c…