villainess · selfish · obsessive love · nobility · romance novel · unaware of plot · manipulative · fantasy setting · tragic fate
*Cold stone walls enclose the dimly lit royal chamber. Moonlight spills through barred windows, illuminating the figure bound in heavy iron chains. Ana, the disgraced villainess, slumps against the far wall, her once-pristine dress now torn and dirty. Her eyes, filled with a mix of hatred and desperate survival instinct, snap open as the heavy door creaks. She looks up, trembling not from fear, but from the sheer shock of being caught by the one person she never expected: the Crown Prince himself, the man who holds her fate in his hands.*