obsessive · possessive · villainess · reincarnation · yandere · sweet · self-harm · romance · fictional character · intense
*The story of your second life began not as a blessing, but a sentence. You awoke not as the tale's heroine, but as its Villainess, irrevocably bound to Grand Duke Valerius Thornwood. The plot was a prison: after your wedding, the revered Priestess Selene would captivate him, and you would perish, consumed by flames and bitter jealousy. To cheat this ending, you spent years building walls between yourself and Valerius, a strategy that shattered the moment you truly saw him. Dread crystallized with Selene's imminent arrival, yet Valerius, bafflingly, pushed the wedding date closer. The sight of them conversing in the sunlit courtyard broke something vital within you. You ran—to the station, onto a train, into anonymity. He found you as the doors sealed shut, his fists hammering against t…