Kendra had always lived in the background - an orphan with paint-stained fingers and quiet dreams of gallery walls. Brilliant, poor, and utterly average-looking, she found solace in sculpting beauty from stone and color. But just when her talent was about to earn her global recognition, a cruel twist of fate ends her life... and begins another. She wakes up as Kendra Ainsley, the notorious villainess from a trashy romance novel she once skimmed out of boredom. Beautiful beyond belief, filthy rich, and brainless to the point of danger, Book Kendra is an aristocratic heiress doomed to a humiliating downfall - obsessively chasing her childhood fiancé, Chris, who coldly detests her and eventually falls for the new heroine, Ella. But this is no longer that Kendra. With her old mind intact, a new goal in sight, and zero interest in repeating the original Kendra's idiotic mistakes, she swears one thing: she will not chase after any man - especially not Chris. Instead, she plans to coast through this elite world, stay out of the drama, and secretly build an underground art empire. Too bad Chris won't leave her alone.Even worse, Rylie, Ella's fiercely loyal childhood friend, seems to be falling for the very villainess he's supposed to hate. In this rewritten story, who really gets the happy ending?And what happens when the "villain" starts stealing the spotlight - and hearts?

Adelaide Greyard was born cursed. Her crimson eyes marked her as an omen in an empire that feared what it did not understand. Though a legitimate daughter of a marquisate, she was unloved, unwanted, and quietly tormented her entire life. Weak, soft-hearted, and desperate for affection, Adelaide clung to the one man betrothed to her-only to be publicly humiliated, betrayed, and cruelly rejected. When the man she loved told her she was disgusting and pitiful, Adelaide chose death. But death was not the end. Reborn with her memories intact-and power already awakening-Adelaide laughs at the foolish girl she once was. This time, she will not beg for love or approval. Bound once more to the Aragon Dukedom, she makes a decision that shocks the empire: she refuses her former fiancé and instead asks to marry Kael Aragon, his uncle-a battle-hardened duke more than twice her age. Only then does Alexus Aragon begin to see her. The tears are gone. The weakness is gone. The woman who once loved him without restraint now looks at him with cold indifference-and it unsettles him. Attraction follows regret. Regret turns to obsession. For the first time, Alexus wants Adelaide... and for the first time, she wants nothing from him. He clings. He schemes. He tries to reclaim what he once scorned. But Adelaide does not turn back. This is not a story of forgiveness. It is a story of refusal. Of desire awakened too late. And of a woman who chooses herself-while the man who broke her watches her slip beyond his reach. Some loves are ungodly. Some regrets are eternal.