On the morning of her wedding, a bride wakes with pieces of her memory missing and a terrifying feeling that something is deeply wrong. Everyone around her insists she is simply overwhelmed by stress, yet the mansion she is trapped inside feels more like a prison than a home. The guests avoid her eyes, the women whisper prayers behind closed doors, and her fiancé's younger brother keeps slipping her desperate warnings: Run before the ceremony ends. As fragments of memory slowly return, she realizes this is not the first time she tried to escape. Someone erased the truth from her mind. Beneath the perfect image of two powerful families lies a history soaked in disappearances, bloodshed, and secrets buried for generations. And with every passing hour, the wedding ceremony draws closer to a horrifying purpose far darker than marriage. Because if she says "I do," she may never leave alive.

A rebellious young woman agrees to marry the heir of a mysterious mountain village to save her starving family, believing the marriage will cost her only her freedom. But the moment she arrives, she realizes the village hides something terrifying beneath its beauty. The women move like shadows, the elders speak in riddles, and one chilling truth becomes impossible to ignore... no bride ever seems to grow old there. As strange rituals begin surrounding her wedding, she uncovers whispers about the fate of every woman who married into the family before her. Trapped in a village where escape is forbidden and obedience is survival, she must uncover the horrifying secret behind the missing brides before she becomes the next woman to disappear forever.

After marrying into one of the most admired families in the country, a young woman believes she has stepped into a life of luxury, devotion, and safety. The estate is breathtaking, the family impossibly kind, and her husband seems almost too perfect to exist. But behind the warmth of the mansion lies something deeply wrong. A locked room at the end of a forgotten corridor. Family portraits with missing faces. Rules no one dares to explain. As her mother-in-law grows strangely attached to her... dressing her in old clothes, forcing her into routines that are not her own... the woman begins to feel herself disappearing piece by piece. The more she uncovers about the family's past, the more terrifying one truth becomes: someone once lived her life before her. And the family never truly let them go.

She believed she was marrying into silence. A quiet mansion. A grieving husband. A second chance at love. But on the night of their wedding, after the final candle burns low and the last guest disappears into the rain, her new husband reveals the truth he kept hidden behind locked doors and velvet curtains: He has children. A little boy who never blinks long enough. A little girl who hums to empty hallways. They are beautiful. Polite. Watching. And as the nights pass, she begins to understand why the servants avoid the east wing, why every mirror in the mansion is covered after midnight, and why the children whisper to someone who no longer lives there. Because in this house, some families are not held together by love. They are held together by secrets no one is allowed to leave with.

Three days before the wedding, the first cassette tape arrives at his apartment with no sender, no note, only her voice echoing through the static. But it is not the woman he is about to marry. The voice on the tape is colder, sharper, almost inhuman as she speaks to someone unseen in the middle of an empty room. Each recording reveals fragments of conversations about an accident he cannot remember, secrets buried beneath perfect smiles, and a past she carefully erased. She has no childhood photographs before sixteen, no old friends, no history that can truly be traced. Yet every time he confronts her, she looks at him with the same gentle eyes and asks why he seems so afraid of her. As the wedding day draws closer, he begins to wonder whether he is uncovering the truth about the woman he loves... or remembering why he was once terrified of her.

The invitation arrived wrapped in black ribbon, carrying a name he could never forget... the woman from the train station whose terrified eyes had haunted him for months. Offered a fortune to photograph her wedding at her family's isolated manor hidden deep within the hills, he accepts without hesitation. But the moment he steps inside the estate, something feels deeply wrong. The family watches the bride too closely, speaks to her too carefully, loves her too possessively. As the wedding feast begins, servants vanish without explanation, hallways shift in the midnight fog, and every road leading away from the manor disappears. Trapped inside a house where nobody seems human after dark, the photographer uncovers whispers of a horrifying tradition tied to the bride's bloodline... and realizes the wedding is not a celebration. It is a ritual. And he may not survive long enough to witness the vows.

They said the bride was blessed. But beneath the chandeliers, the prayers, and the silk-draped halls of the estate, everyone mourned her as if she were already dead. When a man who never believed in love marries into one of the country's most powerful families, he expects secrets, wealth, and perfection....not whispered funeral hymns hidden beneath wedding music. As the wedding veil slowly darkens with strands of black thread stitched into it night after night, his bride begins slipping away into something ancient, something waiting within the bloodline for generations.

After the events of last year, the gates of Thornwick opened once more. Iron hinges creaked. Banners rose high. The courtyards filled with uneasy laughter and quiet excitement as carriages rolled in and boats arrived along the jagged black cliffs below. New students crossed the threshold...hopeful, anxious...unaware of the secrets woven deep into the academy's ancient stone. Thornwick lived again, as it always had. And Asher Graves returned. Second year. But he was no longer just another student. He came back as the one chosen by the roots... the one claimed by the ancient chair... the one marked as Villain. The title clung to him, whispering through corridors, never fully fading. Why him? Why was he chosen? What was he becoming? Too many answers were missing. Too many shadows where truth should be. And beneath it all, something older...far older than Thornwick...was beginning to stir. Yet one question haunted him most: Why did his eyes keep returning to the Witch's Tower? Again and again. More than they should. More than was safe. The academy's law remained etched in obsidian: Opposing Orders must remain apart. No contact...unless destiny allows it. And Thornwick knew well...destiny was never kind. But this year, something has changed. The sea below the cliffs no longer rests. At night, it hums...a deep, sorrowful sound, like something ancient dragging chains across the ocean floor. Professors speak in hushed voices. Entire wings are sealed away. And among the new arrivals, one student did not come to study. They came with purpose. A purpose tied not to the stars above... but to the depths below. To the voice rising from the deep. And when the truth begins to surface...about Asher's blood, about the Witch, about the fragile balance they are meant to hold... It will become clear: Last year was only the beginning. Because villains are never made quietly. They are summoned. And now, the deep is answering.

"Each night, I wished for you to find me, like a prince rescuing his princess from evils. I wished for you to be my hero, even as the pages of my life turned against me. Each night, I cast my wishes into the dark, praying you'd come and turn my story around. I longed for you and your presence, your scent never left me even in your absence, I guess I was just forgetting the cruel truth, with false hopes trying to heal my pain. When the truth was bitter and dark, I was trapped in a cruel novel written by the merciless author, not a princess from one of a fairytale. By the time I realized, It was all a brutal reality, i was already too late, I came to know you were living with some another me." ── ᯓᡣ𐭩 ── Started: July 6, 2024, Saturday. Ended: August 9, 2024, Friday.