OnceUponALily
A game developer trapped as the villain in her own creation must team up with her demonically-transformed best friend and a treacherous talking cat to find a way home.
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𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆; 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏.
Xanthe Zechiel, a gifted game designer, discovers that her imagination has teeth. A playful summoning spell pulls her into the very game she crafted, forcing her to inhabit the body of Vexia, the ruthless Shadow Sorceress. With her cat Cinder plotting against her and a forced betrothal to the demon lord Kazrael─an eerie, distorted version of her best friend Crispin─Xanthe's carefully constructed reality starts to unravel. The world she enters is vivid yet venomous, where every decision carries weighty consequences and the lines between creator and creation blur.
As Xanthe wanders this dark, enchanted landscape, she must choose between completing Vexia's merciless quest or risking everything to escape back to her own life. The stakes escalate as old loyalties are tested and new powers awaken within her.
Can Xanthe reprogram her destiny, or is the game truly over, with no reset in sight?
~ Maleficent meets Trapped In A Video Game ~
✧ 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 ✧ 𝐃𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐚 ✧ 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 ✧
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