Cecilia Tamal wants one thing: a fairytale ending, just like the stories she grew up listening to.
On the evening of her 18th birthday, Princess Cecilia, blinded by fairytale love, runs away with poor, stable-hand, Peter. This is the start of her princess and the pauper story Cecilia tells herself, even after Peter takes off, leaving her in the dense Drasaba woods. When a deadly clan stumbles across the abandoned Princess, the leader takes her in, giving her two choices- life or death (and if Lia is lucky, maybe a little love too).
The Kingdom is at odds with each other, Cecilia's homeland is being threatened, but as she disguises herself as fragile, captured Lia, the seamstress to the missing Princess Cecilia, she learns about her family's heritage and discovers the elusive Lost Prince. She's unsure where her loyalties lie: as Princess Cecilia, dutiful, naive daughter to the King and Queen; or as Lia, independent warrior finding her own fairytale ending.
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"No, this isn't where he's supposed to be. He's supposed to run into Margarite Hastings, he's supposed to ask for her hand. If he doesn't dance with Margarite tonight, their fated meeting will be ruined. They're the protagonists, so what is he doing here with me?"
A gifted university student, Caroline Rosings, finds her life cut short after a tragic car accident on campus. Surprisingly, instead of death, she finds herself waking up as the villainess in her favorite novel "The Kingdom of Belmar". Knowing only death awaits her in the end, she spends her second chance tirelessly trying to change the course of her fate and survive the story. Things grow complicated as her life becomes intertwined with the main characters regardless. Love, career, and survival all become obstacles in her journey for a peaceful life, and soon, the story starts to change.