Living Out My Deadline as the Tyrant's Wife

Lea never asked to wake up inside the pages of a fantasy novel—least of all as a disposable extra married off to the story's villain, with a fatal dose of poison already waiting in her future. Confronted with a death sentence written into the plot itself, she resolves to rewrite her destiny before the final page catches up with her. Her strategy is simple, if bold: sweep the booze and the men out of her harem, and chip away at her tyrannical emperor husband with warmth and gentleness instead of fear. If she can coax a real, genuine love out of him, surely her grim fate will melt away alongside his cruelty. There is only one catch. Her husband has spent his entire life being trained to feel absolutely nothing, turning her tenderhearted campaign into an uphill battle. And looming over everything is a chilling prophecy—one claiming that an emperor who dares to feel will bring ruin down upon the empire. Lea can only pray it turns out to be nothing more than a story.