Looking For The Villainess's Contract Husband

A fevered revelation shatters the quiet life of a young woman who suddenly recalls her past life—and the grim truth of her current existence. She is the daughter of the novel’s notorious villainess, a woman fated to be exploited and discarded, while she herself is doomed to perish from an incurable disease. Yet within this bleak inheritance lies a single flicker of purpose: her mother’s life can still be saved. Determined to rewrite that tragic ending, she seeks out a supporting character from the original story—a powerful duke—and strikes a desperate bargain: in exchange for rescuing her mother from the cruel grip of her maternal grandfather, she will offer him whatever leverage her knowledge of the plot provides. The duke honors the contract, pulling both mother and daughter from ruin, and the heroine resigns herself to slipping away quietly, ready to meet her end far from those she has saved. But her carefully planned solitude crumbles when a pale, sickly young man refuses to leave her side, clinging to her with an unsettling persistence. His frail demeanor and urgent pleas for her companionship seem genuine, yet something about his illness doesn’t add up. As his grip tightens and his gaze grows keener, she begins to suspect that this fragile stranger may be hiding far more than a simple fever—and that her own final chapter might not unfold as quietly as she had imagined.