She Is the Youngest Daughter of the Villainous Duke

Years ago, as a high school student, she wrote a novel—only to now find herself living inside its pages. But instead of waking as the story's heroine, she has become a mere supporting character: a nameless seven-year-old orphan girl with nothing and no one to call her own. Enduring relentless mistreatment, she finally reaches her breaking point and runs away—only to be captured and sold into slavery. Just as she believes her life is over, rescue arrives from the unlikeliest person imaginable: Henriette, the novel's most infamous villain. This is the man who treats the emperor as nothing more than a puppet, notorious for his extreme cruelty and his chilling habit of slitting the throats of aristocrats. Could this terrifying figure truly be her biological father? Strangely enough, life under his roof proves far from miserable. He showers her with affection—"my precious child"—and promises that anything she desires, the entire household will provide. Yet one troubling realization lingers in her mind: this was never how her novel was supposed to unfold.