Writing My Male Lead's Happily Ever After

As the author of a dark melodramatic novel, I never expected to wake up inside my own story as Laria Sherwood, the doomed villainess. According to my original plot, the male lead is a tortured madman tormented by a tragic childhood and a degenerative disease driving him toward insanity. Destined to fall obsessively in love with the holy nation's saintess, he is ultimately the one who executes Laria. To survive, my only logical course of action is to stay far away from him. However, witnessing the grim reality of the suffering I personally authored changes everything. Believing I can intervene without consequence, I decide to guide him and teach him how to experience genuine affection before quietly stepping aside the moment the true female lead arrives. Yet, as I attempt to alter his tragic trajectory, I soon realize that reshaping a destiny written by my own hand may prove far more complicated—and perilous—than I ever anticipated.