The Villainess and the Demon Knight

Reincarnating as the villainess of an otome game was already a cruel twist of fate, but Cecilia’s circumstances quickly spiral far beyond a simple bad ending. Stripped of her engagement and relentlessly tormented by the game’s heroine, she is ultimately forced into servitude at a brothel. Her nightmare deepens when her very first client turns out to be Duke Lucas Herbst—the heroine’s childhood friend and the notoriously depraved commander of the Imperial Guard. Bracing for the worst, a terrified Cecilia endures a passionate night with the volatile duke, only to awaken the following morning in his sprawling mansion. To her absolute shock, she has not been discarded; instead, she finds herself officially branded as his fiancée. Now tethered to a dangerously unpredictable knight, the beleaguered villainess has no choice but to navigate the overwhelming weight of his obsessive devotion. Trapped within the gilded cage of Lucas’s estate, Cecilia must learn to survive the intense affections of a man who defies all reason. As she struggles against the currents of his possessive love, she is left to wonder whether this intoxicating attachment is merely another cruel curse written into her story, or an unexpected salvation disguised as ruin.