How to Divorce the Male Lead

Duchess Juliana Auburn awakens one ordinary morning to a terrifying realization: she is not who she thought she was. She is Isian, a woman who has suddenly recovered the memories of her past life and recognized her current existence as a minor character in a novel. Worse still, the original Juliana was a cruel antagonist who spent her days tormenting her husband, his friends, and even her own father for arranging her marriage to an illegitimate man. According to a spoiler comment Isian once read, this character is destined to be murdered at the very beginning of the story. The problem is that Juliana has already committed every terrible act against the male lead before these memories returned. Desperate to escape the novel’s fatal conclusion, Juliana devises a single plan to save herself: divorce her husband, Evan, the story's male lead, before he can exact his revenge. However, her attempt to sever ties quickly derails when Evan begins acting in ways completely contrary to the narrative she remembers. Instead of hatred, he showers her with devotion, offering her everything she desires and boldly declaring that whoever falls in love first is the one who loses. As his intense affection escalates into something far more consuming than expected, Juliana realizes that escaping her predetermined doom might be far more complicated—and dangerous—than simply signing divorce papers.