by Ms. Aether
"In ninety-nine lives, I begged to be loved and died in agony. In my hundredth, I gave up—and that was when they finally began to care." After enduring twenty years of abuse in her first life and ninety-nine brutal lifetimes of tragedy, Sofia is reborn as Princess Thea—the tragic villainess of her favorite web novel, Happier. Armed with the secret knowledge that she has a terminally ill curse with fifteen years left to live, Thea completely shuts her heart off. She no longer seeks her father’s approval, nor does she care for the grand political games of the empire. But as she quietly waits out her final days under the shadow of a dying countdown, her sudden indifference sends shockwaves through the imperial court. The cold father who ignored her, the nobles who spurned her, and the enigmatic Captain Rune—the novel's tragic second lead who hides a dark secret as the prophesied Demon God—all find themselves drawn to the distant princess. In a world built on lies, shifting fates, and dangerous magic, can a soul that has forgotten how to hope ever find peace... or will the dark secrets of the original story tear everything apart?
| # | Title | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prologue | — |
| 2 | Temperature of Silence | — |
| 3 | A Child Without a Name | — |
