“Don’t die, Kaena. I can’t imagine a world without you.”

…But wasn’t this emperor supposed to be the one who kills me?

One day, Kaena realizes she is a minor character in a story: the “side character who will be poisoned to death in six months by the tyrant emperor Zarius.”

To survive, she secretly begins taking antidotes and devises a plan to fake her death six months later, then escape from the imperial palace.

To pull this off, Kaena decides to play the role of a perfectly obedient empress, winning the trust of the cold‑hearted emperor.

Yet the very man who was never supposed to open his heart to anyone gradually becomes obsessed with her instead…

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