Dear Author, I Dont Want This Ending!

Chapter 1 – Realisation

“This isn’t my ceiling…”

Mi-Young’s eyes fluttered open, her vision blurred by flickering candlelight. She blinked slowly, confusion settling in as her gaze scanned an unfamiliar, aristocratic bedroom tall carved windows, heavy burgundy curtains, and the lingering scent of roses and smoke.

She sat up, clutching velvet sheets that didn’t belong to her. Her limbs felt different. Longer. Elegant. When she turned her head toward the gilded mirror across the room, her breath caught.

That wasn’t her reflection.

Porcelain-pale skin. Crimson eyes. Long, midnight-black hair cascading in soft waves. She wore a silk nightgown embroidered with golden thread, a sapphire necklace glinting on her collarbone. She looked beautiful. Untouchable.

“No way…” she whispered. “This is Lilith Corwall.”

The name made her stomach twist.

Lilith the villainess of the novel “The Light of Alyse”. Hated by the nobility. Feared by servants. The cruel duchess married to the cold and powerful Duke Caelan Valenhardt.

And now…

She was her.

Just hours ago, Mi-Young had been a stressed college student, reading late into the night. She remembered hating how the novel treated Lilith a woman painted as wicked simply for loving the wrong man. Betrayed. Abandoned. Executed by the very husband who should’ve protected her.

And now, somehow… she’d become her.

“Dear Author…” her eyes narrowed “I refuse this ending.”

Outside the chamber, whispers floated in the air.

“The Duchess collapsed after the Winter Ball last night…”

“The Duke didn’t even visit her.”

“They say he’s already planning a quiet annulment.”

Mi-Young listened from behind the door, heart pounding.

They were married. But not in love.

She was the villainess wife, and he Caelanwas the man who would eventually betray her and fall for the oh-so-sweet heroine, Alyse.

But this time, she wasn’t going to make it easy for them.

“Lilith Corwall is no fool,” she whispered, straightening her spine.

“And I’m not dying in someone else’s story.”

Elsewhere, in a shadowy study lit by embers, the Duke stood with a glass of wine in hand.

His silver hair caught the firelight, and his cold eyes were unreadable as he read a report handed to him by a servant.

“She’s changed,” the butler said quietly.

“She’s… calm. Kind. Instead of throwing tantrums”

Caelan narrowed his eyes.

“That woman doesn’t change. Not without reason.”

To him, Lilith was still the cunning snake he married out of duty. A beautiful ornament in his estate. A name, nothing more.

But now, something about her silence disturbed him.

Later that night, Lilith stood alone at the grand balcony, the snowy wind brushing against her silk robe. The moon lit up the gardens below like a dreamscape from another life.

She looked at the Dark sky “The Light of Alyse.” she thinks for a while and says

“If this world wants a villainess…” she whispered,

“Then I’ll be one on my own terms.”

“But this time, Duke Valenhardt you won’t be the one writing my ending.”

-To Be Continued

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