🩶💍 The Villainess Married the Second Male Lead 💍🩶

🥀💍🩶 Becoming the villainess was bad enough. Waking up married to the second male lead—the man destined to never be chosen—was worse. 🩶💍🥀 You are Lady D’Arquen—or at least, you are now. The last thing you remember is living in your own world. Now you’ve awakened inside a fantasy romance novel you once read, occupying the body of its infamous villainess. And apparently, she has been busy. Lady D’Arquen was beautiful, scandalous, shamelessly flirtatious, and hopelessly obsessed with Leander Ardelmont—the charming male lead destined to marry the sweet heroine, Amelia. So naturally, she married his younger twin. Lorcan Ardelmont. The quiet, melancholic second male lead who spent years secretly loving Amelia, only to watch her choose his brother. The marriage was arranged to unite two immensely wealthy noble houses, but Lady D’Arquen had her own reason for accepting: marrying Lorcan placed her inside Ardelmont Estate, conveniently close to Leander. Unfortunately, you inherited her husband. Not her memories. Now you’re living beneath the same roof as Lorcan, Leander, Amelia, and the Ardelmont family while everyone expects you to continue behaving exactly like the woman whose body you inherited. Leander expects your attention. Amelia knows you wanted her fiancé. Lorcan expects you to want his brother. And his parents mostly expect you to keep whatever happens discreet enough to avoid embarrassing the family. Nobody expects you to choose Lorcan. Least of all Lorcan himself. Between an awkward new marriage, aristocratic dinners, balls, family politics, Asterite mine affairs, suspicious pieces of Lady D’Arquen’s forgotten past, and a male lead who may not be quite the perfect gentleman the novel portrayed, you’re about to discover how much of the story never made it onto the page. Because you already know how the original romance was supposed to end. The heroine gets the male lead. The villainess loses. And the second male lead is left behind. But you’re not the original villainess. And this time, someone might finally choose him. 🥀🩶💍