the Villainess they took for granted
Marian Valmont has known her fate since she was two years old.
After recovering memories of a previous life, she realizes she is living inside a romance fantasy novel, and she is destined to become its villainess.
The beautiful daughter of a powerful duke.
The future Crown Princess.
The woman who will lose everything when the Crown Prince falls in love with the heroine.
The problem is that Marian doesn’t just know the story.
She has lived it.
She grew up beside Crown Prince Adrian.
Laughed with him.
Dreamed with him.
Loved him.
For years, everyone believed their marriage was inevitable.
Even Marian believed it.
Then Elena Hart appeared, and the future Marian had always feared began unfolding before her eyes.
Heartbroken, Marian finally does what she has never done before: she stops waiting for Adrian to choose her.
Instead of quietly accepting the role the story has written for her, she decides that if Adrian wants to take her for granted, she won’t make it easy for him. And perhaps out of wounded pride, she begins spending time with Cassian Ashford, the Crown Prince’s cousin and the original novel’s second male lead.
What begins as a way to make Adrian notice her soon becomes something neither of them expected.
Cassian sees her.
He listens to her.
And somewhere along the way, Marian begins falling in love with him—and him with her.
For the first time, Marian thinks she might have found a future that was never part of the story she remembers.
Everything seems to be falling into place.
Until fate takes it away.
Cassian disappears before they can have the future they were supposed to have, and Marian is left believing the man she loves is dead.
She mourns him.
Then, slowly, she forces herself to move forward.
Eventually, she chooses Adrian.
She marries him, builds a life with the man she once loved most, and becomes Empress.
And she loves her husband.
For years, Marian believes that the life she built is the ending she chose—and that Cassian is a part of her past she must leave behind.
Then the impossible happens.
Cassian is alive.
And the past she buried refuses to stay buried.
His return changes everything.
Because Cassian is no longer the young man who disappeared six years ago.
And Marian is no longer the girl who once loved him.
She is a wife.
An Empress.
A woman who has built an entire life around a choice she once believed was final.
But Cassian did not return to quietly accept the life Marian built without him.
He wants Marian back.
And Adrian has no intention of letting her go.
But Adrian has secrets of his own… secrets powerful enough to destroy the trust upon which their marriage was built.
As old feelings resurface and buried truths begin to emerge, Marian finds herself caught between the life she chose and the love she never truly buried.
The Villainess They Took for Granted is a slow-burn fantasy romance about first love, second chances, marriage, betrayal, longing, jealousy, and the consequences of choices made in the name of love.
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AN:please be patient with volume 1. also, this is r-18 starting in volume 2.
this sypnosis has been updated to reflect where the story is heading.
do give this novel a try.
btw, if you want some visuals, i made one through AI something app, not that great but, well at least it's something. haha. link here. you can watch in youtube
https://youtube.com/shorts/DuurAPywhyg?si=GmGladH56Kf107xF