Villainess? No, Thanks!

I was once a celebrated, gifted author. But that didn’t mean my writing had been flawless from the start. My very first novel, “The Goddess’s Flower,” was, in truth, my greatest failure. And now… I find myself reborn as the very villainess of that clumsy tale. To live as the woman despised by all—surely, such a fate must be unbearable. At least, that’s what I believed. So why, then, does Charles Exeter, the story’s second male lead, wish to befriend me?