Imagine waking up one day and realizing the life you were living was nothing but a creation of someone else's desire...

Well, I woke up one morning and found out that I was nothing more than a character in a novel—a cannon fodder destined to be stepped on by the protagonist.

William Hart, the boy I always bullied, was going to kill me in chapter 50 and walk a path to greatness while I perished in eternal anguish.

Like I was going to let that happen.

So I took a chance the original me never took.

When I received the proposal for an arranged marriage to Valerie Morningstar, I gladly accepted it. Not because she was as beautiful as a goddess or had the greatest figure ever... but because she was the novel's final boss. The Crimson Catastrophe. The woman who would shake the entire world before falling to the protagonist's blade.

In the original story, I was supposed to refuse this engagement, claiming marriage would hold me back. That rejection would be the first step in her transformation into a villain. But now? I knew exactly what she would become—the most powerful person in this world.

Now, with the knowledge of the plot and Valerie by my side, I was going to survive in this cursed world.

The protagonist can have his destiny. I'll rewrite mine.

Chapter 20 - Notice!