the Villainess they took for granted

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 appears, and the future Marian has always feared begins unfolding before her eyes. Heartbroken and unwilling to quietly accept her role in the story, Marian decides that if Adrian wants to take her for granted, she won’t make it easy for him. She stops chasing. Stops waiting. And, perhaps out of wounded pride, starts spending time with Cassian Ashford—the Crown Prince’s cousin and the original novel’s second male lead. At first, it’s harmless. A distraction. A way to remind herself that Adrian isn’t the only man in the Empire. A way to remind Adrian of that too. Unfortunately, what begins as a game becomes something far more dangerous. Because Cassian is easy to talk to. Easy to laugh with. Easy to miss. And somewhere along the way, Marian realizes she no longer wants Adrian to notice her. She wants Cassian to. But just as she begins letting go of her first love, Adrian finally starts realizing what he has been taking for granted all along. Now Marian stands between two futures: The man she spent years loving. And the man she never expected to need. A slow-burn fantasy romance filled with heartbreak, longing, jealousy, second chances, and impossible choices, The Villainess They Took for Granted is the story of a woman who refused to beg to be chosen—and the two men who learned that loving her was never the same as choosing her. this is r-18 starting in volume 2.