A tyrant emperor's doll. That's what she becomes upon reincarnating into a notorious novel cursed with a terrible ending. His insomnia, his trauma, his midnight confessions—she's bound to endure them all until the original heroine appears to save him and liberate her. But destiny refuses her the mercy of waiting. The heroine arrives early and suspicious, while the emperor's dark obsession deepens, pulling her further into his wake. His golden eyes—molten, hungry, mesmerizing—catch sight of her, and in one breath, powerful hands lift her from the ground. "Lily... Ana?" he whispers, speaking another's name as if she might be that answer he's been seeking. In that moment, suspended between fear and inevitability, she becomes more than his doll. She becomes his obsession, his danger, perhaps his undoing.