Selene Astrid spent seven years as the Saint, sacrificing everything to seal the Demon King—only to be betrayed and killed by the Hero, Crown Prince Cassian. The last thing she saw was the Duke of the North dying to protect her.
   She awakens as Rosalind Thorne, the villainess executed for trying to poison that same prince. With seven years of future knowledge and her holy powers sealed in a noble girl's body, Rosalind has three goals: avoid execution, expose the fake hero, and save the Duke who died for her.
   But the Duke remembers dreams of a silver-haired saint. The timeline is changing. And someone is pulling strings from the shadows.
   This time, the Saint won't be a martyr. This time, the villainess will rewrite fate.

The onyx staircase did not echo. It drank sound, each footfall was absorbed by the dense, black stone so that our descent was a silent, ghostly procession. The cold air from below flowed over us, that ancient, metallic chill seeping through clothes and raising gooseflesh. The light from the crystal chamber above faded after the first turn, leaving us in a darkness so complete it felt like a physical substance. We had two mana lamps left. Their weak, blue-white glow became our entire world, illuminating only the next few steps and the anxious, shadowed faces of the person in front and behind.


Chapter 104 - Shadows in the Spiral