Twist In The Tale

Emily Stone transmigrates into a novel as the villainous female lead who abandons her husband, Commander Charlie Ford, for her childhood sweetheart, Stephen Reed, only to be killed by Stephen. On the eve of her divorce from Charlie, determined to change her fate, Emily resolves to save her marriage and avoid the tragic end.

Twist In The Tale

Emily Stone transmigrates into a novel as the villainous female lead who abandons her husband, Commander Charlie Ford, for her childhood sweetheart, Stephen Reed, only to be killed by Stephen. On the eve of her divorce from Charlie, determined to change her fate, Emily resolves to save her marriage and avoid the tragic end.

The divorce papers lie on the desk like a death sentence—neat, final, signed by me yesterday without hesitation. Tonight, the mansion is silent, the servants gone. Moonlight cuts across the study where Charlie stands by the window, his uniform still crisp despite the hour. He hasn’t looked at me since I entered.

I remember how it ends: Stephen’s arms, then his blade. The shock. The regret.

This time, I don’t beg. I kneel—not in submission, but in surrender of pride. "Don’t sign it," I whisper. "Give me one month. Not for us. For what we could have been."

He turns slowly, eyes sharp with disbelief. "Why? So you can run again? So he can use you to get to me?"

Behind us, the clock ticks toward midnight—the legal cutoff before the decree becomes irreversible.