When Alice, a top law student, wakes up inside a fantasy novel as the villainess destined for a gruesome death, the System urges her to frame the kindhearted heroine, Lilian. Instead, she pours the poison down the drain. She'd rather tear up the script than follow the plot.
Using the meticulous reasoning of a lawyer, she finds loopholes in the System's rules and turns death flags into stepping stones to success. Samuel, the original male lead, discovers that the girl who was supposed to be infatuated with him is analyzing loopholes in royal authority at a banquet. Cassandra, head of a family of dark mages, notices that the predetermined course of fate is being thrown into disarray by an unseen hand.
When the System punishes her rebellion with a lightning strike, Alice smiles and wipes the blood from the corner of her mouth. "Are you sure you want to play a game of rules with someone who's read 392 legal codes?"
Deep in the library, Samuel shapes light magic into a cage of thorns. "Who are you, really?" Black flames, which should belong to a villain, dance at Alice's fingertips. "Perhaps I'm someone who understands the weight of the throne better than you do." The threads of fate are rewoven in her hands. Once a pawn marked for certain death, she will use modern thinking and magical power to rewrite the fate of the entire continent in this dark game of power.
