Anyone Beats the Original

A Fate She Refused to Accept

Evangeline Clauda wasn’t meant to be the heroine of this story. As a mere side character, her destiny had already been written—one that ended in tragedy, shackled to a notorious criminal. A life like that was never an option for her. Refusing to meet such a grim fate, she took matters into her own hands. She ran away, proposed to another man, and did everything possible to change the course of her future.

But no matter how far she fled, fate always found a way to catch up.

“Marry me, Evangeline Clauda.”

After five years of desperately trying to carve out a different path, she stood face-to-face with the very man she had once been doomed to wed. The story she had fought so hard to escape was beginning once again, and the clock was ticking—only three weeks remained before everything unfolded just as it had been written.

No matter how many times she tried to defy the script, it felt as if the world itself was pulling her back. Could she truly break free? Or was she destined to follow the story’s ending, no matter how hard she fought against it?