“Don’t die, Kaena. I can’t imagine a world without you.” …But wasn’t this emperor supposed to be the one who kills me? One day, Kaena realizes she is a minor character in a story: the “side character who will be poisoned to death in six months by the tyrant emperor Zarius.” To survive, she secretly begins taking antidotes and devises a plan to fake her death six months later, then escape from the imperial palace. To pull this off, Kaena decides to play the role of a perfectly obedient empress, winning the trust of the cold‑hearted emperor. Yet the very man who was never supposed to open his heart to anyone gradually becomes obsessed with her instead…