My Best Friend is the Villainess (And I'm Not Letting Her Die)

I didn't reincarnate as the villainess. I reincarnated as her best friend—the loyal sidekick destined for disgrace.

When Clarissa wakes up in the world of her favorite otome game, she realizes she's not the protagonist destined for a happy ending. She's the minor character who enables the villainess's cruelty and falls alongside her when everything comes crashing down.

Lady Rosalind Blackwood—the cold, proud duke's daughter engaged to the Crown Prince—is supposed to bully the sweet scholarship student Elena, attempt murder, and be dramatically condemned at the academy ball. That's how the story goes. That's how it's always gone in every route of the game.

But Clarissa knows the truth: Rosalind isn't evil. She's lonely, trapped by expectations, and about to be destroyed by a narrative that was written for her before she ever had a choice.

So Clarissa makes her own choice: save the villainess.

One staged illness at a time, one redirected confrontation at a time, Clarissa disrupts the game's script. But she's not the only one who remembers the story. Elena knows it too—and she needs her villain. Without Rosalind to play the antagonist, Elena's perfect heroine story falls apart.

Now Clarissa must expose Elena's schemes, clear Rosalind's name, and rewrite a fate that's already been written. All while the suspicious knight Marcus Lennox watches her every move, certain she's manipulating everyone around her.

He's not entirely wrong.

A villainess isekai where friendship trumps fate, integrity costs everything, and the real villain is the one playing by the rules.

complete story.

could have been longer but I also liked how it did have a good conclusion