Chapter 0: I Died Reading a Book

You'd think I'd die in some cool or dramatic way — like saving a kid from a truck or getting hit by a meteor.

But no.

I died reading a novel.

For three days straight.

Without sleep, food, or common sense.

The novel?

Legacy of the Wand and Crown — a long, magical epic full of politics, princesses, powerful bloodlines, and one very perfect heroine.

I was supposed to stop at volume three.

Instead, I made it to volume nine… then volume twenty-two…

Then I woke up dead.

And when I opened my eyes—

I was no longer me.

I had become Celia Averna: a spoiled noble girl from that very same book.

A bratty, third-rate villain who shows up early in the story to bully the heroine… and gets expelled before the real plot even begins.

All I wanted was to finish one good book.

Now I have to survive in it.