Villains Are Destined to Die (novel), Vol. 1

Gwon Gyeoeul

Book 1 of Villains Are Destined to Die (novel)

A Korean college student with a painful home life falls asleep playing a reverse-harem otome game and wakes up inside the body of Penelope Eckhart, the game's doomed villainess. Knowing that Penelope is fated to die once her family's or suitors' affection meters bottom out, she scrambles to use her knowledge of the game to survive and reclaim some agency over her new life. The novel is the original light-novel source material for the popular webtoon of the same name, told largely from Penelope's perspective as she navigates a cruel noble household and a cast of dangerous potential love interests.