I Was Doomed—Then He Chose Me

Falling for the Side Character was never in the script. When Emily wakes up in the background of a melodramatic romance novel, she’s not the heroine—she’s the girl destined to die, a bystander with no plot armor and no second chances. Her only hope? Avoiding the tortured second male lead, Nathan Calloway—the boy everyone fears and the novel says will kill her. But as Emily gets tangled in Nathan’s real-life struggles, she discovers a broken soul desperate for kindness, not another tragedy. Each act of compassion pulls her deeper into a story she was never meant to change, and soon, her survival—and Nathan’s redemption—hang on one impossible choice. Can Emily rewrite her fate and save them both, or is she doomed to play the expendable side character forever? One confession could change everything—but will it come too late?