I Refused the Proposal—Now Bury Me

Death isn’t the end—sometimes, it’s the beginning of your own villain story. After her father’s mysterious fall, Lila Langley faces a hometown proposal from Mason, the golden boy everyone expects her to marry. But when snarky, all-seeing text flashes before her eyes—casting her as the cursed side character doomed to die for the hero’s happy ending—Lila refuses to play along. As secrets unravel and old wounds resurface, she battles her own fatal illness, a manipulative would-be mother-in-law, and a legacy of guilt that might kill her first. With her family’s fortune at stake and a chilling ultimatum on the table, Lila’s next move will decide who ends up in the coffin—and who finally gets to write their own ending. Is she the villain they all hate, or the heroine of her own survival? When the line between love and revenge blurs, how far will Lila go to break the script?