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The original story behind the hit anime adaptation: Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion.
After being reborn into the world of a novel, Eunha Park refuses to die a second time as Raeliana McMillan, the side character fated to be poisoned by her fiancé. To change her destiny, she strikes a bold deal with the empire’s most powerful and unpredictable man, Duke Noah Volstaire Wynknight, the novel’s dangerously charming yet ruthlessly calculating male lead. In exchange for keeping his darkest secret, he’ll protect her as his temporary fiancée, but life beside the Duke is anything but safe. Beneath his angelic charm lies an icy heart, and each encounter draws her deeper into a world of royal intrigue, dangerous secrets, and a love that teeters between deception and desire.
Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion is a captivating romance-fantasy about fate, ambition, and the peril of falling for the man who was never meant to be hers.
Volume 1 and Volume 2 out for pre-orders!
Volume 1 & 2 Release Date - 1st December 2026

When I opened my eyes, I was no longer myself. I had become the villainess of a zombie apocalypse, with a zombie’s
teeth buried in me.
And yet… I didn’t die.
When I returned unscathed, everyone looked at me as if I’d risen from the grave. Just one bite, I thought. These were the people who had abandoned me. Surely, one bite wouldn’t hurt… right?
But no. I wouldn’t give in. I would endure. I would survive.
I would live.
If I could hold out until a cure was found, maybe I could be human again. So I stayed by their side, hiding my secret—
that I was no longer one of them.
I was a zombie. Except… something’s gone terribly wrong.
“Don’t tell me to leave you again. I won’t.”Wait, what is happening here?! Why are they all acting like this?! I’m supposed to be the villainess (and a zombie), not the one they’re falling for! When did
this turn into that kind of story?!
A darkly comedic, pulse-racing fantasy about a zombie villainess who survives the apocalypse, only to discover that the real danger isn’t the zombies outside… it’s everything (and everyone) else inside.
Volume 1 and Volume 2 out for pre-orders!
Volume 1 Release Date - 1st December 2026
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