Her Hidden Hero from the Unwritten Page novel Chapter 1

“I… I'm so sorry…”

The ice-cold liquor splashed right across Winona Lennox's face. The sharp stench of alcohol jolted her chaotic mind instantly awake.

Beside her, a panicked friend hurriedly handed her a towel.

Winona grabbed it on instinct, her gaze sweeping the room in absolute bewilderment.

The girl standing in front of her was stammering. Dressed in a banquet server’s uniform, her tiny, delicate face wore minimal makeup, exuding a fragile, innocent charm.

It was Rhea Sawyer.

But not the sophisticated, successful woman who had gotten into a top university and secured both a thriving career and a perfect romance. This was the seventeen-year-old, utterly green Rhea.

And Winona would never, ever forget this moment. When she was seventeen, she attended a routine banquet and had a drink spilled all over her by a server. The wealthy heiress’s brand-new designer dress was ruined, and she had thrown a massive fit right on the spot. Herbert Xavier had stepped up to defend the server. And so, the notoriously arrogant Winona remembered Rhea for the very first time. From that day forward, the girl haunted her like a ghost, completely upending every aspect of her life.

Winona clutched the towel and carelessly wiped the liquor from her face. In those brief, fleeting seconds, she used her other hand to pinch her own thigh. The sharp pain confirmed it—she had genuinely been reborn back to her seventeenth year!

This was the final stretch of her glamorous life as a beloved heiress.

In her previous life, it wasn't until her death that she realized why she could never win against Rhea. The world was just one massive, tragic high-school romance novel. Rhea was the female lead: poor but beautiful, saddled with an abusive, alcoholic father, a weak, useless stepmother, and a cold, brooding stepbrother. Despite a hellish start in life, she relied on her stellar academic record to get into an elite private high school, becoming classmates with the male lead, Herbert Xavier.

Herbert was the classic male lead—cynical, proudly aloof, born into top-tier old money, and burdened with a fiancée of equal social standing. This golden boy eventually fell head over heels for the female lead, turning into her fiercely loyal protector.

It really was a beautiful fairy tale… assuming Winona wasn't the unfortunate fiancée. Her entire purpose had been to act as a stepping stone for the couple’s sweet romance. Despite being a legitimate heiress, she was constantly put in her place by the male lead because she kept provoking his girl. Eventually, her family went utterly bankrupt.

Winona ended up so impoverished she had to live in a run-down rental, surviving off cheap economy takeout. She died prematurely due to a gas leak from a neighbor’s apartment.

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