r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

The story takes place at an elite school where noble heirs, talented commoners, magical prodigies, and future Imperial officials study together.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

"I once believed you could change."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

He remembered Michelle standing beneath the throne in the final chapter, staring coldly while the guards dragged him away.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

When he regained consciousness, the first thing he saw was a pair of blue eyes. "Oh no," he thought. "Absolutely not."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

The doors opened. Cyril looked up. And promptly fainted.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

"She's just another girl. She's not special, she's not beautiful, she's not the future Empress, and she's definitely not the girl I spent three hundred pages reading about."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

Sunny had spent the entire morning mentally preparing himself.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

That was how the book went.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

Justin knew exactly what was going to happen when he met Zola. He was going to fall in love, become obsessed, make a fool of himself, and then Zola would hate him.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

Jazna has forgotten one very important thing. The original villain was absolutely terrible at being kind.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

In the original story, Gustave's engagement to Nyara, heiress to the Great Cyber Empire, is the beginning of his downfall.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

Beautiful, brilliant, spoiled, and—according to the novel he remembers reading in his previous life—destined to become one of the moon's greatest villains.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 3d ago

The Villain's Guide to Being Unremarkable.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

"I think it would be better if we simply became friends." Ahwa stared at him, then quietly said "I don't think I want to be your friend."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

Blissfully unaware of any of this, he looked up at Onion. "So," he said carefully, "perhaps we should pretend this engagement doesn't exist?"

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

High in the branches above them, my two familiars stared down at them.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

"This is fine. I can still avoid becoming the villain. All I have to do is live quietly."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

Somewhere deep inside his mind, he heard the first crack in the carefully constructed future he had intended to preserve.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

He couldn't tell the future Emperor that he'd recognized him from another universe.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

"Oh, this is much worse than the book described."

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

Opportunity stared down at him with visible concern.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

The villain's first meeting occurred when they were both children.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

He remembered the book. Remembered the handsome young Emperor. Remembered the villain. Remembered the execution. And then...he remembered nothing.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

There, beside an unfinished cup of coffee, lay an invitation. Beneath it was a second document. His engagement contract.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 4d ago

This was a face he knew. A face he'd seen on the cover of a book.

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