The Phoenix's Gambit: Transmigrated as the Villain

One moment, you're reading a novel. The next, you're the villain—doomed to die by the hands of three deadly heroines you were forced to marry. Bai Chen awakens with an iron hook through his ribs, his execution imminent. His brides aren't blushing maidens but harbingers of death: Cui Li hides a modern photograph in an intricate puzzle box pressed to his throat; Yan Wushuang's silver bells conceal his past life's frozen heart; Xiao Minghuang's bloodstained fox fur binds assassins to ritual suicide. To survive, he must navigate lethal betrothals and shatter the original story's destined couples—b…