@SillyChilli

The Grand Plan of Adoption to the Dukes

Alex transmigrated into a doomed villain. He knows exactly how his life is supposed to end. He knows which people will betray him. He knows which wars will happen. He knows which characters will die. He knows which family will eventually destroy his own. So he decides there is only one solution. He will become someone else's family. He targets the most powerful household in the empire. The Aurelians. He intends to manipulate them. Instead, they give him a bedroom. Then a place at their table. Then a place beside their children. Then someone calls him their son. And Alex slowly realizes that he isn't trying to escape his original ending anymore. He is building a new one. One where Alexander Viremont doesn't die alone. One where he isn't a villain. One where he doesn't have to earn every scrap of affection. One where someone actually chooses him. And perhaps the greatest twist of all is that the family Alex thought he needed for survival... Turns out to be the family he needed all along.