My Funeral Was a Total Bummer

I, Tatiyana Koscheva, have a reputation. They call me the 'Iron Witch of Olenstadt,' a soulless monster who sabotaged the city's greatest champion out of pure spite. The truth? I'm cursed. The Koschev Blight ensures that every potential success I achieve ends in spectacular, humiliating failure. My secret, noble quest to break this curse - involving late-night cemetery visits and suspiciously glowing mushrooms - only makes me look more villainous. My world of carefully managed disaster is upended by Sergei Orlov, the very prodigy I supposedly crippled. Instead of hating me, he seems... intrigued. Now he's shadowing me, convinced my 'evil deeds' are a cover for something else. He's not wrong, but his help is a catastrophe I can't afford. With my saccharine stepsister polishing her halo and the looming threat of the curse's final, fatal stage, I have to trust the one person with every reason to despise me. But what if the 'reward' for breaking the curse is a trap far worse than public humiliation?