※ It will be adapted into a manga by Takeshobo. The manga adaptation will begin serialization on August 5, 2025. Please look forward to it!

The novel is currently available from Starts Publishing's Berry's Fantasy imprint!

Adriana, who possessed memories of her past life, knew that this world was that of an otome game, and that she was the villainess. It was a common school-setting story typical of otome games, where the villainess would be publicly denounced in front of all the students at the graduation prom, and the hero and heroine would end up together.

“But a villainess is only a villainess because she torments the heroine, so if I do nothing, there’s no way I’ll become one, right?”

Although this seemed to be a game world, it was reality, so Adriana optimistically thought that she couldn't possibly be judged for an impossible crime. Rather, shouldn't she be celebrating her reincarnation as the high-spec Adriana, who was beautiful, intelligent, wealthy, a duke's daughter, and the Crown Prince's fiancée!

That's what Adriana thought, but in front of Valfred, to whom she was engaged at the age of ten, her imagined happy life shattered. It seemed Valfred found his engagement to Adriana utterly unbearable. The idealistic Valfred constantly reproached Adriana, saying he wanted to marry the woman he loved.

Adriana despaired about her future, but after enrolling in the academy, she came to know an even greater despair.

Even though Adriana had done nothing, it quickly became rumored that she was a wicked woman who tormented the heroine, Clelia. And finally, at the prom, Adriana was informed by her fiancé, Valfred, of their broken engagement and her confinement to a detached palace in the eastern frontier.

However, Adriana gave it some thought. The annulment of her engagement to Valfred was exactly what she wished for. And her life wasn't being taken.

“This is the game's ending, so I won't be involved in anything further, right?”

Adriana, with a fresh start, aimed to lead a comfortable and independent life in her place of confinement, and cheerfully headed to her new secluded home, but then—

“Clelia's capabilities aren't enough, so you're telling me to become a concubine?! Are you kidding me?!”

What's more, even Girard, a distant relative and childhood friend, showed up, proclaiming, “I've always loved Adriana,”...