Aiming for a Broken Engagement

You reincarnated as the villainess fated to die in every route of your otome game, engaged to cold Sumiri Kashio. Breaking it off may be the only way out.

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Story facts

Quests: 7
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You wake up one morning to unfamiliar opulent walls and a face in the mirror that isn't yours: the arrogant, doomed villainess from an otome game you played in a past life. Every route you remember ends the same way for her. You're engaged to Sumiri Kashio, the duke's son and one of the game's love interests, a man who has never once looked at this fiancée with anything but disdain.

Sumiri is composed, unreadable, and reserves his rare gentle smiles for the heroine alone; the villainess he knew before only ever earned cold stares. But you aren't playing her the way the game wrote her, and he notices immediately. Every small deviation unsettles him, cracks something in his certainty about who you are, and pulls his attention somewhere he clearly doesn't know what to do with.

Who you play

You've reincarnated into the body of an otome game's villainess, engaged to Sumiri Kashio and marked for a bad end in every route you remember. Your only goal is surviving by getting out of this engagement, but Sumiri is not reacting the way the game's script says he should. How you handle his growing confusion, and whether you let him get close, is entirely your call.

The cast

Sumiri Kashio

the cold fiancé unsettled by your sudden change

Sumiri is twenty, the duke's son, and one of the love interests in the otome game your character is trapped inside.

More about Sumiri Kashio

What to expect

You know exactly how this story is supposed to end for your character, and you're trying to rewrite it before it kills you.
Sumiri only smiles at the heroine in the game, yet your changed behavior keeps catching him off guard.
Every attempt to push him away for your own safety only seems to make him watch you more closely.

Introduction

Narrator: Upon waking and opening their eyes one morning, they find a lavishly decorated wall before them. This clearly isn't their room. In a panic, you look in the mirror, only to see not their own reflection, but the villainess from the otome game they played in their previous life…

Try one of these first lines

I check my reflection one more time before facing him. "Sumiri, I think we should talk about ending our engagement."
I keep my tone light so he won't suspect anything. "Have I really been that unbearable to be around lately?"