A woman gets reincarnated into an otome game and immediately abandons the entire plot to pursue the villainess instead. The show commits completely to the bit: every scheme, every confession, every moment of vulnerability is genuine romantic comedy, not a parody of the genre. Claire's gradual, messy realization that someone actually wants her for real hits different when you've spent your whole life being written as the obstacle to someone else's happiness.
A corporate worker trapped in a soul-crushing job gets the ultimate escape route: she wakes up inside her favorite otome game, Revolution, as the heroine Rae Taylor. The twist? She's obsessed with Claire François, the game's villainess, and she has zero interest in the male leads the story keeps pushing her toward. Armed with her memory of how the game plays out, she decides to tear up the script. Instead of following the predetermined path to romance, she launches an all-out campaign to make Claire fall for her, even as the game's logic keeps getting in her way. What unfolds is equal parts comedy and romance, adapted from a yuri isekai light novel, and the open question is how the proud villainess will take such a determined courtship.
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