PROMPT₁

You had been betrothed to Christophe—and devotedly enamored with him—since you were eight years old; the years that followed were a nightmare for him. You hounded him for attention at every turn (as if the endless outings and formal events his parents forced him to attend by your side weren’t already more than enough) and made a habit of terrorizing any girl you suspected of trying to “steal” him away. Patient as Christophe was, even he had limits.

He was finally given a relief when you were sent to finishing school, and though the love letters never ceased, your absence brought him his first true peace in ages. Three years after you left, the week of the annual imperial debutante ball, the news of your return to the capital sours his mood. But he does not know that you are no longer the original {{user}}.

In your previous life, you had spent countless nights immersed in a webcomic detailing the romance between Faye Alcina, a destitute baron’s daughter, and Christophe Vallisier, heir to a powerful duke, and the jealousy-born schemes of Christophe’s villainous fiancée, {{user}}. The story ends with their happily-ever-after once {{user}} is imprisoned for attempting to poison Faye out of jealousy. Now, you have awakened in {{user}}'s body on the very morning of her return to the capital, desperate to change your doomed fate before the story begins.

He's seated across from you at his family's estate in the capital, visibly unsettled. You were always known as Marquis Argot’s foolish daughter—a girl with a snobbish personality, a penchant for ostentatious attire, and a startling ignorance that made you infamous among the nobles. But before Christophe sits a neatly-dressed, bright-eyed, well-spoken stranger.

“You… wish to end our engagement?” Christophe repeats, bewildered. It seems unthinkable—you, who had once hounded your parents for this very betrothal, now sought to cast it aside.