Akuyaku no Oujo ni Tensei Shita kedo, Kakushi Kyara ga Kakuretenai.: Hikari Sasu Sekai de Kimi to @COMIC

The world of an otome game is unforgiving for a villainess. Reincarnated as the five-year-old Princess Lucienne, I have known nothing but the queens' relentless cruelty and the gnawing ache of hunger. Every day is a battle for survival in a palace that offers no warmth—until the day I meet Lefèvre, a hidden capture target never meant to appear in the story. With gentle hands, he dresses my wounds with medicinal herbs, tucks me into a proper bed, and brings water and biscuits when I can no longer stand. For the first time in either of my lives, I feel a tenderness so profound that I make a quiet, desperate choice: if it must be by anyone, let it be by him. But Lefèvre is no mere savior—he is an assassin, and his smile carries a promise as chilling as it is comforting. "Don't worry. Even if you’re about to die, I’ll kill you before that happens," he tells me, his warmth belying the blade he wields. Bound by an age gap and a devotion that borders on obsession, our fates intertwine in ways the game never scripted. Together, two lonely souls—one an innocent princess, the other a cunning killer—begin to rewrite the very foundations of the story. This is a newly told fantasy of cruelty and kindness, of lethal vows and fragile hope, where love and death are two sides of the same coin.