Chapter 354
Candy Blanc
Her twin-tails were soft, fluffy pink-blonde. Her skin was smooth and white. Her eyes were a beautiful sapphire blue. Her cheeks were pink, and her lips were plump and glossy.
“Haah~ No matter how many times I look, I really am an outrageous beauty… Happiness really does scale with your face, huh~ Just existing and being loved? Totally different from my previous life.”
Bright, carefree, spontaneous. A warm-hearted girl.
That was me in this life—Candy Blanc.
My mother had apparently worked as a maid for a former noble family, but I was born as the daughter of a single commoner mother. I never had a father, but the people around us doted on me, so I never felt lonely. I didn’t attend the Academy; I just worked with my mother. But when I was thirteen, she got sick and died.
I cried and cried and cried without even eating… I cried so much that when I finally stood up to get some water because my throat was dry, I staggered and fell over. I slammed the back of my head and blacked out. It sounded like the neighbors found me and caused a huge commotion. In the end, all I got was a huge bump, but that accident triggered my memories of my previous life.
In my previous life, I was born as the second daughter of a very ordinary Japanese middle-class family. I had my parents and an older sister two years ahead of me. My sister was smart, top of her prestigious school, and beautiful with a good personality. Compared to her, I wasn’t smart, and my face was plain. I was always compared to her in everything.
I couldn’t do anything about my face, and even though I went to cram school every day, I barely scraped average scores, while my sister got high marks without even going. My parents called me a freeloader.
My teachers, the neighbors, my relatives—everyone prioritized my sister over me.
And that sister of mine would say stuff like, “Everyone has their good points.” Which only made me even more irritated. If you’re ugly, nobody even looks at you properly. Standing next to her, I understood that painfully well. That’s why I hated her.
The heroine of the otome game my sister was obsessed with, Dokidoki♡Hana yori Watashi, was Candy Blanc. A pink-blonde beauty. At first I made fun of the game she was so into, but when I tried it out, I eventually got hooked too. Well… I guess that’s just sisters for you.
I realized the world I was in matched. Overall it looked medieval European. Kings, nobles, a class system. And this world had magic. So I knew—this had to be the game’s world.
My final moments in my old life were the worst. I was walking home from cram school while looking at a strategy site for DokiHana on my phone. Before I knew it, I’d stepped off the sidewalk and into the road, and a huge truck ran me over. Instant death, I think—I didn’t even feel pain.
But I was reborn. Classic isekai rebirth. A beauty so stunning people turned to look. And with my past-life knowledge, I knew I was the heroine of DokiHana. God must’ve given me this life because my previous one was so awful.
After a while, someone claiming to be a noble’s messenger—my father’s—came to get me. Apparently the legal wife and her child had died in an accident, so they were searching for me. And just like that, I was taken in by a baron’s family on the western edge of the kingdom.
When they found out I hadn’t attended the Academy, they assigned me tutors and had me study from morning to night. But with my memories, I could handle everything except writing and national history, so my fath… my father and the servants praised me as amazing. Being praised felt really good.
DokiHana’s setting was the Royal Academy.
The romance targets were: the second prince, the chancellor’s son, the ice knight of the royal guard, a half-elf, the grandson of a spice merchant?, the plain glasses guy, and the prince of the beastkin nation. A reverse harem is nice, but Exzaria Kingdom is monogamous. So I obviously had to aim for the prince! I’d never seen him, but he had to be handsome, right?
He did have a fiancée though, didn’t he? The duke’s eldest daughter with golden drill curls—the villainess. But I could just knock her down. I mean, I am the heroine.
Normally you enter the Royal Academy at ten, but I’d be entering at fourteen. Well, can’t help that. But because this was DokiHana’s world, a bug like that would totally get corrected.
Ahhh, I wanted to meet him already—my prince.
If I remembered right, he had an arrogant streak and felt inferior to his brilliant fiancée. He hated her. The first prince kept telling him to do his official duties, so their relationship had been bad since they were little. And the first prince’s busty fiancée harassed him every time they met, so he hated women.
During a break, the heroine met him under the big tree at the Royal Academy. The heroine didn’t fit in, and the prince wanted to be alone. After that, they gradually talked more, and when the heroine treated him kindly, the prince said, “You’re the only one I can be myself with.” Then at a party, in front of everyone, he announced his engagement annulment. The duke’s daughter was sent to a convent, and the heroine got her happy ending with the prince.
Becoming crown princess sounded like it’d come with strict manners and annoying noble duties, but as the second prince’s wife? Probably not. I’d get to shop all I wanted and eat whatever I liked. I bet I wouldn’t even have to work.
Oh! Right. I’d marry the prince, but why not let the other romance targets live with us too? The prince would totally be head-over-heels for me, so if I asked, he’d agree.
They’d all be happier staying with me forever, right? I mean—look at me. I’m this beautiful!
Ufufu, everyone just wait for me~