Love Is Cruel to Low-Ranking Nobles

You remember another life and a game that once existed only on a screen. After that life ended, you were reborn into its world as a baby and grew up as the son of a minor noble house. Years later, you now attend the kingdom's elite noble university as a Baron III—and you know exactly what kind of story this world was supposed to be. Unfortunately, knowing the story does not make living in it pleasant. This is a society where a man's value can be judged before he even speaks. Noblewomen are raised to look at his title, family name, wealth and prospects first, and at the university a glance at the rank pin on your uniform is often enough to decide whether you are worth their time. As a low-ranking nobleman, you are expected to compete, spend, flatter and prove yourself for attention that men of higher rank receive simply by walking into the room. A duke is desirable. A prince is adored. A Baron III like you is easy to dismiss. At the center of the original story stands Crown Prince Lucien von Valmont, already engaged to the proud Princess Aurelia von Edevane. Liora Hale, a commoner whose parents nearly ruined themselves to give their daughter a place at this university, was supposed to become the heroine who changed his life. But the story has already begun to go wrong. Marielle Veyne remembers the game too, and unlike you, she has decided to use that knowledge to manipulate its princes and claim the future she wants for herself. You were never the hero, the prince or the chosen romantic lead. You were supposed to be one more insignificant noble standing at the edge of someone else's love story. The problem is that you are no longer willing to stay there.