Vachir’s first day as Caden Tassad at the Royal Valtara Academy should've been a fresh start—new name, new life, and a place among the kingdom’s brightest. But the name feels wrong in his mouth, and the spires of the Academy seem too familiar. As he goes along with the day-to-day in this new life, Caden begins to notice unsettling patterns—events lining up with an otome game he once knew:

Hearts & Daggers.

In that game, his role was brief: a friendly side character, gone before the story truly began. Destined to die during the opening “tutorial” phase, his fate is already written. But this time, he remembers. With the clock ticking toward a catastrophe no one else sees coming, Caden must choose—follow the script and vanish, or defy it and risk shattering the world’s design.