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"You're... a woman?!" The evil prince who was my favorite character in an otome game is actually a crossdressing girl?! Is... this the start of the love story between the male lead of the game and the cross-dressing evil prince (♀)?

Mary, the daughter of an earl, has spent her entire life pretending to be the perfect, well-behaved girl. But everything changes when her older sister’s engagement is broken — and Mary’s own fiancé is suddenly reassigned as her sister’s personal knight. Each day, Mary is forced to watch the two grow ever closer, while cruel rumors spread that she’s “the pitiful younger sister no one wants.” Her family offers her no comfort, leaving her to bear the pain and loneliness alone. Just as she begins to give up on everything, a kind young man asks her one simple question: “Are you really okay, pretending like this?” That moment becomes the spark for her awakening. Thus begins the empowering story of a noblewoman who finally breaks free from her gilded cage and forges her own path to happiness.

Nina Lindra is a gifted student and skilled magic user, but she has a secret that no one can find out. She often disguises herself as her adoptive sister, Lilia Lust, even taking her exams in her place, at the request of the Lust family. When the kingdom’s queen requests Lilia to heal her ailing son, Nina once again steps into her role, using her powers to ease Prince Erland’s pain. As Nina tends to him, she discovers the warmth hidden beneath Erland’s icy facade. But as feelings grow and a charming foreign prince enters her life, Nina must face the hardest choice. Will she continue living a lie, or risk everything to be herself?