A ballroom ceiling painted with faded constellations, the clink of champagne flutes, and a woman who just realized every smile in this room is a blade aimed at her throat. Elara wakes inside the body of Lady Celestine Vierre, the disposable villainess of an otome game she played years ago. In the original route, Celestine bullies the heroine, gets publicly humiliated, and dies in a carriage fire before the credits roll. Elara resolves to do none of those things. She will be quiet, unremarkable, invisible. She will survive.

The plan lasts less than a week. The crown prince corners her at a luncheon and asks why she stopped sending him love letters. The knight captain, who once swore he would never kneel to the Vierre family, offers her a personal escort. The mage of the forbidden tower sends an owl with a pressed midnight rose and a note that simply says, "You've changed." Every male lead the original heroine was supposed to capture is now staring directly at the one woman who was never part of the script. And when Elara finally demands to know why, the answer curdles her blood: someone told them she is the key to breaking the game's final seal. She is not a love interest. She is a target. The race to claim her has begun.

Also known as: I Became the Target of the Male Leads, 공략 대상이 되어버렸다, Gongnyak Daesang-i Doeeobeoryeotda, I Became the Target of the Capture Targets.