After a near-fatal illness, Cocolette Blossom awakens with memories of her past life as a lonely otaku in Japan. Finding herself reincarnated as a beautiful child in a vaguely European fantasy world, she becomes determined to achieve the romantic dreams that always eluded her before. Her goal is simple: marry a handsome bishonen, the kind of pretty-faced idol she adored in her previous existence.

There is one significant complication. In this new world, the standards of beauty are completely reversed. Men considered handsome have brutish, orc-like faces with thick brows and rugged features, while those with the delicate bishonen aesthetic Cocolette adores are regarded as so horrifyingly ugly that women faint at the mere sight of them. Unwilling to compromise her tastes, Cocolette sets her sights on the crown prince, Raphael, who is widely considered one of the ugliest and most reviled men in the entire kingdom.

What Cocolette does not realize is that Raphael is trapped in his own nightmare. He is reliving a time loop, having already endured a previous timeline where every person he encountered met misfortune or an early death. Scarred by the memory of that failed life, he carries crippling self-esteem issues and struggles to believe anyone could genuinely care for him. Cocolette, armed only with her Japanese otaku sensibilities and oblivious to the social norms that make Raphael an outcast, finds him devastatingly attractive and pursues him without hesitation.

The collision of these two genre conventions drives the narrative forward. Cocolette’s cheerful determination to win over the so-called ugly crown prince meets Raphael’s weary trauma from a doomed past life. As they grow closer, the story reveals that there is a plot-related explanation for the world’s backward beauty standards, and that Cocolette may not be the only person trying to navigate the strange rules of this reality. Raphael’s memories of the first timeline show just how catastrophically events unfolded before, with her arrival serving as the unexpected variable that changes everything. The central challenge becomes not just romance, but healing: convincing a man who has been called hideous and unlovable across two separate lives that someone truly wants him.