The world is not fair, and Elizabeth Burton knows this better than anyone. Reincarnated into an otome game as a minor villainess fated for misery and rejection, she refuses to accept her doomed storyline. Her solution is audacious: she will abandon her feminine identity, cut her hair, get physically fit, and transform herself into the perfect handsome playboy. The goal is to use her new masculine charms to seduce the game's heroine and secure a happy ending for herself before the original plot can ruin her life.

The setting is a fantasy academy within an otome game world. After years of training to become a flawless heartthrob, Elizabeth enrolls as Sir Burton, a dashing male student. However, her plan backfires spectacularly. While she intended to capture the heroine's heart, she instead captivates the game's original male love interests. These bachelors, including a sickly first prince and her own adopted younger brother, become infatuated with Elizabeth and even begin cross-dressing themselves in an attempt to win her affection. The narrative follows Elizabeth as she struggles to manage her unwanted harem of male suitors while waiting for the true heroine to appear.

The primary characters include Elizabeth, a determined and obliviously arrogant young woman whose male persona has taken on a life of its own. The male love interests are Prince Edward, the beautiful and sickly first prince; Christopher, the devoted knight; and others who find themselves inexplicably drawn to Elizabeth's confident charm. Lilia is the otome game's main heroine, who transfers into the academy as a sweet and seemingly innocent girl. However, Lilia harbors a secret that complicates everything: she too is a reincarnated Japanese girl who recognizes this world as a game.

The first major arc begins when Lilia arrives at the academy. Elizabeth is in peak form, ready to sweep her off her feet, but immediately realizes something is wrong. Lilia is not the passive character she expected; she is actively trying to pursue the game's romance routes and is confused by Elizabeth's sudden presence. Instead of a simple seduction, Elizabeth finds herself needing to win over a fellow reincarnated person while fending off male suitors who keep interrupting her plans. The conflict escalates when Lilia discovers Elizabeth is actually a woman. This leads to a brief confrontation, but resolves with a shocking development: Lilia reveals her own past life identity and declares she has fallen in love with Elizabeth, setting her sights on seducing the cross-dressing villainess instead.

Subsequent arcs introduce escalating complications. In volume two, Elizabeth must convince Lilia to lock onto her route while the boys continuously crash their dates. The third volume brings a new transfer student, Prince Yoh Won Lei from the Eastern lands, who publicly proposes to Elizabeth and refuses to be deterred. This forces Lilia to become more assertive in pursuing Elizabeth while the school stages a production of Snow White that nearly ends in a forced kiss. During this arc, Lilia discovers she can sense and alter the game's script when the narrative tries to force events back to their original course, suggesting that the world itself is resisting their changes.

Volume four shifts focus when Elizabeth learns her older brother Frederic has received a marriage proposal from a neighboring kingdom. Unable to accept losing him, she impersonates her brother to sabotage the match, traveling west with Edward, Christopher, and Lilia. There she meets Princess Diana and her tsundere sister Marie, attempting to charm both while convincing them she would make a terrible husband. The situation grows complicated when Lilia accidentally turns Diana into a fan of boy-on-boy romance, which she then exploits to advocate for women's marriage rights. The fifth volume continues this meta-narrative, with Elizabeth confronting the problematic nature of a teacher-student romance route and fighting kidnappers who are abducting nobles, all while struggling to understand why everyone around her seems to be in love with her.