Pia Rockwell recovers memories of a past life in Japan and realizes what her new one is: she is the count's daughter written into an otome game as the doomed villainess, exiled in the final act. Her plan is to leave early, break off her engagement to Rufus Stan, the prime minister's calculating son, and spend her days digging fossils and working in a museum as a commoner. Rufus declines to be discarded and counters with a wager: the two of them will bet on whether he ever calls the engagement off.