Catarina Claes woke up in her past life with clear memories of the otome game she used to play — and the knowledge that she has been reincarnated as its villainess. Exile or death were the endings scripted for her character. Through persistence and a significant amount of accidental charm, she has made it past those story beats into spring break. Now she and her adopted brother Keith are aboard the Vinculum, a luxury liner on its maiden voyage, surrounded by friends who were not supposed to be there. Pirates take the ship. Everyone is held hostage. Catarina recognizes the situation — she has read a Fortune Lover fanbook with this exact plot. That means she is living in a doom arc she was never supposed to reach. The question is whether she can apply everything she has learned about not dying to a situation she is reading about for the first time from the inside.