“What do you think you’re doing to my daughter? Huh?”
Wolfgang, the eldest son of the Lehman ducal family, realized as a child that he had been reincarnated as the father of the villainess from the otome game “Fantasia: The Ballad of the Azure Maiden.”
Due to certain circumstances, Wolfgang was unable to use magic properly. This caused his parents to abandon him, deciding that instead of inheriting the duchy, he would become the Count of Zonta, a territory under the administration of the Lehman Duchy.
However, his parents died in an accident, leaving behind his young brother, the heir to the duchy. With no other choice, Wolfgang stepped in as the acting duke until his brother graduated from the academy and officially came of age.
Following the game’s storyline, Wolfgang married his beloved wife and had a daughter, Louise. Tragically, his wife succumbed to a spreading illness. At this point, Louise was supposed to grow into a tantrum-throwing, selfish “duke’s daughter.”
However, Wolfgang’s personality was completely different from the in-game version of himself. As a result, Louise’s upbringing took a different direction.
Moreover, events that never occurred in the game began to unfold, making it clear that this world wasn’t exactly the same as the game. Wolfgang assumed that, as a count, Louise wouldn’t become engaged to the crown prince like in the game.
But Wolfgang’s well-intentioned parenting backfired, and Louise ended up betrothed to the crown prince regardless. While Louise had grown into someone very different from the game’s version of her, the crown prince remained the same. At this rate, if the game’s heroine appeared, Wolfgang feared his beloved daughter might still be falsely accused and humiliated.
“Alright. Time to come up with a countermeasure.”
This is the story of a father’s struggle to protect his daughter, who was destined to become a villainess, and the beginning of a new romance.