Katarina has two main advantages going for her: a bubbly, outgoing personality and nearly encyclopedic knowledge of the game. She awakens in her new body as a preteen, overtaking the original Katarina’s snooty personality from then on and trying to steer her life toward success (or, failing that, self-sufficiency in exile). After absentmindedly agreeing to an engagement with a boy named Geordo who accidentally injured her, her next step is to make friends with her new adoptive brother Keith so that he doesn’t grow into the playboy with abandonment issues that he is in the game. She almost ruins the plan by goading him into using his uncontrollable magic, but when he locks himself in his room out of guilt, she breaks down the door and apologizes for making him do something he wasn’t comfortable with. From that point, Keith becomes her adoring little brother/long-suffering chaperone whenever she goes off on weird adventures.

She also manages to make friends with Mary—a shy girl who loves gardening—and Sophia, a romance novel buff who everyone else calls “cursed” because of her albinism. These two serve as romantic rivals on certain routes of Fortune Lover, but Katarina’s kindness softens their attitudes considerably.

Several years pass and Katarina finally reaches the timeline of the game—her first year at the magic academy. Here, she meets Maria, a commoner with rare light magic who she recognizes immediately as the protagonist of Fortune Lover. All of her hard work could still be undone if Maria gets with one of the four love interest characters (Keith, Mary’s fiancé Alan, Sophia’s brother Nicol, and Katarina’s shifty fiancé Geordo), so befriending this girl is the most crucial part of the plan. She saves Maria from bullies but realizes too late that she stole an important romantic scene from Geordo. In the game, Katarina was the one bullying Maria and Geordo came to save her. And this isn’t the first time Katarina has accidentally stolen someone’s thunder...

When she first met Mary many years ago, she gave the same exact compliment to the girl’s gardening skills that Alan was supposed to say to her in Fortune Lover. With his chance at romance taken away from him, Alan became Katarina’s love rival from that point onwards. In her quest to prevent her own demise, she’s been accidentally redirecting everyone’s affections onto herself!

As it stands right now, Katarina has won the affections of Mary, Sophia, Maria, and Keith, with Alan and Nicol as possibilities for the future. But the one person who hasn’t been swayed one bit by her bubbly wiles is Geordo, the proper and calculating noble to whom she is still engaged. Could he become the new villain and introduce challenges for Katarina that she has no way of predicting? Could he convince Alan and Nicol to join his side, or use the power of the student council at school to ruin Katarina’s image? We don’t trust him one bit!