How to Survive Your Older Brother After Reincarnating in Another World

After transmigrating to another world, I became a village girl with slightly above-average looks. In a world where elves and mages were everywhere, I tried every transformation catchphrase I could think of, but I was still utterly ordinary.

I can't go on living like this!

Until one day

The empire's count came to the door of the little house where I'd lived for sixteen years. He bowed respectfully and told me a world-shaking secret: I was the princess who had been lost outside the palace, and he had come to bring me back to live in luxury.

Oh no. I wouldn't even dare dream something like that.

Sitting in a luxurious carriage, determined not to disgrace my fellow transmigrators, I acted cool and composed. No one noticed my legs trembling like I had Parkinson's beneath my skirt as I stood on a carpet many times more expensive than my clothes, under the cold gaze of the magnificently dressed emperor.

The emperor was my brother?! And we only shared a mother!

My mom was something else.

I'd escaped the troubles of my old life, and there were enough elaborate palace gowns to last me a lifetime, but I still couldn't sleep easy.

Every day, I worried that a mistake in etiquette would anger the emperor and get me killed. Then, on the night of the full moon, my maid brought me to the emperor's bedchamber and had me use my special healing ability to soothe my aloof, chronically sleep-deprived elder brother to sleep.

Just listen to that! What an amazing golden finger! When I discovered my special skill, it was as if I could see a wonderful future waving at me.

But before I could enjoy more than a few days of the good life, I went out for a stroll on a beautiful sunny day and was taken away by the great demon king.

The black-haired man brought me to a dark, ancient castle with pointed towers. A cruel smile appeared on his beautiful face. "I hear you're that woman's child. Good... You're dead."

After learning from a maid that the great demon king and the emperor were brothers, I promptly passed out.

Oh, my mother whom I've never met, what kind of Mary Sue heroine are you?

And how am I supposed to survive this in one piece? Help, it's urgent!

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