The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the G... by Piero Karasu

Neither Anis nor Euphie can think of why Anis’ brother Prince Algard would make such a dumb political move, his friends/supporters don’t normally seem like the kind of wooly-headed sycophants to go along with such a crazy idea, and Euphie’s supposed victim, Lainie the commoner, doesn’t appear to have spread lies slandering Euphie either. The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady takes a slightly different tack by yes, having Euphie “fall from grace” right at the start of the story but the story also indirectly asks why, why would an event that sounds so fantastical that you’d expect to only see it in a game actually happen?

Most stories with a denounced “villainess” treat the event in one of two ways: it’s a future event that the main character is striving to avoid at all costs (like in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! or Cross-Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie) or it’s an event at the very start of the story that the main character has to get through before things can really begin (as in I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss and Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace). And Anis certainly wouldn’t mind if Euphie fell for her instead - after all she is a beautiful, now-eligible, young noble woman, but that wasn’t actually her main reason for all of this, it’s true!

Princess Anisphia may be the oldest child of the royal family but she has no interest in ruling a country, especially since that would involve marrying a man and she likes girls, not guys! But after stumbling in upon her brother publicly breaking off his engagement (seriously, who does that outside of an otome game?!) she snatches up his now ex-fiancée Euphyllia to become her assistant in magicology research both in order to give Euphie a private place to sort out her feelings on the dissolution and a chance to recover her personal image by introducing Anis’ magical inventions to the world.

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the G... by Piero Karasu