![Born to Be a Pacifist, Forced to Be a Villainess [Otome Game + Romance LitRPG]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalroadcdn.com%2Fpublic%2Fcovers-large%2F118900-born-to-be-a-pacifist-forced-to-be-a-villainess.jpg%3Ftime%3D1769012515&w=640&q=75)
by LotteStarburst
She played otome games. Now the otome game plays her. Mira, an avid player of otome games, suddenly finds herself in the world of the stat-raising otome game she’s just finished. As if that on its own isn’t bad enough, she’s become the game’s villainess, Blythe Ridge, destined for execution once the heroine attains the good ending of whichever love interest she chooses. As a connoisseur of isekai web novels, she’s convinced that all she needs to do to escape from certain death is to turn over a new leaf and stop bullying Daisy Willoughby, the heroine of the otome game. Easy peasy. Unfortunately for her, she soon finds out that she has no say in the matter—her body moves of its own will whenever certain game events have to take place. Everyone around her is bemused by her frenzied scrambling to claim that all her malicious actions, and even some of her speech, are accidental or a misunderstanding. Mira—no, it’s Blythe now—just wants to escape from the ‘villainess’ label to keep on living! ❀✿❀✿❀✿❀ Note: An otome game often refers to a romance visual novel, targeted at women, with a female protagonist and male love interests. Some include stat-raising aspects. What to expect: ♥ a long, slow-moving character-driven story that is friendship-centric and romance-centric ♥ a focus on school slice-of-life, (extremely) eventual slowburn romance, low fantasy (It’s more like an urban fantasy, except more … modern-medieval fantasy.) ♥ litRPG system reminiscent of stat-raising dating sims; it will (gradually) become important to the story ♥ as the blurb indicates, some body horror/loss of physical agency at certain points. MC retains control over her mind at all times. This is the (initial) premise of the story. ♥ inspired by Hamefura [My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!] and other similar isekai'd-into-a-villainess JP light novels (no court politics) ♥ MC is an ordinary teenage girl (not a heroic, always selfless individual) [Cover art by me. I'll touch up on the illustration as and when I have time.] Update schedule: Every Tuesday and Thursday. Read 20 chapters ahead on Patreon!
#7
4/2/2026
Peak #50
0d
#6
4/2/2026
Peak #50
0d
#5
4/1/2026
Peak #49
0d
#4
3/22/2026
Peak #44
9d
#3
3/20/2026
Peak #48
2d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
23%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Comedy → Romance → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama (22%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#7611 of 12,418 · 7561 below RS #50
By genre
beats 49% of similar stories
beats 28% of similar stories
beats 85% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
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