I love misunderstanding novels, especially if they are done well.

I Became the Absolute Villainess Princess of the Academy is about the third princess Esti Noir de Avrien. She mistakenly believes she is a mastermind character who rules from the shadows, but we, the readers, can see that Esti is mostly ruling through cuteness and misunderstandings.

For some reason, the cover art for this novel has Esti all grown up, but the cover art on Fenrir Realm's discord is better for showing how Esti actually looks from the early chapters. Esti is... more>> sitting at a desk and looking at the reader with a smug grin, which perfectly encapsulates her character. She is giddy about how well her acting is, but she is so very cute that the characters around her just let her do what she wants.

Future readers should read this if they want a comedy novel where the main character enters school to enact her plan to become a shadowy mastermind figure through misunderstandings and cuteness. <<less

See that misunderstanding tag? Yeah, there are a lot of misunderstandings in this novel.

Esty (the MC) acted as an absolute hidden mastermind to save the world. She used her cuteness to manipulate events and her original novel knowledge to create a secret organization. Now that the main story is starting, Esty enrolls in the academy to save the protagonist who ended up destroying the world in the original novel.