Summary
Bizzare phenomena all over the continent
struck fear in the mighty Guelle empire.
A sacrifice must be made to appease the heavens.
How convenient is it that the royal throne just
put out an announcement that they’re looking
for a tribute bride of noble birth
with a hefty sum of money as reward?
Enter Valia Dean, who just overcame her second
near-death experience as a destitute orphan.
In order to save Karl, the senile mercenary
who raised her in her late parents’ absence,
Valia volunteers to marry Marquess Shuden Gartt,
whose reputation for massacre pales in frightfulness
to the coldness of his gaze. Valia, hardened by misfortune,
orphancy, starvation, and betrayal, accepts
what seems to be certain death. Even in marriage,
she will not love. It won’t matter how handsome, rich,
gentle, chivalrous, and caring he is,
or how lovingly he behaves as her husband, right?
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