The distinguished Ludendorff family had gone bankrupt. Completely and utterly ruined.
Young Alisa’s mother had fled in the dead of night with the family jewels, and her father had fallen ill and passed away.
Left alone in an instant, Alisa Ludendorff was handed over to her senile great-aunt and the woman’s maids.
Let’s skip over the dull and predictable story that followed — scrubbing floors and hauling firewood.
What matters is this: one day, a prince came tumbling out of soot-covered Alisa’s attic!
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“Alisa, do you know what suffering people need most?”
“A wise ruler?”
“Wrong. A tyrant.”
Eden, a boy who carries the fate of a kingdom on his shoulders.
He sees himself as a ‘cog’ — something to be swapped out at any moment — and has chosen to walk the path of becoming a blood-soaked king on his own terms.
But the moment he comes face to face with Alisa, his resolve begins to crumble.
“Roben is already finished. But Alisa, if you would come with me……”
He could stoop far lower if he had to. Anything, as long as he could keep her by his side.
“When it’s all over, I will protect you above all else. So please — come with me, Alisa.”
