Marianne needed the Duke of Galate’s patronage.She wanted to escape her life as an unknown sculptor.

Her husband was dead.The Empires only duke and the Emperors nephew had been found brutally murdered in his bedroom.

Content Warning: This work contains mature themes, coercive relationships, attempted s*icide, implied miscarriage, and a dark overall tone.The depictions of intimacy and human anatomy in this work are fictional and are products of the authors imagination.

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There was no beautiful music, no paper flowers wishing for happiness, and no kiss of vows.An indifferent groom as if it were someone else’s affair, a bride pushed aside from everyone’s attention, and guests making political calculations&#x20

The moment he laid eyes on her, he proposed.Reiner—a man feared since childhood as the Cursed Child because of his crimson eyes—made his first appearance at an imperial banquet in fifteen years. There, he immediately registered his marriage

A marriage contract that arrived like a bolt of lightning out of nowhere for a woman who had spent her life in *buse and neglect. The other party was a mad duke, rumored to drench himself in the blood of monsters every single day.

Bellus Aonis, the youngest major in the special operations unit under the government military.

Ulrich von Adelstein, a ruthless butcher who became emperor by destroying even his wife’s homeland on their wedding day.

Yuria Bellaris had three secrets.First, she had lived a wretched past life and, by the mercy of a god, was given one more chance.Second, the Bellaris family was on the verge of financial ruin, making a political marriage with the Castorias an absolute nec

[On a dark night when not even the moon rises, he who claims the woman born from a sorrowful melody shall obtain all things in this world.]

The noble and beautiful treasure of the kingdom, Princess Cordelia.When a half-brother who coveted the throne staged a rebellion, the world she knew crumbled, and she was forced to marry a man of lowly birth.

Just because youre the same age as my fiancée, do you think that makes you something special?

The sl*ve from a conquered nation, kept in place of a dead dog, would sometimes watch the princess with eyes that held something dangerous.

Johannes, the one I had a crush on 13 years ago, and the one who blew off my confession.I have no idea why, after looking down on me, he keeps lingering around me and shaking my heart.

On the day before the funeral of the husband who had abused her.Claude, a knight of the Earldom, confessed his crime to Marianne.

Adele, Princess of Frencia.She arrives in Erpe, once an enemy nation, after being forced into marriage, but her intended spouse mocks Adele together with his mistress and does not consummate the first night.A single thought suddenly crosses Adeles mind, s

Astan von Schultzmeyer, a cursed Duke who turns into a monster whenever the full moon rises.One day, Gloria McCain, the heiress of an Earldom, comes before him carrying a marriage proposal.

Ellas red lips twisted into a cold smile.They called me the villainess who would bring the Empire to ruin, didnt they?

He was the first person she had ever truly held in her heart.

From the moment of admission, Delia Acremen has always been in second place.The reason she can’t claim first place is all because of Kartan Roxen.A detestable guy who always takes first place with his innate genius.Delia always thought that way whe

⌜Please forget about your ailing fiance and begin a new life, my lady.⌟

Luna Ellen, maidservant to the young lady of Marquis Lutenberg.She lived her entire life like a shadow, but her fate is completely overturned on the very day of her mistress’s wedding.

Sojin was a salaried baker whose only dream was to quit her job. On a gloomy day, she made the mistake of getting completely absorbed in an adult novel full of misery and ruin and now a crisis had found her. She had transmigrated into Shylo, the tragic he