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“When you graduate, marry me.”
Faced with a proposal disguised as an order, the debtor had no choice but to comply.
Astaire Seyfried, the Duke—the empire’s most ruthless investor and businessman. A man known for discovering rough stones and polishing them into diamonds. The woman he chose to marry was a shabby daughter of a fallen noble house.
A romantic tale of a man who supported a poor noblewoman for years and proposed the moment she graduated.
The reality? It was all a fabricated play written by the man himself.
“I bought you anyway. Do I really need to explain further?”
Daphne married him to repay her debt, but all she received in return was a marriage riddled with wounds.
Determined, Daphne made up her mind.
She would leave Astaire behind, the man she’d loved unrequitedly her whole life.
“Don’t worry. You’ll divorce me soon enough anyway.”
She planned to repay the debt and end their contract once and for all.
“Stop calling me ‘Your Grace.’ I told you to call me ‘honey.’”
“For how long…?”
“Forever. Until death do us part. Isn’t that what marriage contracts are about?”
His hold only tightened around her.
