The moment I stepped into the ceremony hall, filled with nerves and excitement, I locked eyes with a woman in the guest seats wearing a white dress. It seemed I was the only one taken aback to see her dressed in an outfit that looked exactly like my wedding attire, as if it had been…
“Katarina Godrick. Please begin your statement.” The affair between the Empire’s greatest hero, Millian, and his sister-in-law, Katarina, was a scandal so vile it shook the entire nation. In the courtroom where the adultery trial was held, Katarina faced two opposing gazes—those of the nobles, desperate to drag Millian down, and those of the commoners,…
Mad Edith. You killed my mother and turned me into a madwoman. I knew, yet there was nothing I could do. “We’ll simply enjoy dating until the day of our wedding. Next time we meet, we’ll hold hands, and by the fourth meeting, we’ll share a light kiss.” That was when you foolishly gave me…
“Who dares to leave a mark on what’s mine?” The towering man bent down, seized her chin with brutal force, and wrenched her mouth open. This was Calliod Lorcan Gladius, who had suddenly appeared one day and claimed the throne of the newly formed Gladius Empire. His other name was Killian Clian Ridges, the ill-fated…
Julietta, waiting for her fiancé Ivan who went off to war. Four years later, news arrives that Ivan is returning, and for a brief, happy moment, Julietta believes she will finally marry him. But her joy is short-lived—her father is suddenly accused of murdering Ivan’s entire family and takes his own life. Overwhelmed by grief…
“It’ll hurt quite a lot the first time.” Leilia’s life was h*ll itself. She went through four marriages with Carlisle Liston, and faced four deaths. The first time, it was because she wanted to be loved. The second, because she wanted to turn things around. And the third, the fourth—only after repeating the same thing…
“Be happy. My love.” With those words—a term of endearment for my husband that I’d never once spoken during our marriage—I brought an end to a marriage that hadn’t even lasted a year. With my death. But cruelly, God let me live. Maybe death alone isn’t enough to atone for all my sins or beg…
War took many things from Edith. Her father, her mother, her brother… and even her husband. Having lost her entire family, Edith fell into despair, but she had no choice but to grit her teeth and rise again as a resistance fighter— to protect the child she bore alone. “I don’t know what kind of…
She lost her beloved family to a boy. Ten years later, the boy who killed them reappeared before her—now a grown man. There was no way she wouldn’t recognize him. Not when she’d never forgotten him for even a moment. Kenneth Vinzetten— The head of a noble house revered across the Empire. “I’ve come to…
“Rabiana Selden. I paid a fair price to have you.” Her groom was changed—on the day of the wedding, no less. A cold, arrogant voice rang in Rabiana’s ears. After losing her family and her sight in an accident as a child, she had been living under the care of others. But she never wanted…
A father who looked at her with contempt, filled with hatred for her mother. A brother who resented her after their mother’s death. Edelweiss spent her life desperately longing for their love, comforting herself with the hope that they would one day turn to her. “I went through so much to make you infertile, and…
“The more you struggle, the more you won’t be able to leave my side for eternity.” “Every day, your heart will beat wildly, as if broken.” Marien thought the Berkshire family was the perfect place to work as a maid. A gentleman of nobility and grace, Lord Ruston of Berkshire. And young master Tamilan, like…