schemes and conspiracies
In The Basement Of Duke Ivanstein’s Mansion
I must return. To the basement of Duke Ivanstein’s mansion.
The price of ignoring the proposal from the senile old emperor of the Laon Empire was the downfall of the Kingdom of Ravebriton.
Mel, a slave who ended up acting as the fugitive princess, reunites with her former master and bloody invader, Duke Genoa Ivanstein.
While pretending to be the false princess, Mel earns the enmity of the first prince, the favor of the second prince, and a proposal from Duke Ivanstein.
If Duke Ivanstein, who believes Mel betrayed him in the past, discovers her true identity, she surely won’t meet a gentle end.
The basement of the Duke of Ivanstein’s mansion, a place where brothers engage in fratricidal slaughter, and only a single heir can emerge alive.
Genoa Ivanstein survived that place, while Mel fled to stay alive.
Mel decides to return to that basement, where the truth of that day remains.
To find proof that she did not betray him.
And to survive once more.