I Became the Villain’s Contract Wife

“Let us marry.”
“…Pardon?”
“Become Elodia Fernande. Then, at a later time, I promise you that I will grant you the Everdeen name.”

Elodia was a successful merchant and the head of a trading company—though born an orphan and commoner.
To lift the restrictions imposed on her because of her lowly status, she desperately needed a noble title.

After being betrayed by the Emperor over that very title, she went to the House of Duke Fernande to negotiate—

“Mama?”

—and accidentally made the Duke’s son, César, who had lost his speech after his mother’s death, talk again!

—

“How does it feel?”
“It feels… hot, and kind of stings…”

The spot where his lips had touched burned as if scorched.
Would this contract marriage really end peacefully?