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※ This novel contains distressing and provocative topics, including coercive relationship attempts, gaslighting, and school bullying. Please read with caution.
“Let’s swap partners at the masquerade ball.”
With the debts of the declining Wilroy county and her younger sibling’s life held as collateral, Julia Wilroy accepts a wretched political engagement to Henry, the heir of the Rodev marquisate, notorious for his debauchery.
Under the pretense of becoming the next marchioness, she is made to stay at the Rodev manor and subjected to a grueling bridal education.
Even under the rude insults of her fiancé Henry and his associates, Julia endures in silence for the sake of her family and her sibling.
But after enrolling in the Royal Academy, the demand her fiancé presents to Julia, who has not even made her social debut, is uglier still.
“This isn’t a request. It’s an order.”
Henry Rodev’s directive.
“Go seduce that man. If your pathetic body is utterly incapable of seducing him, then at least keep him in a good mood, lest he becomes offended.”
At the edge of a cliff of despair, crushed beneath that vile demand and weeping, Julia’s hand is taken by the perfect young nobleman, Louis Klaus, the sole heir of the Klaus duchy, the most powerful family in the kingdom, and vice president of the student council.
“If we swap…, partners, then I…, would I have to do things like… that?”
Louis looked at Julia with deep, still eyes the color of amethyst.
“Of course, this is nothing more than my own selfish wish. If Lady Wilroy does not want this….”
