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On the first night of their marriage, Daniel found himself in an awkward situation.
‘Uh…….’
Daniel had no idea how to set the mood.
It was his first time spending the night with a woman, too. How was he supposed to go through with ‘that’ in this kind of atmosphere?
His bride, Alice, was beaming brightly, holding onto a large teddy bear.
“Say hello, Daniel. His name is Grizzly.”
Seeing Alice’s cheerful, carefree smile made a foreboding feeling creep over him.
‘No way…… Could it be that Alice doesn’t know what happens on the first night?’
No, that couldn’t be. Alice was twenty years old. She was an adult; she was married, after all.
‘She must know, right? There’s no way she doesn’t know, right?’
But when Daniel moved in to kiss her, intending to carry out what needed to be done on their wedding night, Alice suddenly burst into tears.
“……Daniel.”
“W-why are you crying, Alice?”
Startled, Daniel tried to comfort her. After sobbing for a while, Alice, clutching the teddy bear tightly, whispered in a trembling voice.
“……Can we not do it? That thing?”
“What?”
Alice, tears streaming down her face, gulped and said,
“I don’t want to do it. Can we not do it?”
***
Alice had been taught countless times throughout her life to keep her legs closed.
Whether sitting, standing, or lying down, she was always told that a lady must keep her legs together. If her posture faltered even slightly, she would inevitably be scolded.
Yet, when her nanny explained the wedding night and showed her a certain illustration, it depicted a n*ked woman spreading her thighs wide open toward a man.
– Isn’t this one of those books you told me never to go near?
They said it was education about the sacred first night of a married couple, but the nanny had brought out a forbidden book and shown her such an image, leaving her feeling offended. When Alice, her face flushed red, protested, her mother, Alexa Mistry, the Duchess, coldly replied,
– Yes, but that’s the act you will have to accept as part of your married life. That’s intercourse, the relationship between husband and wife.
Alice was deeply shocked by the disgusting illustration.
– This is what a marital relationship is?
Seeing Alice’s expression, the Duchess sighed and scolded the nanny.
– How on earth did you educate her so poorly that she knows nothing about this even as an adult?
– I’m sorry, Madam.
How did she educate her? Exactly as the Duchess had instructed: ‘Raise her to always maintain dignity befitting a duke’s daughter and keep anything indecent far away.’
At one point, they told her to stay away from such things as befitting a duke’s daughter, but now that she was married, her parents were the ones urging her to adapt to it as quickly as possible—warning her that her husband might cheat otherwise.
Caught in confusion, Alice gradually began to discover new desires that had lain dormant within her. During this time, she witnessed her husband, Daniel, on a date with another woman……
