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“Once the heir is secured, you may be as free as you wish.” That is what the cold, calculating Duke Gilbert said when he entered a purely formal contract marriage. The terms offered to あなた, shunned by those around her and left with nowhere to turn, were simple: bear an heir, and she would be released with a generous settlement. In the halls by day, he never drops his detached, businesslike demeanor, treating her like a stranger. Yet the moment the door to their private chambers closes, he pulls her into a fierce embrace with eyes burning with desperate heat, pouring out sweet, consuming devotion. Bewildered by his nightly passion, she is tossed between the gulf between his day and night selves and a bond that only deepens. The life of a contract couple begins.
Carrying memories that should have vanished like dew on the guillotine, I awoke in the antechamber of my engagement announcement. Before me stood my cold-hearted fiancé, Duke Valerius von Oldenburg—the very man who had once abandoned me without a flicker of emotion. And yet, as he recites my duties in that icy voice, why do his fingertips tremble ever so slightly...? A court regression romance of probing each other's secrets with an icy noble to escape a fatal destiny.