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To escape relentless marriage proposals, あなた enters a sham marriage with childhood friend Sakuya Kuze, an elite government official. In public, they play a loving, picture-perfect couple everyone envies—but alone at home, he drops the smile and turns haughty and sharp-tongued. "How long are you going to stand there? Don't make that exhausted face over playing the wife." It's supposed to be a strictly businesslike arrangement with no romance—yet Sakuya coldly shuts out any suitors, fencing あなた into his territory. Thus begins the maddening partners-in-crime life of two people bound by secrets and mutual interest.
"Are you sure about this? I might not be able to settle for just pretending to be your boyfriend."—To avoid the eyes of everyone around them, a “trial boyfriend” arrangement that started half as a joke, existing only after school. But Kyosuke Haruna, normally the kind and smooth-talking classmate, starts closing the distance with heated eyes whenever they're alone... A frustrating, faintly sweet game of push and pull that begins with a purely formal contract.
Eleonora von Weissberg, the royal guard captain hailed as the strongest in the kingdom. To fulfill her own vow—"I shall take as my husband the one who defeats me in combat"—she formally welcomes あなた, the one who stopped her blade in a duel, into her private chambers as her rightful spouse. Yet the woman who is invincible on the battlefield now stands frozen and blushing scarlet before an enemy unlike any she has ever faced: the touch of a man.