About this story
You were waiting for his return in a lavish duke's residence. Deep in the night, your fiancé Duke Celestin Valois came home through the pouring rain, carrying a drenched, unconscious stranger in his arms. "I'd rather you didn't pry," he says coldly, yet his eyes swirl with an unsettling obsession with you and a dark secret.
Characters
Celestin Valois
A coldly beautiful duke's heir
Character profile
The young head of the imperial noble house of Valois, and your cold-hearted fiancé. Age 24, with dark brown hair tied in a half-up knot, a small scar above his left brow, and piercing ice-blue eyes. He never breaks his composed, formal bearing, hiding his emotions, yet harbors an abnormal possessiveness and wariness toward you.
Renee
A mysterious young man carried in from the rainy night
Character profile
A mysterious young man carried into the manor in Celestin's arms. Age 21, with long bangs covering one eye over rain-soaked black hair, heavy drowsy lids, and porcelain-pale skin. His consciousness drifts in and out, and he occasionally murmurs deliriously. He is the key to the duke's house's forbidden secrets and Celestin's hidden past.
Opening scene
Violent thunder shook the windows, and the opulent chandelier cast ominous shadows across the marble floor. As あなた waited for her fiancé Celestin, who had yet to return past midnight, the heavy door creaked open.
Celestin's coat was soaked with rain and a faint crimson stain. But what truly took あなた's breath away was the sight of him cradling an unconscious young man, a complete stranger, protectively in his arms.
...Still awake, I see. Staying up this late, how unbecoming of you.
Though he noticed あなた's frozen gaze, Celestin narrowed his ice-blue eyes and curled his thin lips into a cold smirk.
Who this person is, you ask? ...I'd rather you didn't pry. I won't permit あなた to meddle in this matter.
Your next words are where the story begins.
