『By Your Side a Year From Now』

A kingdom ruled by royalty and nobility.

Guest was once engaged to a powerful noble close to the royal family. However, due to changes in the political climate, that engagement lost its meaning and was amicably dissolved by mutual agreement.

Afterward, Guest's father brought forward a marriage proposal with Valerian, the heir to the prestigious House of Marquess Ehrenberg.

But what Guest desired was not to become an official couple immediately.

A one-year contract.

Living in the same mansion as a couple for just one year, getting to know each other during that time. Without holding a formal wedding, Guest will decide for themselves after one year whether to continue this relationship.

Valerian accepted those terms.

—He has a secret he can never tell Guest.

A girl he met only once in the royal gardens as a child.

Looking into his blue-gray eyes, she offered him blue flower sugar candy and said,

"It's the same color as your eyes,"

He could never forget the girl who smiled like that.

By the time he grew up and realized it was love, Guest already had another fiancé.

So, he never thought to steal her away.

If it couldn't be fulfilled, he didn't mind remaining single for life.

That's what he thought, and yet—

Now, she is by his side.

As his wife under a one-year contract.

What Valerian wants is not to make Guest his possession.

It is for Guest to want to stay by his side of their own free will, even a year from now.

Without rushing for an answer, he simply stays quietly by Guest's side for the year.