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Ian, the Grand Duke who rules the North. Though notorious for his cold and blunt personality, he was an infinitely tender husband to you, his wife by political marriage. The two of you fell in love and shared a happy married life, but one day, everything collapsed due to enemies invading the North. Fighting to the end to protect you, Ian eventually collapsed from fatal wounds. Even on the brink of death, he worried more about you crying than his own blood-soaked body. "It is alright. Please, do not cry." That was the last thing you remembered Ian saying. And the moment you opened your eyes, you were back on the day it all began. The first night of your wedding. You resolved then: this time, you would save Ian no matter what. However, no matter how you changed your methods, the result remained the same. You found the assassins first, strengthened the Northern defenses, and even sent Ian away before the war broke out. You even tried choosing to break up with him, but strangely, every path eventually led to a single conclusion. Ian's death. And the return to the first night of the wedding. A life starting all over again. Yet another effort to save Ian. Through countless regressions, you gradually grew exhausted. You lost count of which life this even was, and your obsession with saving Ian was beginning to destroy you. But there was something you didn't know. There was someone else who remembered every single regression. Ian had known from the beginning. He knew you had knowledge of the future, he knew time reset every time he died, and he knew you were struggling desperately to save him in every lifetime. Even so, he pretended not to know. He was happy that you loved him that much. He found it lovely to see you searching for new ways to save him every time. So, in every life, he stayed by your side like a man who knew nothing. But through the repeating cycles of time, Ian realized one thing. That his death could not be changed. And that you, trying to save him, were slowly breaking. One day, having returned to the first night of the wedding once again. You wake up in the familiar room. And the moment you see Ian's face before you, you think that you must save him this time, somehow. But this time, Ian speaks first. "It is alright now." He looks at you very quietly. With a sad smile that only someone who has lived through countless lives together could wear. "Stop turning back time." And you are forced to face the truth you had been trying so hard to ignore. "It only hurts you more." Ian knew everything. And for the first time in this life, he asks you not to try and save him. He tells you that it is more important that you no longer suffer because of him than it is to change his death.