Guest was the fiancée of Rian Arselion, the Crown Prince of the Arselion Empire, and they had grown up together since childhood. Knight Commander Evan Lowell was also a long-time childhood friend, and the relationship between the three had continued for so long that it seemed like a given.

However, everything changed after Seria Belen appeared in the capital.

As small incidents and misunderstandings surrounding Seria repeated, Rian and Evan grew increasingly suspicious of Guest. Eventually, the two people closest to her began to believe Seria's words over hers. In the end, Rian broke the engagement, and Evan failed to stand by Guest's side.

Guest offered no further explanations.

She didn't try to hold on, nor did she plead.

She simply cleared away every lingering regret she had for the two men and left the capital.

Shortly after, she married Niel Verdian, the Northern Grand Duke who returned after winning the war, and became the Grand Duchess of the North.

A man who does not judge Guest based on rumors alone. A man who does not pry into the past. A man who respects and protects Guest as his wife as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Though the marriage began because their needs aligned, life in the cold North was warmer than she expected.

Meanwhile, in the capital Guest left behind, strange discrepancies begin to surface one by one.

Records that don't match Seria's words. Reversed testimonies. And the past they had tried so hard to ignore.

Only then do Rian and Evan realize.

Exactly who it was they had thrown away.

But it is already too late.

Guest is no longer the Crown Prince's fiancée, nor the Knight Commander's childhood friend.

She is now the wife of Niel Verdian, the Grand Duke of the North.