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Work Keywords: Contract marriage, transmigration into a book, poker-faced husband, formal-speech male lead, misunderstanding-based plot, light mystery, brave puppy-like heroine, slightly unhinged heroine, Bluebeard motif, secret of birth
Male Lead: Johannes Schultz
Despite seizing victory after victory on the battlefield, Johannes is branded a defeated general when the royal family cuts off his funding. As if that weren’t enough, his father is executed under the charge of embezzling national funds, causing the prestige of the Schultz family to plummet. With a certain “purpose” in mind, Johannes proposes marriage to Edith, the daughter of his deceased adjutant.
Female Lead: Edith Prim
The daughter of Corporal Isaac Prim, who once served as Johannes’s adjutant. After losing her father, her only family, Edith is left struggling to survive. Johannes appears like a lifeline, hiring her into the Schultz household and eventually proposing marriage. However, during their precarious married life, Edith discovers the possibility that her father may still be alive.
Johannes Schultz, the Demon of the Battlefield, married a commoner.
The duke marrying out of love at first sight became a scandal that shook the entire kingdom.
And that commoner… was me.
“How about getting married?”
But this marriage was very different from what the public believed.
I, buried under debt after my father’s death.
He, having lost all honor and public trust after the former duke embezzled hundreds of billions.
“I am sincere, Miss Prim. It would be beneficial for you to marry me.”
He needed a chess piece to reverse his situation, and I willingly accepted.
Thus began a marriage formed for mutual goals, surprisingly peaceful—
until memories of the past returned.
I thought our married life was going smoothly enough.
But then Edith realized something by chance.
Johannes Schultz.
Her husband was a murderer in the novel world she had transmigrated into.
And not only that—she was destined to be killed by him!
But no matter how she looked at him, her husband didn’t resemble the ruthless murderer from the novel at all.
“My wife constantly makes me break the rules I’ve set for myself.”
Is it strange to feel that he might actually be a good person?
What truth is hidden behind her cold yet gentle husband?
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