Synopsis
Work Keywords: Contract marriage, transmigration into a book, poker-faced husband, polite-speaking male lead, misunderstanding trope, light mystery, brave puppy-like heroine, nosebleed-prone heroine, Bluebeard motif, secret of birth
Male Lead: Johannes Schultz
Though he seized victory after victory on the battlefield, Johannes Schultz was branded a defeated general when the royal family cut off his funding and left him abandoned.
To make matters worse, his father was executed on charges of embezzling the nation’s budget, and the prestige of the Schultz family fell into grave danger.
With a certain purpose in mind, Johannes proposes to Edith Prim, the daughter of his deceased adjutant.
Female Lead: Edith Prim
Edith Prim is the daughter of Isaac Prim, a sergeant who once served as Johannes’s adjutant.
After losing her father—her only remaining family—her livelihood becomes precarious. Just when she is drowning in debt, Johannes appears like a lifeline. She is first employed by the Schultz household, and before long, receives a proposal of marriage from him.
However, during their precarious married life, Edith discovers a startling possibility—her supposedly deceased father may, in fact, still be alive.
Work Introduction
The Devil of the Battlefield, Johannes Schultz, has married a commoner.
The commoner at the center of the scandal that shook the entire kingdom—the one rumored to have been chosen at first sight by a duke—
was me.
“What do you think about getting married?”
But this marriage was nothing like what the public believed.
I was buried under debt after my father’s death.
He had lost all honor and reputation when the former duke was accused of embezzling hundreds of billions.
“I am sincere, Miss Prim. It would be wise for you to marry me.”
He needed a decisive piece to overturn his circumstances.
And I willingly accepted the role.
Thus, our marriage—formed for the sake of our respective goals—was, in its own way, peaceful.
At least, it was… until the memories of my past returned.
I believed our married life was proceeding smoothly enough.
But then, by sheer accident, Edith realized the truth.
Johannes Schultz—her husband—was a serial killer in the world of the novel she had transmigrated into.
Worse still, she herself was fated to die at his hands.
And yet… no matter how she looked at him, her husband did not resemble the cruel and monstrous murderer from the novel.
“My lady always makes me break the principles I have set for myself.”
Would it be strange if he felt like a good person instead?
Cold, yet gentle—what truth is her husband hiding?
<It Seems My Husband Is a Serial Killer>
