Synopsis
“Then you should beg me to save you. Was everything you said about your life being precious a lie?”
It was never a lie that her life was precious. This single life was unbearably heavy—far heavier than she deserved.
It was just that there was something even more precious than life itself.
To survive, she abandoned both her family name and her given name. Pride, honor, and the dignity of royalty were things she never truly possessed to begin with. She had lived far longer as a nobody than as royalty. After Rosetea fell and became a vassal state of the Empire, she worked in secrecy to reclaim its independence.
Then a newly appointed governor appeared—someone who completely upended Vivian’s life.
A man who could only be defined by words such as enemy, sworn foe, or opposing general.
She became deeply, irrevocably entangled with him.
Too inevitable to be coincidence, yet too cruel to be called fate.
“I know how to throw things away—but I don’t know how to let go. What should I do?”
“Then throw it away.”
A gentle voice slipped between the two of them.
They fell in love as if it were destiny. And once caught in that shackle, there was no escaping it.
Helmel could not abandon the audacious woman who so casually told him to abandon himself.
He lost fifteen years of his life fighting in a war he joined with the sole determination to destroy Rosetea.
His hatred grew as twisted and immense as the time he lost.
And behind that immense hatred followed a love he had never wanted.
Even after learning that the woman he loved was the last princess of Rosetea—the very kingdom he had sworn to destroy.
Even while being disgusted by himself for it.
The love had grown too great to let go.
