Blooming Amid the Cracks of Arrogance

Everything began at the mansion in the wilderness where the red wind blows.

A place where sharp shouting and broken communication had long sunk into silence.

By the time Jane Gray, the daughter of a fallen noble family, arrived at the mansion in a miserable state,

a beautiful man with gray eyes was already looking at her.

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Kieran Levenhart, who carries the bloodline of royalty and is called the perfect blue blood.

No one could go against the will of a man more arrogant than anyone else.

A girl who came to live there, saying she wanted his support.

Only Jane refused his wishes and held her head high.

With gentle eyes that never bowed to injustice.

"Her manner is proper enough that there won't be any bad talk about her wherever she goes, right? I mean the marriage market."

A sly girl who smiles only sweetly at her younger sister Sarah,

while not knowing where she will be sold off to, or who will devour her, or what fate lies one step ahead.

Even as Kieran felt the limits of his shallow patience,

he still did not know the name of the fever he caught the first time their eyes met in the wilderness.

"You... are you being presumptuous and giving me advice?"

"I didn't know advice required one to know their place.

If you drive away those who are trying to help you like this, you'll end up alone."

Kieran had never failed to seize what he wanted.

He had never failed at his will, nor ever truly felt impossibility.

And yet only Jane.

She was the one desire in his life he could not grasp.