Even If It’s Unfortunate

Amelia, the precious youngest daughter of a great noble family, bought a slave out of pity when she was young.

She had expected at least a word of thanks for saving a life that should have died, but this slave has an enormous temper.

"So did I beg you to save me?"

"...You damn woman, I’ll curse you until the day you die."

She started to think something had gone wrong, but throwing him away would feel like losing.

For many days they fought, each stubbornly trying to save face, and before she knew it, Amelia discovered that she had developed special feelings for him.

Thinking of the parents who had raised her so lovingly, she should not keep a former slave in her heart.

For years she tried desperately to distance herself from him, but when her father was defeated and taken captive by a foreign nation, a crisis also came for Amelia...

The new king would release her father if she were given to him as his wife.

And the only way to escape marriage to the new king was a temporary marriage with the former slave.

"You won your freedom with your own hands.

Even if you don’t marry someone you hate, one day you’ll still be granted a title."

She could not make someone else unhappy just because she did not want to become unhappy herself.

They would have an enforced marriage and divorce after a few years. No man would gladly accept such conditions.

And yet he agreed to the false marriage.

"That is true. I have always thought of you as a dreadful girl."

"But I would rather cut off that man’s head than watch someone other than me walk into the wedding hall you are waiting in.

That is my true feeling."

Even if she becomes unhappy, she has no choice now but to accept this marriage.