Flower of Steel

Who on earth is my first love?

When she was ten, Marina met a boy with beautiful eyes in the imperial capital.

Thus began her tender first love.

“What did you want to say?”

“I like you.”

A heart-fluttering kiss and a painful goodbye.

Then at eighteen, after going through a harrowing period of growth and becoming a civil servant, Marina returned to the imperial capital.

But waiting for her there was not her first love, but a harsh office life full of pressure from her superiors and endless chores.

And then...

“I don’t remember his name or even the color of his eyes!”

Three men who seem like her first love, but maybe not her first love, appear before the confused Marina.

One, the crown prince of the empire, Zighart.

Two, Raeb, a policy officer in the Chancellor’s Office and the empire’s greatest playboy.

Three, Adrian, a handsome knight of the formidable Central Knights Order.

Is one of them Marina’s first love!?

Marina, the youngest chief secretary in the imperial capital’s history, launches a desperate campaign to protect her stormy first love!

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Then my wrist was seized by an urgent hand. This child, despite having such a pretty face, is unexpectedly strong.

“...When will you come?”

I could see a face that looked strangely anxious. After all that trouble to make him laugh. And now he was about to cry again.

But I feel good. The fact that, just as I had taken a liking to him, he seemed to like me too. So I planned to come back no matter what.

“Three days later.”

As I said this, planning to beg my father and somehow get back into the palace, he let go of my hand.

“Come back, definitely. If you don’t come back...”

With his face turning gloomy again, I handed him one of the chess pieces I had, a king, and said:

“I’ll come looking for the most important piece.”