The Marriage Business

Bianca de Blanchefort.

The wife of Zachary de Arno, who was cast out of the Arno family after his death on the pretext of her extravagance, depravity, and lechery. A woman who had nowhere to go after the fall of her maternal family, the Blancheforts, and was driven out to a shabby convent in the remote borderlands. A woman who eventually died on the cold stone floor.

A wicked woman who knew nothing of honor.

That was Bianca’s life before her regression.

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"Is this reality? I really went back to the past?"

It wasn’t a dream, nor an hallucination. This hunger, this fatigue, this vividness...

It was all real.

If that was really the case. If God had given me one more precious chance...

‘I’m running a business. Marriage is a business, too. Zachary’s child will become valuable bargaining material. It’ll protect my dowry, too. It’ll keep the Blanchefort estate and the Arno estate from being taken by that damn viscount.’

To do that, she had to bear her husband Zachary’s child.

"What was our marriage worth?"

"Four hundred calves, nine hundred pigs, one hundred silver dishes, three hundred rolls of silk, two boxes of jewels, and part of the estate... the equivalent of two years of the Arno family’s budget."

"It should be worth that much, don’t you think?"

Whether by seducing him or persuading him.

[This work has been re-edited for readers aged 15 and up.]