Your Arrogance Has an End

She fell in love at first sight with the husband she married for political reasons.

One month after the wedding, he went off to the battlefield, and Ibelin gave birth alone. But what came back to her was a shocking message that her father had betrayed her husband.

Her cold-hearted father, before the divorce papers were even stamped, tries to force her into another marriage. Her new match is a cruel old man who has killed four wives.

To survive with her child, she makes a proposal to her husband...

“I’ll let you sleep... Let’s make a deal.”

“Whatever that deal is, I’ll accept it for now.”

Iliya, who instinctively seeks out Ibelin to ease the insomnia that is the family curse. Ibelin, whose heart still races when she sees Iliya despite having been deeply hurt.

As the time the two spend together grows longer, betrayal and hatred gradually fade...

and the spring finally comes to him, who had lived through winter with his heart frozen solid.

“You won, Ibelin. Whether you were just a stand-in for my older brother or whatever else... it doesn’t matter anymore.”

A love story of Iliya and Ibelin unfolding in a passionate, dramatic narrative.

Can Ibelin really escape from the man who realized his love too late?

Male Lead | Iliya Azantis

The second son of a grand ducal family and a war hero who inherited his title. After a political marriage to the only daughter of Marquis Madus, he was sent to war against the foreign tribes. After nearly dying from the betrayal of his father-in-law, the Marquis Madus, he returns two years later as an undefeated hero. Bound by the family curse of insomnia, he makes a deal with his wife, whose bloodline belongs to the betrayer. Some days he finds peace in his wife, and on other days memories of betrayal return and he hates the innocent woman... tormented by his wavering heart, he ultimately falls in love with her.

Female Lead | Ibelin Madus

The only daughter of the Madus marquis family. She spent her childhood under a father with strong misogynistic beliefs, suffering discrimination, neglect, and violence. A naive noble girl with low self-esteem and no understanding of the world. After her political marriage and the harsh ordeals brought on by her natal family’s betrayal, she gradually grows. In that process, she awakens the ability to create illusions, and dreams of a new future with her son as she flees—from the man who realized his love too late.

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A heartbreaking romance unfolding in a passionate, dramatic narrative.

A line that resonates:

I loved him from the very first moment I saw him. Perhaps I will keep loving him forever.