Synopsis
"You never loved me, did you?" Astelle's marriage ended before it could begin. She had spent years, since she was ten years old, preparing to be Kaizen's wife. What she got in return was the shame of a discarded empress. Cast off by the royal family. The man she had built her whole life around wanted her gone. "Yes. You're right. I never loved you." It was her last lie to him. He was everything to her — and that was exactly why she said it. She never expected to see him again. And then — "I think… I might…
