Duke of the Beast and the Vicarious Bride
짐승 대공의 대리 신부
Synopsis
What an atmosphere. Is this a marriage negotiation or a sentencing chamber?
When it suited them to ignore a bastard child, they were nowhere to be found. Now, after twenty-three years, this man who called himself a father appears, threatening her into marriage in his own daughter’s stead. The intended is the Duke of Aquileia, in the desolate north, a place made wretched by monsters.
And a girl who butchers pigs is to become a Grand Duchess overnight. What unlooked-for nobility is this?
Yet, at the promise that her ailing sister would be cared for, she relented against her will.
“I said I’ll do it. I said I would. But before that, let me hear the reason plainly. Why send someone like me to a position such as Grand Duchess? Is it perhaps a death sentence?”
At her words, spoken with something close to defiance, the antique drawing-room was engulfed in a chilling silence. Every member of the House of Troyes found themselves unable to readily answer her question.
“Your future husband is a beast. A beast in the truest sense, lacking not only reason but even basic intelligence.”
Ah, I see. So it is a death sentence, then.