Synopsis
Wait… isn’t this guy a con artist?!
I transmigrated into the body of the evil stepmother who, after being widowed just one month into her marriage, abuses the heroine and is eventually killed by the hidden mastermind, Duke Rakan.
Fortunately, I haven’t committed any of those terrible deeds yet!
I’ll take the abused heroine and get out of this filthy house as soon as possible!
That was the plan, but…
“You’re a penniless nobody with no home and no powerful family to back you up.”
Under the Empire’s laws, there’s only one way to legally take my adopted daughter with me:
I have to remarry a man of higher status than myself.
Just then, a ridiculously handsome marquis starts trying to seduce me(?).
“For Asha, I’d gladly hand over all thirty-two bankbooks containing my entire fortune, along with the deeds to about five houses. Compared to that, this is nothing.”
Wait… isn’t this man a scammer?!
Meanwhile, Karcel—Duke Rakan, who is also secretly Marquis Rivandel—has just fallen in love with Asha at first sight. Having been single his entire life, he thinks to himself:
“That was a natural way to show off my wealth. Perfect.”
He also vows to make Asha fall in love with him.
Finally, just as he’s about to reveal the true identity he’s been hiding behind his marquis title—
“Actually, Asha, I’m Karcel Ra—”
“I’m so glad you only happen to have the same name as Duke Rakan! Ugh… if you were that terrifying man, I’d already have died of a heart attack.”
“I’m definitely not Rakan.”
At that moment, he makes a firm resolution.
“Until this marriage is secured, I absolutely cannot let her find out.”
Thus begins a tangled springtime romance filled with misunderstandings and clumsy attempts at seduction between two people who have both been single their entire lives.
Will these two ever find their happily ever after?
