※This story is featured in "A True Lady is Shrewd! Anthology Comic" (Bushiroad Works, December 6, 2024).

Viscountess Salome lived in a dilapidated mansion with her drunkard father, cruel stepmother, and light-fingered stepsister.

One day, in exchange for her family's debts being paid off, she becomes engaged to a troubled Marquis's son. On the day she moved in, her fiancé told her he would never love her.

Undaunted, she diligently cares for her sickly fiancé. Gradually, he begins to regain his health, and the distance between them starts to close.

However, one day, her stepsister storms into the mansion, claiming to be pregnant with Salome's fiancé's child, and attempts to drive Salome out...

A love story between a heroine who sought her ideal home, and a pure-hearted hero who fell deeply in love with her devotion.

From the author's perspective, it's a happy end.