A common political engagement, sometimes accompanied by the declaration, "I will never love you."

On the very day her political engagement was sealed, Meria received this haughty declaration from David, who was now supposed to be her fiancé.

A chaste and commendable lady would quietly accept such a fate and be consumed by sorrow.

However, Meria, brimming with a rebellious spirit, decided she would absolutely not accept things as they were.

Yet, this was an engagement forged between families; unless she could create sufficient grounds for its annulment, discussion was out of the question.

Meria then set her sights on Sofia, the woman David was infatuated with—his unofficial lover, so to speak.

The sole reason Sofia hadn't been chosen as his fiancée was that her family offered no political advantage.

"Then all she needs to do is acquire that!"

Sofia, worried about her own family's predicament, accepted Meria's offer, born of this very thought... and so the story begins to unfold in an unexpected direction.