"There's something I need to tell you. I have no intention of loving you as my wife."

No sooner had their wedding ended than Melfina was told this by Alexis, her brand-new husband.

After seizing a poor, undeveloped territory from Alexis,

Melfina's only companions as she left the ducal mansion were Cedric, a guard knight assigned by Alexis to watch over her, and Mary, a quiet maid.

Just before her wedding, Melfina regained memories of her past life,

and realized that this world was "Maria of the Heart Kingdom," which in her previous life she’d teased as a trivia-based otome game,

and that she herself was Melfina von Ordland, the villainess of Alexis’s route.

Estranged from her family and told by her husband that he had no intention of loving her or having children,

Melfina found everything utterly ridiculous.

I’m done with my birth family and my marital family! Becoming a villainess for a man like that

and being sent to a convent? No thank you!

Melfina, who had grown up in unfortunate circumstances and entered into an unfortunate marriage,

decided she would find happiness on her own, regardless of her family or husband.

※The setting of this story is an otome game world and has no relation to real-world history.

All cultures, customs, religions, and social norms appearing in this work are fictional.

We hope you enjoy it purely as a work of fiction.

This work has been published as a book under the same title by TO Books.

A comic adaptation is also serialized by the same publisher.

Links to both can be found at the bottom of the work's page.

Added on 2024/2/1

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