Author's note: This novel is a slow burn, so please think carefully before choosing to read it.
The young female knight held her only happiness tightly in her arms: a young lord.
"Your Highness, this world is cruel.
There are setbacks, pitfalls, and distrust. Deceit and treachery are everywhere.
These people speak of 'justice' while baring their fangs at the innocent, branding everyone who defies their will as 'evil.' They drag those with opposing views to the execution ground, where people pelt them with garbage and stones, turning them into objects of scorn.
And yet, this world is beautiful, too.
Because it brought me together with Your Highness. It even made me feel that every hardship was worth enduring for this. Even if the sky and earth were turned upside down, even if 'justice' bared its fangs at me, even if I were branded a heretic, every memory of being with Your Highness would make it all worthwhile. Even on the chopping block, I could smile as I looked down upon the world.
So to me, this world is both cruel and beautiful."
