The Thorny Rose and the Iron-Blooded Duke

In the eyes of the royal family, Princess Violet Rose is a beautiful but useless ornament, a pawn married off to Leon, the Empire's most feared "Ironblood Duke." Everyone expects to see her crushed by the coldhearted duke, unaware that beneath the princess's innocent smile lie the wit and secrets to overturn a dynasty. The duke, too, married her not out of goodwill toward the royal family, but because he needed a puppet to conceal his true plans. When a pretender meets an ambitious schemer, a marriage born of calculation gradually becomes the ultimate contest between power and genuine affection.