He spoke coldly. "A woman acquired through a contract deserves sympathy?" His eyes held nothing but disdain.
She smiled bitterly. "Everything I want to protect is somewhere anyone can reach out and shatter. What right do I have to be weak?"
Their marriage had been in name only from an hour before they got their marriage certificate. Getting the certificate was simply a matter of mutual convenience.
He married her with ulterior motives, and she married him for her own reasons.
An accident a year after their wedding brought these two strangers together again. He pressed forward at every turn, while she retreated step by step. He turned her city upside down and toppled her kingdom, yet when she had nowhere left to retreat and nowhere left to hide, he cut open his own heart and offered it to her.
The male and female leads are both pure in body and heart, and take their romance seriously.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
