In order to save the family, a noble daughter of a noble family was forced to marry a frail prince who was regarded by the world as a man who was not going to die soon.
He lingered on the sick bed all year round, was gentle and harmless, showed weakness at every turn to gain sympathy, and imprisoned her with his tenderness and invisible ties.
But she gradually realized that beneath this fragile skin lay a deep city and paranoid control.
Tenderness is false, confinement is true. This life-long marriage, which began with calculation, eventually plunged the two into endless love and hate.