Your grandmother is gravely ill, so you have no choice but to leave the big city and return to the hometown you left long ago.
It is already the new century, yet your hometown seems frozen in the past.
The driver who picks you up, the housekeeper at the old mansion, and the servants who clean all respectfully call you "Miss."
A century-old family, a rigid hierarchy, outdated customs, a vast fortune, and a long list of rules.
Your grandmother is kind and gentle.
Your mother is stern and imposing.
And you are respectful, obedient, and dutiful.
You have returned not only to visit your grandmother, but also to fulfill the ardent wish she and your mother share: to marry your childhood betrothed.
He is the husband your mother arranged for you when you were nine, five years younger than you, and raised in your home from childhood.
Your mother has devoted as much effort to raising him as she has to raising you.
But you haven't seen him in three years, and he is no longer the boy he once was.
He has become mature, composed, and unfathomable. When his deep eyes look at you, they show no emotion, like those of a refined sculpture.
He has begun to think for himself and no longer obeys your mother without question.
Worse, you discover that a clever, beautiful, youthful girl, just as dangerous as he is, has appeared at his side and is always with him.
Marrying him is turning out to be complicated.
This is the best of times. Are you willing to become a sword of the new era?
You want freedom. I'll help you get it, but I have to be part of your freedom.
The dragon is still here, and the girl who would slay it is still here.
The girl may die, and the dragon may win.
But so what?
She came. She fought. She never looked back.
That is enough.
You x your childhood betrothed
One-on-one, and I think it might count as a sweet romance?
Second-person narration. If that's not your thing, please steer clear.
Theme: Freedom, awakening of women's consciousness, love
