Please bear with me. I really have no idea how to write a blurb~
She's a young heiress, innocent, lively, and kindhearted, but she meets him before she knows what love is.
He's a penniless beggar. One day, the heroine takes him home, and he becomes her "childhood bridegroom."
She's cold and he's warm. Can a relationship built on unequal devotion ever have a happy ending?
One day, he suddenly disappears. Some say he's dead, drowned in the icy lake.
She doesn't believe them. She says, "He must be angry with me. He just left. One day, when he misses me, he'll come back. He loves me most of all. He promised he'd never make me sad."
She cries, for the first time ever, and her sobs are heart-wrenching.
She keeps returning to the places they used to visit together, hoping to find some trace of him.
Only after losing him does she finally realize that she loves that young man, too, the one who always thought of her first.
Then a letter arrives: her older sister has given birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
To help her forget the painful past, her parents send her to stay with her sister in the capital.
One day, she sees him.
The beggar boy she once knew is now riding a fine horse, sword in hand, with a group of guards behind him.
Someone says he's the Ninth Prince, a royal of the highest birth.
She doesn't have time to think. She races forward as fast as she can, shouting his name until her voice turns hoarse and gives out.
Hearing a familiar voice, he turns back in delight, only to pretend he doesn't know her.
He signals for his guards to pull her aside.
He says he doesn't know her and that she must have mistaken him for someone else.
But she knows she could never mistake him, especially those eyes. She would recognize them anywhere.
Can their broken relationship be mended?
Between power and the woman he loves, what will he choose?
And will she choose freedom, or him?
Theme: Is anyone truly irreplaceable?
