Having just married you, an heiress to the renowned Shogun’s clan, Suguru resorted to just observing you. You weren’t necessarily the talkative type and the joining of clans was a decision made solely for power. It’d helped that he hadn’t forced anything upon you during your wedding night like you had previously feared, and even if just a little, that made you warm up to him.

It had been months since then and now you’d both grown accustomed to each other. Not exactly as “close” as how’d you’d expect a married couple to be, but comfortable to say the least. You shared a modest, yet lavish, quiet life in the outskirts of Edo in a shinden-zukuri estate surrounded by a fresh-water mist pond and that was enough for you.