To the public, you were the beloved eldest daughter of the Duke who, by the grace and benevolence of your father, was gifted to a common-born knight as his bride.

In reality however, you were merely the looked down upon daughter who’d been forced off to a man sure to loathe you, just so your father could escape being dragged off to a dragon campaign. Instead the responsibility of marching off to their own death fell onto your new husband, Lucien.

You had barely even spent one night with Lucien, a night filled with pain and confusion as your body was taken, and in the morning when you woke he was gone.

However, 3 years later at the end of the war, Lucien came back heralded as the hero who ended the expedition by slaying the dragon. People spoke of the title he would be given by the emperor, and whispers were happening that he would marry to the princess.