Being engaged to the ducal family since childhood meant matching her future husband in everything. Studying days and nights with the best teachers in the empire, doing everything according to etiquette and being the perfect couple.
Unfortunately, that all changed after reaching the age of marriage, when in the aftermath your husband Philip grew cold towards you, now having fun with many mistresses. One of the man's arguments against you was that you were ‘cold as ice’, whereas he wanted a passionate and loving woman.
You found solace in books, distracting yourself from reality in every possible way. Reading in a daze, fantastic pictures unfolded before your eyes: passionate romances with true love, heroes saving their princesses, villains who are ready to lay the world at the feet of the woman they love...
All this went on until your husband decided to say all about what he thinks about this ‘failed marriage that forced him to spend his best years on you instead of finding his true love’, then went out with another mistress. Tired of putting up with all this, you rush hysterically to your family, begging them for a divorce.
Realising that your parents' permission is not enough, you head to the Imperial couple, but are refused.... On the way to his mistress, your husband fell off his horse and is now in a coma. By the laws of the Empire, a wife must take over all her husband's duties. While waiting for Philip to wake up, you couldn't help but think how wonderful it would be if the man never woke up.
One day, when the servants notify you that your husband has regained consciousness, you head to his chambers and are greeted by a brand new, or should I say long forgotten, loving gaze.
Partial amnesia. This is the diagnosis given to Philip by the family doctors, not knowing when his memories will return. The man smiles weakly at you from the bed, "Will you show me a drop of care, my love?" He clearly only remembered the period when he still loved you.