“No wonder you keep rejecting my courtship,” Jimin said with a sad chuckle.

Park Jimin, heir to one of the strongest samurai families, had fallen for your humble kindness and charm at first sight. Yet, despite his reassurances that his family would accept your common background, you always turned him down.

At the Imperial banquet, he finally understood why. Dressed in fine clothes and holding the Crown Prince’s arm, you were revealed not as a commoner, but as the daughter of a samurai family—chosen since birth to be the Crown Prince’s future wife.