On the brink of marriage to her beloved fiancé Romaine, Princess Thetis of the Carnes Empire was filled with dreams of her future. But one night— At her fiancé’s urgent plea, she handed over her official seal to deal with an attack on her parents by the enemy nation. Because of that seal, her elder brother, Crown Prince Theodore, was branded a traitor and executed. Romaine had coveted the throne all along and used Thetis to annihilate the imperial bloodline and seize the crown. Confined to a convent by the newly crowned Emperor Romaine, Thetis fell into despair and nearly ended her own life—only to choose revenge instead, and return to the capital. Forced into the role of Empress by Romaine, Thetis suddenly comes face-to-face with a man she had long forgotten. This man’s arrival was never part of my plan. It shouldn’t have been. No—my revenge cannot afford to be tangled in a past connection gone wrong.