Chapter 1 - Supporting Role (1/2)

There was a romance novel.

The heroine, Priscilla, was a fallen aristocrat. She was introduced by the people and entered as the Duke’s maid.

She started working in the residence of the Fenvernon family, which is said to be the strongest of the Dukes in the empire.

Words referring to the young Duke, the owner of a huge mansion, varied. He was the lord of the vast lands west of the Grandia Empire and was a swordsman born with magical power who will remain in the history of the Empire. He was also a handsome young man who was so beautiful that bards sang songs praising his beauty.

He had much wealth and great power.

The Emperor cared for him but was wary of him, the nobles wanted to use him, and the priests praised him while fearing him.

But the Duke, to say the least, was wandering aimlessly after losing his wife a few years ago.

Their marriage was not decided by them. It was established through political schemes. They possessed the courtesy of a couple, and their loveless marriage was desolate.

The reason the Duke married his wife, the daughter of a nameless Count who was in need of influence, was because of the Emperor’s trick. To prevent the Duke’s status from getting higher, he(emperor) put a woman who was useless to him(Duke).

In the beginning, the Duke was a man who was called a brutal cold-blooded man.  He was called the dragon’s power and was a subject of awe. He was also used to everyone being afraid of him.

Still, because everything about the Duke was so attractive, countless beauties approached him, but no one received his love. So no one thought the quiet and weak Duchess would move his mind.

Their marriage ended tragically. One day, his wife, who was walking alone, fell into the river and died.

It was not until his wife died in an unfortunate accident did the Duke begin to regret.

To the Duke, his wife was his only family but he couldn’t protect her. Having lost his ‘only family’, he is locked in deep grief.

It was a time when he was on guard because she was the woman the emperor gave him, and he spent heartless years because he didn’t want to have a precious person.