Ten-year-old Marina’s destiny began when she met the teary-eyed boy at the Imperial Palace. The time she spent with him playing chess was like a fairytale, sweet but short-lived. It had become a faint memory of first love.... more>>

Betrayed by her fiancé at eighteen, she decides to fulfill her lifelong dream and work in government office. Much to her dismay, she soon learns that life at the Imperial Palace was just too exhausting. There were so many twists and turns! But she held on; she hoped to see the boy in her youth once more, even if only for a little. Turns out that the boy had always watched her from afar.

And so begins a complicated love affair at the Imperial Palace! Will Marina be able to find happiness? <<less

She tried to save her husband, the emperor, by turning her back on her father, Duke Lauchen, who dreamed of rebellion.... more>>

The result is a failure, and Izaya faces a terrible death.

She thought it was all over, but when she opened her eyes again, it was around the coming-of-age ceremony 10 years ago.

To protect him, she has to stay away from him.

'I have to step up and prepare to divorce.

So first of all ... let's use a separate room first!'

However, there was a problem that she couldn't ignore

"Don't go, I think without you...."

That is that her husband can't sleep without Izaya.

'I have to find a way somehow.'

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"I'm unable to sleep without you, and you're leaving me? You can't."

Ern's gesture of wrapping her wrist was very polite and persistent.

"You made me like this, so you have to take responsibility, Empress."

His voice was friendly and sweet, but his gaze on Izaya was colored with a dark obsession. <<less