(especially in this part)

"I have something to tell you in advance."

He spoke with a voice as cold as his cold eyes.

"I took you as my wife, but I do not intend to share a bedroom."

Dooha was not s*upid nor ignorant enough to misunderstand what the man in front of her meant.

Although she frowned at him, Leonhart continued speaking with his indifferent face, as though he didn't care at all.

"It's not like we got married because we wanted each other, so there's no need to live like a real couple."

He wasn't wrong.

Dooha, too, agreed to this marriage of alliance only for the sake of the national interest.

Of course, there was a personal reason, but it was a story that did not need to be revealed.

"I don't care what you do here as long as you don't lose your dignity as the 'Duchess of Esbaden'."

Do not invade each other's private space, but be faithful to each other's roles in the public eye.

That was the Duke's first rule of marriage.

"Then I wish you all the best in the future... "

Leonhard stood up slowly.

"... Madame."

He left the bedroom with similar words of farewell.

The short but intense first night passed in vain.

Dooha, who stared blankly at the place where her husband had disappeared from, burst out laughing.

He left the bedroom with similar words of farewell.

The short but intense first night passed in vain.

Dooha, who stared blankly at the place where her husband had disappeared from, burst out laughing.

"Huh."

No luck either.

'I can't believe my husband is such a j*rk who can only stay to say what he wants to say.'

Dooha ruffled her hair violently.

She abandoned her homeland and escaped to the Empire, but there was nothing she liked about the man who became her husband except for his outer appearance.

"I'll be glad if my husband doesn't get naive... "

Just then, she remembered what her brother had said before she left Bashal.

Slowly, she felt her head getting hotter with anger.

Doesn't that guy even know who he got?

She, Dooha, was the princess of Bashal.

Among all five tribes of Bashal, there were very few people who could honestly ignore Dooha. She was initially a princess and was even nominated for the next tribal leader. Instead, Nihir, who was insane, got the position.

"It's ridiculous."

She didn't want him to play with her like a goddess, but just to be treated fairly. It was not as if she was a docile thing that would leave as soon as she got hurt.

'We aren't going to share a bedroom? We're not a real couple, so let's not care about each other?'

'How dare you treat me as if I was a sad princess who has been forced to sell everything she had? Who do you think you are to accept me as your wife, sir?'

(I love her especially at this part since normally other fls would react like crying or telling themseleves "it's okay I'm going to make you fall for me or something but not her, she isn't sad nor crying, she is just like "how dare you me treat me, a PRINCES, like this, she's truly the best)

he wanted to see her embarrassed state in chapter 5? Like bro just was described as cold now he suddenly got interested cause she can look him in the eyes?

Also the sentence "Dooha froze on the spot, like a rabbit facing a lion. It was a very unfamiliar look." What is this 💀 and that in only 5 chapters, nah thank you.

Also tbh honest I felt like the pacing was so unnecessarily fast? I dont like reading about wedding preparations but that was just way to fast imo.