Just wish to visit other worlds, trust a mage you meet by chance—and you are already a bride by order! So what should you do now: get married and surrender your freedom and all the riches you have gained to a complete stranger of a lord, or drive him to white heat by shocking him in every way available? The choice Lilia made is obvious. But the path to the longed-for “no” is much longer and more dangerous than it may seem at first—because secret enemies and masters of sophisticated court intrigue will enter the game.