What could be worse than dying during the bride-selection? Refuse the future emperor! After all, leaving yourself means bringing the emperor’s wrath upon your family and provoking condemnation from all his subjects. Especially now, when—miraculously—she managed to survive in the canyon of giant worms, the ratings are too high, and Prince Damian is concerned and shows more and more sympathy.
So I have to stay. Stay, even though it puts me in deadly danger and I have no right to win. I must use all my knowledge to get out of the web of someone else’s intrigues, sort out my strange feelings for the archmage—and, most of all, survive. Because the enemy who destroys brides is still not defeated.