– Take everything off. My husband tears at my dress, painfully gripping my shoulders as if he’s checking whether I’ll flinch. – I bought all of this for you. Without me, you’re nobody. A simple human being who got lucky. He steps back a pace, tracing my bare body with a hungry, wild gaze. – And take off your shoes too, – he says hoarsely. I hesitate for only a second. Then I take them off. I do it myself. Proudly, I lift my feet out of the shoes. Cold bites into my skin. But that’s nothing. Worse is what I’ve just found out. My husband. A general dragon. He’s found his true mate and is going to marry her. And to me—he has graciously offered to stay his mistress.
– So where are you going dressed like this? He’s waiting. He’s sure I’ll break and beg him to take me back. But I turn around. I take a step. Another step. My heart tears into shreds. But I leave, carrying with me the secret under my heart.
Ten years have passed.
I return to the capital as an assistant to the minister, and the thing I fear most is running into my ex-husband. But fate mercilessly throws us onto opposite sides of the barricades. I won’t tell you about the son, general. And don’t look at my legs like that. These luxurious shoes—and everything else, too—I bought for myself!