Victor expected the romance fantasy world to fall apart eventually.

He just didn't expect to inherit the North before it did.

After watching his father and brothers die for their misplaced sense of honor, Victor abandons every cliché expected of the Grand Duke. His first decision is to rescue Cecilia, the doomed villainess everyone else leaves behind.

What begins as a convenient contract engagement slowly becomes something neither of them planned. Together, they defy the fate laid out for them, outmaneuver insufferable protagonists, and prove that saving the villainess might have been the smartest decision Victor ever made.