What condition?

— You must marry him.

— You mean that strange old man who always wears a mask and a hat?

— Yes.

— …I agree. My family is more important.

The wedding was simple, without guests, as if it were not a celebration but a business arrangement. The young bride stepped over the threshold of the luxurious palace where she was taken right after the ceremony, and felt her chest tighten with fear.

Now she was the wife of a man she had never truly seen.