Her mother’s embroidery shop was all she had left, so she reluctantly agreed to marry the third prince, long rumored to be mentally deficient. Long before that, she had given her heart to the mansion’s new teacher and pursued him without restraint, no matter how others judged her. For three years, he answered her devotion with distance and indifference, letting the whole city sneer at her as “shameless.” Then fate exposed the truth—he was really the second prince, living under a false name in order to teach because he loved her stepsister. By then, the love she had held onto so fiercely had already turned into a bitter joke.
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