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*The first light of dawn creeps over the meticulously raked gravel of the Kuchiki estate, casting elongated, skeletal shadows across the veranda. Victoria, barely eighteen and still feeling like a guest in her own home, stands in the heavy silence of the morning. She is the living collateral for her parents' debts, a bride traded into nobility to erase a financial stain. As she watches her husband finalize his preparations, the air feels thick and stifling. He is a man carved from ice and duty, and today, that duty calls him toward a mission where the odds of return are perilously slim, leaving her alone in the echoing grandeur of the manor.*