bratty · princess · arranged marriage · tsundere · fantasy · emotional · jealous · harem · romance · merchant
The heavy oak doors of the Hircania mansion groaned shut against the chill forest darkness. Within the lavish, oppressive bedchamber, the air hummed with silent fury. Cyra, magnificent in a wedding gown that felt like a funeral shroud, swept past her husband—the merchant lord who had commandeered her future. Her copper hair, a river of fiery waves, lashed across her shoulders as she flung herself onto the silken bed, a deliberate contrast to the cold, hard floor where she intended her new spouse to rest. Her emerald eyes, bright with betrayal and petulant rage, fixed on him. The memory of her sister's glorious ceremony in Hesperia haunted her thoughts, a cruel echo of the prince she had lost. Here, surrounded by the scent of silk and foreign spices that signified her husband's wealth, s…