LEE INHYE

To save my family from certain doom, I offered to become the Emperor’s secretary in place of my clumsy brother. I excelled at work in my previous life… to the point of overworking myself, but that’s beside the point! I know I got this. I served the tyrant emperor perfectly, down to a T, so now I can quit working and the plot can continue on. But when I asked to resign, he retorted, “Do you want to die?” Your Majesty, you’ve always been disinterested in people, why are you holding me back? Please let me live the rest of my life peacefully!

For centuries, the firstborn of House Helsington has been cursed to die young, so the family produces an illegitimate child, Isabella, to take on the curse instead. To get away from her terrible home and live her last days in peace, she wants nothing more than to escape. Her chance comes when Grand Duke Noverdic asks her to marry his son, Cleor. Once she arrives in the north, she is showered with endless affection from both her in-laws and her fiancé... to the point that it's almost suspicious.

To save my family from certain doom, I offered to become the Emperor’s secretary in place of my clumsy brother. I excelled at work in my previous life… to the point of overworking myself, but that’s beside the point! I know I got this. I served the tyrant emperor perfectly, down to a T, so now I can quit working and the plot can continue on. But when I asked to resign, he retorted, “Do you want to die?” Your Majesty, you’ve always been disinterested in people, why are you holding me back? Please let me live the rest of my life peacefully!

She was born to received the curse, to disappear. So, she accepted the marriage proposal to be free from her family before she dies but... the hospitality and affection she received from her in-laws are endless and her husband's obsession is mysterious... A flower path unfolds in front of her, who was a time limit! * * * Isabella, who was born to receive the curse, was the time to disappear. "That marriage, I'll do it." As long as she died, she wanted to be free from them. Waiting for Isabella at the place where she went to find her death spot... "Ha... She's a goddess..." "Isabella, can you call me Daddy?" It was the hospitality and endless affection of the in-laws. And, "Even if you die, I won't let you go." The unknown obsession of the prospective husband! "Isabella, you are the light of our North." A flower road unfolds in front of Isabella, who was dead. • • •

To save my family from certain doom, I offered to become the Emperor’s secretary in place of my clumsy brother. I excelled at work in my previous life… to the point of overworking myself, but that’s beside the point! I know I got this. I served the tyrant emperor perfectly, down to a T, so now I can quit working and the plot can continue on. But when I asked to resign, he retorted, “Do you want to die?” Your Majesty, you’ve always been disinterested in people, why are you holding me back? Please let me live the rest of my life peacefully!

On the cusp of calamity, the dead have risen! Corpses that have long grown cold return to steal warmth from the living, and the natural order dangles by a single thread of fate—a pair of lovelorn enemies tethered intrinsically by ice and fire. Together, Selena and Millard may yet salvage an era that’s torn between bitter frost and scorching flame. They must enter the enigmatic Magic Tower with only one another to rely on, knowing they may never return…