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I look at myself in the mirror.

Muscles that grew bulging on his huge body of nearly 7 feet tall.

There are scars all over his body, including his face, and his haphazardly grown long hair sways from side to side in an unsightly way.

It had a ferocious appearance, so ferocious that it seemed like this was what the beast would look like if it took human form.

‘Would it be better to cut my hair short? Maybe then I’d look a little less fierce.’

People around me always compliment my appearance, saying that I am manly and solid… .

I know full well that this is just a biased view that comes from the characteristics of the northern region, where struggle is a daily occurrence, and from the relationship between acquaintances.

‘Is it right for me to be hated like this?’

Political marriage.

This refers to a marriage or engagement that is forced upon a child by two families for their own benefit and purpose, regardless of the child’s will.

On the positive side, it was a custom that strengthened the bond between families, but on the negative side, it was a bad practice of selling children for political purposes.

If the relationship between the parties involved in the political marriage is good, or at least there is room for improvement, then it doesn’t really matter… .

If there is no possibility of a relationship like that, then countless precedents have proven that the future of the two people will be nothing but destruction.

therefore….

“Let’s break off the engagement.”

I said the words I had been avoiding for a long time, but I couldn’t say them anymore. She must have been waiting for these words too.

No, it must have been so. It would be so, because every time she met me, she showed signs of wanting to break off the relationship.

I suppressed my emotions as much as possible and looked at the woman in front of me with a face that pretended to be indifferent.

White hair that reminds me of a pure white snow field, mysterious purple eyes, and even facial features that are neatly arranged within a small face.

The woman before my eyes was, at least, the most beautiful person I have ever met in my life.

Aria Floris.

She is the daughter of Count Floris, a long-standing magical family, and my fiancée. She was also my first love.

I was captivated from the moment I first saw you.

When I first met her, I thought for a moment that she was a fairy tale fairy.

Not only her appearance, but also her actions, the way she speaks, all of these elements were enough to set a man’s heart on fire.

‘but.’

No matter how hot the firewood burns, it will eventually wither away.

It means that there is an expected end unless you pitch a tent when it rains and keep the fire burning by adding firewood.

And she gave up on keeping the fire between us alive.

‘So did I try?’

I think I put in enough effort that I wouldn’t be ashamed.

So that I can become someone who suits her even a little. In the future, I hope that I can become a strong shield that protects her from the fierce storms, so that no one can touch her carelessly.

however….

‘It’s funny, but now that we’ve failed to even make progress between us, I wonder what the point of all that effort was.’

He gripped his fists, calluses and blisters so thick that there was no healthy part left, under the table.

No matter how hard I try, I will just seem like a savage to her, who grew up in the capital and saw many noblemen.

Actually, I’m not sure anymore.

I still love her, and not just a stubbornness over something I don’t have.

At least it was certain that I no longer had the hot, blind emotions I used to have.

‘Or maybe I’m just tired.’

Even if that’s not the case, it’s wrong to force her, who doesn’t feel even a little happiness in being with me, to spend the rest of her life with me.

‘I guess it’s time to let go.’

I quietly placed the divorce papers that I had been keeping in my arms on the table between us.

A document that contains the intention of a clean breakup, without any toxic clauses. She will be delighted to receive this from me.

No, rather, I imagined a situation where he might stamp his seal right here and there without caring about my feelings.

It must have been like that… .

“… I can’t.”

Beautiful, purple eyes, filled with moisture and ready to overflow at any moment, were glaring at me.

“No, I won’t. I won’t break off the engagement.”

I was taken aback by her unfamiliar reaction, which I had never seen before in all the years we had known each other.

However, Aria’s adventures did not stop there.

“Eugene… Eugene Everhart.”

As soon as I turned my gaze in response to her voice calling me, I flinched.

Her delicate, jade-like hands lifted the divorce papers onto the table.

Jiiik―!!

Without a moment’s hesitation, I tore up the betrothal certificate that signaled our end.

When I was blankly staring at the documents fluttering and falling in the air.

“There will be no breakups or divorces in our lives. Do you understand?”

Aria was looking at me with tears streaming from her eyes, her eyes mixed with madness and obsession.

I couldn’t help but drool at the sight.

‘no….’

Why are you suddenly doing this?