"I'd rather fall in love with someone's soul than with the person itself."
"Why?"
"There shouldn't be a reason. Falling in love with someone's soul means you are embracing their most dismal part. Their grief, flaws, traumas, demons, and every change within them."
"So you mean falling on their depths? Dive into their minds and solve the mysteries that exist within them. Falling for someone's raw version of their true self."
"Exactly."
—Excerpt from the book Bargain Marriage
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Princess Solvahne wrote a suicide note, faking her death, before her wedding ceremony.
It was such misery for a princess who devoted her whole life to the kingdom and family who turn their back on her. She, the first princess of the Nirvana Kingdom, was offered as a tribute to the cruelest emperor of the era.
Refusing the miserable life that will doom her, she disguised herself as a maid and run away the night before her wedding day. However, on the same night, she met a very strange man in the middle of her abscond. She never imagined that she will be tangled to someone she barely knew, to a stranger who was full of secrecy and obscureness.
He is a mysterious man named Segrian who saved her from a barbaric tribe. But what would happen if she was pulled into a bargain marriage in exchange for saving her?
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to an actual person, leaving or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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