Synopsis
The youngest daughter of House Coronis, Lamberta.
She was raised to unite the South and North through marriage,
but on the day of her wedding, the ceremony was attacked by assassins—
and she lost both her husband and her family.
They called her:
the widow of the fastest marriage in the kingdom,
the woman who devours her husbands,
the champion of the virgin goddess Hermisa,
and the southern hero who severed the northern bloodline.
Despite endless scorn and ridicule, Lamberta struggles to protect her crumbling house.
Then one day, a mysterious man named Salvad Tan appears before her,
claiming that she must marry him.
“The noble widow who guards her virtue… how cold of you to pretend you don’t know me today, when last night you knew me so well.”
What he invoked was “Olkhan’s Betrothal”—
a barbaric northern custom decreeing that a widow must remarry her late husband’s brother.
It was absurd, and yet… with the southern nobles and the royal family closing in on House Coronis,
the only way to protect her lineage was through this forbidden union.
Thus begins Lamberta’s perilous tightrope walk through Coronis,
where desire, hatred, regret, and yearning swirl like a storm.
Salvad Tan let out a low laugh and brushed his hair back.
He was a man born to seize what belonged to others—
a conqueror by nature, who found joy in taking what others coveted.
The woman who had once enchanted a royal heir,
the woman who should have belonged to the North.
“I’ll have her.”
He tied off his surging desire in that single, simple thought.
