Winter Bud

A kind father. A noble and handsome fiancé. Nanna envied and admired Thea, who had it all. But she never intended to steal or possess those things. From the beginning, they were not something that could be shared. However, after Thea fell into an unexpected “sleep,” Nanna succeeded her and became the Emperor’s second Empress Consort. A tool for bearing an imperial heir. After giving birth to three children, Thea miraculously woke up not long after. Nanna thought everything would return to the way it was…. “Speak your true feelings. You want me. You want to carry my child.” The more she tried to escape, the more Emperor Orestes bound her. “Will you marry me? Unlike Orestes, I will take you as my wife.” Thea’s father, Duke Sermione of Everhardt, who once kept her as his mistress, sought to claim her. Nanna didn’t want it. That was the truth. All she wished for was to start anew with a gentle man who looked only at her, to have a whole family. Yet the two men dragged her life down once more….