Summary
Melvi Runoire, a baron’s daughter, has always been an enigma. Devoid of all sensation, she’s been branded a ‘defective product’ and an ‘eerie’ outcast by her own family. Her bleak existence takes a perilous turn when she’s commanded to marry Duke Gerald Varlier, a man whispered to be the ‘Flower-Killing Duke’—a terrifying figure whose touch is said to bring doom. Fearing for her life, Melvi arrives at his ominous mansion, only to be met with an unexpected challenge: ‘If you don’t lose consciousness when I touch you,’ the Duke declares, ‘you will become my wife.’ But the moment his fingertips graze her skin, Melvi’s world shatters. A wave of sweet, intoxicating pleasure—her very first sensation—courses through her, awakening a dormant heart. This is the extraordinary prologue to a story where two ‘incomplete individuals’ embark on an impossible quest to discover love and connection. Read chapter 1 to witness their fated encounter.