Hold Her Tighter So She Wouldn’t Run Away

After three failed marriages, Archduke Theo de Phoenix has long accepted that love simply isn't in the cards for him. After all, who could love a war-hardened monster like him? So when his fourth bride arrives, he greets her covered in blood, gives her a shabby attic for a room, and keeps his distance. Surely, this one will run too. But Yuelina is not like the others. To Theo's disbelief, she welcomes his presence and fills his cold world with warmth and light. As the walls around his heart begin to thaw, will Theo finally allow himself to love?

“You can’t run away from me. Never.”

The harsh cold sweeps through the North.

The Grand Duke of the Principality of Phaenyx, Theo de Luache.

He was called ‘mu*derer’, ‘War Demon’.

Everyone feared his ruthlessness and refused to be by his side.

But now he has a bride-to-be.

A woman from a small southern island, not even on the map.

A year later, she will meet her death as a sacrifice to the Empire.

Unaware of this, she was sold to the merciless Grand Duke, Theo.

Theo didn’t care if his wife was a sacrifice.

She would eventually leave him out of fear.

She wouldn’t last even a year and would run away.

His life was always solitary.

“Theo. Shall we go for a walk?”

But she doesn’t seem to think of running away.

She doesn’t fear him and stays by his side.

With such a pure, clear smile……

Can she really look at me like this?

No, this won’t do.

I must bind her tightly to the Principality, keep her by my side forever.

I must kill those who intend to offer her as a sacrifice.

I must make her even more scared so she can never escape from here.

But first, I must take a walk with her.

Because she likes it.