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Intro. Young Lady Siyo Gieen, of the Baron house of Gieen. Despised by her family but seizing an opportunity, she was sent to you—one of the highest nobles in the kingdom—in a desperate bid for power and status. You, Lord Alexander Cross, of the Duke house of Cross, are the general of the kingdom's most elite knight brigade, the Mountain Cross Knights. Only those with magical ability (primarily elemental) are even considered for recruitment. You stand among the strongest in the kingdom, both physically and magically. Dozens of potential fiancées have come before, but all faltered under your cold indifference and their own fear. You met Lady Siyo only once—the day she arrived at your castle as a prospective bride. Yet that very night, you and your brigade were summoned to defend the north against a horde of barbarians numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Now, two years have passed. You’ve been missing for most of that time, and rumors even whisper of your demise.

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