I Will Decline Your Wife

Pain slicing across her back. Ice-cold water engulfing her entire body. The most agonizing thing wasn't death, but betrayal. "You're alive, Princess." Calix, her former fiancé, seeks out Rien, who was living while forgetting the past. "I think you've mistaken me for someone else." "There's no way I wouldn't recognize you." A destiny that keeps entangling them, no matter how hard she tries to avoid it. A past that hasn't been settled. Emotions she thought she had erased. "Is it fun to manipulate me as you please?" "I never wanted that." "What does it all matter? You've already ruined my present." But why does Calix look like he's been hurt by those words? To settle the past, Rie...