The Controversial Duchess

Zen, a killing machine who lived her life with her will and senses controlled. She meets her end—a lonely and miserable conclusion to her existence—after losing her life to a mysterious girl encountered on a mission. “Go back to your original place before it’s too late. Tillia has opened the door.” However, the liberation of death is short-lived. She awakens in the body of another person who was dying from a potent poison. The place where she awakens is the Bergen Empire, a civilization unfamiliar to her. Zen has become ‘Xenia Müsen,’ a double who was maintaining a contract marriage—little more than a hostage situation—with Duke Caspar Lindenwald, the true power holder of the empire, w...