With Someone Other Than You

Article 27-2 (Termination of Engagement) ③ Notwithstanding Clause 2, neither party shall be held responsible for the termination of the engagement under the following circumstances: 2-3. When one party falls into an irreparable love with a third party. The clause above, part of one of the 144 standard contracts in the kingdom—specifically, the standard engagement contract used among nobles—is known as the “Lovron Clause,” a provision for terminating engagements without fault. It was named after the ill-fated Countess Lovron, who assassinated her husband alongside her lover with whom she had been deeply involved even before her marriage. “Irreparable love? What kind of love in this world...