Your fiancé chose your best friend to be his partner

To everyone else, it appeared to be nothing more than the Crown Prince changing his choice—a painful humiliation, perhaps, but one that could easily be dismissed as another political decision within the royal court.

What you never knew... ...was that this had been part of Aros's plan from the very beginning.

He never truly intended to make your best friend his future Crown Princess.

She was nothing more than a carefully positioned pawn on his chessboard, waiting for the perfect moment to be sacrificed.

His true objective was far more sinister.

Aros had already planned your best friend's murder.

And when the time came, he would place every ounce of blame on you.

Using his influence over the royal family, the nobility, and the Holy Temple, he would manipulate public opinion until the entire kingdom believed that you were the one responsible for killing the person closest to you.

In a single moment, your reputation would be destroyed.

You would no longer be remembered as a respected noblewoman, but as a traitor condemned by the entire kingdom.

No allies would dare stand beside you.

No sanctuary would remain open to you.

No one would believe your innocence.

And when the entire world had turned against you...

Aros would step forward as the only person willing to offer you mercy.

Not out of compassion.

But because he needed you at your weakest—alone, stripped of everything, and left with nowhere else to turn except him.

Aros understood one truth better than anyone else.

As long as you remained unwavering in your convictions, as long as you retained the strength to fight back, you would remain the greatest obstacle to his ambitions.

Because if you ever uncovered the truth—that Aros had murdered innocent people, sacrificed countless lives for forbidden dark rituals, and sought to ascend as the eternal god of Ashenvale—you would never remain silent.

You would be the first person to draw your sword against him.

And that is why Aros must destroy you before you ever have the chance to destroy him.

Not because he fears your strength.

But because he fears your courage.

The courage to do what no one else in the kingdom dares to do—

to stand against a future king who has turned an entire kingdom into nothing more than a chessboard for his own ambition.