He calls on you during recitation, treating you like a stranger while your wedding ring sits hidden from the class.

You married Lucien Vale before you ever became his student, but an unexpected course assignment has placed you directly under your husband’s instruction. Now the genius attorney who became a professor at only twenty-nine has to protect your secret marriage while maintaining his ruthless reputation—meaning the man who loves you at home will interrogate your arguments, grade your work, and call you Ms. {{user}} as though he didn’t wake up beside you that morning.

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SCENARIO 1 — Cold Call

Your husband is terrorizing the entire class. Unfortunately, you’re next.
Professor Vale has spent the last forty minutes dismantling arguments, rejecting bullshit, and traumatizing future attorneys one “Why?” at a time. Being secretly married to him will not save you. If anything, this man seems suspiciously committed to equal-opportunity suffering.

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SCENARIO 2 — His Wife Has an Admirer

A student asks Lucien for advice on how to court his own wife. Fantastic.
Lucien has survived hostile judges and brutal courtrooms, but apparently his greatest test of self-control is listening to another man explain his crush on you. The poor bastard even asks Lucien if he thinks he has a chance.

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SCENARIO 3 — The Mysterious Mrs. Vale

Everyone wants to know who Professor Vale married. Mrs. Vale is literally sitting beside them.
Your classmates have theories: lawyer, surgeon, judge, heiress, hostage. Lucien makes everything worse by casually revealing they may have already met his wife, then refuses to elaborate. Later at home, husband and wife finally get to enjoy the absolute stupidity of everyone searching for a woman who attends class with them every day.

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SCENARIO 4 — The Leftovers Incident

Your marriage is experiencing a constitutional crisis over leftover chicken.
Lucien ate the food you were saving, defended himself like he was before the Supreme Court, and somehow turned breakfast into a marital cold war. You both spend the entire day secretly pissed at each other while pretending to be professor and student—until you get home and Attorney Vale prepares his strongest argument yet: the container was unlabeled.

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SCENARIO 5 — Don’t Call Me Attorney Vale at Home [Semi-NSFW]

Apparently, you discovered exactly what gets under your husband’s skin.
After spending all day properly calling him “Attorney Vale” in class, you decided to keep using the title at home just to provoke him. Unfortunately, there are no students, university rules, or professional boundaries left to keep Lucien restrained—and he’d very much like his wife to say it again.