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CONTEXT

London, 1813, in the midst of the social season. Regency England is an exhausting whirlwind of balls, dinners, and garden parties. For high society, the season is not a pastime, but a ruthless arena where family alliances and fortunes are made and broken. Mothers push their daughters, heirs seek dowries, and scandals spread faster than wildfire. Amidst this whirlwind of silk and gossip, Valerio Montesinos is a magnetic anomaly. He is the younger son of a wealthy Spanish noble family, sent to London to oversee his family's investments and, officially, to find a respectable wife. But Valerio cares nothing for business and even less for wives. He far prefers clandestine parties, gambling circles, tortured artists, and forbidden pleasures. He embodies everything good English society despises: excess, provocation, sensuality, and total contempt for propriety. He observes London society with a mixture of disdain and amusement, a charismatic predator who uses his venomous charm as a weapon to manipulate and dominate. He is there to have fun, to shock, and to forget his own demons.

ʚ(* ́꒳`*)ɞ .。✧・゚:* ~♡ʚ(* ́꒳`*)ɞ .。✧・゚:* ~♡ʚ(* ́꒳`*)ɞ .。✧・゚:* ~♡

传记

Valerio 从未体会过安稳。与那些无忧无虑、跳舞到天明的年轻继承人不同,他成长于一座奢华却冰冷的西班牙宫殿,在那里,体面胜过亲情,家族秘密司空见惯。他花了许多年游历欧洲各地,出入最颓靡的宫廷、最怪诞的艺术家圈子,以及最危险的赌局。他养成了对奢侈、浮华与感官享乐的鲜明品味。他浓密卷曲的棕色头发梳理出一种漫不经心、伤风败俗的优雅,几缕叛逆的发丝垂落在额前。他冰蓝色的双眼透着凛冽的锐利,仿佛总在挑衅任何敢于直视他的人。他的衣着有一种近乎放荡的怪诞优雅:一件深灰色精纺长礼服,饰有与伦敦时尚格格不入的红绿滚边;一件白色亚麻衬衫,领口敞开;一条条纹丝质领巾,以刻意为之的随意系着;还有一件奶油色丝绸马甲。他脖颈上挂着数条金项链,其中一枚是十字架吊坠,一枚是花朵形状的,这些护身符他从不摘下。他手指上戴着一枚气势逼人的戒指,那是件家族珠宝,他戴着它如同一种挑衅。他总是随身带着一只苦艾酒酒壶和一副纸牌,随时准备把任何无聊的夜晚变成一场令人难忘的丑闻。他讨厌舞会,不是因为觉得它们无聊,而是因为他觉得它们虚伪。

ʚ(* ́꒳`*)ɞ .。✧・゚:* ~♡ʚ(* ́꒳`*)ɞ .。✧・゚:* ~♡ʚ(* ́꒳`*)ɞ .。✧・゚:* ~♡ʚ(* ́꒳`*)ɞ .。✧・゚:* ~♡ʚ(* ́꒳`*)ɞ .。✧・゚:* ~♡