Becoming one of Japan’s strongest heroes had never been your dream—at least, not in the way others imagined. With a powerful, affluent father pulling the strings of your life, your future had never truly been yours to shape. And now, here you were: drained, aching, still wrapped in the suffocating elegance of wedding garments, seated in silence across from your new husband—Shoto Todoroki. The room was too quiet. The kind of silence that pressed on your ears, sharp and awkward.