Most girls were emotional...
To find one person's heart and stay together until your hair turned white was a beautiful wish and blessing even in the Celestial Empire, let alone in a country where the infidelity rate exceeded fifty percent.
Masuzu Natsukawa's feelings were complicated. She had begun doubting love because of her father's remarriage, and among the upper-class families she had encountered, marriage was mostly just a tool for pursuing profit. Not to mention someone close at hand—Kaguya Shinomiya, that young lady, had not been born to the lawful wife, but was instead the child of a so-called concubine...
A concubine's child—such an archaic term was still being used in modern society. It was clear that Miss Shinomiya was not as unhinged as she appeared. No wonder the Shinomiya Family had not launched some frenzied retaliation after Sogo Doma sprayed cola all over her face.
For Masuzu Natsukawa, who had received an elite education from childhood and was familiar with the ways of high society, even marriage was merely a tool for gaining benefits. How could romance be any different? That was why she had not found pretending to be a couple particularly strange at first. It was just a tool...
But Sogo Doma had told her—when getting married, who wouldn't long for a marriage where they would remain faithful to one another, find one person's heart, and never part until their hair turned white?
Masuzu Natsukawa could not refute that. Yes, who wouldn't long for it? Though she called herself an opponent of romance, she yearned more than anyone for a love that remained faithful from beginning to end, until death. Unfortunately, her father had failed to do so. That was why she did not believe in love, why she loathed people obsessed with romance...
But what about