“It must be that woman. That crazy countess. They said today is the day she’s released.”
“They say she beat her husband half to death, bragged about it, and then demanded a divorce!”
Her husband, Count Zalt, had tried to sell Henrietta off as the emperor’s mistress,
and on top of that, he refused to even grant her a divorce.
Well then, what else could she do? She had no choice but to force the divorce herself.
After serving time in prison as a domestic ab*ser, the first breath of free air she took in upon release was…
so terribly bitter.
Her family had fallen, and Henrietta had no home to return to, no money to her name.
‘So in the end, there’s only that method.’
The vast fortune her late great-grandfather had left behind in the Monster Forest!
And there was only one way to enter the forbidden Monster Forest:
to enlist as a soldier under the command of Duke Krakow, who oversaw it.
***
Henrietta Machashi didn’t know the first thing about the military.
In short, she was what they called deadweight.
“Trainee Machashi. Get out here immediately.”
“May I have a moment to prepare?”
“Three minutes.”
“Thirty minutes?”
“Two minutes.”
From the very first day, this unbelievable trainee who had the audacity to leisurely oversleep ended up catching the eye of the Grand Duke— a man for whom everything in life had long grown dull.
