The Voiceless Duchess

Lohengrin had been betrothed for eight long years.
Even when she lost her voice, her fiancé remained steadfast by her side, never once breaking off their engagement.

Just as she was about to marry him,
She found out that her fiancé had a mistress and a five-year-old son.
Such deceit was beyond anything she could ever tolerate.

But then.

“Have you forgotten how to speak because you suffered some sort of shock? Or is it that you’ve never had the ability to speak in the first place?”

Wynbergen’s disgrace, Bern’s libertine, His Majesty the Emperor’s setback.
Wynbergen’s bastard.

Carlisle Ansgar.

This man…

“What is it that you want?”
“Marriage.”

…Why has he appeared as though he had been waiting for this very moment?

Female lead: Lohengrin de unt der Nordvant

Daughter of the Nordvant Margravate from the Empire’s north. Due to a sudden deluge of magical power that happened when she was nineteen years old, she collapsed and was on the very precipice of death. When she woke up, her voice was already lost.

Although she had become mute, she carries herself with her head held high, confident and haughty, never intimidated as she had inherited the power of Nordvant. She usually communicates through handwritten notes.

Male lead: Carlisle Wynbergen von Leinmond

Bastard son of the previous Archduke of Wynbergen. The only survivor of House Wynbergen. While growing up, he was the receptacle of all kinds of contempt in this empire that extremely rejects illegitimate children.

Although he was known far and wide as Bern’s libertine, his filthy behavior was merely a means to an end—a ruse that he plans to take advantage of for the sake of marrying Lohengrin. With complex origins, he harbors extreme antipathy towards the aristocracy.

※ This novel’s chapters are half chapters, but they’re numbered normally to make things simple. Moving forward, the TL will be posting as often as she can to compensate for the length.