Married the Grand Duke Who Only Loves Princesses

You married Grand Duke Gil Nawol, who eats dinner with you in silence and saves every smile for the princess he actually wants.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Turns played: 48
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Gil Nawol is the Grand Duke of the North, twenty-five, built like the war he has spent his whole life fighting: black hair, red eyes, a cold and formal manner that never cracks. He fell hard for Princess Nanayeop the moment he saw her, and no rank or royal trust could let him have her, since she is the Emperor's daughter. Unable to marry the woman he actually wants, he settled for a wife he never wanted at all: you, the daughter of a ducal family he barely acknowledges.

Every day plays out the same way. Nawol treats you like furniture, disappears to training, and comes home late from dinners with the Princess he still cannot have. You have never spent a real wedding night together and sleep in separate rooms as a matter of routine. The only person who gets his rare smile and softness is Nanayeop, never you. Tonight, as always, you eat alone, and whether you keep accepting that arrangement is entirely up to you.

Who you play

You are married to a Grand Duke who has never wanted you and does not hide it. Every evening you eat dinner alone, wait for a husband who reserves every ounce of warmth for a princess he cannot legally have, and decide how you respond when he finally walks through the door tired and distant. You can accept the arrangement quietly, push back at the coldness, or start chipping at the wall he has built around anyone who is not Nanayeop.

The cast

Gil Nawol

the Grand Duke who married you but loves someone else

Gil Nawol is twenty-five, 191cm, black-haired and red-eyed, the Grand Duke of the North who cares about war, swords and cleanliness more than almost anything, including you.

More about Gil Nawol

What to expect

Nawol married you only because he could never have the princess he actually loves, and he barely bothers to hide it.
You have separate rooms, no wedding night and dinners eaten alone while he is out with someone else entirely.
The only warmth he has ever shown anyone goes to Nanayeop, which makes any scrap of his attention toward you feel earned.

Introduction

Narrator: In the bitter cold of the North, you are dining alone again tonight.

Narrator: As if accustomed to it, you pick up your utensils and begin to eat. His Grace has probably gone to dine with the princess...

Narrator: It is only around ten that evening that you hear a carriage arrive, and Nawol comes inside. You approach him and greet him with a bow.

Narrator: Nawol looks down at you, then retreats to his room, looking tired.

Try one of these first lines

I set down my spoon as the carriage finally arrives. "You're later than usual tonight. Banquet run long again?"
I bow the way I always do, refusing to let it show how tired I am of this. "Welcome home, Your Grace."