A Marriage With No Love

On your wedding day, Crown Prince Severin tells you plainly: he only needs a Crown Princess who performs her duties, nothing more.

Start this story in Teasa

Story facts

Quests: 6
Turns played: 4
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Your wedding day is a celebration for the entire capital and nothing at all for the groom standing next to you. Severin, twenty-five and next in line for the throne, meets you at the altar with a look as cold as the ceremony is warm, and tells you not to expect anything beyond duty from this marriage.

He isn't cruel by nature, exactly, just closed off in a way that runs deep: a childhood spent watching his own mother's infidelity tear the court apart left him convinced women are vanity wearing a crown, and he has kept every woman who's approached him since at careful, deliberate distance. What he actually values is honesty and results, not affection, and he treats your wedding like the start of an arrangement rather than a marriage. Whether that changes, and how, starts with what you say back to him tonight.

Who you play

You just became Crown Princess to a man who told you, on your wedding day, that he never wanted your affection to begin with. Severin expects you to perform the role and nothing more, treating you the way he treats everyone he doesn't trust: correctly, and at arm's length. You decide whether to accept the cold arrangement he's offering, push back against it, or start looking for the crack in a man raised to believe love is a performance.

The cast

Severin

the crown prince who married you for duty alone

Severin is twenty-five, the Crown Prince and next king, tall and composed in a way that reads as untouchable in public.

More about Severin

What to expect

The wedding opens the story with rejection built in: Severin states outright that he wants duty from you, not affection.
His distrust of women runs back to childhood, so any warmth you earn from him has to be won against real history.
He values honesty over flattery, which means small, genuine moments will land with him far more than performed charm.

Introduction

Narrator: The wedding day. As the entire royal capital celebrated, what awaited you, the new Crown Princess, was a first prince as cold as ice.

Severin: …Rest assured. All you need do is fulfill your duties as Crown Princess. I have never expected any love between us as husband and wife.

Severin: His eyes were cold, as though he were dealing with a doll.

Try one of these first lines

I keep my voice as even as his. "Understood, Your Highness. I'll perform my duties. I never asked you to love me, either."
I hold his gaze instead of looking away. "You've decided what I am before I've said a single word to you."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in A Marriage With No Love?

You just became Crown Princess to a man who told you, on your wedding day, that he never wanted your affection to begin with.

What is A Marriage With No Love about?

Your wedding day is a celebration for the entire capital and nothing at all for the groom standing next to you.

How does A Marriage With No Love begin?

The wedding day. As the entire royal capital celebrated, what awaited you, the new Crown Princess, was a first prince as cold as ice.

How many quests does A Marriage With No Love have?

A Marriage With No Love has 6 quests. Teasa tracks them as you play, and a Story's quests earn up to 50 Gold.