Valia, Tribute to Shuden

Valia Dean will get things right this time now that she's thirteen again. After meeting a grisly end as a maid-at-arms in the Gehl Empire, she doesn't plan on taking the same thorn-filled path as before. With zero hesitation, she fires the maid who would have stolen her inheritance, marking the start of her new beginning.

To live a life free of financial problems, she decides to apply to become a tribute woman to the temple. However, she somehow ends up as the wife of Marquess Shuden Garth, whose reputation for massacre pales in comparison to the coldness of his gaze. Hardened by misfortune, orphancy, starvation, and betrayal, Valia accepts what seems to be certain death. Little does she know what fate has in store for her.