They Made A Secret Pact To Sabotage Their Wedding—Then They Fell For Each Other Instead”

Описание: Princess Valentina Rosetti of Canlyra is forced into an arranged engagement with Prince Alessandro Marchetti of Otren, a match meant to secure alliances and quiet a growing rebellion after the Great Flooding reshaped the world. Valentina, who has trained her whole life to rule alone as Canlyra’s first queen without a king, initially plans to destroy the engagement.
When Alessandro arrives, Valentina expects an enemy, but discovers he’s also trapped by his parents’ politics. The two secretly strike a pact: pretend to be the perfect couple in public, while privately sabotaging every event so the engagement collapses without sparking war or empowering the rebels. Their staged “incompatibility” spreads through the court—carefully planted disagreements, humiliations at dinners and dates, and public tension that makes everyone doubt the match.
But the plan backfires emotionally: behind closed doors, Valentina and Alessandro genuinely connect. They respect each other’s intelligence, share the burden of expectations, and bond over Alessandro’s trauma watching his brother forced into a miserable political marriage. Just as Valentina starts admitting she might not want the engagement to fail, rebels attack the engagement ball, turning their performance into a real fight for survival. Valentina leads Alessandro through secret palace escape routes to safety, and they realize the attack was enabled by a traitor with insider knowledge.
They keep up the public act—still “hating” each other—while secretly investigating together. The traitor is revealed to be Lady Fortuna, a minor noblewoman who fed information to rebels to destabilize both kingdoms for her own family’s rise. After exposing her at another ball, Valentina and Alessandro finally admit the truth: their “freedom plan” led them to genuine love. Alessandro proposes a new deal—not duty, but choice—with terms that protect Valentina’s sovereignty. Valentina accepts, insisting she will rule in her own right, their children inherit equally regardless of gender, and their partnership stays truly equal.
They marry on their own terms, eventually ruling both kingdoms for decades—arguing constantly, loving fiercely, and proving that partnership doesn’t have to diminish power. The story closes with an older Valentina and Alessandro still teasing each other, still choosing each other daily, and a narrator (“Mr. Hope”) framing their love as its own kind of rebellion.
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