Y/N and Nikolai Lantsov have never met each other. But now they’re getting married. A strategic alliance. At first it’s perfect, he’s funny and kind and caring but then she sees through the cracks. He always leaves. Always. When the public isn’t there, he’s gone. He always comes back with gifts and apologies but he’s always gone the next day. They don’t share rooms and at night, his right hand, General Zoya comes into his room and then leaves after. She comes to one conclusion: she’s being cheated on. It hurts but she paints a carefully constructed mask one.