The Trash Lady Who Stole the Duke's First Night

Elio, the daughter of a provincial earl, becomes an unwilling pawn in her father’s calculated plot to seduce a young duke. Despite never having touched the man, she is swiftly branded by society as a worthless noblewoman who has tarnished the reputation of the princess’s fiancé. Rather than stepping forward to clear her name and expose the truth, the young duke deliberately fans the flames of the scandal for his own purposes. Desperate to escape the violence of her father’s household, Elio accepts an unexpected offer from the very duke at the center of the controversy. He proposes a three-month arrangement: they will pretend to be engaged, allowing her a temporary refuge while he pursues his hidden agenda. What begins as a strictly fabricated engagement soon proves difficult to manage. As the days pass, the boundaries between their performance and reality begin to blur, leaving both Elio and the duke struggling with genuine emotions that neither of them anticipated.