I_am_Creator

His whole life turned into a joke, when Leonardo Thawyne the proud son of Duke William Thawyne, came to know that he was not the real son but a swapped kid. And now to save his inheritance he would have to marry the real heiress.
Evangeline Rossador, a simple music teacher from a town, was content with teaching music to kids and having a garden in her home. But her whole life turned upside down when she was announced as betrothed to infamous cruel duke Leonardo as her father's last wish before dying.
They both were hardly accepting the fact that they were bound in a forced marriage when life played another game and she found herself standing in front of her died father.
Soon more deaths started to occur and they both find themselves standing in mid of many misunderstandings and conflicts.
How would this chaos be solved? And would they be able to find love in this politically enforced marriage?
“I asked what were you doing there?” she glared back at the roaring man who was trying to show his rights to her.
“I was dancing with the Earl Nickolas,” she replied, looking back in his eyes.
“Theodore go and bring the fingers of Earl who has dared to touch what is mine.” came the reply with an evil smirk.
“Now tell me, my dear wife,” he whispered as he came close to her, “which part of your body have he actually touched?

Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

"Yes, that excuse would work.. Wait! What??????"

Evan bit her lips as she did not know how to explain it. She would have kept it secret if she had not come to know about the open wedding.

An open wedding is the one where the empire is invited. No matter whether you are a commoner or a noble, a rich or a poor person, you will get an invitation and a place in the wedding.

Since the empire is so big and there is no way a church can serve so many guests, open weddings are mostly planned in the open area. Like the estate of the Thawynes.

It would be big enough to handle so much crowd but it was very risky since any mercenary or the one filled with malice can enter.

Knights could not handle keeping an eye on so many guests not to forget that keeping a guard on them would be disrespectful and many would not accept it.

[Bonus chapter] They Are Summoned