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!

"Father, will you please listen to me?" Eve could not help but shout. She had been sitting in his office for long but all he was doing was announcing orders like

"Write a letter of the emperor informing him that we are imprisoning the envoy of the Arcedian empire."

"And write another letter to his family announcing his sin and its punishment. If they want him back, they have to wage a war against their family." it was such a mess that she wanted to pull all her hair and so did her father's!

Was announcing war against the emperor not enough when Eli did not return that he was announcing the war against the neighboring empire now? How would she explain to her in-laws later about what had happened.

"Father, don't you think it is too much? You can not wage a war against everyone? You are not that strong?" she challenged when finally leo and william turned to look at her.

[Bonus chapter] What If It Is A Trap?