A girl with the wrong eyes gets crowned into a life that isn't hers, married to a man she doesn't know, trapped in a role that demands she be someone else forever. The romance that blooms isn't salvation, it's the only honest thing in a world built on her erasure. By the final episode, you're watching two people choose each other over the institutions that tried to own them both.
Nina is an orphan who steals to get by on the streets of a castle town in the Fortna Kingdom. Her eyes are a deep lapis lazuli blue, the same shade as those of the God of the Stars and of Princess Alisha, who has recently died. When Second Prince Azure finds her, he decrees that she will live as the princess in Alisha's place, since the death is being kept secret for political reasons. As the substitute princess and Priestess of the Stars, Nina must become the bride of Sett, the tyrant first prince of neighboring Galgada, once three months have passed. She is simply glad to be needed, but time spent with Azure stirs feelings she knows she must set aside. The result is a fantasy romance drama about a borrowed identity and a love that cannot be spoken.
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