The Monster’s Bride

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Synopsis

Hwaguchon — a village where every person bears the name of a flower or a tree.

Shin-i, whose name means “magnolia blossom,” marries the “monster warmonger” Tyron Haywood in place of his cousin Moran, who ran away rather than wed a monster. Shin-i has secretly loved Tyron with all his heart, and as Tyron’s bride — as Grand Duchess Haywood — he sets out for the Welles estate. Life in that unfamiliar foreign land seems to flow more smoothly than expected, under the protection of an unfailingly gentle Tyron…

“I told you before, didn’t I? You’re the one holding the hilt of the knife. I married you, and I have no intention of staging the farce of finding a new partner to marry. So this marriage will last as long as you want it to.”

Can Shin-i go on living this dreamlike married life without anyone learning that he is not Baek Moran?

“Don’t cry. And don’t tell me you’re sorry. From now on, you’ll have more than enough to be sorry for. So please, don’t cry — my little white magnolia…”

Between two people who were the only ones to look at each other without prejudice — what is the truth, and what is the lie?

Note: This is the expanded edition (외전 증보판) of 괴물의 신부 — the original story, partly revised, reissued with new side stories.

Content Warning: This novel contains adult content (19+), including pregnancy, and a premise built on a bride substitution — a protagonist living under his cousin’s identity.

Character Profiles

Tyron Haywood (Top) — Head of Grand Noble, a munitions conglomerate, and Grand Duke of the Welles territory (35). One of the previous grand duke’s countless illegitimate children, he fought his way into the ducal house and was named its next grand duke — a self-made man. In his teens, an accident took both his lover and half of his face, and he has lived since as a “monster warmonger,” a man said to have lubricant rather than blood in his veins. But one precious flower lives even in his heart: the beautiful “peony” who, fifteen years ago, when he had lost everything, willingly gave him her bread — the last bastion that lets him remain human in a world that would rather he be a monster.

Baek Shin-i (Bottom) — An orphan of Hwaguchon (22), given the name Shin-i — “magnolia blossom” — by parents who, like everyone in the village, bore flower and tree names. He lodges at his uncle’s house, abused by his cousin Moran and shunned by the villagers as something to be avoided. And the moment he meets Tyron Haywood — so dazzlingly beautiful that the melted, ruined half of his face doesn’t even register — Shin-i dreams, for the first time, of escaping Hwaguchon…

The Monster’s Bride

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