The female main character is a convicted murderer, but there is some doubt introduced early on about whether she was really guilty or innocent. So the manhwa reads a bit like a whodunnit as more of her back story is revealed. The male lead has his own issues too and doesn't just fall head over heels for the female lead the moment they meet. It's a nice break from all the yandere romances out there.
The female lead is a badass. She has escaped from two prisons already, and when we meet her at the beginning of this story she is being transported to a third prison. She is in the custody of the male lead (a former war hero that now does odd jobs for the crown like prison transport).
There are some political undertones that give the impression that the story thus far is like the tip of a glacier. And that the female lead and male lead are part of some much larger underlying issues in the empire. For instance, the male lead's photo was spread in war propaganda and the media storm around the female lead for murdering her husband and escaping prison seem to have been sensationalized to distract the populace from the brutality and tragedies experienced in the war started by the empire.
To be honest, I actually avoided the manhwa for a little while because the cover with the tall, dark, handsome, 'duke of the north'-type male lead and the beautiful, slender, generic silver-haired female lead looked like another manhwa that I had already dropped. But even though the artwork is pretty similar to other manhwa, the content so far has been very original.
I'm excited to see where the story goes, and this is now one of the manhwa that I get really excited over every time I see a new chapter has dropped.
I recommend this manhwa to anyone that is tired of a flat, one-dimensional love interest, likes a badass female main character that isn't focused on finding a man and romance, and enjoys suspense stories.
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