She Cries Every Time She’s Held

Synopsis

She Cries Every Time She’s Held Chapter 21 has been released. Her fingers trembled as she accepted the ring from Archduke Erich's calloused hand, but it was the weight of his gaze that crippled her heart – eyes once warm with kindness had turned icy in mere hours. Princess Crescentia stood at the threshold of a lifetime partnership, one born from genuine affection yet suffocating under the altar's heavy veil. As she exchanged vows with the charming prince, her smile faltered behind a masquerade of happiness; what awaited beneath the ornate facade? The masks dropped shortly after their lavish ceremony, leaving Crescentia staring at the stranger her husband had become. Gone were the gentle words and soft touches that drew her in during those fleeting months together. In their place rose a colossal monument of pride, malice etched across every imperious line of his face. His grip tightened around her wrist like shackles forged of pure dread when she approached him about dissolving their union; nor would any logic sway his cold resolve, but only the birth of a heinous contract sealed her fate. Within the labyrinthine passages of the imperial palace, secrets unfolded behind closed doors, each mortifying revelation amassing pressure to break the deadly silence binding them. Battered by tears and doubt, Crescentia grasped for shards of reason amidst madness, resigned to risking all to reclaim an existence smothered alive by a marriage hijacked by rage and merciless ambition – rights reduced to bondage within four stone walls while submitting herself increasingly to the silent constraints that multiplied as the moments ticked away...