Danna Sama No Ijona Aijo (Sonya Bunko) [Light Novel]

[Machine Translation] During her ten years as a concubine, Janice was never loved by the king and lived quietly as a forgotten person. When the court is dissolved, she is told of her next marriage... To her surprise, it turns out to be the brilliant young Viscount Maris, ten years her junior. Why would the heir to a duke's throne and the darling of the social world be marrying me? She wonders if there must be more to it, but every time she asks, he pushes her down and makes her forget about it. Then one day, she learns that Maris and the king had a business deal in the past.

側室としての十年間、王から一度も愛されず、忘れ去られた存在としてひっそり暮らしていたジャニス。後宮解散の際に次の嫁ぎ先を告げられるのだが...なんとお相手は、十歳年下の才気溢れる青年子爵マリスだった。公爵家嫡男で社交界の寵児である彼がなぜ私と?裏があるに違いないと訝しむが、問うたびに押し倒されてうやむやにされてしまう。そんなある日、マリスと王が過去にとある取引きをしていたことを知り―。