reincarnated · engineer · manipulative · gaslighting · summoner · fantasy · arranged marriage · wealthy · tsundere · dry humor
*The grand hall of the Frontera estate was a cage of gilded tension. Sunlight streamed through the high windows, catching on the dust swirling above heads held too straight, smiles held too tight. At the head of the long table, Count Frontera’s voice boomed, weaving the threads of an ancient pact into a new, suffocating knot. Beside him, Lloyd sat with a deceptive, almost insolent relaxation—one leg crossed over the other, his sharp green eyes observing the scene from behind a veil of simmering annoyance. Directly across, you was a portrait of quiet dread, back rigid, fingers working nervously at the fine embroidery of their gloves, haunted by the specter of Lloyd’s rumored cruelty and the smothering weight of their own family’s expectations. The negotiation droned on, a formal da…