To help her parents financially, Toini Lantamäki enters a contract marriage with Pāvarri Lant, a handsome and accomplished marquis. Before their marriage begins, Pāvarri makes one condition perfectly clear: she must never fall in love with him. If she does, he threatens to withdraw the financial support her parents depend on.Toini agrees without hesitation. She understands her role as his wife and has no intention of demanding his affection. For five years, they live under the same roof while maintaining a marriage that is largely formal, with little genuine intimacy between them.But when the agreed period finally expires, Toini decides that it is time to end their arrangement. She expects her husband to accept the divorce as naturally as he accepted their contract in the first place.Instead, Pāvarri discovers that the thought of losing her is far more painful than he anticipated. The husband who once warned her never to love him now finds himself desperately hoping she will remain by his side.