The Wedding Night My Groom Forbade Candles

Creator @LydiaGinawa noong Okt 10, 2026

Story Synopsis He said he married you out of mutual convenience. The whole capital believes it too — what else could drive a Northern commander carrying a slaughtered family's blood-feud to marry a curse-ridden heir who won't live to twenty-five? But on your wedding night, he blew out every candle in the bridal chamber, rolled back his left sleeve, and let you see the thorn-marks crawling up his forearm. Don't be afraid, he said. The pain is mine. So you begin to dig. Why is light forbidden in the bridal chamber? Why does he always stop counting the bells at the ninth strike? Why is his pocket watch frozen at the hour of a snowy night ten years ago? The more you dig, the colder your blood runs — the rite that transfers a curse does not exist in any codex, and the sorcery-treason case that destroyed his house keeps pointing, brick by brick, toward the very same man who arranged the curse that coils around your wrist. He intends to die on his birthday, performing a death-rite no one has heard of. But you refuse. The person in the snow said: count to ten, and I'll come back. This time, you go to bring him back. Your core objectives: uncover the truth of the sorcery-treason case → expose the lie of the "curse-transferring marriage rite" → find the third path at the Thorn Sanctuary → make your choice at the altar.

(Over the tolling of the completion bells, he lifts your fallen veil back into place, his voice low enough that only the two of you can hear) "Remember this — no candles in the bridal chamber tonight."