Marielle Clarac is the daughter of a minor noble and an incurable fangirl. Shes established herself (under a nom de plume) as a successful author of romantic fiction by perfecting her wallflower ways in order to observe the actions of those around her, but even she doesn see the proposal by the much higher-ranked Lord Simeon Flaubert coming. Marielle accepts, but shes in the dark as to why he would have proposed to her in the first place. Of course, she does have some ideas…