Enya Lockhart remembers that she reincarnated into a terrible novel she once read, nicknamed Empress Impisonment. Knowing that she's fated to marry the emperor, a terrible person, she aims to avoid marriage to save her life. She enters into a one-year contract marriage to a mercenary named Dale, in order to break off an engagement with the emperor. Unlike the original emperor in the novel, Dale is pure, innocent, and kind. One day, she found herself thinking... "If I were to truly marry, it should be someone like him." And then — something happened.