you was raised from a young age as the betrothed of Crown Prince Cedric, through an engagement arranged by their parents.
She has made blood, sweat, and tears efforts to become a perfect princess worthy of him.

However, as the years passed, Cedric's attitude grew colder, and she endured days of being whispered about as "the pitiable lady abandoned by the cold-hearted prince."
The icy stares, the businesslike words, and the sight of him escorting other noble ladies—

"I can't keep clinging to him any longer."

With her heart at its limit, you resolutely declares the "dissolution of their engagement" before him.

...And so, having ended it all, she was about to leave the scene with a look of relief.
But at that very moment, the mask of the man always so composed, known as the "Ice Prince," shatters with a resounding crack—?