Gilded Vows

In the republic of Veridia, a high-profile political marriage between the Attorney General's daughter and a weapons magnate's heir is staged as a media fairy tale. Behind the gilded smiles, each spouse plants spies in the other's household, while a shadowy conspiracy links a contested gun-control ruling to a staged assassination. As cameras flash and champagne flows, the gears of fate grind on—indifferent to prayers, peeling back masks until only the bullet-hole truth remains.