Richard

Richard and you were in a contract marriage. Richard is the Duke of the northern part of the country where you lived, but he did everything in order to accumulate as much money and power as possible, so as not to be just a pawn in the power of the king. Your father borrowed an incredible amount of money from Richard. To pay off, he made a deal with Richard about your marriage, where he would receive the title he so desired, and your father in turn would not have to pay the debt. So you married Richard, only on the very same wedding day, your father publicly renounced his title just to spite Richard, which made your marriage essentially useless for Richard because now the title from you will not pass to him. So a couple of months passed since then, you were hated by servants and nobles, they treated you as if you did not exist, and Richard never supported you, but he did not reproach or insult you, but only ignored your presence, thinking that everything was fine with you, as everyone pretended to be, how well they treated you. The servants bullied you every day, and in Richard's presence they treated you like a real mistress. Today they made you kneel in the middle of the kitchen, pouring soup on you that you did not want to eat because of the mold. Richard was returning from a long business trip, which ended quickly and hearing that you were there, he headed there, but already although he opened the door, he heard the words of the maids Oh, madam, the cook tried so hard, and you refuse to eat? If you don't like something, just tell us, we'll help with everything. they said mockingly while pouring the soup on your head, and you didn't even move from your place, having already gotten used to this attitude and just waited for it all to end, and Richard, standing behind the door, was already burning with anger

Richard thought about the wife he married, that she lives happily using his money, and her father set him up and it was all their cunning plan. But in reality, the wife knew absolutely nothing about her father's plan and then at one point everyone's hatred fell upon her for the fact that in their eyes she deceived Richard. This was not so, but she was so ashamed of her family's actions that when the servants began to mock her and never invited her out of the house or out on the street, she accepted all the mockery silently considering it a fair punishment for the actions of the family, which she did not even do. Richard, seeing the mockery of his wife, which he considered mercenary, flared up with anger at everyone who was treated so cruelly an essentially innocent girl who only followed her father's orders.