My Second First Marriage

demia lawrence, the daughter of a fallen baron, secretly marries her childhood friend dyrtehen romerby. but contrary to her expectations, her married life is filled with mental abuse from dyrtehen and physical abuse from her mother-in-law. she becomes increasingly overdependent on dyrtehen who, almost right after the wedding, leaves for the capital for business and doesn’t return for five years. meanwhile, demia discovers that her mother-in-law is plotting to assassinate her and flees from the romerby house. after much hardship, she arrives at evan hasworth's house, another childhood friend. but evan, once a sweet boy, has grown to be a mature man seemingly hostile to her for reasons unknown… will demia successfully escape the claws of romerby and resolve the misunderstandings with evan?