At the imaginary end of the 19th century, the "Great Age of Medicine", a mysterious plague struck and caused tens of thousands of deaths. At the juncture of life and death, a group of outstanding physicians with strict and unimaginable training joined the force of the fight against the pandemic. They were ordered to risk their lives and fight the disease fearlessly. This group of unsung heroes who dared to face death and performed benevolence in the epidemic are - the Black Dukes.​

“Médecins de Peste．黑公爵醫師．ペスト医師“

Originally written by AIKEN (Aiken Dao)Illustration Artists: PETER｜KRONOS｜KONAYUKICooperators: Verdant Lore/SaltyTank

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This story is purely fictitious. The characters, place names, organisations and events have nothing to do with reality. Any similarity is purely coincidental.

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“does it ever drive you crazy,

just how fast the night changes?”

All poor Ori desperately wanted was to be a Knight under the Empire and provide for her struggling family. But, who would have thought that getting entangled with the enigmatic Duke's demands would make her a contracted Duchess instead?

Will Ori end up being a pawn in the Duke's game or will she play with his heart instead?

Or, in which, a calm and vengeful duke joins hands with a naive yet stubborn pesant girl to act as his secret duchess and intrigue the evil empress out of her lair and make her go mad. Featuring: misadventures, agressive pinning, and a consistently cute way of addressing eachother.

“...wisdom can rule only in an element dominated by falsehood.”

[You can find it on webnovel @rinne_aurora for early updates.]

Aurora Harper had lived her childhood in the confines of a small room with parents who had mostly given up hope and relatives who knew nothing but scorn. Aurora Harper had found glory in her teenage, being celebrated as a gem of the theatre. A performer extraordinaire. She lived in a villa with parents who wanted to suck her dry off opportunities and relatives who knew nothing but bootlicking.

At twenty, in another housefull theatre of Harper Productions, she faces an ambiguous death and wakes up in the body of a scrawny five-year-old with no future or fortune in sight. Iris Bernadette.

To add fuel to destiny's arson that was her life, Iris also happens to a thief!

Given a blank canvas of a character with no background of the world or the people in it, how long can Aurora Harper ad-lib her way through life?

She finds herself caught up in a flurry of manipulative bets set forth by the young, fun loving and curious Ducal Prince, Arcel Maynard, and the suspicious mannerisms of a lurker of the shadows, Vasil.

There is a gorgeous Duchess and her stolen necklace. There is magic, a hunt for a soul and a Priestess. There are faeries, mermaids, ghosts, dragons and murders. There are schools, churches and strange new lands with treasures. There is adventure, romance and deceit. But there is no war.

There's also illiteracy and poverty  but that isn't life threatening for Aurora, yet.

Plummeted into a new world order with a constant existential crises in hand, will Aurora be able to save herself with only her dramatics to get her through?

Or will she fall in the web of this Aurora - Iris paradox and succumb to the whims of the people who want to control her?

Oh- also, she needs to earn a whole lot of money and get rich. Fast! By any means possible. Will you stay to see her get rich? For if you don't, she'll keep failing thoroughly.

Kaden Everett, the Archduke, commander in chief, when falls for Princess Aliyah Clemons, the Duke's daughter, remains unaware what tragedy could fall upon the couple posing as a Threat to the Throne.