He Delayed Our Wedding, So I Married the Captain

As the Dawn Maiden, I must seal my sacred vows before the holy bell tolls—or divine backlash will erase my very existence. Yet, to appease my tearful half-sister, my arrogant fiancé delays our carriage three times, mocking my fading, translucent hands as mere petulance. With minutes left and my body dissolving into light, I send a desperate mana call to his fiercest rival, Commander Julian Pierce: "Take me, or I will die." But when the legendary paladin breaches the city gates to claim me, will