A Rose Flower Offered to the Displeased Princess

Ignis Parvae is an ordinary knight serving the royal family of the great nation of Ruthena, spending his days off like a retired old man—tending to his vegetable garden, cleaning his room, and grooming his horse. At thirty-one years old, he had accumulated some years but remained unmarried, occasionally thinking vaguely that he wanted a gentle companion to share gardening with. However, as long as the prince he serves doesn't marry, it's impossible for him to take a wife, so he continues his lonely life monotonously. Then one day, before Ignis appeared an extraordinarily beautiful and spirited duke's daughter who began serving the prince as a lady-in-waiting. He was delighted to have her as eye candy, but before he knew it, inexplicable feelings began to sprout within him... A love story between a poor knight burdened with debt (a mortgage) and a duke's daughter who always looks down on him with an air of superiority.