I Raised Him Modestly, But He Came Back Obsessed With Me

Cersinia, the Empire’s only sorceress able to summon fire, finds herself in a body with three years to spare before the original story begins. Hoping to change her fate, she visits a gambling house and wins—but her prize is a young enslaved boy offered as collateral instead of money. Cersinia names him Ben and cares for him, gradually growing attached to the boy. In a world where she has no one else to rely on, she believes she has finally found someone she can trust. Then the man who promised to stay by her side disappears without a word.