I Received Five Husbands as a Birthday Gift

Theodora Norton, Eugenie’s mother, suffered emotional pain throughout her entire life until the day she died because of her daughter’s womanizing father. “So that my daughter won’t live like her mother, Mom has already prepared everything.” With those words, Theodora breathed her last, saying that for Eugenie’s twenty-fourth birthday, she had prepared not just one, but several perfect men. Eugenie did not think much of it, assuming it was merely something her mother had said out of bitterness over her father’s countless affairs… until, as soon as the funeral ended, her father brought home a new wife, Agatha, and Eugenie’s half-sister, Apaline. Six years passed like that, and by the time even her father had died and Eugenie finally turned twenty-four, she found herself on the verge of losing all of her parents’ inheritance to Agatha and Apaline. It was then that, just as her mother had said in her will, the empire’s five most famous and perfect men appeared before Eugenie. Alfred, her distant cousin, from a family of admirals in the South and known as the Hero of the South. Percival, the Grand Duke of the North and a war hero of the empire. Cassius, a younger man who runs a rather suspicious business. Magnus, her academy rival and a patron of the arts. And Carter, her childhood friend, who knows everything about Eugenie and has inherited the position of priest of the capital. Thus, Eugenie Norton, an ordinary graduate student of the empire, begins to write a new chapter in imperial history, surrounded by the empire’s five most famous men as her husbands.