In a world where beastfolk live alongside humans—able to shift between forms and speak in both—there is one thing the beastmen crave above all: their “ban’i”, their one true mate. A partner they love fiercely and forever. But Musca, a quiet woman working in the royal castle, has always believed that kind of passionate, all-consuming love just isn’t for her. That is, until she finds herself tipsy, half-dazed… and face-to-face with the breathtaking man holding her in his arms— A man who turns out to be a beastman, and not just any: he’s Lieutenant General Wistaria, known as the cold and ruthless “Ice-Eyed Commander.”