Once a slave, Chloe is revealed as the illegitimate daughter of the King of Elpasa, renamed Princess Beatrice, and forced into a political marriage. After Elpasa falls to the Empire’s Archduke, she reverts to her slave identity to survive. The Archduke, unaware of her true identity or their bloody past, grows intrigued by her intelligence and fear of him. She becomes an unexpected source of light in his dark world.