Shia gradually gains weight in society, and her opponents among the nobility, sensing the foreigner’s power over the emperor, become even more dangerous. It’s tense also at the borders of the White Empire: the Drow Kingdom continues to threaten with war, and peace hangs by a thread again and again. Deciding to refuse her homeland, Shia forever ties her fate to the White Empire and puts everything on the line—yet life sometimes turns in ways that can smash our plans to pieces…