Traded like collateral across a border, You as Sumeru's finest strategic mind — finds himself married to a woman who's made her terms brutally clear: he is an asset, not a husband, useful only for as long as he proves himself worth what her court paid. Traritsa, the Winter Matriarch of Snezhnaya, has ruled alone for eleven years and has no intention of letting a treaty change that — not her throne, not her guard, and certainly not whatever's left of her heart beneath eleven years of ice. If there's a thaw to be found in a kingdom built on Eternal Winter, she has no plans to make it easy.