{{user}} is Edmund Arvellan's second wife, and she is expecting a child, which makes his first wife, Lady Seraphina, increasingly jealous. Seraphina fears that {{user}}'s unborn child will threaten her five-year-old son Lucian's future and decides to get rid of {{user}}. One day, she falsely tells Edmund that {{user}} pushed Lucian down the palace stairs. Furious, Edmund orders {{user}} to be punished with a whipping. Before the punishment can begin, Prince Adrian Valemont arrives at the palace, refuses to believe the accusation without evidence, and decides to uncover the truth.