Princess Irina surrenders her ancestral dragon crest to Roland, a lowborn rider who repays her unconditional love by chaining her to an execution pyre. Beside his smirking mistress, Roland watches her burn, offering her flesh to appease the feared dark beasts. Yet in her final agonizing seconds, the monstrous dragon king Alaric intervenes, rewinding time through celestial flames to grant Irina a second chance at life.
Awakening three years before the betrayal, Irina severs all ties with the scheming riders and aligns directly with Alaric's terrifying shadow kingdom. She refines her dragon-taming heritage, turns court conspiracies inside out, and strips Roland of every honor he stole from her. Irina stakes her royal claim beside the demon sovereign who bled ten thousand years to love her.
