Serena returns to the Black Dragon stronghold after years spent guarding a sacred golden egg, eager to celebrate her father's centenary reign alongside her frost king consort. Her homecoming turns horrific when Dalia, her father's newly elevated fox concubine, misidentifies the plain-robed visitor as an interloping rival, subjecting Serena to merciless dungeon torture and shattering her sacred clutch.
Believing she has disposed of a petty concubine, Dalia drags the battered princess into the main coronation pavilion to gloat before the court. Reawakening with the primordial frost authority inherited from her true dragon lineage, Serena sheds her bloodied chains to reveal Dalia's feigned pregnancy and fraudulent claims, demanding immediate retribution before the throne.
