After supporting her fiancé for eight years, Violet Archer faces a cold betrayal once Ryan Chandler wins the top honors as the new Top Scholar. Refusing to tolerate this, Violet Archer grabs a blade and heads straight to The Capital to collect his debt. On Vermillion Bird Avenue, she stops a runaway horse with a single hand, only to drag out the "beggar" debtor she rescued three months prior, who is actually Elijah Sinclair. She immediately demands two thousand taels from him. While dealing with this mysterious noble and tearing down the ungrateful Ryan Chandler, she realizes the waters of The Capital run deep. Her journey for repayment pulls her into a royal struggle, and her own identity hides a past far from ordinary.
