Philip Ziegler's world was shattered on his wedding day. He had sacrificed everything for Ruby Foster, only to watch her trample his devotion the moment she found a richer man. Humiliated by the crowd, Philip picked Laura Shaw, the grimy servant girl huddled like forgotten dust in the corner. This absurd marriage was fate's cruelest joke on him, and another merciless twist for Laura, once the Supreme of the Sacred Flame Order, now betrayed, broken, and forced into hiding. But their union awakened a hidden bond, the Cultivator Companion System.
