To escape slavery, Princess Emeriel disguised herself as a boy for twenty years. When her sister was sold to the Urekai, she volunteered as a slave and found the beast-king Daemonikai, the man from her dreams. She was his soul-bond, the only one who could wake him. After he saved her again and again, she exposed her true identity and sacrificed herself in a blood ritual to restore his human form. But Daemonikai, scarred by old betrayal, sent her away, and she lost their child. Two years later, he lay dying. Emeriel returned, uncovered the traitor Zaiper's plot, and saved him. He abolished slavery, crowned her queen, and they rebuilt his kingdom together.
