Blown up by her half-sister's bomb, Elwyn dies — then wakes up five years earlier, only to find her sister has also been reborn. When forced to relive the same fateful betrothal, Elwyn does what no one expects: she renounces her title and marries a broken street poet instead of the powerful knight. But the rusted ring he gives her is no trinket — it commands thirty thousand dragon knights, and the "beggar" is the most feared warlord in the empire. As her family tortures her to surrender the ring, the sky darkens with warships, and her poet returns to burn their world down. They tried to bury her in dirt — not knowing she was planting a throne.
