The Duchess of Charlotte arrives at her fiancé Martin's manor to investigate rumors of his infidelity. She finds him there with another woman, Joanna, who claims to be his cousin. Joanna boasts that Martin spent all night making her a special kite, treating Charlotte's property as his own. Confronted, Martin admits he invited Joanna and made the kite for her, offering to make one for Charlotte too. Seeing the cuts on his hands from the effort, Charlotte's trust in her reliable groom shatters weeks before their wedding.
After Martin injures himself, two women react differently: Joanna apologizes and offers comfort, while his fiancée Charlotte appears indifferent and suggests he work more. Martin publicly criticizes Charlotte's coldness, revealing his imminent promotion and her lack of power. At a tense gathering, Charlotte is instructed to care for the soon-to-be-busy Martin, but she defiantly questions if she hasn't given enough. The episode escalates as Charlotte, offended by Joanna's remarks, orders her maid to slap Joanna, asserting her dominance in the unresolved power struggle.
Charlotte's fiancé, Martin, brings her cousin Joanna to her manor and instructs his maid to slap Charlotte. Charlotte confronts him, but Martin reveals he plans to make Joanna his co-wife after their wedding, dismissing Charlotte as a 'powerless noble.' Instead of apologizing, Charlotte declares Martin's hand, used to make kites for Joanna, 'disgusting' and deliberately cuts it. She publicly renounces their engagement, calls Martin 'dirtied,' and orders her guards to expel him and Joanna from her family's properties forever.
Charlotte confronts her fiancé Martin in public, accusing him of cheating on her before their wedding. She calls off their engagement, but he retaliates by threatening that the King will be angry and no other man will marry her. Undeterred, Charlotte secures witnesses to confirm Martin's infidelity and leaves him. However, her maid warns that canceling a royal wedding will cause scandal and invite retaliation from Princess Serene. To avoid disgrace, Charlotte decides to choose a new noble fiancé from a list and will ask the King to approve the replacement, determined to proceed with a wedding.
Timothy, heir to the Duke of Protectora, throws a lavish public birthday party for his dog Snowy, giving away coins to citizens who offer well-wishes. The extravagant display blocks the street and draws public criticism, labeling him a hopeless, spoiled heir. This spectacle is observed by a woman who finds herself intrigued by him despite his reputation. The scene culminates with Timothy's furious father confronting him at the party, chasing him with the intent to 'break his legs,' leading to a frantic, agile escape by the young heir.
A man, addressed as Timothy by his father, rejects his father's plea by kneeling in return and leaves. The father then offers a bounty for his capture, prompting a chaotic chase through the streets. Timothy evades the pursuers and seeks refuge with a young woman, who agrees to hide him. After a flirtatious exchange where she asks if he is betrothed, Timothy suspects a trap to force him into marriage and abruptly excuses himself to escape.
The Duchess of Peacefield catches a man she calls a wastrel and uses his capture as leverage, surprising him by announcing she will discuss their wedding with his father tomorrow, seeing him as a better alternative to Martin. The man is confused and protests, but she asserts her authority. When his father arrives to apologize, she asks if the reward for catching his son still stands, revealing she trapped him for the silver. Later, intrigued by an object she finds on him, she orders a full investigation into the man named Timothy.
A woman kneels before her king, offering something in exchange for canceling her wedding. She reveals her fiancé, Martin, cheated with his cousin Joanna and planned to make Joanna his co-wife. The woman declares she will not share her husband and begs for her freedom. The king, outraged by Martin's betrayal and sympathetic to the woman's father's sacrifice, agrees to cancel the wedding. He also retracts his offer to promote Martin and recalls the physician sent to tend to him. To salvage her reputation, the woman proposes finding a man willing to marry into her family to continue her line and protect her assets. She hints at a candidate but needs his family's approval first, leaving the king curious about his identity.
After Charlotte injures Martin's hand, his mother is furious, but the doctor assures them he will recover and can still write. Martin and his mother believe Charlotte sent the King's physician out of remorse, interpreting this as proof she is still in love with him despite her violent outburst over his plan to take a co-wife. They conspire to exploit her feelings upon her arrival, demanding her assets and a full apology as conditions for forgiveness. Meanwhile, Charlotte obtains information on Timothy, the Duke of Protectora's heir who hides behind a wastrel facade, and decides to arrange a meeting to confirm her suspicions about his true motives.
The episode opens with Martin, a man visited by his acquaintance, being informed by a steward that his wife, Charlotte, was seen being intimate with another man, Timothy Wentz, at a teahouse. He angrily dismisses the report and storms out. Meanwhile, Charlotte, the Duchess, publicly flaunts her status by offering to cover everyone's bills at a teahouse. She then privately approaches the disgraced noble Timothy Wentz, revealing she knows his tragic past and desire for revenge. She shocks him by proposing a collaboration and declaring she has chosen him to be her husband and the father of her children, specifying he will marry into her family. Timothy, initially laughing at the absurdity, realizes she is deadly serious and demands to know how she plans to convince a duke's heir to accept such an arrangement.