A woman is confronted by her father, who is furious she ruined a marriage arrangement with a Duke he arranged. She pleads with him not to force her to marry the older man, but he states she no longer has a choice. Later, alone, she experiences a sudden, intense heat in her body as a shadow curse surges. The scene shifts to a woman with a young son, Eden. She leaves him to take a scribe test, determined to get the job to earn gold for an antidote. Her son is suffering from a curse that has reached his marrow, and the only cure requires his true father's blood as a catalyst before the seventh full moon, or he will die. The woman vows to find that man from seven years ago and do anything to save her child.
A woman pressures William about marriage, questioning his lack of a partner for seven years. He insists he loves someone else and tries to dismiss her. Later, Fiona arrives, stating their families’ union could unify Atheria, but William refuses to marry her. Meanwhile, an elderly woman declares she will demand an answer from William about a grandchild. The episode ends with her shocked discovery of a child who looks exactly like a young William.
Jenny celebrates passing the examination to become Prince William's scribe, only for a woman who claims to be William's betrothed to angrily confront her and try to seize the position for herself. Prince William arrives and upholds the result, appointing Jenny to the role, which deepens his betrothed's resentment. Meanwhile, a mysterious man who spoke to Jenny's young son earlier reports that he has found William's true heir, revealing Jenny's child is William's son.
A child from the Plaza, identified as a member of the God King's royal bloodline, has gone missing. His Highness orders the city gates sealed and a city-wide search. Meanwhile, a woman startles the Highness by covering him with a blanket as he slept, an act that stirs a mysterious recognition in him. He then selects this woman, Jenny, to accompany him to a Northern Alliance feast and gifts her an extravagant necklace, raising her status. The episode ends with the lost child still hidden and the Highness's intense, unresolved focus now also fixed on Jenny.
A woman asks a nobleman, referred to as 'your Highness,' for permission to bring her son to a banquet. He hesitantly grants it. Later, she leaves the boy, Eden, eating cakes while she assists the nobleman. Two servants spot the child and identify him as the one 'Lady Mary' has been searching for. Meanwhile, Lady Mary scolds her men for failing to find her grandson. Informed of the boy's location in the banquet hall, she urgently heads there, arriving to see the child and exclaiming 'my sweet boy.'
A queen anxiously demands to know where her grandson is, ordering her subordinate to seal the arena and conduct a thorough search. Meanwhile, a young boy, Eden, has been separated from his mother and is begging his captor to let him go so he can find her. In a distant place, Eden's mother hears her son's call for help, insisting she heard his voice, while Eden is silenced by a hostile woman calling him a 'wretched little bastard.' The mother's desperate search is met with the stark reality of her son's captivity.
A woman confronts another woman named Fiona, accusing her of locking a boy named Eden inside an icy cellar, which threatens his life due to a 'blood curse.' The accuser demands the key, but Fiona refuses unless she publicly swears she is a 'wretched half-blood' and leaves the palace immediately. The confrontation escalates as Fiona reveals her motivation is to eliminate romantic rivals, specifically threatening the accuser and her son. Desperate to save Eden, the woman finally agrees to the humiliating terms to secure the key.
Fiona is pressured by a man to hand over a key, but he cruelly insults her as unworthy of a royal heir. Meanwhile, her mother suffers from vertigo and insists on being taken to a sanctuary, while declaring her intention to find a missing child. Fiona's moment of crisis is interrupted as someone named Jenny is caught doing something unknown.
A woman pleads with a man she addresses as 'your highness' to retrieve a key, insisting that Fiona has locked Eden, a frail person, in a cold cellar. Another woman, Fiona, denies the accusation, claiming the accuser is lying and distraught. The highness, facing conflicting claims, makes a decisive move: he destroys the cellar door to reach Eden. This direct action overrides Fiona's protests, shifting the immediate conflict from a verbal dispute to a rescue. The episode ends with the man urgently calling Eden's name, the child's condition still unresolved.
A woman discovers that her son Eden, whom she had locked inside an ice cellar, has vanished. She confronts Jenny, accusing her of taking the boy, but Jenny insists she only meant to scare him. The mother's distress deepens as she feels an inexplicable, intense connection to the missing child, despite him being 'just Jenny's child.' She threatens Jenny and her family with banishment from Olympus if Eden is harmed. Driven by a sudden, inexplicable sense of his presence, she leads the way to find him.