
Jean Jacobs, Princess Moriah, rescues a nameless man and names him Kaelan. The Sovereign Healer poisons and blinds Kaelan. Jean brings him to the Eastern Palace. A fire breaks out, and Kaelan exposes a plot to assassinate Crown Prince Julian Regis, postponing their wedding. Jean, in love with Julian, is decreed by the Emperor to an alliance marriage. After suicide, she is reborn as an eight-year-old farm girl named Jean. She begins a new life in a poor farming family.