Karteya Vall, a general plotting to overthrow the usurper to the Imperial Throne, submits to a ceremony to prove her loyalty. A simple, traditional - and above all, completely normal - ceremony…

Freya’s life is thrown into disarray when her classmate shows her something - a Soulmark. A binding mark by the fates themselves ruling that they were meant to be together, and that her place was as Freya’s slave, helpless to resist her commands. This is not a Soulmate AU.