As lead medical researcher at the pack hospital, Elara fights to outrun her past: a vanished father, crushing debts, and Damon—her manipulative ex whose affair with a rival Luna threatens to destroy her. In her most dilapidated moment, Alpha King Lucian appeared just in time. Snowflakes flying everywhere, Lucian leaned against the car and was biting on a cigarette: "Finally saw through his true colors and cut ties with him?" Ella looked up at him, her gaze cold: "Even if I leave him, I won't fall for you." Later, Elara became Lucian's mate, and everyone thought it was Elara who married up. Only Lucian himself knew that he was the one who fought through the thorns and strived hard, and finally won the beautiful woman.