Mae Da Young had served Minister Ryu Seung-ryong for so many years that everyone inside the Northern Clan believed his loyalty could never be questioned, because he followed every order without hesitation, managed the minister's most dangerous affairs and stood quietly behind him whenever plans were made to protect the Queen's position inside the palace.
Minister Ryu trusted him more than many members of his own family, yet he never realised that the young man he treated as a loyal right hand had never intended to remain anyone's servant forever.
Mae Da Young had grown up far from the royal palace under the care of an elderly man who rarely spoke about his mother or the reason she had been forced to leave the capital, but shortly before the old man died, he finally revealed the truth that had been hidden from him since childhood.
His mother had once been a palace maid who attracted the attention of the late King.
