Ariadne Vitronskaya was "lucky" to be among the other brides given by the South to the northerners. How would anyone do in her place? Yes, I ran away, of course! And the groom, led by obligations, would rush to catch. But Ada accepts the rules of the game and voluntarily goes to the edge of the permafrost. And now she is no longer a mistress, but a liera, not a weak herbalist, but an ice magina, and even looks completely different now. It would seem that this is it, quiet happiness: a caring husband, his own castle, wrapped in a snow blanket, a new family and friends. But everything will not be easy, because the cold goddess Ladin has already turned her gaze to a stranger, and the groom was not at all the same...