Life is wonderful when you are eighteen, you are the emperor's favorite, rich and favored by high society. But the whirlwind of events associated with the wedding of the heiress to the throne overwhelms and draws the main character into a chain of events that can either lift him to unprecedented heights or lower him to the very bottom. The newly created Count Vasin will have to decide how to unravel the intrigues of new enemies, whether power is worth a dream and whether a person is capable of holding the sky on his shoulders.