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"A human lie in the world of gods. A contract with the King of the Underworld."
To save her twin sister, she disguises herself and enters the realm of the dead as the bride of the feared Hades. She expected a monster, but found a lonely King with a dark secret. Trapped in a world of shadows, her lie becomes her greatest danger—and her only way to find true love.
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* Title: The False Bride of Hades
* Genre: Supernatural, Fantasy, Forbidden Love, Mystery
* Format: Full Miniseries (Vertical Drama)
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🔥 Synopsis:
"A human lie in the world of gods. A contract with the King of the Underworld."
To save her twin sister, she disguises herself and enters the realm of the dead as the bride of the feared Hades. She expected a monster, but found a lonely King with a dark secret. Trapped in a world of shadows, her lie becomes her greatest danger—and her only way to find true love.
👉 Drama Details:
* Title: The False Bride of Hades
* Genre: Supernatural, Fantasy, Forbidden Love, Mystery
* Format: Full Miniseries (Vertical Drama)
* Status: All Episodes Completed
#TheFalseBrideOfHades #ShortDramaFull #MiniSeries #WebDrama #FullMovie #ReelShort #DramaBox #ShortTV #EnglishSubtitles
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00:00The armor of the war god she brought back from the Dawn Temple is practically indestructible.
00:05It will be a perfect fit for Lyra.
00:08Once we extract Seraphina's divine power, it won't take long for Lyra to regain her original form.
00:14I've waited 300 years for this day.
00:17Isn't this too ruthless?
00:19No matter what, she has nurtured Lyra for you.
00:22She was struck by the Blade of Curses.
00:24No medicine in existence could heal that.
00:26I used half my divine power to save her and gave her 300 years of happiness.
00:30Over the years, every rare herb we could find in the Three Realms went straight into her body.
00:34She's enjoyed all of this.
00:36It's only fair she repays it to Lyra now.
00:38Standing outside the heavy doors, I felt as if the heavenly lightning had struck me all over again.
00:43I stumbled back to my room, my entire body trembling uncontrollably.
00:47My blood ran cold.
00:48The suffocating terror mirrored exactly how I felt on the day I married Seravius.
00:53During that wedding, Seravius had suddenly turned on me.
00:57He stole my septal, critically wounded me, and butchered my people.
01:02As I lay dying, the Lord of the Underhill defied the heavens to save me.
01:07He risked his life to protect me and made me his wife.
01:11After we married, his devotion had utterly flawless.
01:14I had been pregnant for 99 years.
01:16In just one more year, the child would be born.
01:19He had promised me that once the baby arrived, he would accompany me back to the heavenly realm to take
01:23back everything Seravius had stolen.
01:25I believed him.
01:26I loved him with every fiber of my being.
01:28Never in my wildest nightmares did I imagine he merely saw me as a vessel.
01:31An incubator meant to resurrect the woman he truly loved.
01:34Seeing my violent trembles, my handmade iris rushed over with a blanket, thinking my chronic illness was acting up.
01:40My lady gets cold so easily.
01:42The Lord commanded that you must drink your herbal tonic after lunch.
01:45He even had the starlight blooms brought down from the heavenly realm to replenish your divine power.
01:51Iris was a healer handmaid Aetherian had specifically brought from the heavenly realm to serve me.
01:55She knew how impossibly rare starlight blooms were.
01:57They grew only on the highest cliffs of the heavenly domains, blooming once every few centuries, and withered the moment
02:03sunlight touched them.
02:04For our 300 years of marriage, Aetherian had treated me like glass.
02:09Knowing I missed my home, he frequently sent his men to procure heavenly artifacts just to make me smile.
02:14The underworld was perpetually freezing, so he built me a climate-controlled palace modeled exactly after my home in the
02:19heavens.
02:20Afraid I would be lonely, he moved his study here, working by my side every day.
02:23Saving me had left him with lingering injuries.
02:26Whenever he overworked himself, he suffered agonizing pain, but he would always smile through it, telling me that as long
02:31as I was safe, every sacrifice was worth it.
02:33His sincerity had won me over.
02:35Once I learned I was pregnant, I swore I would protect this child with my life, but it was all
02:39a lie.
02:39Everything he did was for Lyra.
02:41He even planned to strip me of my divine power and hand it over to her once she was born.
02:45As I forced down the bitter tonic, the movements in my womb grew violently erratic.
02:49Blinding pain ripped through my abdomen, leaving me drenched in cold sweat.
02:53That was when the horrifying realization hit me.
02:55The tonic wasn't for me at all.
02:57He was feeding Lyra.
02:58He was accelerating her growth.
03:00No wonder normal divine pregnancies lasted 200 years, yet I was already showing signs of labor at 100.
03:05I took several deep, shethering breaths until my racing heart settled.
03:10The truth was crystal clear.
03:11It was all a meticulously crafted, trap.
03:14But perhaps it wasn't too late to run.
03:16In our three centuries of marriage, he had never once taken me back to the heavenly realm,
03:20claiming my fragile body couldn't withstand the lightning bat lesion at Tenlin Gates.
03:24But I'd rather take my chances with the heavenly tribulation than be discarded like trash after giving birth to Lyra.
03:30If I survived the lightning, I could return to the Dawn Temple and retrieve the primordial artifact my mother left
03:36me.
03:36Tears blurred my vision as I swallowed the remaining starlight bloom whole, roots and all.
03:41I made a vow.
03:42I would never let Lyra be born.
03:44And if I made it out alive, I would make Aetherian pay in blood.
03:47I channeled every ounce of my fading strength to suppress the violent movements in my womb.
03:52I coughed up a mouthful of blood, the crimson splatter staining a decorative chest nearby.
03:58It was the chest containing every gift he had given me during our courtship.
04:02Fighting through the agonizing cramps, I pulled out a magnificent gown woven entirely from gold threads.
04:09Aetherian had sort out the giant race, mining the purest ore from their ancient reserves.
04:14He spent three years drawing the gold into thread, weaving this gown stitch by stitch with his own hands.
04:20On our wedding day, dignitaries from across the three realms attended.
04:25There wasn't a soul who didn't envy me.
04:27But right now, the golden threads burned my eyes like needles.
04:31With a flick of my wrist, I summoned a flame.
04:34Fully intending to incinerate the dress, suddenly the door swung open.
04:39Aetherian walked in.
04:41Did you drink your medicine today, darling?
04:43What made you dig up the wedding dress?
04:46I heard the giants guarding the gold mines were imprisoned by the heavenly realm for three hundred years for unelaparated
04:52mining.
04:54Now that our wedding is long past, why don't we melt this dress down and return the gold to them?
04:59Aetherian's face instantly dropped.
05:01No, I'm saving this dress for-
05:03He cut himself off, quickly recovering.
05:05Let's keep it as a mementi.
05:06After all, it's a testament to our love.
05:09Be good, Serafina.
05:11Put it back.
05:12Hearing the word love from his lips brought the memory of his conversation with Morpheus crashing back.
05:17A hot wave of fury surged through my veins.
05:20I ignited a fireball and hurled it straight at the gown.
05:23Aetherian lunged forward, plunging his bare hands into the magical flames to snatch the dress back.
05:28The fire instantly seared his flesh, leaving his hands blistered and bleeding.
05:33Yet he didn't even flinch.
05:34He just pulled the dress to his chest, whispering,
05:37As the hem of the gown tumbled from his arms,
05:39My eyes caught something stitched into the inner lining.
05:42Lyra.
05:43I froze.
05:44He had woven this dress by hand, alone.
05:47It wasn't for me.
05:48He had made it for Lyra.
05:49No wonder he panicked when I suggested melting it down.
05:52He was willing to burn his own hands to protect it.
05:54I reached out, ready to torch the entire chest of jewelry.
05:58Serafina, are you out of your mind?
06:01Keep throwing this tantrum and I'll throw you into the Abyss of Shadow.
06:05I flinched, all the color draining from my face.
06:08The Abyss of Shadows.
06:10That was the underworld's maximum security prison.
06:13Seeing my stricken expression, his tone softened.
06:17He reached out to pull me into an embrace.
06:19Serafina, I was joking.
06:21Promise me you won't touch these things again.
06:23And I'll make you your favorite honey-glazed figs.
06:27How does that sound?
06:28I bit the inside of my cheek so hard I tasted copper, refusing to speak.
06:34He tried to coax me a few more times, his voice a gentle hum, but I simply closed my
06:39eyes and turned my face away.
06:40Fine.
06:41Since you want to be stubborn, go cool your head in the deep dungeons!
06:45The Abyss of Shadows was a living nightmare.
06:47Mangled corpses and bleached bones.
06:49I held my swollen belly, carefully navigating the treacherous path.
06:53But by the time we reached the cell, my lower back felt like it was splitting in two.
06:57My lady, I really don't get it.
06:59The Lord treats you so well.
07:02Couples fight all the time.
07:04Why couldn't you just apologize?
07:06Did it really have to come to this?
07:08The other guard nodded in agreement.
07:10Knowing I was the Lord's wife, they didn't dare treat me roughly.
07:13Suddenly, a shrill, piercing female voice echoed from inside my womb.
07:18Punish her, you useless trash.
07:20Do you think she's here on vacation?
07:24I stared at my stomach in sheer horror.
07:26It was Lyra's voice.
07:27She had already developed awareness of the outside world.
07:30She was communicating with her former subordinates through my flesh.
07:35Lady Lyra, is it you?
07:38You're alive.
07:39Shut up!
07:41If you know it's me, then punish this bitch!
07:45If you disobey me, I'll make you wish you were dead when I get out!
07:50Lyra had been the underworld's war goddess.
07:52There wasn't a soldier in the realm who hadn't suffered under her command.
07:56The two guards exchanged a dark look, all prior hesitation vanishing.
08:01They dragged me toward the river of fire.
08:03Suspended over the roaring, molten current was an iron cage.
08:07They forced the cage open and shoved me inside.
08:09The moment my shoulder grazed the iron roars, I heard the sickening hiss of searing flesh.
08:13The stench of my own roasting spring flooded my nostrils.
08:16Lyra's soul temporarily detached from my womb, hovering nearby to revel in my agony.
08:21The cage was suffocatingly small.
08:24I couldn't even shift my weight.
08:25My clothes melted upon contact with the bars, dripping away in charred clumps.
08:29My bare skin pressed directly against the superheated metal.
08:33It blistered, split, and bled.
08:35But the blood evaporated into steam before it could even hit the ground.
08:38I convulsed in agony.
08:39I wanted to scream, but my throat was so storaged that no sound came out.
08:43Can't take it anymore, you pathetic bitch.
08:46The river of fire won't kill a god, but it will make every inch of your body remember what pain
08:51is.
08:52How long do you think it'll take before you pass out?
08:55A day?
08:56Three days?
08:56I didn't answer.
08:58I didn't have the strength left to try.
09:00Time lost all meaning.
09:01My consciousness began to fray.
09:02I couldn't feel my arms or legs anymore.
09:04The only thought echoing my shattered mind was, I am going to die.
09:07Back in the palace, Aetherian finished preparing the honey-glazed figs.
09:11He wiped his hands and mentally linked with the guards.
09:14Has she learned her lesson?
09:15If she's done reflecting, bring her up.
09:18I made her favorite pastries.
09:20We can go for a walk after she eats.
09:22My lord, the lady hasn't said a word.
09:25She's just been pretending to sleep.
09:27Through the mental link, they sent him a manipulated visual of me curled up on the ground,
09:31my clothes intact, breathing steadily,
09:33making it look as though I was merely napping in an ordinary cell.
09:36Keep her locked up.
09:38I refuse to believe I can't break her stubbornness.
09:41Smashing the plate of honey-glazed figs to the floor.
09:43Seeing me on the brink of death, Lyra panicked that she might lose her host.
09:47She quickly darted back into my womb, using her own divine power to shield my heart.
09:51But she wasn't showing mercy.
09:53She deliberately kept me conscious, crashing violently inside my stomach
09:56so I would feel every agonizing second of the flames.
09:59The pain was unbearable.
10:00I knew she was doing it on purpose, but I was completely powerless to suppress her.
10:04You whore! You took advantage of my death to steal Aetherian, hoarding everything that belonged to me!
10:11Today, I'm going to make you pay it back tenfold!
10:14Lyra screamed as she punched and kicked my insides.
10:16Cold sweat poured down my face as my bloody hands gripped the red-hot iron bars so hard the metal
10:20wore it.
10:21Stop struggling! Just enjoy the ride!
10:25Her phantom hand reaching up to squeeze my heart.
10:27Right as my vision went black from lack of oxygen, she'd let go, only to do it again and again,
10:32treating my torture like a morbid game.
10:33Just as the pain reached a breaking, a brilliant golden light erupted from my chest.
10:38Strange, ethereal threads extended from my body, surging with an unfamiliar, chaotic divine power
10:42that nearly blew the iron cage apart.
10:44In the royal bedroom, Aetherian had just hugged my pillow, preparing to sleep,
10:48when his heartily started racing.
10:50Serafina!
10:52The guards just reported that the lady is still resting, my lord.
10:55It's almost midnight, why not check on her tomorrow?
10:59A night of sleep might be exactly what she needs to see reason.
11:03Aetherian nodded slowly and lay back back to him.
11:06Down by the river of fire, my handmaid Iris dropped to her knees in front of my cage,
11:11sobbing uncontrollably.
11:12My lady!
11:14Who did this to you?
11:16When my divine power leaked, she sensed it and used the cloaking spell I had taught her
11:20to sneak into the dungeons.
11:21I was too weak to even open my eyes.
11:24I only recognized her by her voice.
11:26Unable to speak, I gathered enough strength to trace letters in the ash on the floor.
11:30She pulled out the ones I hadn't finished.
11:32Twelve stalks in total.
11:34Ignoring my scorched, bleeding throat, I swallowed them all at once.
11:37Twelve starlight blooms will only buy you two hours of power!
11:40What will you do after that?
11:41I offered her a weak, blood-stained smile.
11:44Two hours.
11:44That was more than enough time to fly to the heavenly realm and force a miscarriage.
11:48The temporary surge of divine power gave me the strength to suppress Lyra and heal the
11:52superficial burns covering my body.
11:53I blasted my way out of the Abyss of Shadows and shot upward, hurtling straight towards the
11:57heavenly realm.
11:58Half an hour later, the magical ring on my finger vibrated.
12:02Aetherian's voice echoed in my mind.
12:04Seraphina, where are you?
12:05Come back.
12:06I made the honey-glazed figs.
12:07It was an artifact we forged together when we married, allowing us to communicate across realms.
12:11I ignored him, pushing myself to fly faster.
12:14Seraphina!
12:15Stop hiding from me!
12:16My patience is wearing thin!
12:19Then, I heard the blood-glading screams of the two guards through the connection.
12:22Deep in the Abyss of Shadows, Aetherian stood before the molten cage, his face twisted into
12:27a mask of pure terror and rage.
12:28His suffocating divine Arama crushed the soldiers to the floor.
12:31The cage had been scrubbed clean, completely devoid of my presence.
12:35But it was too clean.
12:36That was what made him suspicious.
12:38He had sensed a heavenly aura here last night.
12:40Why was it completely gone now?
12:41The lady just vanished out of nowhere.
12:43My lord, we swear we had nothing to do with it!
12:46Find her!
12:47The entire Abyss was turned upside down.
12:50The river of fire raged, torturing the damned souls within, and the underheld echoed with
12:55screams of agony.
12:56Where is she?
12:57How can there be no trace of her?
12:59Aetherian was losing his mind.
13:00His eyes bloodshot from days without sleep.
13:03The ring pulsed wildly with his calls, hardening my heart.
13:06I ripped the ring from my finger and hurled it into the void below, finally severing his
13:10hold on me.
13:11Just before my divine power ran dry, I breached the heavenly gates.
13:14Before my feet could even touch the ground, a massive bolt of heavenly lightning struck
13:18down from the sky.
13:19I channeled the very last remnants of the starlight room's power to brace myself, but the impact
13:23sent me crashing to the floor, coughing up blood.
13:26When I tried to push myself up, I realized my body was completely empty.
13:30I had no divine power left.
13:33Freed from my suppression, Lila began screaming from inside my womb.
13:37You crazy bitch!
13:38What are you doing?
13:39If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!
13:41Go back!
13:41The second bolt of lightning tore through the sky.
13:44My war god armor manifest, shielding me from the catastrophic blow.
13:48Lila instantly stopped screaming.
13:50The armor shattered, the backlash searing my flesh and heavily wounding her soul inside
13:54me.
13:54But it wasn't enough.
13:55I wanted her dead.
13:57Down in the underworld, Aetherian heard the thunderclaps and finally realized
14:00what was happening.
14:01I was being judged by the heavenly tribulation.
14:04Pain ripped through his chest as he shot toward the heavens.
14:07As the third and deadliest bolt of lightning descended, he arrived just in time to intercept
14:11half of the blast.
14:12Even though he absorbed most of it, I had nothing left to defend myself.
14:16I collapsed, my abdomen erupting in blinding agony.
14:19Seraphina, are you insane?
14:20But a split second before he reached me, Lyra tore her way out of my body.
14:26Aetherian, save me!
14:28This bitch tried to kill me with the lightning!
14:31But she looked nothing like the majestic portraits Aetherim kept hidden in his study.
14:35Half of her face was mangled by horrific burn scars, devoid of any war goddess glory.
14:41The lightning damage and the premature birth had rumened her.
14:44She glared at me with pure venom, stumbling forward with her hands outstretched, trying
14:49to strangle me.
14:51I threw my hand up to push her away.
14:53With her weakened state, she flew backward like a paper doll, crashing directly into Aetherian's
14:59arms.
15:01Aetherian, I just wanted to help her up, and she tried to push me off the edge of the realm!
15:05Aetherian raised his hand and struck me hard across the face.
15:09The slap echoed like a gunshot.
15:11Seraphina!
15:12You heartless monster!
15:14You tried to use the heavenly lightning to execute Lyra, leaving her disfigured and premature.
15:19For 300 years, I treated you like a queen!
15:22I merely borrow your womb!
15:23I never intended to harm you!
15:25How could you be this vicious?
15:27I couldn't speak.
15:28I just stared at him.
15:29My face is ruined.
15:32I'd rather be dead than live like this.
15:36Just kill me.
15:39No, no, I have a way to fix you.
15:41Just trust me.
15:42What way?
15:43Flaying the skin off my face and grafting it onto hers, I spat out another mouthful of
15:48blood.
15:48I didn't have the energy to argue anymore.
15:50I didn't even want to.
15:52Lyra was the one trying to kill me.
15:54But the moment she played the victim, he believed her without a second thought.
15:59I was lying there in a pool of my own blood.
16:01My armor shattered to pieces, yet all he saw was her.
16:04I looked down at my broken body.
16:07The humiliation of being exiled from the heavenly realm years ago washing over me anew.
16:12A sphere of fire ignited in Aetherian's palm, ready to strike me down.
16:16But before he could cast it, a blinding beam of white light shot from the distance.
16:20I didn't see who cast it before the world went black.
16:23I don't know how long I was out, but I woke up in a massive, sunlit bed.
16:28I shifted my limbs.
16:29The agonizing heaviness was gone.
16:32The burns from the heavenly lightning had vanished without a trace.
16:35But what truly shocked me was the power stirring deep within my soul.
16:39It felt as though an ancient entity inside me was slowly opening its eyes.
16:43The last thing I remembered was Assyrian preparing to execute me.
16:47Why was I perfectly fine, lying in this lavish palace?
16:51I bolted upright in shock.
16:52A man in flowing white robes, wearing a crown of golden laurel leaves, walked into the room.
16:58Seeing me awake, his face lit up, and he pulled me into a tight embrace.
17:02Serafina, you're finally awake.
17:04Does anything hurt?
17:06I stared at him in bewilderment.
17:08Realizing my confusion, he offered a fond, indulgent smile and gently flicked my forehead.
17:13A flood of memories that didn't belong to me crashed into my mind.
17:17When I was expelled from the heavenly realm three centuries ago,
17:20a single tear I left behind drifted to the steps of this very palace.
17:24The domain of the primordial god Orion.
17:26The tear transformed into a tiny, ethereal serpent made of light.
17:30Orion kept the little light snake as a pet.
17:33Over the last 300 years, bathed in the spiritual energy of a primordial god,
17:38the serpent slowly took on my physical form.
17:40Orion had offered to reconstruct a proper physical body for her, but she refused.
17:46Because a Tyrion had cloaked my aura in the underworld, Orion couldn't locate me.
17:52Thank you for treating me with such care.
17:54But I am not her.
17:56I cannot stay here.
17:58I tried to pull away.
17:59He leaned in and kissed me fiercely.
18:02The sensation was dizzying,
18:03of the serpent's desperate longing and my own instinctive resistance.
18:07I didn't know whether to push him away or kiss him back.
18:10He kissed me until my mind went blank.
18:12He suddenly froze.
18:14He pulled back, chest heaving.
18:16I'm sorry.
18:17I forgot you just gave birth.
18:20Your body is still recovering.
18:22I rushed this.
18:23Focus on healing first.
18:25I hastily pulled my robes up,
18:27but a wave of profound gratitude washed over me.
18:30Unlike a Tyrion, Orion understood boundaries.
18:33I was desperate to regain my strength so I could exact my revenge.
18:36Seeing my urgency, Orion literally extracted his own divine power and infused it into my veins.
18:42He fed me countless celestive herbs.
18:44Within a week, 30-40% of my original power had returned.
18:49More importantly, the dormant power of fate inside me was slowly awakening.
18:53Just as I was plotting my revenge on my ex-husband, Seravius,
18:57the bastard delivered himself to my doorstep.
18:59Seraphina, my beautiful fiancé.
19:02It was my father who forced me to take your sepulor that day.
19:05There hasn't been a single day in the last 300 years that I haven't thought of you.
19:08Will you return to the heavenly realm and be my queen?
19:11He put on a masterful display of remorse, but my heart felt nothing but venomous hatred.
19:16I knew exactly what had happened.
19:17He stole the Scepter of Dawn to murder his own father and seize the throne.
19:21No one forced him.
19:23It was his choice.
19:24He knew I was suffering in the underworld for three centuries,
19:27yet he never once came looking for me.
19:29He was only here because he sensed my power growing.
19:33The Scepter of Dawn was reacting to its true master, and he was losing control of it.
19:37I was going to make him pay for the humiliation of my exile and the 300 years of torture in
19:42the underworld.
19:43Today, even if it cost me my life, I would have my revenge.
19:47Gripping the Starforged sword Orion had given me, I charged.
19:50Seravius stood his ground, a sickeningly arrogant smirk playing on his lips.
19:54He knew my body was still weak, and I didn't have the sepulor.
19:57His little apology speech was just a formality.
19:59He wanted to coax me back about a fight so he could torture me behind closed doors.
20:03During the clash, he tactically forced me backward, driving us down toward the mortal realm.
20:08The mortal world had no divine oversight, with his countless legions killing me quietly down there with child's play.
20:16Just as Seravius moved in for the kill, a blinding golden light struck the earth.
20:21Orion materiized out of thin air, throwing a protective arm in front of me.
20:26Seraphina, leave this filth to me. Don't dirty your hands.
20:30His divine arima erupted like a tidal ray.
20:34Even as the heavenly god-king, wielding two elemental stepsels,
20:38Seravius could barely hold his ground against the primordial god.
20:42Taking advantage of the distraction, I closed my eyes,
20:45reaching out with the threads of my returning power to summon the sepulor of dawn from within Seravius' chest.
20:51Seravius gasped, clupping his heart as he frantically tried to repress the weapon, but it was useless.
20:56The scepter ripped its way out of his chest and flew into my waiting hand, radiating a familiar, scorching warmth.
21:03The moment my fingers closed around the hilt, an explosive shockwave of light leveled the battlefield.
21:08It was singing for me.
21:10So what if you're the god-king?
21:12You touch my woman.
21:13You pay the ultimate price.
21:15With a mere flick of his finger, Orion yanked the second artifact, the scepter of thunder,
21:20straight out of Seravius' body.
21:22It floated in the air, humming with trapped lightning.
21:24Your... woman?
21:26Seravius choked out, his eyes wide with horror as his body ill-voluntarily dropped to its knees.
21:32She is my fiancée.
21:33Before he could finish, his divine form shattered, reverting to his true, pathetic shape, a plucked, golden crow.
21:39You murdered your wife and slaughtered your father. You deserve worse than death.
21:44With a sweeping gesture, he swatted the miserable bird over, the edge of the bottomless abyss.
21:49Seraphina, let's go home. The apples in the sanctuary orchard are ripe. I'll pick the sweetest ones for you.
21:55He pulled me into his arms, gazing at me with overwhelming tendness.
22:00I was moved by how fiercely he protected me, but my body still instinctively tent.
22:05I wasn't used to this kind of intimacy.
22:07In the brief moment I had summoned the septal, I caught Orion glancing at me from the corner of his
22:11eye.
22:11It was a dark, complicated look. One I couldn't quite decipher.
22:15But regardless, he had just eradicated Seravius. He had helped me extract my revenge.
22:21I cast one last look towards the heavenly realm. A silent goodbye to my past.
22:26That night, back in Orion's sanctuary, my sleace plagued by violent nightmares.
22:31It started peacefully. My clan dancing and singing around a bonfire.
22:35Then, the world warped into hell. Severed limbs and fountains of blood flooded my vision.
22:41Sister, save me! Auntie, it hurts!
22:44The screams of my family tore through my skull. I shot up in bed, screaming, drenched in a cold sweat.
22:49A familiar voice broke through the panic.
22:52My lady, don't be afraid. It's just a nightmare.
22:54I blinked against the darknesses. It was Iris.
22:58How did you get to the sanctuary? Aetherian actually let you leave?
23:01Her eyes were red, her voice thick with tears.
23:04I missed you so much, my lady. I begged the lord on my knees to let me go.
23:09When he heard I was coming to find you, he didn't stop me.
23:12She gently wiped the sweat from my forehead and offered me a cup of hot tea, carefully bringing it to
23:16my lips.
23:17Just as the rim touched my mouth, a memory sparked in my mind.
23:20By the way, when my uncle was injured by the Hydra, I heard you took care of him for three
23:26years before he recovered.
23:27I saw him in my dream just now. He said he misses you.
23:31Iris froze. A flicker of panic crossed her eyes before she nodded vigorously.
23:35I miss him every day, too. If Saravis hadn't been so cruel and banished our people, I could go back
23:41and see him right now.
23:42I stared into her eyes. They were beautiful, but entirely devoid of life.
23:47I backhanded the cup, splashing the scalding tea directly into her face.
23:51My uncle was killed instantly by the Titan gods! You never took care of him for three years! You're not
23:59Iris!
23:59Iris! As the enchanted tea burned her skin, thick green smoke blowed from her face.
24:04When the smoke cleared, it revealed Lyra's grotesquely scarred visilage.
24:09She threw her head back and cackled.
24:11Iris has been dead for weeks!
24:14The moment she helped you escape, I threw her into the Abyss of Shadows!
24:18A pathetic little handmaid.
24:20She couldn't even survive the lightest torture.
24:23They flag her alive.
24:24She died screaming.
24:26It's a shame you saw through my disguise.
24:28I was going to trick you into coming back to the Underworld to butcher you properly.
24:32You pathetic bitch! I really underestimated you!
24:36Rage and grief blinded me.
24:38My hands shook violently.
24:40Iris had only survived the Heavenly Realm's purge because she had sneaked down to the Mintal World to play.
24:45Aethrian had moved mountains to find her and bring her to me.
24:48She was the very last of my bloodline, unleashing my full divine power.
24:52I seized Lyra by the throat and dragged her out towards the Sanctuary's Judgment Cliff.
24:58Everything you did to me in the Abyss of Shadows, plus Iris's life,
25:02today you pay it all back in blood!
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