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00:02The Serpent King came to the Lamians to breed heirs.
00:07Over a hundred of my sisters fought to be chosen.
00:10But I wanted to run away.
00:12Because in my past life, he crushed my eggs, one by one, through my belly.
00:18He branded my forehead with one word, slave.
00:23He forced me to kneel and watch as he took other serpent women.
00:27Then forced me to nurse their offspring.
00:30So this time, I refused the Serpent King.
00:33A violent dizziness hit.
00:35I opened my eyes.
00:37The Palace Hall.
00:38And him, standing at the center of the Palace Hall.
00:42I, Darion, King of Serpents, offer 88 chests of treasure to take a Lamia princess as my queen.
00:50Your Majesty, I sing, I dance.
00:52I am flawless, make me your queen.
00:54My waist is slender, my hips wide.
00:57I will bear you heirs.
00:58Eight in one berth.
00:59They practically offered themselves to his bed.
01:02Darion was beautiful, yes.
01:05But beneath that face was a monster.
01:08I lowered myself, ready to slip away.
01:10Serena!
01:17The new Serpent King stands before you.
01:20Come greet him.
01:21I had no choice but step forward.
01:23My daughter Serena is shy, but she is the rarest of our kind.
01:27A womb blessed beyond measure.
01:29If she becomes queen, she will fill your kingdom with heirs.
01:32Father, I am too young to marry.
01:35My sister is just as capable and of proper age.
01:38My father's expression darkened.
01:41She was born of a discarded queen.
01:43He would never choose her over me.
01:46But I would rather tear Darion apart than become his queen again.
01:51Your Majesty, which one do you choose?
01:55He hated me, and I had just rejected him.
01:58But instead, he walked straight toward me.
02:02Serena will be my queen.
02:05Your Majesty honors me.
02:07I'm grateful.
02:09But I've already pledged myself to another, and I will soon ask my father to grant us marriage.
02:14The hall erupted in whispers and shock.
02:18My daughter is impulsive.
02:19Please don't take it to heart.
02:21Perhaps Your Majesty would consider another...
02:23No.
02:24If Your Majesty does not mind, you may stay here for a few days.
02:27If anyone catches your Tentrist, I will arrange the marriage immediately.
02:32I was confined to my residence until he chose his queen.
02:36But I hadn't expected him to move in next door.
02:40I could feel that cold gaze following me at all times.
02:43To make my lie convincing, I sent a servant to fetch a male prostitute.
02:48I lounged on the couch while a beautiful courtesan fed me grapes and massaged my shoulders.
02:54That gaze grew heavier, darker, almost suffocating.
02:58So I pushed further.
03:00I took the prostitute's hand and led him into my chamber.
03:04Just as I reached to extinguish the candle, the door was kicked open.
03:15What do you think you're doing?
03:17Breaking into my chamber in the middle of the night and hurting my people.
03:20Do you think my house is yours to trample?
03:24So this is how easily you give yourself away?
03:28And what right do you have to judge me?
03:30I already have someone.
03:31If you're jealous, go find your own.
03:33Don't barge in here and act like you own me.
03:52Why him and not me?
03:56Have you lost your mind?
03:58Let go of me.
03:59Serena, try me.
04:04I'll make you forget him.
04:08Are you insane?
04:17I shut up my eyes, ready to bite my own tongue.
04:21Darien was ripped off me.
04:22I gave you leave to choose a bride from my people.
04:25That does not give you the right to force my daughter.
04:28Try this again and I will tear apart this alliance.
04:31My apologies.
04:37Serena, this is my fault.
04:40I should have seen what he truly was.
04:42It's not your fault, he's dangerous.
04:44I need to leave, tonight.
04:46Once he chooses another queen, I'll return.
04:49Take this.
04:53Go to the dragon's abyss.
04:54There are beings there far stronger than the serpent king.
05:07I swallowed and stepped forward.
05:10With the sigil in my hand, the barrier opened on its own.
05:14The moment I crossed inside, I held my breath.
05:18The air was thick, burning, overwhelming.
05:21Laced with the raw heat of a dragon in rut, I forced myself deeper.
05:26At the very heart of the cavern, upon a vast slab of ice crystal, a man lay there, unearthly in
05:34his beauty.
05:35The ancient legends flashed through my mind and my breath caught.
05:42You... you're a primordial dragon?
05:45Danger. Leave. Now.
05:48Even in this state, consumed by instinct, he still held himself back and refused to touch me.
05:54That alone made him different from Darian.
05:59I can help you through this.
06:01In return, give me children.
06:03He frowned and tried to push me away.
06:05But his gaze fell on the golden mark at my collarbone.
06:08In the next second, his tail wrapped around my waist and pulled me beneath him.
06:13Then you take all of me.
06:15My answer was swallowed by his heated kiss.
06:19The power of a primordial dragon was overwhelming.
06:22I was nearly undone, yet he showed no sign of stopping.
06:26It took seven days and seven nights before his burning heat finally subsided.
06:37I will give you the grandest wedding in this world.
06:42When I woke, the communication crystal was glowing in my hand.
06:46Something was wrong in my clan.
06:49Kalem was gone, and I had no time to wait.
06:51I dressed quickly and left.
06:53Back in the palace hall, my sister Kole stood trembling, her face hidden as she cried.
06:57My father pulled me aside.
06:59Darian insists on marrying Chloe, or he will take every woman in our clan by force.
07:06Kole suffers from androphobia.
07:09She couldn't even stand being near men, and yet he chose her.
07:13I stormed off to confront him.
07:15Darian sat in the pavilion, calm and composed.
07:18Jasmine, your favorite.
07:28For generations, your people have given queens to mine.
07:31If you refuse, she will take your place.
07:33Stop twisting the truth.
07:34We are strangers.
07:35Why are you so obsessed with forcing this?
07:37What if I told you this is fate carried over from another life?
07:42Ridiculous.
07:43If it were fate, I would feel something when I see you.
07:45I would want to be near you, not feel disgust.
07:47Three days, I will come for my bride.
07:50Whether it is you or her is your choice.
07:53Three days later, Darian arrived in red, leading a grand procession to claim his bride.
08:00But the moment he left, another presence descended.
08:09My father finally smiled.
08:12He took my hand and placed it in Calum's.
08:15By morning, the world was in chaos.
08:18The serpent king had discovered his queen was a substitute.
08:22Who are you?
08:23And the last primordial dragon had taken a bride.
08:26Back in the dragon's abyss...
08:28Calium, I'm pregnant.
08:33I'm going to be a father?
08:37Don't move too much.
08:38Tell me what you need, I'll bring it.
08:40They're barely anything yet.
08:41You're nice to me.
08:42Is this because I helped you through your heat?
08:44He smiled and tapped the golden mark at my collarbone.
08:47You don't remember?
08:48Remember what?
08:49800 years ago, you saved me when I was near death.
08:52You took care of me.
08:54Even insisted I marry you one day.
08:56And I always keep my promises.
08:58Thank the gods, I found you again.
09:01How old are you, exactly?
09:03I don't remember.
09:049,000, perhaps?
09:05That old?
09:06Maybe more.
09:07The result of that comment was immediate.
09:10For the next several days, he barely let me out of bed, proving in every possible way that age had
09:17done nothing to weaken him.
09:19I almost forgot about deceiving Darien with a prostitute bride.
09:23Until he followed the scent of the clothes I had left on her.
09:26And all the way to the dragon's abyss.
09:32Serena, how could you do this?
09:34You sent another woman to my bed?
09:36I had been lying on a lounge chair in the sunlight.
09:40Calum had gone far away to fetch my favorite pastry.
09:43When Darien stormed in, I ran.
09:46He caught me effortlessly.
09:47Serena, are you truly this cold?
09:50Can you not see even a tris of what I feel for you?
09:52His words cut off the moment his gaze dropped to my stomach.
09:55Who is it who touched you?
09:57I will tear him apart.
10:00I will slaughter his entire bloodline.
10:03My people have fulfilled their duty, as will two head apart.
10:08You have your queen.
10:09As for this child, it's not yours.
10:13You are mine.
10:14How dare you carry another man's child?
10:22His cold hand pressed against my abdomen.
10:25Memories came rushing back to me.
10:27No, don't!
10:27Don't hurt my children!
10:29Stop!
10:30They're innocent!
10:31Why would you do this?
10:32They're yours!
10:33How could you?
10:34You remember.
10:35You remember me, don't you?
10:39I'm your husband.
10:41I couldn't tell past from present.
10:43I just cried as he carried me away.
10:47When I finally calmed down, I realized where I was.
10:51The same palace from my past life.
10:55Good.
10:56You remember me now.
10:58Chill ran through me.
10:59He had been reborn too.
11:00What do you want?
11:01Serena, that was the past.
11:03Since fate has given us another chance, we can start over.
11:09Start over?
11:14Start over?
11:15After everything you did?
11:17You killed my children.
11:19Poisoned me.
11:20Stripped me of everything.
11:22Forced me to watch you with others.
11:24Made me serve them.
11:25You dragged me through hell.
11:27And you think I can just forget?
11:30Serena, you have to understand.
11:32I was deceived.
11:34I didn't know-
11:35I don't need your excuses.
11:37What's done is done.
11:38Even if you die regretting it, I will never forgive you.
11:44Leave.
11:47Rest.
11:48I'll come back tomorrow.
11:49The moment he left, I sent word.
11:52A message to Calum, telling him I was safe.
11:54And something more.
11:56A map.
11:57The next morning, Darian returned with food I once loved.
12:01I didn't touch it.
12:02Save it.
12:04If there's nothing else, I'm leaving.
12:08I mean it this time.
12:09I want to make things right.
12:11When I didn't respond, he took me to the dungeon.
12:14A woman hung there.
12:16Broken.
12:18Mutilated.
12:19Barely alive.
12:20Her body was ruined.
12:22Her forehead branded with a single word.
12:25Slave.
12:27Serena.
12:28She was the one who turned me against you.
12:32She won't stand between us again.
12:36I've avenged you.
12:38Isn't that enough?
12:40What did she say that made you kill your own children?
12:45He didn't answer.
12:47That was answer enough.
12:49She told you I betrayed you.
12:52That the children weren't yours.
12:55No.
12:56Stop.
12:59You were the one who chose to believe her.
13:02You never asked me.
13:03Never questioned it.
13:04You just decided and destroyed everything.
13:08You don't get to call that love.
13:14After that, he came every day, kneeling outside my door.
13:19When that failed, he tried something else.
13:22Tiny clothes.
13:23Toys.
13:24Things for a child.
13:26I stepped back instinctively, one hand over my stomach.
13:30Pain flickered in his eyes.
13:33Don't be afraid.
13:34Even if the child isn't mine, I won't hurt them.
13:38I'll raise them as my own.
13:39Are you insane?
13:40Pain?
13:43I have a husband.
13:44My child has a father.
13:46I don't need your pity.
13:48Or what?
13:49Do you have some strange obsession with raising another man's child?
13:53Darian acted as if he hadn't heard the mockery in my voice.
13:56Still lost in his own delusion.
13:59Serena, I am the most powerful serpent king alive.
14:02I have centuries ahead of me.
14:05I can wait for you to come back to me.
14:07When you do, I'll make you my queen again.
14:10We'll have our own children.
14:12Make up for everything we lost.
14:14At first, I argued.
14:16But he refused to hear me.
14:19So I stopped responding.
14:21Thankfully, those suffocating days didn't last long.
14:24Calum came.
14:25When he arrived, Darian was standing beside me, holding up bolts of crimson silk, talking about wedding garments.
14:35This one suits you.
14:37Your skin would look perfect in red.
14:40I didn't even open my eyes.
14:41Then, a deafening crash shook the courtyard.
14:45I looked up just in time to see Darian's body hurled through the air, sent flying dozens of meters before
14:52slamming into stone.
15:00He gave a low hum, his gaze sweeping over me, checking for any injury.
15:05Only after confirming I was unharmed did the tension leave his face.
15:10I shouldn't have left you alone.
15:12I gave others a chance to touch what's mine.
15:16It's not your fault.
15:17I was careless and left the barrier.
15:21He pulled me close, arm firm around my waist, ready to take me away.
15:26Behind us, rubble shifted.
15:28Darian climbed out, eyes blazing the moment he saw us together.
15:33So this is him?
15:35Watch your mouth.
15:36We're properly married.
15:41You chose this?
15:42He looks old.
15:52Only when blood splattered across Kalem's cheek did I step forward, reaching up to wipe it away.
15:59Let's go.
16:00I'm hungry.
16:01I want to go home.
16:02Alright.
16:03He wrapped an arm around me, ready to leave.
16:07Serena, I am a king.
16:09I can give you endless wealth and power.
16:11That man has nothing.
16:13You and your children will suffer with him.
16:15Amen.
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