00:00My fiancé killed his pregnant mistress. Then he kidnapped me.
00:04I love you. I killed her for you.
00:09Marry my uncle. You're begging to die.
00:12Last life. The night of our engagement, my sister drugged herself and crawled into his bed.
00:18Sister, please. He loves me.
00:21I was pregnant then too.
00:23He had someone kidnapped me. Had my baby killed.
00:27This life.
00:28I came back.
00:28Now I sat at the Grand Banquet of Valmont Palace. Kale strolled toward me.
00:35Well, well. Heard you're joining the family.
00:39You don't actually think I'd propose to you?
00:42I took a slow sip of wine.
00:45Flattering yourself. I'm here for your uncle, not you.
00:48Are you insane? He's 32.
00:50I like my men seasoned. Your skills in bed are absolutely terrible.
00:54I turned to leave. He grabbed my wrist.
00:57How dare you say that?
00:59Frostscale opened her jaw. Silver flame erupted between us.
01:04You'll regret this, Bianca.
01:07I didn't look back. From the second floor balcony, someone watched me.
01:11Three days later, Frostscale is missing. I can feel she is bleeding.
01:16I push through Kale's garden gates and find her locked in a cage the size of a bread box.
01:22Why won't it breathe fire? Kale, you said it could-
01:25I gather my energy and send her flying.
01:29What are you doing? It's just a dragonet.
01:31Celestia wanted one. I'll find you another egg, Bianca, honestly.
01:35I'm not listening.
01:35I kneel in front of the cage and speak in dragon tongue.
01:39Deidre and Deez Rocko.
01:41Once Frostscale heard, her eyes light up.
01:44Look, Kale. From this day on, I have nothing to do with you anymore.
01:48Don't contact me. Especially don't come near my dragon.
01:51Seriously? Are you insane?
01:54I've never been more serious.
01:56Without the Valmont name behind you, you're nothing, Bianca.
02:00I find him too noisy. A silencing spell.
02:03I walk out. He doesn't deserve my love at all.
02:06That night is the Valmont family dinner.
02:09The first time I'll officially meet Drayvon.
02:12Refresh my glamour charms and walk into the banquet hall.
02:16The elders are already seated.
02:17I choose the far end of the table.
02:19Frostscale curls at my feet.
02:21Who exactly are you trying to impress?
02:24You said you had nothing to do with me anymore, but now you're dressed so nicely.
02:27Do you still care about me?
02:28I roll my eyes. Before I can answer, the doors swing open.
02:33Drayvon Valmont walks in.
02:35He crosses the room in long strides and takes the seat Kale just vacated.
02:40Then he reaches into his pocket and places a northern dragon crystal on the floor for my dragonette.
02:46You raised her well.
02:48He serves me roasted steak, picks the bones out of my fish.
02:52I take a bite.
02:53Dia rushes in.
02:54Your Grace! My Lady!
02:56Who invited an outsider to a family dinner?
03:00I-
03:00Tonight, we're celebrating your uncle's engagement.
03:04To who?
03:05Drayvon takes my hand under the table.
03:09Of course.
03:10To Bianca.
03:12I crush the messenger fairy Kale uses to send me notes.
03:16He stares at me like I stabbed him.
03:18Little Kale.
03:19The revenge game has only just begun.
03:22The next few days are chaos.
03:24Kyle sent everyone a snapshot of me feeding Frostscale via magical communication.
03:28Bianca, the love of my life.
03:30My friends have all been asking about this.
03:32My best friend, Lyra, also sent a message through the crystal.
03:36Are you back together, Bianca?
03:38Answer me!
03:39I block them all, pour myself coffee, and go back to work.
03:42I'm mid-restoration on a cracked binding crystal when the door slams open.
03:47Celestia.
03:48Wild-eyed, hair loose, the stolen dragonette squirming in her grip.
03:52You stole him!
03:54Kale was mine, and you dangled yourself in front of his uncle just to make him jealous!
03:59Put the dragnet down before you heard it.
04:03Don't you dare ignore me!
04:08Are you insane?
04:09He twists her wrist.
04:11The crystal ball shatters.
04:12Blood pools under her skirt.
04:14Is she pregnant?
04:15His first instinct is to look at me.
04:17Bianca, let me explain.
04:18Don't.
04:19She's the one bleeding on the floor.
04:21You just killed your own child, Kale!
04:25Are you happy now, Bianca?
04:28I'm coming.
04:29We have an appointment to look at engagement rings.
04:32I arrive at the Jewelers alone.
04:34Drayvon got held up with affairs.
04:36He told me to go ahead, choose whatever I want.
04:39He'll be there soon.
04:40The shop is the finest.
04:43The ring is extraordinary.
04:45Dragon Clan artisans call it a bondstone.
04:48It only fully reveals its color when worn by someone with a true dragon bond.
04:57My lady!
04:59That stone hasn't lit for anyone in 11 years!
05:05I'm admiring it when the door opens.
05:08Kale, Celestia's dried blood, still on his sleeve.
05:13He takes one look at the ring on my finger and laughs.
05:17Come on, Bianca.
05:18Drop the act and marry me instead.
05:24I know you still care about me.
05:26My uncle doesn't feel anything for you.
05:29You staged all of this just to make me jealous, didn't you?
05:32I give him a look of pure disgust.
05:34I'm giving you one last chance!
05:36You are basically a whore!
05:39That's when the door opens again.
05:41Drayvon fills the frame.
05:43I sweep the room, land on Kale's hand.
05:46How dare you call her like that?
05:48Drayvon walks in.
05:50He doesn't raise his voice.
05:51He doesn't need to.
05:53How dare you call her like that?
05:56Uncle, I was just...
05:58I heard all.
06:00You stood in front of my future wife and called her a whore?
06:06You dare to insult her in public?
06:09I was just being honest.
06:11I think your father really failed to discipline you.
06:13Now, apologize!
06:15The shop girl doesn't breathe.
06:17Kale's throat works.
06:19He turns to me, jaw tight, eyes burning with something ugly.
06:24I apologize, Aunt Bianca.
06:29We'll take this one.
06:32He doesn't look at Kale again.
06:34But as we leave, I feel it.
06:36Kale's gaze on my back.
06:38Not angry.
06:40Hungry.
06:41I have a bad feeling about this.
06:45Drayvon takes me to his private estate in the Dragonback Mountains.
06:49I'm not sad.
06:51Just regretful.
06:52I wasted my best years on someone like that.
06:56Every day from now on will be better.
06:58On my birthday, he takes me to the highest tower restaurant.
07:02I think it's just dinner.
07:03Then every magical light in the city goes out.
07:08Bianca Northwood, marry me.
07:10From the mountains comes the thunder of wings.
07:14Hundreds of dragons drop from the clouds,
07:17painting hearts and rings across the night sky with their fire.
07:21Frostscale launches from my side.
07:23Our last engagement was arranged by our families.
07:27This time, I'm asking you myself.
07:29Bianca Northwood, will you be my wife?
07:32I'm crying.
07:33Yes.
07:34The ring slides on.
07:36The dragon core roars.
07:38Dragon fire explodes across the sky in one enormous flower.
07:45Frostscale lands on Drayvon's shoulder.
07:47His little golden dragonette pokes its head out and touches its forehead to hers.
07:51They're copying us.
07:55The night before the wedding.
07:59Last time I cried every night for a year and called it love.
08:05I know.
08:06I know.
08:07The city quiet below us.
08:09She makes a low sound in her throat.
08:12This time feels different.
08:14He feels different.
08:15She lifts her head and looks at me.
08:17I think I actually love him.
08:19Is that strange?
08:21After everything?
08:22She huffs warm air across my hands.
08:25Decidedly not strange.
08:28I laugh.
08:29A little.
08:30Then I stand up.
08:31One last check.
08:32Old habit.
08:33The venue.
08:34The flowers.
08:35The dress.
08:36I need to see it all in place before I can sleep.
08:39I save the dress room for last.
08:42Gold scales.
08:44Small.
08:45Delicate.
08:47Drayvon's dragonettes?
08:48My heart seizes.
08:50From somewhere above the building, a voice drifts down.
08:54Want him back?
08:56Come to the dragon forbidden ground.
08:59Alone.
09:00No dragon.
09:02Or he dies.
09:03She already knows what I'm going to say.
09:08Half an hour.
09:10If I'm not back, find Drayvon.
09:13I'll be careful.
09:15The dragon forbidden ground lies at the edge of the outer districts.
09:19They say a primordial dragon raised it once.
09:23Long ago.
09:24Left something behind.
09:26In the stones.
09:28No one comes here.
09:30Willingly.
09:31Celestia.
09:32She barely has any power.
09:34She's never even bonded a dragon.
09:35What is she doing in a place like this?
09:38Ahead.
09:38A single point of light.
09:40I move toward it.
09:42The black mist swirling around the bright light slipped into my body out of nowhere.
09:47A piercing pain shot through my heart.
09:50My limbs went weak.
09:51And finally, I collapsed to the ground.
09:54Losing consciousness.
09:56I wake up to the smell of blood.
09:58I'm wearing the wedding dress.
10:00The shredded one.
10:02Dried blood stains across the silk.
10:04My hands are bound behind me.
10:06Kale stands at the cave entrance in a white dress suit.
10:09You're awake.
10:10I thought Celestia called me here.
10:13I had her do wake.
10:15She'd been difficult ever since the miscarriage.
10:18Crying.
10:18Throwing things.
10:21Very noisy.
10:22She wouldn't listen.
10:23So I quieted her down.
10:25Doesn't she look peaceful now?
10:27You're too soft, Bianca.
10:29I scattered a few scales and you came running.
10:32Those weren't Dravian's dragonet scales.
10:34I found something similar.
10:35That's all.
10:36Kale.
10:37Whatever you're planning.
10:39They're stopped now.
10:42Stop!
10:45I've been stopping my whole life.
10:47He was always better.
10:49Always right.
10:50My entire life.
10:52And I couldn't step out of his shadow by an inch.
10:55I want you in that dress he chose.
10:57Marrying me.
10:59Right here.
11:00I will violate you.
11:02Right in front of him.
11:04You've lost your mind.
11:07Maybe.
11:09But he's coming.
11:11My clever uncle.
11:13He's already looking for you.
11:15He claps once.
11:18I invited witnesses.
11:20Today.
11:21I am the dragon lord.
11:24Not him.
11:25I look at the barrier.
11:26He couldn't have built this alone.
11:27His power was never this strong.
11:30How dare you!
11:31Kale!
11:32I'm killing you!
11:33One hour earlier.
11:35Something brushes the window.
11:37He doesn't look up.
11:38It brushes again.
11:40His gold dragonet's ears snapped up.
11:43Dravon crossed the room and opened the window.
11:46Frostscale hung in the air outside, slightly dazed.
11:49Bianca sent you.
11:51Yes!
11:55He went to her rooms first.
11:57Empty.
11:58He pushed it open.
12:00Blood on the tiles.
12:01Watching the lamplight.
12:03Gold scales.
12:06He crouched down and picked one up.
12:08Held it for two seconds.
12:10Stood.
12:11Turn this city inside out.
12:13And bring my bride back.
12:16Dravon hits the barrier.
12:18The magic flares white and throws him back.
12:21He hits it again.
12:23Again.
12:24The runes blaze each time, unyielding.
12:28Frostscale and the gold dragonet hurl themselves at the bars together.
12:32Silver and gold fire pouring through the gaps, fracturing the runes into a web of hairline cracks.
12:38The cracks slowly seal themselves shut.
12:41Even you can't break it, uncle.
12:47Kale grabs my hair and wrenches my head back.
12:50The crowd behind the bars erupts.
12:52Silence screams.
12:53Fists beating against iron.
12:55Lyra throwing herself forward until the guards hold her back.
12:58Kale's own father turns away.
13:00Eyes shut.
13:01Jaw clenched.
13:03Uncle.
13:04You always got everything.
13:06The talent.
13:07The dragon bond.
13:08And then Bianca.
13:10I just want one thing that was supposed to be mine.
13:12But I was never yours.
13:14You will be.
13:16Right here.
13:18Right now.
13:20I want him to see this!
13:26The rune cracks spread wider this time.
13:29You're not as powerful as you think.
13:31You couldn't have set all of this up alone.
13:33Who's helping you, Kale?
13:35A section of the cave wall cracks open.
13:38Red dress.
13:39Unhurried.
13:40A crimson dragonette draped across her shoulders like a scarf.
13:44She takes the crowd.
13:47Dravon's fury.
13:50Keep going.
13:51Don't let me interrupt.
14:07A loradia?
14:08A loradia?
14:09It's you!
14:10A loradia.
14:12You're supposed to be dead!
14:14I was. For about three hundred years.
14:19Three centuries ago, this arena wasn't abandoned. It was a slaughterhouse.
14:25Kale's grandfather wanted the Dragonlord title. He hunted every dragon nobility house to extinction.
14:31Burned their estates. Destroyed their records. Rewrote the history books so cleanly.
14:37But Irelia's soul didn't dissipate, absorbing the arena's residual energy.
14:42Kale sat down in the dark and cried over a woman who had chosen his uncle.
14:50A deal was struck. He stole his father's dragon. Killed it. Used the blood to give her back her body.
14:59You knew. You found your father's journals when you were nineteen. You read what he did and chose to ignore.
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