07:38This 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, Darien arrived in red, leading a grand procession to claim his bride.
08:00But the moment he left, another presence descended.
08:10My father finally smiled.
08:12He took my hand and placed it in Kalim'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.
08:27Back in the dragon's abyss...
08:28Kalium, I'm pregnant.
08:33I'm going to be a father?
08:36Don'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, 9,000, 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 him.
09:26All 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.
09:48Serena, are you truly this cold?
09:50Can you not see even a tress 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.
10:58The chill 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,
11:05we 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?
11:31Serena, 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.
11:50The moment he left, I sent word.
11:52A message to Calum, telling him I was safe.
11:55And something more.
11:56A map.
11:57The next morning, Darien 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.
12:10I 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?
13:43I 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.
13:57Still 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.
14:25Calum 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.
14:42Then, 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.
14:57Calium!
14:59You're finally here.
15:01He 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.
15:09I shouldn't have left you alone.
15:12I gave others a chance to touch what's mine.
15:16It's not your fault.
15:18I was careless and left the barrier.
15:21He pulled me close, arm firm around my waist, ready to take me away.
15:25Behind 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 Calium'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.
16:15I can give you another source of what's on that wall.
16:15You and your children.
16:15Thank you.
16:15Thank you.
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