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Reborn as the Sleeping Dragon's Bride
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00:01I was born with a blood scent that could make dragon lords lose control.
00:05Pure breeding blood, the rarest kind in 300 years.
00:08At my mating ceremony, I crawled past the sacred gold offerings
00:12and grabbed Crown Prince Caelan between his pants.
00:16This little whore could be a clingy breeder in the future.
00:21He was wrong. Caelan and I became enemies.
00:24For 10 years, I watched his dragon eyes learn to hate my scent.
00:27On my 18th birthday feast, the king called me before the throne.
00:32Freya, choose any dragon lord in Valeria. I will grant him to you.
00:36Before I could answer, Caelan's voice cut across the hall.
00:39I would rather be torn apart by wild dragon knees than mate her.
00:44Something inside me broke. Good. Then make him choke on it.
00:47Then I will leave his fate to the gods. Pay for the price, Crown Prince Caelan.
00:51I thought he didn't mean it. Our betrothal ceremony was beautiful, but Caelan never gave me a glance.
00:58Your scent makes me sick.
01:01Years passed. I gave him no air. The court stopped bowing.
01:05Dragonborn ladies spat in my food, ripped my gowns and called me a barren human leech.
01:10Caelan only smiled. Then I heard him say it.
01:12She forced this marriage. She deserves karma. No one should pity her.
01:17One week later, he threw me into the velvet quarter.
01:21A useless breeder belongs in a pleasure house.
01:24I died there, bloody and left like rotten meat. His figure was the last thing I saw. He never looked
01:30back.
01:31Then light split open. I woke on cold marble, gasping. I was reborn at my mating ceremony.
01:37Freya. Choose any dragon lord in Valeria. I will grant him to you.
01:42The royal citadel. The feast. I would not risk my life on Caelan again. I took a deep breath.
01:48Your majesty. I respect the crown prince as someone I grew up with. Like a brother.
01:53I never wanted him. Not as a man. Not as a husband.
01:58My heart only belongs to dragon crook Lufishi Andreanmore. If I couldn't marry him, I'd go finish myself.
02:03The court exploded. I had refused Valeria's golden prince and chosen his uncle. The cursed black silver dragon. The most
02:11fierce dragon who destroyed wild dragonkins for 200 years.
02:20Lucian Dravenmore fell coma since a year ago on the northern war front. Hurt by an unseen blade with curse.
02:27The healers said he would never wake. I knew they were wrong.
02:30In my last life, Lucian woke during my third year in hellish marriage. When dragonborn ladies had cornered me in
02:36the kitchens, they laughed, tore my sleeves, and called me a barren human leech.
02:41Then a broken dragon rose from his wheeled chair. Lucian Dravenmore stood between us. Half crippled, but still terrifying. Back
02:49to now.
02:50Little one. Marrying Lucian would waste your gift. Choose another lord. Someone who can speak to you.
02:56I kept my forehead against the marble floor.
02:58Your majesty, I swore before the old gods. It is Lucian Dravenmore or no one.
03:03I hit my forehead on the floor. Once and once again. The court went quiet. Only left the sound of
03:08my bones crack.
03:09Queen Marianne smiled like she had been handed a gift.
03:12If the human girl wants a sleeping dragon, let her have him.
03:16So be it. Your bloodline is gone. Lucian cannot answer for himself. My queen will arrange the wedding for you
03:23too.
03:23I rose my bloody forehead and crumbling stood up. I am humbled beyond speech.
03:29I did not look at Caelan. I only felt his gold fire burning behind me. Let him burn. I would
03:35never choose him again.
03:36Lucian is way better than Caelan. Last life, though he's still weak, he's nice to me. I'll save him this
03:41time.
03:42We'll claw our way out of this shithole. Together.
03:45For three days, I slept like someone freed from a cage.
03:49Then came the knock at Ashbourne Hall.
03:52The queen commands your presence at the royal citadel tonight.
03:55My blood went cold.
03:57At dusk, Madame Corvin led me through the royal corridors.
04:01Dragonflowers scented the stone. Then she stopped and bowed.
04:06Your highness, crown prince.
04:08I lifted my head. It's Caelan.
04:20Caelan stepped into the lamplight. He looked exactly like a future king. Proud and untouchable. Beautiful in the cruel Velorean
04:27way.
04:28Your highness.
04:29He looked me over from crown to shoes, as if searching for the girl who used to chase him through
04:33these halls.
04:33That's all?
04:34In my last life, I knew his every habit. I baked honey cakes for him. I waited outside Crown Tower
04:40just to hand them over.
04:41He always tossed them to the palace drakes.
04:43Stop this pathetic chase, Freya. You are marrying my uncle now. Try to have some dignity.
04:49You disgust me.
04:50I am not chasing anyone. I was only telling the truth to your king father. I do not love you.
04:56Then you wandered into the royal family's private wing by accident?
04:59The queen summoned me. Ask Madame Corvin.
05:01His gold fire flared. So it was true. I had not come for him.
05:05My uncle is a corpse with a title. You may be a widow before your wedding bed even cools.
05:11Then I will be the happiest widow in Veloria.
05:14His pupils narrowed, then went black.
05:30Queen Marianne heard me out in silence. And before I had even finished my audience with her, my wedding to
05:37Lucien Dravenmore was set for one week later.
05:40Dravenmore's black silver banners stretched across the road as Gareth Thorne bowed before me.
05:45Lady Ashborough.
05:46Darrenmore receives you with honor.
05:48In my last life, Crown Tower never gave me this much respect.
05:52Some nobles called it widowhood with a title. I ignored them.
05:55Dravenmore had already given me more honor than Crown Tower ever did.
05:58When I reached Dravenmore keep, Gareth Thorne led me straight to the bridal chamber.
06:03Lucien Dravenmore lay on the bed, pale and silent. But even unconscious, he did not look weak.
06:08His sharp features, silver black hair and quiet dragon pressure, made him seem less like a dying man and more
06:14like a sleeping dragon.
06:15My lady, I prepared another room for you.
06:17I looked at Lucien, my heart steady despite the tension.
06:19No. He is my husband now. I'll stay here.
06:23The room went silent. After they left, I sat beside him. The air itself seemed to hold its breath.
06:29I leaned closer, feeling the subtle warmth of his body beneath the thin sheets.
06:33You're asleep anyway, so this doesn't count.
06:36I lowered my head and kissed him. His lips were warm. For a heartbeat, nothing happened.
06:40Then the air broke open. Dark pressure slammed through the room. Black silver scales erupted along his neck.
06:46Windows cracked. His hands shot up and caught my throat. Not gentle, not soft.
06:50Dragon fire exploded from his body, scorching the ceiling and bed frame.
06:54I gasped, gripping his wrist.
06:57His fingers burned against my skin, yet he didn't push me away.
07:15Queen Marianne heard me out inside.
07:19His eyes were still closed, but his grip was tightening. Black silver flame tore across the ceiling.
07:24The bed frame split. I grabbed his wrist.
07:28It's me. It's Freya.
07:30His fingers burned against my skin. Then the fire pulled back. His hand dropped.
07:35The room went dark. Outside, Draven Moor Keep erupted. Shouts. Running boots.
07:39Dragon flame lighting up the sky. Gareth broke through the door.
07:43My lady.
07:44I touched my neck. It was bruised. Lucien lay still again, but his breathing had changed.
07:49Deeper. Stronger. The curse had cracked, but whatever was underneath was not gentle.
07:53I didn't know if I had started to wake him up, or started something worse.
07:57By dawn, healers filled the hall. Gareth locked down the entire floor.
08:11No one tells the Royal Citadel what happened last night.
08:14The mate Flyme responded to the marriage bond. That's all anyone needs to know.
08:18The bruise on my neck was already dark. A healer offered to treat it.
08:22Leave it.
08:23I went back to Lucien's room. He was still.
08:25Leave it.
08:25But the black silver scales on his hand had not faded.
08:28His dragon blood was fighting something. The curse. The medicine. Maybe both.
08:32I sat beside him.
08:33I don't know if you can hear me, but I'm not leaving.
08:37His fingers moved. Barely.
08:39The news reached Crown Tower before noon.
08:41Kaelin was sparring when a servant ran in.
08:43Your Highness.
08:45Dravenmoor's mate Flame answered Freya last night.
08:47Kaelin stopped mid-swing.
08:48The whole northern sky lit up.
08:51Gold fire burst from Kaelin's palm.
08:54The training post shattered.
08:55He thought the wedding would humiliate me.
08:57Instead, all of Royal Citadel was talking about how Dravenmoor's dragon blood had chosen a human bride.
09:02Princess Anya walked in.
09:04So it's true.
09:06She looked at the burned post.
09:07They say Freya looked more like a duchess than a widow.
09:11Careful, Kaelin.
09:12People might think you're the one who got left behind.
09:16That afternoon, Kaelin called his steward.
09:18The Ashborough war records we archived move them to the sealed vault and send a message to the Royal Pharmacy.
09:23Any requests from Dravenmoor go through my office first.
09:54So we are doing the path to the Royal Pharmacy which was shown that the Royal Pharmacy is more competitive
09:55than the Royal Pharmacy.
09:55Let's go.
09:55Let's go.
09:56So I'm Tom, will I ask you to jump in.
09:56I will turn the sword of the Royal Pharmacy.
09:57Now, let me ask you.
09:57Let me ask you to know how we're looking for yourREYP.
09:59Now, let me ask you to know how about the Royal Pharmacy.
10:00Now, let me ask you to know how you are.
10:00Now, I'm going to ask.
10:08Now, let me ask you to know how you are.
10:15I'm going to ask you to answer this question.
10:23I put on Dravenmoor black and silver and walked straight into the main hall.
10:27Selene's housekeeper stepped in front of me.
10:29Lady Selene is waiting in the west parlour.
10:31Then she can come here.
10:32The servants froze.
10:34Davinmoor keep is not Seleneva Lavasse's house, and I am not her guest.
10:37Gareth stood behind me.
10:39He said nothing.
10:39Every servant in the hall understood it.
10:41Gareth supported me as Lady Dravenmoor.
10:43Bring me Lucien's healer records, medicine ledgers, and nightwatch lists now.
10:47Selene arrived with a soft smile.
10:49Freya, you were married yesterday.
10:50Leave the household matters to me.
10:52This isn't household business.
10:53This is my husband's life.
10:55Selene kept smiling, but her eyes didn't.
10:57By sunset, I found the first problem in the medicine logs.
11:00Some herbs were not healing Lucien.
11:02They were suppressing his dragon blood.
11:03He wasn't too weak to wake.
11:05Someone was keeping him asleep.
11:06I needed the source records.
11:07Where the herbs came from.
11:09Who ordered them?
11:09The trail pointed to the royal pharmacy.
11:11I sent a rider to request the purchase records.
11:14The rider came back empty-handed.
11:15Crown Tower denied the request.
11:17They said all pharmaceutical inquiries from Dravenmoor require approval from the Crown Prince's office.
11:21I understood.
11:22Selene's confidence didn't come from Dravenmoor.
11:24It came from Crown Tower.
11:25That night, Selene heard I had found the local records.
11:28For the first time, she stopped smiling.
11:30Send Rowan.
11:31Let my son teach her what happens to lonely wives in this house.
11:57Rowan Vos waited outside my chamber door.
12:00He smelled of wine.
12:02Lady Dravenmoor.
12:03I stopped.
12:04Come on.
12:04Your husband can't even open his eyes.
12:07Don't waste your youth on a sleeping man.
12:09He stepped closer.
12:10Selene runs this keep.
12:12I am her son.
12:13You are just the human bride they sent to warm Lucien's bed.
12:17Then I slapped him.
12:18Servants rushed over.
12:19No one dared speak.
12:20Rowan wiped blood from his lip.
12:22My mother will hear about this.
12:24Good.
12:25Tell Lady Selene I saved her the trouble.
12:27His face twisted.
12:28My mother!
12:29Your mother failed to raise you.
12:31That makes it my problem now.
12:33I turned to the hall.
12:34Freya.
12:35Gareth.
12:36Put him in the lower water cell.
12:37By morning, maybe he'll remember whose keep this is.
12:41The guards moved toward Rowan.
12:43That was when the whole keep understood.
12:44I was Lady Dravenmoor.
12:46Below the keep, Rowan shook in freezing water.
12:49My mother knows about Lucien's medicine.
12:51He looked up, shaking.
12:52She knows who kept him asleep.
12:54And Crown Tower knows she knows.
13:03She knows.
13:04She knows.
13:33She knows.
14:07The medicine was switched and he said Crown Tower was involved.
14:10I looked at Lucian.
14:11The black silver scales on his hand had faded but his fingers were warmer than before.
14:15Bring me every medicine log from the last year.
14:18And find me a healer who doesn't answer to Salona or the Royal Pharmacy.
14:22By breakfast the hall was full.
14:24Servants stood with their heads down.
14:26Salona sat at the high table, calm as ever.
14:28Freya, you locked my son in a water cell over drunken words.
14:32Now you want to accuse me too?
14:33I want records.
14:35Household records are not toys for a new bride.
14:38I placed the medicine book on the table.
14:40Then explain this.
14:41Her smile stopped.
14:42Lucian's dose changed three months ago.
14:44The healer seal is missing.
14:46The delivery mark belongs to your steward.
14:48Gareth stepped beside me.
14:49From today on, no one touches Lucian's food, wine or medicine unless I see it first.
14:54You think you can run Darren Moore?
14:56No.
14:57I already am.
14:58A crash came from Lucian's chamber.
15:00We ran back.
15:01The medicine bowl had split in half.
15:03Black silver fire burned across the floor.
15:05Lucian's eyes were still closed, but his hand had crushed the bed rail.
15:08That evening, a sealed letter arrived from Crown Tower.
15:11Not a personal note.
15:12An official order with the royal stamp.
15:14Gareth read it aloud.
15:15By the authority of Crown Prince Caelan, a royal medical delegation will be dispatched to
15:19Dragonmore Keep to evaluate Duke Lucian's condition and review all medical arrangements
15:23currently in place.
15:24The room went quiet.
15:25When?
15:26Three days.
15:27I looked at the letter.
15:28If Caelan's doctors walked in here, they would take over Lucian's treatment, reverse
15:32everything I had changed, put Celine's people back in charge, and I couldn't refuse.
15:36He was using his nephew's health as the excuse.
15:39Then we have three days.
15:57He was using and what was she?
16:04Someone was using her as a emergenIeah.
16:05I thought she saw her as a скорее as a who he was buying her hand.
16:05Give her a hand.
16:08Amen.
16:08since I was stuck there were two days still in consider running a passer in the way,
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19:50I need you to wake up.
19:52Silence.
19:53Then his fingers closed around mine.
19:55Freya.
19:55His dark gold eyes opened.
19:57Who came into my keep and thought he could question my wife for protecting me?
20:01Lucian sat up in bed. Black silver flame tore through the room. He looked at the bruise on my neck.
20:06Who did this?
20:07You.
20:08When your dragon blood broke through.
20:10He touched the bruise. Black silver light wrapped around my neck. It faded under his hand. Outside, every dragon torch
20:16in Dravenmore keep lit at once.
20:17The whole northern sky burned silver. In Crown Tower, a rider burst through the gate.
20:24Your Highness, Dragon Onmore's fire just lit the northern line. All of it.
20:27Caelan stood up.
20:28The Duke is awake.
20:30Caelan's cup shattered in his hand.
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20:47Now驚 covers in his hole in their hand.
20:48Caelan's cup for energy.
20:48Johnny Gilmour's hand.
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20:54Caelan's cup surrendered.
20:54Caelan's cup of water.
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23:22The Royal Medical Delegation arrived before noon.
23:25They expected a sleeping duke.
23:27They found Lucian Dravenmore seated in the main hall.
23:29He leaned on a cane.
23:30His face was pale, but black-silver pressure filled the room so hard the candles bent sideways.
23:36The late physician swallowed.
23:37Your Grace, Crown Prince Caelan sent us to review your treatment.
23:40Lucian looked at him.
23:42My nephew sends doctors into my keep without asking me?
23:44No one answered.
23:46The Crown is concerned for your health.
23:48My wife kept me alive while your prince tried to take control of my be-medicine.
23:53From today on, Dravenmore's healers answer to me and Lady Derenmore, no one else.
23:57The delegation left before sunset.
23:58Caelan watched from the upper hall, white-faced.
24:01That night, she sent a servant through the east gate with a sealed message.
24:04I watched him disappear into the dark road.
24:07I could stop him, but I didn't.
24:08I want to see who will answer.
24:09Later, Lucian found me by the chamber fire.
24:12How much did they make you carry alone?
24:14His jaw tightened.
24:17I'll start carrying it with you.
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26:05At dawn, Lucian ordered the ledgers sealed. Gareth brought iron boxes from Selene's office, tax books, supply lists, military payment
26:13rolls. By noon, the truth was on the table.
26:16Northern Rider pay was cut for eight months. Wintergrain was marked as delivered, but the storehouses never received it.
26:22He placed another page down.
26:23And this money went to the Gilded Den.
26:25Rowan's name was written beside the account. Selene gripped her sleeve.
26:29My husband died for this house. I raised my son here. I made sacrifices.
26:34Lucian looked at her.
26:35You sold my soldiers food and called it sacrifice?
26:38I protected Drevenmore while you slept.
26:41No. You fed off it.
26:43The hall went silent. Rowan was dragged in, bruised and terrified.
26:48Mother, say something!
26:50Selene did not look at him. Lucian tapped the ledger.
26:53Rowan Vos goes to the dungeon until I decide his sentence.
26:56You can't do this to family!
26:57Family does not touch my wife, steal from my riders, or poison my house.
27:02The guards took him away.
27:05Selene Vox is removed from all household authority. She will remain under guard in the east wing.
27:11Then he turned to me.
27:12The accounts are yours now.
27:13Every servant in the hall dropped to one knee.
27:16For the first time they were not kneeling because Lucian had woken.
27:20They were kneeling because I had won.
27:44They would pull young people off.
27:47So if the weurgers wouldn't be missing while you could
27:47And there were nurses stuck with you in danger.
27:48And they loved him maybe, why would you stay there?
47:04over water. I turned. That was you? You were ten, soaked through, furious at the pond. And you
47:13remembered that? I remembered you. For a second the court noise faded, then Queen Marian's voice
47:18cut through the garden. How charming. A human duchess among dragonhounds. Valeria is becoming
47:24very generous. The noble ladies went quiet. Caelan looked at me. I did not speak. Lucien did. House
47:30Ashbird bled for Valeria before half these dragonhouses learned how to hold a border.
47:35Queen Marian's smile cracked. Freer's bloodline has earned its place here. A Marian lady muttered.
47:42Human blood is still human blood. Lucien turned his dark gold eyes on her. Then pray you never
47:48need human soldiers to die for your comfort again. No one laughed. I looked at Lucien. For the first
47:54time, I understood. His silence all these years had never been indifference. It had been restraint.
48:05I said it's a way to keep it. I said the worst thing about this is because I do not
48:12work.
48:12I said the worst thing about this is because when you think about your idea of life in a
48:13life in a school where you think about yourself, that where you think about yourself, right?
48:17I think about the worst thing. I was saying, you know, that would be a very useful thing.
48:44Anya's warning was real. Edric checked the Royal Archive records for me. Three nights. Three visits.
48:52Madam Corvin entered the sealed wing each time with a Marianne clerk.
48:56The exit list is wrong. Files went in. Fewer came out.
48:59Which files?
49:00Northern Warfront. Ashpington marching routes. Dragonblood curse reports.
49:04Lucian's hand tightened on his cane.
49:06They are destroying the trail.
49:08Then we split it.
49:09Lucian went to request royal access from King Alaric.
49:12I sent Edric to the old Archive clerk who had served my father.
49:16By midnight, Mira came to my room carrying a basket of white roses.
49:32Don't yell. I know it looks stupid.
49:34She pulled the cloth aside.
49:36Three copied letters lay under the flowers.
49:38My hands went cold.
49:40One letter marked my father's route through the northern pass.
49:43One confirmed the route had been sent before the ambush.
49:45The last carried a red wax seal.
49:47House Marriand.
49:48Mira stared at it.
49:50My lady, that's the Queen's family.
49:52I closed the letters.
49:56Not just her family.
49:58Lucian entered before dawn.
50:00The King agreed to open the vault tomorrow.
50:02I handed him the copies.
50:03Good.
50:05His face changed as he read.
50:07Because now we know what they'll try to hide.
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51:40She pulled the cloth aside.
51:42Three copies...
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