On the Day of the Broken Engagement, I Married a Half-Blood Dragon is an epic fantasy romance where betrayal leads to an unexpected destiny. After her engagement is shattered, a young woman accepts the hand of a mysterious half-blood dragon, entering a world of ancient magic, powerful kingdoms, and forbidden love. Together they must overcome dangerous enemies, hidden prophecies, and impossible choices that will decide the fate of their world. Filled with breathtaking fantasy, emotional romance, and unforgettable adventures, this full episode is perfect for fans of fantasy short dramas.
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00:00In my first life, my fiancé Derek despised me for not being pure enough for the mixed colors in my
00:04flame.
00:05The day I gave birth, he couldn't even wait for me to get off the birthing bed before he burned
00:09me and my still crying baby to ash with a blast of black fire.
00:14As I died, I cursed him. In every life, may you die a miserable death.
00:18Then I was reborn from the ashes.
00:21In my second life, when I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day before my engagement.
00:25My fiancé Derek Cole was standing in my family's main tent, announcing in front of everyone that he was going
00:30to marry my sister Mia.
00:31He had been reborn too. In our last life, he was a rising star among the pure-blood dragons.
00:36He married me because my family and bloodline were just barely worthy of him.
00:39But later I gave birth to a child with markled scales and a dull weak flame, a half-breed.
00:43He thought I had ruined him. He thought I had deceived him, so he killed us.
00:46Now he had come back to do it over, convinced that if he chose my pure-blood sister, he would
00:51get the perfect heir he wanted.
00:54What he didn't know was that the child Mia carried was a half-breed too.
00:59No! No, that's not right. Let him find out for himself.
01:02When I woke up, my chest still hurt. The feeling of fire burning straight through my ribs felt carved into
01:07my soul.
01:08It took me a full ten seconds to realize I was still alive. Still whole. Still had a heartbeat.
01:14The animal hide stretched over the tent roof was the one Mother had brought back from the southern tribe last
01:18year.
01:18A totem pole stood in the center of the tent, carved all over with the marks of our ancestors.
01:22The basket of nearly withered healing herbs in the corner was still right where it had been.
01:26Everything was exactly as I remembered.
01:28Then I saw Derek. His gaze swept over the main tent, over my parents, over the shamans and chiefs present.
01:34Then it landed on me.
01:36That look was not the tenderness he had worn before our wedding in my last life.
01:40It was disgust, contempt.
01:41He came back too.
01:43Uncle Auntie, I know this is wrong, but I can't form a bond with Olivia.
01:48The main tent fell silent for one second. Then whispers broke out, like a swarm of insects startled into flight.
01:56My father, Marcus, was one of the leaders of the Dragon Council.
02:01Say that again.
02:04Me and I are together now.
02:05She's carrying my cub.
02:09Derek, you and Olivia have been promised to each other since childhood.
02:13Your blood compatibility is 92%.
02:15We tested it three times.
02:17You can't just break it off because you feel like it.
02:20Our parents arranged that engagement.
02:22I didn't choose it.
02:23He turned towards me.
02:25No.
02:26He walked towards me.
02:32In our last life, you humiliated me.
02:35This time, I won't make the same mistake.
02:38Olivia, I don't want to hurt you.
02:40I just can't marry someone who is...
02:42He paused.
02:43The entire main tent waited for him to say the word.
02:47I just can't take that risk.
02:49He didn't say it.
02:51But everyone understood.
02:53Bloodline.
02:54Blood.
02:55Purity.
02:55Those three words drifted through the family hall like ghosts.
02:57No one dared say them out loud.
02:59But everyone didn't know exactly what they meant.
03:01Everyone in the family knew my flame was the wrong color and the pattern of my scales was wrong.
03:04Since childhood, the elders had judged my bloodline as tainted.
03:07When I first awakened at seven, my flame was gold but streaked with red threads.
03:10That was not the color of a pure blood dragon.
03:12To my face, the elders called it potential.
03:14A possible mutation.
03:15A special gift.
03:16But in private, the word they used was half-breed.
03:18They just didn't dare say a tough voice.
03:20I agree.
03:21What did you say?
03:22I said I agree.
03:25Article 17 of the Dragon Code.
03:27The party whose engagement is broken has the right to choose a spouse independently within 30 days.
03:32I want to invoke it.
03:33Do you understand what Article 17 means?
03:36It means you give up all family protection over your marriage.
03:39It means the spouse you choose will not be screened, will not be verified, and there will be no bottom
03:44line.
03:45I understand.
03:47I choose him.
03:48No one had ever paid attention to him.
03:52His eyes were a dark gold that belonged to no pure blood dragon.
03:56A color mainstream society saw as the mark of a half-breed.
04:00Are you insane?
04:05You're choosing a...
04:06A what?
04:07A half-breed just like me?
04:09Is that the word you want to say, Derek?
04:11Say it!
04:11He didn't dare.
04:13He didn't dare say that word in front of a room full of elders because the moment he did,
04:17he would be admitting that the real reason he had broken off the engagement was not love.
04:22It was blood discrimination.
04:24In modern dragon society, it was an open secret, but no one dared say it in a formal setting.
04:29Everyone wore masks.
04:31Everyone spoke politely.
04:32Everyone stabbed each other in the back.
04:34No one was stupid enough to draw their blade on the battlefield.
04:39What are you still standing there for?
04:41Come here.
04:49What's your name?
04:52Luke.
04:53Luke and I formed a bond.
04:55The process was simple.
04:56Go to the Elder's Hall, register, and have both parties sign the contract.
04:59No ceremony, no blessing, not even friends needed to be present.
05:01The fire basin at the registration office burned bright.
05:04And the animal hide scroll of the dragon code hung on the wall, yellowed with age, its edges curling.
05:08When I signed, Mia stood in the doorway.
05:10What do you think that half-breed of yours can give birth to?
05:13A lizard?
05:13Or a whole nest of snakes?
05:15My guess, yours will be much more interesting than mine.
05:18She didn't know what I knew, but she sensed it.
05:21After I signed, I set down the pen and walked past her without stopping.
05:25At the far end of the corridor, Derek stood to the side, staring hard at me.
05:31What do you know?
05:32I know you chose the wrong person.
05:34But don't worry, Derek.
05:36Your good days are far from over.
05:38It was only one phrase, but it carried so much.
05:40Last life.
05:41Killing intent.
05:42Fear.
05:43And something I didn't recognize.
05:45Maybe despair.
05:46You killed me in our last life.
05:48In this one, I'm still alive.
05:49I saw a flicker of fear in his eyes.
05:52Not fear of me.
05:52Not fear of power.
05:53It was fear of the fact that the woman knew everything.
05:55The fear that comes right before a secret is exposed.
05:58When I walked out of the Elder's Hall, Luke was leaning against a stone pillar in the corridor.
06:01Rolling an old silver coin was badly worn.
06:03The image on its face almost impossible to see.
06:06All sign?
06:07All sign.
06:08What were you saying to them out there?
06:10Nothing.
06:11Just saying hello.
06:17Your claws are shaking.
06:18No, they're not.
06:19Olivia.
06:21I said they're not.
06:22He simply took off his outer robe, carrying in the warmth of his fire in a scent I couldn't
06:25quite name.
06:26The robe was cold, metallic scent of pure-blood dragons.
06:29But something wilder.
06:30Something deeper.
06:31Like forest after rain.
06:32Or charred wood.
06:33That night, we went back to Luke's tent together.
06:34He was warming beast milk by the fire pit.
06:36He said the midwife told him and needed to be nourished.
06:38His tent was small.
06:39Walls lied to him I was nearly bored.
06:40But everything was clean.
06:41Wooden bowls and anaple spoons were neatly stacked on the stone shelf, and there wasn't
06:44a speck of rust on his blade.
06:45Why were you willing to marry me?
06:46You want the truth?
06:48Hmm.
06:50Because you chose.
06:51You stood in the middle of the main tent with everyone watching, and you chose me.
06:57Just for that?
07:00Just for that.
07:06Not many dragons would choose one of their own in that moment.
07:10Most would choose themselves.
07:12That was choosing myself, too.
07:14I chose you because I needed to get away from Derek.
07:17I know.
07:19But you could have grabbed any dragon at the door to sign with you, then gone your separate
07:23ways.
07:24You didn't.
07:25How do you know I won't?
07:27Yeah.
07:31Because you're still sitting here, drinking my beast milk.
07:35I said nothing.
07:36He was right.
07:38I hadn't left.
07:40The days passed quietly like that.
07:42I found out I was pregnant two months later.
07:45In my last life.
07:47In my last life, at this very moment, I thought I was carrying Derek's cub.
07:51I had gone to tell him, full of joy.
07:58I hope you don't embarrass me again.
08:01His expression looked like he had already decided to throw it away before he even skinned
08:05it.
08:06Then I gave birth to a daughter with marteled scales, and a flame so weak it was almost invisible.
08:19This isn't mine.
08:24She is yours.
08:25My seed could never turn out like that.
08:30He didn't even wait for me to explain.
08:44Olivia, you've been in the private hut for 20 minutes.
08:48Luke's expression changed.
08:50First confusion, then alertness, then something I didn't recognize.
08:55What's wrong?
08:58I handed him the pregnancy stone.
09:09Ours?
09:11Who else's would it be?
09:15Not Derek's?
09:17Not Derek's.
09:20100% yours.
09:32Are you happy?
09:34I don't know.
09:36But I'm thinking about something.
09:39What?
09:40Your last life.
09:43Why did Derek kill you?
09:45I froze.
09:46I hadn't told him.
09:47I had never told anyone about my last life.
09:50About that cub.
09:51About that fire.
09:52About the instance so sudden I didn't even have time to scream.
09:55The cub.
09:56Mottled scales.
09:58Unstable flame.
09:59He thought it wasn't his.
10:01It wasn't his?
10:03It was.
10:04But that cub really didn't look pure blood.
10:08Olivia, have you ever considered something?
10:10What?
10:11A cub born from two mixed bloods may not be a mixed blood.
10:14What does that mean?
10:16He didn't answer.
10:17He only placed his claws over my lower abdomen.
10:19Within the black tongues of flame was a strand of gold I had never seen before.
10:24That gold was not the cold gold of the pure blood dragons.
10:27It was warmer.
10:28More like sunrise.
10:29Your cub.
10:30It isn't the same as the cub from your last life.
10:33What are you talking about?
10:35I'm saying you were robbed.
10:38Robbed?
10:39By who?
10:42Mia's due date was three weeks before mine.
10:46The news spread through the entire dragon council.
10:50Derek Cole was holding a bloodline witnessing ceremony for his first child.
10:53And he had invited every elder and noble.
10:57To put it plainly, he was showing off.
11:00Showing off that he had chosen the right woman.
11:02That his heir would be pure blood.
11:04That abandoning me had been such a brilliant decision.
11:06He wanted everyone to see that Derek Cole had not been dragged down by that half-breed.
11:10That Derek Cole's bloodline would continue.
11:11That Derek Cole was the winner.
11:14On the day of the ceremony, Luke and I stood at the very back of the hall.
11:20No one noticed us.
11:22No one wanted to notice us.
11:25I knew what he was thinking.
11:27He was thinking this was only the first step.
11:29There was a longer road ahead.
11:31One child wasn't enough.
11:33He wanted an entire tribe.
11:35My parents sat in the front row.
11:37Their seats had been assigned.
11:38No one cared whether they wanted to be there.
11:41To miss an occasion like this would be to openly oppose the Cole family.
11:45And my father's place on the council still needed Marcus Cole's vote.
11:48What do you think it'll be?
11:50Do you want the truth or the polite version?
11:53The truth.
11:54A turkey.
11:56Or a lizard.
11:57Or something worse.
12:03The glory of pure-blood dragons.
12:07The future of the Cole family.
12:10The support of the clan.
12:12Every sentence was formulatical.
12:14Every gesture had been precisely calculated.
12:17Then the delivery room door opened.
12:22Marcus's smile froze on his face.
12:24The whole room went silent.
12:27Every eye fixed on the white cloth.
12:29Waiting for the midwife to uncover it.
12:31The baby's scales were grey-green.
12:33Uneven in shade.
12:34Its eyes opened a slit.
12:35And the color of its pupils was wrong.
12:37It was not the gold of pure-blood dragons.
12:39Nor the dark yellow ex-blood dragons.
12:41It was a murky sickly dark yellow.
12:43Like pos left too long.
12:44What is that?
12:45It's my child.
12:47Let me see.
12:48Even more terrifying were its dragon wings.
12:50The fleshy wing that should have unfolded at bed.
12:53The symbol of a dragon's identity had only grown half way.
12:57The other half was a malformed, wrinkled lump of skin.
13:16I don't know.
13:17I don't know why this happened, Derek.
13:19I really don't know.
13:19Do you know what your bloodline is?
13:24Do you know on your father's side?
13:27There is nothing wrong with my bloodline.
13:30It's you.
13:30You're the problem in our last life.
13:33You and...
13:34She suddenly shut her mouth.
13:37But it was too late.
13:39Last life.
13:40What last life?
13:41Derek's expression in that moment was the most spectacular thing I had ever seen.
13:45Fear, rage, shame, and the despair of knowing that everything was over.
13:49Every emotion was stretched up at once, crowding onto his handsome face until it twisted out of shape.
13:53It was you.
13:55You cursed me!
13:56He was fast.
13:58But Luke was faster.
14:10Don't touch her.
14:12The whole room went silent.
14:22Like fire.
14:24Impossible.
14:26What is it?
14:27Marcus, do you know that fire?
14:30Marcus didn't answer.
14:33The way he looked at Luke changed.
14:36It wasn't the hostility from before.
14:39It wasn't irritation at having his speech interrupted.
14:42It was something older.
14:44More instinctive.
14:46Fear.
14:47Not fear of an enemy.
14:49Fear of something from the past.
14:51Mia and Derek's pure blood air was half lizard.
14:54The news spread through all of Dragon Society.
14:57Someone revealed the secret.
14:59It was sealed quickly.
15:01However, the message has already been leaked.
15:04The comments were unbearable to read.
15:07Some said Mia's bloodline was the problem.
15:09Some said Derek's bloodline was the problem.
15:11Some said both of them were the problem.
15:13The truth didn't matter.
15:15What mattered was that they were finished.
15:18But to Derek, there was one thing even more terrifying than social death.
15:23Me.
15:24That night we returned to our accommodation.
15:27Luke closed the door.
15:29Leaned against it.
15:30And looked at me.
15:33You want to know the truth?
15:35What I used just now was the fire of the ancient dragons.
15:39When Marcus saw it, he recognized it.
15:41But that wasn't the power of modern pure blood dragons.
15:47Luke was silent for a long time.
15:50Do you know where pure blood dragons come from?
15:53Since I was little, I was taught that pure blood is innate.
15:57Natural selection.
15:58The peak of evolution.
16:00Then do you know where half-greeds come from?
16:05These scars, they aren't from fights.
16:10They're from rituals.
16:13What rituals?
16:14The Cole family.
16:16Marcus Cole, Derek's father.
16:18Or rather, every family that calls itself pure blood.
16:21Their pure blood wasn't natural.
16:23It was stolen.
16:24What do you mean?
16:26Every time a new life is born, they perform a ritual.
16:28They extract dragon crystals from dragons with impure bloodlines.
16:32He never talked about himself.
16:34I had known him for two months, and he had never said a word about his past.
16:39I knew what a dragon crystal was.
16:41Every dragon has one in their chest.
16:43It is the source of our power.
16:45The color and quality of a dragon crystal determines the form and strength of the flame.
16:49If the dragon crystal shatters, the dragon dies.
16:52No exceptions.
16:53A mixed blood's dragon crystal is far more active than a pure blood's.
16:56Because a mixed blood's flame is unstable, the crystal has to keep adapting and adjusting.
17:01And that activity...
17:03It can be extracted.
17:05A pure blood dragon's crystal is constant.
17:08Stable.
17:09It doesn't grow stronger or weaker.
17:10But a mixed blood's crystal is different.
17:12It can be smelled, remade, and injected into another dragon's body.
17:16They use mixed blood dragon crystals to strengthen their own bloodlines.
17:20Luke didn't speak.
17:22But his silence was the clearest confirmation.
17:27How do you know?
17:29Because I was one of the dragons they extracted from.
17:33When I was 15, Marcus Cole found me.
17:36He said he would help me awaken.
17:37You know the line.
17:38Every mixed blood has heard it.
17:39Come with us, and we'll help remove the impurities from your bloodline.
17:43You went?
17:44I went.
17:45My mother had just died.
17:46I was living alone in a grass shed in the south.
17:48No herd, no kin.
17:49My flame would go out of control from time to time and burn every piece of prey I could find.
17:52Arriving a beast car pulled by 4th Estuary, he said he had come to help me.
17:56They locked me in a dungeon and extracted my dragon crystal for three days and three nights.
18:00They thought I was unconscious the whole time.
18:02But I wasn't.
18:03I was awake.
18:05I watched them melt the crystal they took from me into glowing liquid and eject it into a cub's body.
18:11Who was that cub?
18:15You guessed right.
18:17It was Derek Cole.
18:19Derek's pure blood had not been maintained by the blood I donated.
18:23Not by that bottle of heart blood taken from my chest every year.
18:26The pain so bad I curled in on myself.
18:30It was maintained by my own kind.
18:33By the lives of every mixed blood dragon they had branded a half-street.
18:37In my last life.
18:40Every year I had to send their family a bottle of my heart blood.
18:45They said it was to build affection with Derek.
18:48I was pierced with needles from childhood until I nearly died from the pain.
18:52And I thought that was just my fate.
18:55Because I was mixed blood I was supposed to endure it.
18:58It was compensation.
18:59It was the price.
19:01It was what I owed them.
19:02That wasn't your fate.
19:04That was their lie.
19:06They used my blood.
19:07Our blood.
19:08To keep up Derek's disguise.
19:10To make everyone believe he was pure blood.
19:12To let him stand above us.
19:14Look down on us.
19:15Judge us.
19:15Kill us.
19:16Then he killed you.
19:18Killed your child.
19:19Because he couldn't let the truth come out.
19:22Your child.
19:23The one you gave birth to in your last life.
19:26If she had lived.
19:27If she had grown up.
19:29Her scales and flame would have proven one thing.
19:31What?
19:32A child born from two mixed bloods is not mixed blood.
19:36It is the source.
19:38The ancient dragons.
19:40The true dragons.
19:41Were never pure blood.
19:42They were mixed blood.
19:44Because mixed blood means adaptation.
19:47It means change.
19:49It means the power to devour everything.
19:51And bring everything back to life.
19:54But pure blood.
19:56Pure blood is a dead end.
19:59A self-deceiving lie.
20:01Destined for extinction.
20:03That night.
20:04Luke took me somewhere.
20:05Deep within the family territory.
20:07There was a forgotten ruin.
20:10I had gone there once as a child.
20:12But mother dragged me back.
20:14She said it was unlucky.
20:15And forbade me from going again.
20:19It was not an ordinary key.
20:21It was made of bone.
20:23White.
20:23And slightly yellowed.
20:29But I knew those words were not modern dragon writing.
20:33They weren't any dragon language I knew.
20:35The symbols curved and flowed like the shape of flames.
20:40Generations of dragon ancestors are buried here.
20:43At least that's what everyone says.
20:45No.
20:46They didn't die.
20:48They were exiled.
20:50The stone chamber was small.
20:52Only about two meters square.
20:53And every wall was covered in murals.
20:56No names.
20:57No dates.
20:59Only those ancient curving symbols and images.
21:02It was ten times the size of the other dragons.
21:05It's wingspan covering half the sky.
21:13Then the mural changed.
21:16They severed the dragon race's connection to its past.
21:22They killed the last mixed blood king of the ancient dragons.
21:25Stole its dragon crystal.
21:26Divided into thirteen pieces.
21:28And smelted those pieces into their own bodies.
21:30From then on.
21:31They called themselves pure blood.
21:34From then on mixed blood became a disgrace.
21:37From then on every few decades.
21:39They had to find a new group of mixed blood dragons.
21:41Extract their dragon crystals.
21:42And use them to extend their own lives.
21:45Do you know why they've always had their eyes on you?
21:48Because my flame is the wrong color.
21:50Because the pattern of my scales is wrong.
21:53Because I'm a half-breed.
21:54Because inside you is...
21:56Because you are the reincarnation of that ancient dragon.
22:01I am the...
22:03You are the king they killed three times.
22:06Stole from countless times.
22:07And yet every time...
22:10You were reborn from the ashes.
22:14In this life I will stand in front of you.
22:16Not because you need protection.
22:18But because since I was fifteen I have been waiting for one of my own.
22:21Someone willing to choose me.
22:22And you chose.
22:24His voice was trembling.
22:25It was the first time I had ever heard his voice tremble.
22:27I thought the story ended there.
22:30But I was wrong.
22:31On the third day after the ceremony.
22:34Mia disappeared.
22:35She hadn't run away from the nest.
22:37She hadn't gone to see a witch doctor about her body.
22:40She vanished from the Cole family territory out of thin air.
22:44The midwife said she got up in the middle of the night to feed the cub.
22:48And then she was gone.
22:54Derek was the first to messenger to me.
22:57Not because he cared about Mia.
23:00But because he knew I would.
23:03Strangely, it wasn't angry.
23:05It wasn't urgent.
23:07It was soft in a way I had never heard before.
23:10Almost pleading.
23:11Olivia.
23:12Mia is missing.
23:14What does that have to do with me?
23:17I heard him take a deep breath on the other end of the soundstone.
23:20If you're willing to help me find her, I'll show you something.
23:26The truth about that cub from your last life.
23:33Then I found Luke.
23:34Derek says he knows about what happened in the last life.
23:37He was cooking a pot of meat soup.
23:39In the stone pot were wild greens, roots and bones from some beast I didn't know where he had hunted.
23:48What does he know?
23:49He says he knows the truth about the cub.
23:56He's lying.
23:57But he may know something.
23:59Like what?
24:01Like who stole your cub.
24:04Luke and I went to the Cole family territory.
24:07Their land was on the mountain to the north, spranning wide.
24:11It was a long walk from the fortress gate to the main hall.
24:20Come with me.
24:28Inside was a ritual refining room.
24:31No, not a ritual refining room.
24:32A slaughterhouse.
24:33It was not alive.
24:35What is this?
24:37Derek didn't answer.
24:40The bone scroll was very old, its edges worn down.
24:45My name was carved on it.
24:47Inside were branded animal hides.
24:50Many sheets.
24:51The same cub.
24:52Rubbed from different angles.
24:54Behind them were notched tables.
24:56Rune data.
24:56And blood pattern analysis scrolls.
24:59Derek has never fathered a pure blood cub.
25:01Not once.
25:02The Cole family's bloodline was already polluted in the first generation.
25:05Their method of extracting mixed blood dragon crystals has a fatal side effect.
25:08Each generation is weaker than the last.
25:10Derek is the final generation.
25:12He cannot produce any healthy cub.
25:14Then what about Mia's cub?
25:16My father did that.
25:18What do you mean?
25:19My father.
25:19He started cultivating Ambrose five years ago.
25:21With my essence blood, with mixed blood dragon essence blood, cultivated in the ritual refining room.
25:25The one Mia carried was never my cub.
25:27It was a ritual thing they implanted in her body.
25:29Your wording changed.
25:31You called her Mia, not my sister.
25:34Now you see her as a living being, not your rival.
25:37He said nothing for a long time.
25:40Mia disappeared.
25:41She got up in the middle of the night and saw that stone trough.
25:45Saw the corpse of her cub.
25:46The one she thought had died.
25:47The one we told her died at birth.
25:51Then she disappeared.
25:54What did you do to her?
25:56We didn't do anything.
25:58But she took that bone scroll.
25:59That scroll contains all the evidence.
26:01The Cole family's bloodline fraud, ritual cultivation, mixed blood dragon crystal extraction.
26:05Everything is in there.
26:06So you came to me not because she's missing, but because she took your secrets.
26:12My father doesn't want Mia.
26:14What does he want?
26:16He wants that cub.
26:18I did not go to rescue Mia.
26:20Not because I didn't care, but because I knew where she was.
26:23Our mother, Elena.
26:24She had never accepted my father's seat on the council.
26:27Never accepted being forced to attend every Cole family event.
26:30Never accepted her two daughters being treated as political bargaining cheaps.
26:33She had been waiting all along.
26:35Waiting for a chance.
26:36Waiting for a blade sharp enough.
26:38Mia gave that bone scroll to her.
26:39Then Elena did something no one expected.
26:41She issued a bloodline proclamation.
26:43In the front courtyard of the family estate.
26:45Before all the elders.
26:46Before all the council members.
26:47Before the watching dragons.
26:49She released everything in the bone scroll piece by piece.
26:52Every item was perfectly clear.
26:53The Cole family's bloodline fraud.
26:55The Embro smelting authorization personally signed by Marcus Cole in dragon script.
27:00The list of mixed blood dragons illegally imprisoned and stripped of their dragon crystals.
27:04He didn't know someone had tampered with the voice Prince Stone.
27:07Derek is not pure blood.
27:09He never was.
27:10But we had no other choice.
27:12The council needed an heir.
27:13The Cole family needed a future.
27:16We only did what had to be done.
27:19The hall was deathly silent.
27:28It was a blood pattern origin tracing scroll.
27:31At first glance the entire blood pattern was dark gold.
27:34With the purity index marked along the edge of the scroll at over 97%.
27:38This was the mark of a pure blood dragon.
27:41There was nothing wrong with it.
27:42But at the imprint corresponding to the 12th heart scale.
27:45A tiny section of the pattern was the wrong color.
27:49The source of that pattern was written on the final line of the scroll.
27:53It was the first time I had ever seen that blood pattern scroll.
27:57You knew.
27:58I knew.
28:00You knew from the beginning.
28:02I've always known.
28:03You knew the dragon crystal inside him was part of you.
28:06Yes.
28:08That's why I'm taking it back.
28:11The conflict broke out the next day.
28:13Derek struck first.
28:14He had lost everything.
28:15His fiancé.
28:16His child.
28:17His family's reputation.
28:19His council seat.
28:20He had nothing left.
28:21A person with nothing left is the most dangerous.
28:24Because he has nothing left to lose either.
28:27When he came to find me with that knife.
28:29I was packing in the apartment.
28:31Mia was coming to stay for a few days.
28:33She didn't dare go back to her own home.
28:35And she didn't dare return to the Cole estate.
28:37She was staying with mother for the moment.
28:39But mother said she needed time alone.
28:41So Mia had no choice but to come to me.
28:45When the doorbell rang.
28:47I thought it was her.
28:51He knew I wouldn't die.
28:53But he no longer cared.
28:59Put down the knife.
29:04Derek did not put it down.
29:05The thing you took.
29:07That piece of dragon crystal inside your body.
29:10It isn't yours.
29:11It never was.
29:12Your life is fake.
29:14Your bloodline is fake.
29:16Your pure blood was stolen.
29:19You are nothing.
29:29This should hurt.
29:30But I don't want to hurt you.
29:33I don't want to become like you.
29:38Take it.
29:40And never appear in front of us again.
29:52I'll get the first aid kit.
29:54No need.
29:57I want a different ending.
30:00What do you mean?
30:02In your last life, when you died, I was on the other side of the city.
30:07I felt it, but I couldn't get there in time.
30:09By the time I arrived, you were all ready.
30:12Nothing but ash.
30:14Not this time.
30:17Not this time.
30:20After Mia arrived, she saw the blood on the floor of the nest and almost turned around
30:25and flew away again.
30:36I'm sorry, Olivia.
30:38I'm sorry.
30:39I know I shouldn't have.
30:40I know back then I shouldn't have treated you that way.
30:45You don't need to apologize.
30:48Why are you never angry?
30:50Because I don't have time to be angry.
30:54That was the truth.
30:55I didn't have time to be angry.
30:58There was still too much I had to do.
31:00I had to give birth to my child.
31:02I had to watch Luke take back his dragon crystal.
31:06I had to watch Marcus Cole stand trial.
31:09I had to see every young dragon in that glass threat properly buried.
31:16That night, Luke burned a calming leaf on the stargazing platform outside the nest.
31:24You rarely touch things like that.
31:27The night dew is heavy.
31:28Go inside.
31:29Are you cold?
31:30No.
31:32Liar.
31:40When I was 15, in that dungeon, I thought I was going to die there.
31:46I know.
31:47But not because of the pain.
31:49Because I thought no dragon would come looking for me.
31:52No dragon knew I was there.
31:54Even if I died there, I would only be treated as a missing half-breed.
31:58No dragon would ask.
32:00No dragon would search.
32:02No dragon would care.
32:12But they were wrong.
32:14Who was wrong?
32:17All dragons.
32:20Let's go back.
32:21You need to sleep.
32:22News of Marcus Cole's arrest came three days later.
32:26He was not arrested by the Dragon Council.
32:28He was arrested at the Dragon Enforcement Unit, the Black Dragon Guard.
32:32They had received an anonymous bone scroll sealed with dragon blood.
32:36Delivered with the bone scroll was a memory crystal.
32:38The images from that memory crystal were projected onto the announcement stone tablets at the center of every dragon territory.
32:44The next day, the Black Dragon Guard raided the Cole family's nest.
32:47On the third day, when Marcus Cole was dragged out from the depths of the nest, Marcus Cole did not
32:52struggle.
32:53He showed no anger, no fear.
32:56In his vertical pupils was a kind of relief, as if he finally no longer had to keep acting.
33:01Two days later, the Dragon Council held an emergency session.
33:05Bloodline fraud, illegal imprisonment, abuse of minors, murder.
33:09Every charge came with witness testimony and physical evidence.
33:14He spent 40 minutes telling his story word by word.
33:18From being taken at 15, to three days and nights of crystal extraction, to being abandoned at the entrance of
33:26the East District Hospital.
33:27The Council's decision passed unanimously.
33:30All noble titles held by families calling themselves pure blood were revoked.
33:33Every clause in the Dragon Code concerning bloodline hierarchy was abolished.
33:37A compensation fund was established specifically for mixed-blood dragons, whose dragon crystals had been extracted.
33:45Marcus Cole was sentenced to permanent imprisonment.
33:47Although Derek Cole had not directly participated in his father's crimes, he had known the truth and benefited from it.
33:53He was stripped of his dragon status.
33:55His dragon crystal was forcibly removed, and he reverted to what he had originally been.
33:59Your child from the last life, he didn't kill her.
34:02What did you say?
34:03The child from your last life, he didn't kill her.
34:06He sent her away.
34:07Sent her to another world.
34:09She's alive.
34:10Somewhere she's alive.
34:12What do you mean?
34:14I don't know.
34:15I really don't.
34:16I only know she was sent away, sent somewhere no one could find her.
34:20That was the last thing my father said.
34:22He said he couldn't kill a child.
34:23That was the one thing he couldn't do.
34:26Derek left.
34:27I stood in the tent passage and did not move.
34:30There was a cub inside.
34:33And there was another cub, somewhere in the world, alive.
34:37She was still alive.
34:39I did not cry.
34:41The crying came later.
34:43That night, in Luke's tent, while he was changing the herbs on the wound on his claw.
34:54We'll find her.
34:57How do you know?
34:58Because you're the kind of dragon who finds her own.
35:01It won't stop until you do.
35:04I laughed, but the laugh was part of the crying, so it was ugly.
35:08He didn't mind.
35:09The cub was born one week later.
35:11A daughter.
35:14What's her name?
35:17Iris.
35:20Why?
35:21Because Iris means rainbow.
35:23Because her flame is the color of a rainbow.
35:27Because when she came, all the colors came with her.
35:32Iris.
35:36His smile was ugly.
35:38Because his eyes were too bright, so bright his smile couldn't hide it.
35:43His dragon crystal had returned.
35:47You're back.
35:49I didn't know who he was talking to.
35:51Maybe Iris.
35:53Maybe another dragon.
35:55Maybe the king in the mural.
35:56The one killed three times and reborn from the ashes every time.
36:00But it didn't matter.
36:02Because this time, no dragon would die.
36:04This was my second life, but there would not be a third.
36:08Outside the tent flap was night.
36:10Inside the tent flap was light.
36:13And a cub.
36:15And him.
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