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00:00:01Elena, is this how beg?

00:00:10Two years ago, I was the arrogant saintess, and he was the dragon slave I whipped at my whim.

00:00:17Two years later, he awakens the imperial dragon blood and returns to the imperial capital.

00:00:23As the giant dragon dives to the earth, he transforms into a king of extraordinary elegance.

00:00:31His dark gold dragon pupils are locked firmly onto me.

00:00:35Once his equal, now a disgraced slave of the clan, fallen into the abyss beneath the altar.

00:00:42To save my father, I was forced to kneel at his feet and let him tear away my white robes,

00:00:49the very symbol of my sanctity.

00:00:51He laughed coldly, demanding I pleasure him to repay the debts of those two years.

00:00:57He already has a perfect match by his side, yet he insists on taking me by force,

00:01:03trapping me in an eternal cage.

00:01:05Gosh, Arthur, you are, but I will never let your children become your prisoners.

00:01:12Watching the madness of his possessive gaze, I press my hand against my stomach,

00:01:17where a faint draconic sigil flickered, the mark pulsing with the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.

00:01:24It was this very secret that had driven me to orchestrate my own death,

00:01:28a scandalous escape that had shocked the world.

00:01:31A month ago, the Holy Kingdom fell under a sudden monster assault.

00:01:35I found myself cornered in the black forest, trapped, and suffocating under the weight of a dark malevolent curse.

00:01:43As my consciousness began to fracture, he appeared.

00:01:46He rode through the chaos.

00:01:48As he charged forward on horseback, I could have sworn I saw the spectral shimmer of dragon wings unfurl behind

00:01:54him,

00:01:55a broken sword in one hand, and a spear in the other, cutting a path to my side.

00:02:01In my blurred vision, he looked breathtaking.

00:02:05That night, amidst a frantic soul resonance, I let myself cross the forbidden line with him.

00:02:11I think I might have actually fallen for him.

00:02:13I thought of him the moment I opened my eyes.

00:02:15I banished him once more to the most remote, crumbling tower of the estate,

00:02:19before sending him to the tower was a triumph of my power.

00:02:22Now I found myself sneaking toward it just to catch a glimpse of him.

00:02:26He was right there in my temple.

00:02:28Yet I was dying of an incurable heartache.

00:02:31Today was his 22nd birthday.

00:02:34I had spent hours baking a lemon tart with my own hands, wanting to give him a surprise.

00:02:39I wanted to tell him that he was going to be a father.

00:02:43Two years ago in the arena, I bestowed upon him the name Shadow.

00:02:48He was but a flicker of darkness, easily erased.

00:02:51Now, that name has become my only longing.

00:02:54I reach the tower only to find my world collapsing.

00:02:58My shadow was gone.

00:03:00A massive dragon shadow reared its head, its wings sweeping across the ceiling.

00:03:05A blinding burst of molten gold erupted before my eyes,

00:03:08before shrinking and condensing into the form of a noble man.

00:03:12The slave had vanished, replaced by a prince radiating golden light.

00:03:17The rumors followed quickly.

00:03:19He already had a fiancé, a childhood match.

00:03:24Lady Isabella, the most brilliant woman in the empire.

00:03:27As soon as he returned to the capital, their grand wedding would begin.

00:03:33My sanctuary had been transformed into a cage, surrounded by the cold steel of the paladins.

00:03:40The moment they spotted me, skulking in the shadows like a common theme,

00:03:44a royal guard lunged forward, pressing the frigid edge of a heavy greatsword against my throat.

00:03:49Neil, daughter of a traitor, how dare you stand in the presence of Prince Arthur?

00:03:54I looked past the blade of the man in the center of the crowd.

00:03:56The ragged, homespun clothes were gone.

00:03:59In their place was a magnificent robe of blackened gold.

00:04:04Risking execution, I reached out with trembling fingers, desperately trying to catch his hand.

00:04:10A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air as glowing embers of dragonfire drifted from the gold embroidery of his

00:04:18robes.

00:04:20You... are you truly the crown prince?

00:04:23Tell me, Miss Vivune, how do you plan to torture me today?

00:04:25Will it be the jeweled whip, or shall I feel the weight of your dancing shoes again?

00:04:30Once I return to the capital, I will send the official documents to sever our contract.

00:04:34A woman from this wretched holy kingdom has no place beside my throne.

00:04:37My eyes burned with unshed tears.

00:04:40I hadn't come to hurt him.

00:04:42I had come to celebrate his birth.

00:04:44To tell him that I was carrying his children.

00:04:47But even my touch was a stain to him now.

00:04:50I finally understood the brutal reality.

00:04:53He loathed me.

00:04:54He would never want me.

00:04:56And he would certainly never want the bastards in my womb.

00:04:59Even if they carried his own dragon blood.

00:05:02I shielded the faint yet searing spark of dragon blood within me.

00:05:06Standing amidst the hallowed ruins in utter despair.

00:05:09I wanted to tell him that I would give up everything.

00:05:11I would follow him to the capital as a lowly handmaid.

00:05:15Anything just to stay by his side.

00:05:16But to him, my very touch was a defilement.

00:05:20The deposition decree, sealed with the dragon crest, had severed our contract forever.

00:05:25At eighteen, I had fallen from the adored saintess to a prisoner abandoned by the gods.

00:05:31I finally woke up from the dream.

00:05:33Arthur hated me.

00:05:34He would go on to marry the pure-blooded Lady Isabella and father noble dragon heirs.

00:05:39To him.

00:05:41Do you have any final prayers, Miss Vivian?

00:05:44He looked down at me, as if I were a speck of dust.

00:05:47I had wanted to beg him to taste the lemon tart I baked with my own hands.

00:05:51But seeing the frost in his eyes, I could only bite my lip and shake my head through a blur

00:05:56of tears.

00:05:57Golden scales erupted across his skin as the air ignited with his draconic aura.

00:06:02With a mocking smear, his body shifted and expanded in a blinding flash of light, transforming into a massive dragon.

00:06:10The gale from his wings slamming me violently into the snow.

00:06:13He vanished into the clouds without a single backward glance.

00:06:17I sat frozen in the ice, until a sharp, searing pain tore through my abdomen,

00:06:23nearly causing me to lose the child.

00:06:25Watching the fading silhouette in the sky, I clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark pulsed,

00:06:30beating rhythmically like a second heart.

00:06:35Disaster struck.

00:06:36Three days.

00:06:37After Arthur's departure, my father, the Holy Father, was branded.

00:06:41With the twin sins of treason and black magic, then cast into the darkest depths of the abyss prison,

00:06:47I rushed to the capital, desperate and breathless, only to be met with the death sentence.

00:06:52He was to face the trial of Holy Fire on the night of the next full moon.

00:06:56Inside the stench-ridden dungeon, my mother's withered hand gripped mine with terrifying strength.

00:07:02Elena, you must go to Prince Arthur.

00:07:06You must go to your shadow.

00:07:09You swore vows before the dragon god.

00:07:12You are high on only contract holder.

00:07:15He cannot simply watch us die.

00:07:18Her words cut through my like acerated blood, but he couldn't find the voice to answer.

00:07:23How could I admit that during those two years of shadow, I had forced him into the freezing depths of

00:07:29the holy lake just to retrieve a lost jewel for my amusement?

00:07:33How could I confess that, in fits of rage, I had left scars upon his back that would never heal?

00:07:39He likely wanted to see my family reduced to ash more than anyone else in the world.

00:07:44But looking at the last flickering spark of hope in my mother's eyes, I forced myself to move.

00:07:49I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip, the very symbol of my former tyranny, and dragged my trembling body to

00:07:56the crown prince's palace.

00:07:57There, before the towering obsidian iron gates, I fell to my knees and waited.

00:08:06Back in the Holy Kingdom, a single command from my lips was enough to make shadow crawl to my feet.

00:08:11If I wanted him to bow, he never dared to meet my eyes.

00:08:15But now, the tables had turned with a cruel irony.

00:08:19To see him for even a moment, I had to kneel in the teeth of a blizzard, begging a shred

00:08:24of mercy.

00:08:24I knelt until I lost all feeling in my legs, the ruby whip in my hands, buried under a thick

00:08:30shroud of snow.

00:08:31Just as dawn threatened to break, a dragon's roar shattered the cloud.

00:08:35The black wings eclipsed the dawn as he dived, only to contract and transform the instant they struck the earth.

00:08:40From the heart of the erupting snow, Arthur emerged in human form, breaking through the mist.

00:08:46The crunch of his boots against the frozen ground echoed the frantic beating of my heart.

00:08:51His cold, indifferent gaze lingered for a moment on the whip I held.

00:08:54Tell me, Miss Vivian, which hand was it?

00:08:58Which hand did you use to leave those scars on my body?

00:09:02His voice held no warmth, only the crushing weight of a judge-passing sentence.

00:09:06I was so frozen, I could barely breathe.

00:09:09Before I could find my voice, my strength failed me.

00:09:12My knees buckled and I collapsed forward, falling directly into his arms.

00:09:16His chest was burning hot, a searing contrast to the ice.

00:09:20The heat instantly triggered the memory of our night of soul resonance,

00:09:23the way he had pinned me against the altar of predatory hunger.

00:09:26My eyes welled with bitter tears.

00:09:30Your Highness, please, save my father.

00:09:34I'm begging you.

00:09:35His pupils narrowed into golden vertical slits,

00:09:38and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire pulsed beneath the skin of his throat.

00:09:44Elena, is this how beg?

00:09:53Two years ago, I was the arrogant saintess, and he was the dragon slave I whipped at my whim.

00:10:00Two years later, he awakens the imperial dragon blood and returns to the imperial capital.

00:10:06As the giant dragon dives to the earth, he transforms into a king of extraordinary elegance.

00:10:14His dark gold dragon pupils are locked firmly onto me.

00:10:18Once his equal, now a disgraced slave of the clan, fallen into the abyss beneath the altar.

00:10:25To save my father, I was forced to kneel at his feet and let him tear away my white robes,

00:10:32the very symbol of my sanctity.

00:10:35He laughed coldly, demanding I pleasure him to repay the debts of those two years.

00:10:40He already has a perfect match by his side, yet he insists on taking me by force,

00:10:46trapping me in an eternal cage.

00:10:55Watching the madness of his possessive gaze,

00:10:58I pressed my hand against my stomach,

00:11:00where a faint draconic sigil flickered,

00:11:03the mark pulsing at the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.

00:11:07It was this very secret that had driven me to orchestrate my own death,

00:11:11a scandalous escape that had shocked the world.

00:11:14A month ago, the Holy Kingdom fell under a sudden monster assault.

00:11:19I found myself cornered in the black forest,

00:11:22trapped and suffocating under the weight of a dark malevolent curse.

00:11:26As my consciousness began to fracture, he appeared.

00:11:29He rode the chaos.

00:11:31As he charged forward on horseback,

00:11:33I could have sworn I saw the spectral shimmer of dragon wings unfurl behind him,

00:11:37a broken sword in one hand and a spear in the other,

00:11:41cutting a path to my side.

00:11:44In my blurred vision, he looked breathtaking.

00:11:48That night, amidst a frantic soul resonance,

00:11:51I let myself cross the forbidden line with him.

00:11:53I think I might have actually fallen for him.

00:11:56I thought of him the moment I opened my eyes.

00:11:58I banished him once more to the most remote, crumbling tower of the estate,

00:12:02before sending him to the tower was a triumph of my power.

00:12:05Now I found myself sneaking toward it just to catch a glimpse of him.

00:12:09He was right there in my temple.

00:12:11Yet I was dying of an incurable heartache.

00:12:14Today was his 22nd birthday.

00:12:17I had spent hours baking a lemon tart with my own hands,

00:12:20wanting to give him a surprise.

00:12:22I wanted to tell him that he was going to be a father.

00:12:26Two years ago in the arena,

00:12:28I bestowed upon him the name Shadow.

00:12:30He was but a flicker of darkness,

00:12:33easily erased.

00:12:34Now, that name has become my only longing.

00:12:37I reached the tower only to find my world collapsing.

00:12:40My shadow was gone.

00:12:43A massive dragon shadow reared its head,

00:12:46its wings sweeping across the ceiling.

00:12:48A blinding burst of molten gold erupted before my eyes,

00:12:51before shrinking and condensing into the form of a noble man.

00:12:55The slave had vanished,

00:12:57replaced by a prince radiating golden light.

00:13:00The rumors followed quickly.

00:13:02He already had a fiancé,

00:13:05a childhood match.

00:13:06Lady Isabella,

00:13:08the most brilliant woman in the empire.

00:13:10As soon as he returned to the capital,

00:13:12their grand wedding would begin.

00:13:16My sanctuary had been transformed into a cage,

00:13:20surrounded by the cold steel of the paladins.

00:13:23The moment they spotted me,

00:13:24skulking in the shadows like a common theme,

00:13:27a royal guard lunged forward,

00:13:29pressing the frigid edge of a heavy greatsword against my throat.

00:13:32Neil, daughter of a traitor,

00:13:34how dare you stand in the presence of Prince Arthur?

00:13:36I looked past the blade of the man in the center of the crowd.

00:13:39The ragged, homespun clothes were gone.

00:13:42In their place.

00:13:43This was a magnificent robe of black and gold.

00:13:47Risking execution,

00:13:48I reached out with trembling fingers,

00:13:51desperately trying to catch his hand.

00:13:53A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air

00:13:56as glowing embers of dragon fire drifted from the gold embroidery of his robes.

00:14:03You...

00:14:03Are you truly the crown prince?

00:14:05Tell me, Miss Vivian,

00:14:07how do you plan to torture me today?

00:14:08Will it be the jeweled whip,

00:14:09or shall I feel the weight of your dancing shoes again?

00:14:13Once I return to the capital,

00:14:14I will send the official documents to sever our contract.

00:14:17A woman from this wretched holy kingdom has no place beside my throne.

00:14:20My eyes burned with unshed tears.

00:14:23I hadn't come to hurt him.

00:14:25I had come to celebrate his birth.

00:14:27To tell him that I was carrying his children.

00:14:30But even my touch was a stain to him now.

00:14:33I finally understood the brutal reality.

00:14:36He loathed me.

00:14:37He would never want me.

00:14:39And he would certainly never want the bastards in my womb,

00:14:42even if they carried his own dragon blood.

00:14:45I shielded the faint yet searing spark of dragon blood within me,

00:14:49standing amidst the hallowed ruins in utter despair.

00:14:52I wanted to tell him that I would give up everything.

00:14:54I would follow him to the capital as a lowly handmaid,

00:14:57anything just to stay by his side.

00:14:59But to him,

00:15:00my very touch was a defilement.

00:15:03The deposition decree,

00:15:05sealed with the dragon crest,

00:15:06had severed our contract forever.

00:15:08At eighteen,

00:15:09I had fallen from the adored saintess

00:15:11to a prisoner abandoned by the gods.

00:15:14I finally woke up from the dream.

00:15:16Arthur hated me.

00:15:17He would go on to marry the pure-blooded Lady Isabella

00:15:20and father noble dragon heirs.

00:15:22To him.

00:15:23Do you have any final prayers, Miss Vivian?

00:15:27He looked down at me,

00:15:28as if I were a speck of dust.

00:15:30I had wanted to beg him to taste the lemon tart

00:15:33I baked with my own hands.

00:15:34But seeing the frost in his eyes,

00:15:36I could only bite my lip

00:15:37and shake my head through a blur of tears.

00:15:40Golden scales erupted across his skin

00:15:42as the air ignited with his draconic aura.

00:15:45With a mocking smear,

00:15:47his body shifted and expanded

00:15:49in a blinding flash of light,

00:15:50transforming into a massive dragon.

00:15:53The gale from his wings

00:15:54slamming me violently into the snow.

00:15:57He vanished into the clouds

00:15:58without a single backward glance.

00:16:00I sat frozen in the ice

00:16:02until a sharp searing pain

00:16:04tore through my abdomen,

00:16:06nearly causing me to lose the child.

00:16:07Watching the fading silhouette in the sky,

00:16:10I clutched my stomach

00:16:11where a faint dragon mark pulsed,

00:16:13beating rhythmically like a second heart.

00:16:18Disaster struck.

00:16:19Three days.

00:16:20After Arthur's departure,

00:16:22my father, the Holy Father,

00:16:24was branded

00:16:24with the twin sins of treason

00:16:26and black magic.

00:16:27Then cast into the darkest depths

00:16:29of the abyss prison,

00:16:30I rushed to the capital,

00:16:31desperate and breathless,

00:16:32only to be met with a death sentence.

00:16:34He was to face the trial of holy fire

00:16:37on the night of the next full moon.

00:16:39Inside the stench-ridden dungeon,

00:16:41my mother's withered hand

00:16:43gripped mine with terrifying strength.

00:16:45Elena, you must go to Prince Arthur.

00:16:49You must go to your shadow.

00:16:52You swore vows before the dragon god.

00:16:55You are high on only contract, Calder.

00:16:58He cannot simply watch us die.

00:17:01Her words cut through

00:17:02my like-acerated blood,

00:17:04but he couldn't find the voice to answer.

00:17:06How could I admit that

00:17:07during those two years of shadow,

00:17:09I had forced him into the freezing depths

00:17:12of the holy lake

00:17:12just to retrieve a lost jewel

00:17:14for my amusement?

00:17:16How could I confess that

00:17:17in fits of rage,

00:17:19I had left scars upon his back

00:17:20that would never heal.

00:17:22He likely wanted to see my family

00:17:24reduced to ash

00:17:25more than anyone else in the world.

00:17:27But looking at the last flickering spark

00:17:29of hope in my mother's eyes,

00:17:30I forced myself to move.

00:17:32I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip,

00:17:34the very symbol of my former tyranny,

00:17:36and dragged my trembling body

00:17:38to the crown prince's palace.

00:17:40There, before the towering obsidian iron gates,

00:17:44I fell to my knees and waited.

00:17:49Back in the Holy Kingdom,

00:17:50a single command from my lips

00:17:52was enough to make shadow

00:17:53crawl to my feet.

00:17:54If I wanted him to bow,

00:17:56he never dared to meet my eyes.

00:17:58But now,

00:17:59the tables had turned

00:18:00with a cruel irony.

00:18:01To see him for even a moment,

00:18:03I had to kneel

00:18:04in the teeth of a blizzard,

00:18:06begging a shred of mercy.

00:18:07I knelt until

00:18:08I lost all feeling in my legs,

00:18:10the ruby whip in my hands,

00:18:12buried under a thick shroud

00:18:13of snow.

00:18:14Just as dawn threatened to break,

00:18:16a dragon's roar shattered the cloud.

00:18:17The black wings

00:18:18eclipsed the dawn as he dived,

00:18:20only to contract and transform

00:18:22the instant they struck the earth.

00:18:23From the heart of the erupting snow,

00:18:26Arthur emerged in human form,

00:18:28breaking through the mist.

00:18:29The crunch of his boots

00:18:30against the frozen ground

00:18:31echoed the frantic beating

00:18:33of my heart.

00:18:33His cold, indifferent gaze

00:18:35lingered for a moment

00:18:36on the whip I held.

00:18:37Tell me,

00:18:38Miss Vivian,

00:18:39which hand was it?

00:18:41Which hand did you use

00:18:42to leave those scars

00:18:43on my body?

00:18:45His voice held no warmth,

00:18:47only the crushing weight

00:18:48of a judge passing sentence.

00:18:49I was so frozen,

00:18:50I could barely breathe.

00:18:52Before I could find my voice,

00:18:53my strength failed me.

00:18:55My knees buckled

00:18:56and I collapsed forward,

00:18:57falling directly into his arms.

00:18:59His chest was burning hot,

00:19:01a searing contrast to the ice.

00:19:02The heat instantly triggered

00:19:04the memory of our

00:19:05night of soul resonance,

00:19:06the way he had pinned me

00:19:07against the altar

00:19:08of predatory hunger.

00:19:09My eyes welled

00:19:10with bitter tears.

00:19:13Your Highness, please,

00:19:15save my father.

00:19:17I'm begging you.

00:19:18His pupils narrowed

00:19:19into golden vertical slits

00:19:21and a faint rhythmic glow

00:19:22of molten fire

00:19:23pulsed beneath the skin

00:19:24of his throat.

00:19:27Elena,

00:19:28is this how beg?

00:19:35Two years ago,

00:19:37I was the arrogant saintess

00:19:40and he was the dragon slave

00:19:42I whipped at my whim.

00:19:43Two years later,

00:19:44he awakens the imperial dragon blood

00:19:47and returns to the imperial capital.

00:19:50As the giant dragon

00:19:51dives to the earth,

00:19:53he transforms into a king

00:19:55of extraordinary elegance.

00:19:57His dark gold dragon pupils

00:19:59are locked firmly onto me.

00:20:01Once his equal,

00:20:03now a disgraced slave of the clan,

00:20:05fallen into the abyss

00:20:07beneath the altar.

00:20:08To save my father,

00:20:10I was forced to kneel at his feet

00:20:12and let him tear away

00:20:13my white robes,

00:20:15the very symbol of my sanctity.

00:20:17He laughed coldly,

00:20:19demanding I pleasure him

00:20:21to repay the debts

00:20:21of those two years.

00:20:23He already has a perfect match

00:20:25by his side,

00:20:26yet he insists on taking me

00:20:28by force,

00:20:28trapping me

00:20:30in an eternal cage.

00:20:31Oh, you are.

00:20:34But I will never let

00:20:36your children

00:20:36become your prisoners.

00:20:38Watching the madness

00:20:39of his possessive gaze,

00:20:41I press my hand

00:20:42against my stomach,

00:20:43where a faint

00:20:44draconic sigil flickered,

00:20:46the mark pulsing

00:20:48with the rhythmic cadence

00:20:49of a heartbeat.

00:20:50It was this very secret

00:20:52that had driven me

00:20:52to orchestrate my own death,

00:20:54a scandalous escape

00:20:55that had shocked the world.

00:20:57A month ago,

00:20:58the Holy Kingdom fell

00:20:59under a sudden monster assault.

00:21:01I found myself cornered

00:21:03in the black forest,

00:21:05trapped,

00:21:05and suffocating

00:21:06under the weight

00:21:07of a dark malevolent curse.

00:21:08As my consciousness

00:21:09began to fracture,

00:21:10he appeared.

00:21:11He rode the chaos.

00:21:13As he charged forward

00:21:15on horseback,

00:21:16I could have sworn

00:21:17I saw the spectral shimmer

00:21:18of dragon wings

00:21:19unfurl behind him,

00:21:20a broken sword

00:21:21in one hand,

00:21:22and a spear

00:21:23in the other,

00:21:24cutting a path

00:21:25to my side.

00:21:27In my blurred vision,

00:21:29he looked breathtaking.

00:21:31That night,

00:21:32amidst a frantic

00:21:33soul resonance,

00:21:34I let myself cross

00:21:35the forbidden line

00:21:36with him.

00:21:36I think I might have

00:21:37actually fallen for him.

00:21:39I thought of him

00:21:40the moment I opened my eyes.

00:21:41I banished him once more

00:21:43to the most remote,

00:21:44crumbling tower

00:21:44of the estate,

00:21:45before sending him

00:21:46to the tower

00:21:46was a triumph

00:21:47of my power.

00:21:48Now I found myself

00:21:49sneaking toward it

00:21:50just to catch

00:21:51a glimpse of him.

00:21:52He was right there

00:21:53in my temple,

00:21:54yet I was dying

00:21:55of an incurable heartache.

00:21:57Today was his

00:21:5822nd birthday.

00:21:59I had spent hours

00:22:01baking a lemon tart

00:22:02with my own hands,

00:22:03wanting to give him

00:22:04a surprise.

00:22:05I wanted to tell him

00:22:07that he was going

00:22:07to be a father.

00:22:09Two years ago

00:22:10in the arena,

00:22:11I bestowed upon him

00:22:12the name Shadow.

00:22:13He was but a flicker

00:22:15of darkness,

00:22:16easily erased.

00:22:17Now,

00:22:18that name has become

00:22:19my only longing.

00:22:20I reached the tower

00:22:21only to find

00:22:22my world collapsing.

00:22:24My shadow

00:22:24was gone.

00:22:26A massive dragon shadow

00:22:27reared its head,

00:22:29its wings sweeping

00:22:30across the ceiling.

00:22:31A blinding burst

00:22:32of molten gold

00:22:33erupted before my eyes,

00:22:34before shrinking

00:22:35and condensing

00:22:36into the form

00:22:37of a noble man.

00:22:38The slave

00:22:39had vanished,

00:22:40replaced by a prince

00:22:42radiating golden light.

00:22:43The rumors

00:22:44followed quickly.

00:22:45He already had

00:22:47a fiancée,

00:22:48a childhood match.

00:22:49Lady Isabella,

00:22:51the most brilliant woman

00:22:52in the empire.

00:22:53As soon as he returned

00:22:54to the capital,

00:22:55their grand wedding

00:22:56would begin.

00:22:59My sanctuary

00:23:00had been transformed

00:23:01into a cage,

00:23:03surrounded by the cold steel

00:23:04of the paladins.

00:23:05The moment they spotted me,

00:23:07skulking in the shadows

00:23:08like a common theme,

00:23:10a royal guard

00:23:11lunged forward,

00:23:12pressing the frigid edge

00:23:13of a heavy greatsword

00:23:14against my throat.

00:23:15Neil, daughter of a traitor,

00:23:17how dare you stand

00:23:18in the presence

00:23:18of Prince Arthur?

00:23:19I looked past the blade

00:23:20of the man

00:23:21in the center of the crowd.

00:23:22The ragged,

00:23:23homespun clothes

00:23:24were gone.

00:23:25In their place

00:23:26was a magnificent robe

00:23:28of black and gold.

00:23:30Risking execution,

00:23:31I reached out

00:23:32with trembling fingers,

00:23:34desperately trying

00:23:35to catch his hand.

00:23:36A low,

00:23:37rhythmic vibration

00:23:38hummed in the air

00:23:39as glowing embers

00:23:41of dragon fire

00:23:41drifted from the

00:23:42golden embroidery

00:23:43of his robes.

00:23:45You,

00:23:47are you truly

00:23:47the crown prince?

00:23:48Tell me,

00:23:49Miss Vivlin,

00:23:50how do you plan

00:23:50to torture me today?

00:23:51Will it be the jeweled whip

00:23:52or shall I feel

00:23:53the weight

00:23:53of your dancing shoes again?

00:23:56Once I return

00:23:56to the capital,

00:23:57I will send

00:23:58the official documents

00:23:59to sever our contract.

00:24:00A woman from this

00:24:01wretched holy kingdom

00:24:02has no place

00:24:02beside my throne.

00:24:03My eyes burned

00:24:04with unshed tears.

00:24:06I hadn't come

00:24:07to hurt him.

00:24:08I had come

00:24:09to celebrate

00:24:09his birth,

00:24:10to tell him

00:24:11that I was

00:24:11carrying his children.

00:24:13But even my touch

00:24:14was a stain

00:24:15to him now.

00:24:16I finally understood

00:24:17the brutal reality.

00:24:19He loathed me.

00:24:20He would never

00:24:21want me,

00:24:21and he would

00:24:22certainly never

00:24:23want the bastards

00:24:24in my womb,

00:24:25even if they

00:24:25carried his own

00:24:26dragon blood.

00:24:28I shielded

00:24:29the faint yet

00:24:30searing spark

00:24:30of dragon blood

00:24:31within me,

00:24:32standing amidst

00:24:33the hallowed ruins

00:24:33in utter despair.

00:24:35I wanted to tell him

00:24:36that I would

00:24:36give up everything.

00:24:37I would follow him

00:24:38to the capital

00:24:39as a lowly handmaid,

00:24:40anything just to

00:24:41stay by his side.

00:24:42But to him,

00:24:43my very touch

00:24:45was a defilement.

00:24:46The deposition decree,

00:24:48sealed with the

00:24:48dragon crest,

00:24:49had severed

00:24:50our contract forever.

00:24:51At eighteen,

00:24:52I had fallen

00:24:53from the adored

00:24:54saintess to a prisoner

00:24:55abandoned by the gods.

00:24:56I finally woke

00:24:57up from the dream.

00:24:59Arthur hated me.

00:25:00He would go on

00:25:01to marry the

00:25:01pure-blooded

00:25:02Lady Isabella

00:25:03and father

00:25:03noble dragon heirs

00:25:04to him.

00:25:06Do you have

00:25:07any final prayers,

00:25:09Miss Vivian?

00:25:09He looked down

00:25:10at me as if

00:25:11I were a speck

00:25:12of dust.

00:25:13I had wanted

00:25:14to beg him

00:25:14to taste the

00:25:15lemon tart

00:25:15I baked

00:25:16with my own hands.

00:25:17But seeing

00:25:18the frost in his eyes,

00:25:19I could only

00:25:20bite my lip

00:25:20and shake my head

00:25:21through a blur

00:25:22of tears.

00:25:23Golden scales

00:25:24erupted across

00:25:25his skin

00:25:25as the air

00:25:26ignited with

00:25:27his draconic aura.

00:25:28With a mocking

00:25:29sneer,

00:25:30his body shifted

00:25:31and expanded

00:25:31in a blinding

00:25:32flash of light,

00:25:33transforming into

00:25:34a massive dragon.

00:25:36The gale from his

00:25:37wings slamming me

00:25:38violently into the

00:25:39snow.

00:25:39He vanished into

00:25:40the clouds

00:25:41without a single

00:25:42backward glance.

00:25:43I sat frozen

00:25:44in the ice

00:25:45until a sharp

00:25:46searing pain

00:25:47tore through

00:25:47my abdomen,

00:25:49nearly causing me

00:25:49to lose the child.

00:25:51Watching the fading

00:25:51silhouette in the sky,

00:25:53I clutched my stomach

00:25:54where a faint dragon

00:25:55mark pulsed,

00:25:56beating rhythmically

00:25:57like a second heart.

00:26:01Disaster struck

00:26:02three days

00:26:03after Arthur's

00:26:04departure.

00:26:05My father,

00:26:06the Holy Father,

00:26:06was branded

00:26:07with the twin sins

00:26:08of treason

00:26:09and black magic.

00:26:10Then cast into

00:26:11the darkest depths

00:26:11of the abyss prison,

00:26:13I rushed to the capital,

00:26:14desperate and breathless,

00:26:15only to be met

00:26:16with the death sentence.

00:26:17He was to face

00:26:18the trial of Holy Fire

00:26:20on the night

00:26:21of the next full moon.

00:26:22Inside the stench-ridden

00:26:24dungeon,

00:26:24my mother's withered

00:26:25hand gripped mine

00:26:26with terrifying strength.

00:26:28Elena,

00:26:29you must go

00:26:30to Prince Arthur.

00:26:31You must go

00:26:33to your shadow.

00:26:35You swore vows

00:26:36before the dragon god.

00:26:38You are

00:26:39high on only

00:26:39contract holder.

00:26:41He cannot simply

00:26:42watch us die.

00:26:44Her words

00:26:45cut through

00:26:45my leg

00:26:46acerated blood,

00:26:46but he couldn't

00:26:48find the voice

00:26:48to answer.

00:26:49How could I

00:26:50admit that

00:26:50during those

00:26:51two years

00:26:51of shadow,

00:26:52I had forced him

00:26:53into the freezing

00:26:54depths of the

00:26:55holy lake

00:26:55just to retrieve

00:26:56a lost jewel

00:26:57for my amusement?

00:26:59How could I

00:27:00confess that

00:27:00in fits of rage

00:27:02I had left

00:27:02scars upon his

00:27:03back that would

00:27:04never heal?

00:27:05He likely wanted

00:27:06to see my family

00:27:07reduced to ash

00:27:08more than anyone

00:27:09else in the world.

00:27:10But looking at

00:27:11the last flickering

00:27:12spark of hope

00:27:12in my mother's eyes,

00:27:13I forced myself

00:27:14to move.

00:27:14I picked up

00:27:15the ruby-encrusted

00:27:16whip,

00:27:17the very symbol

00:27:18of my former

00:27:18tyranny,

00:27:19and dragged

00:27:20my trembling

00:27:21body to the

00:27:21crown prince's

00:27:22palace.

00:27:23There,

00:27:24before the

00:27:25towering obsidian

00:27:26iron gates,

00:27:27I fell to my

00:27:28knees and waited.

00:27:31Back in the

00:27:32holy kingdom,

00:27:33a single command

00:27:34from my lips

00:27:35was enough

00:27:35to make shadow

00:27:36crawl to my feet.

00:27:37If I wanted him

00:27:38to bow,

00:27:39he never dared

00:27:40to meet my eyes.

00:27:41But now,

00:27:42the tables had

00:27:43turned with a

00:27:43cruel irony.

00:27:44To see him

00:27:45for even a

00:27:46moment,

00:27:46I had to

00:27:47kneel in

00:27:47the teeth

00:27:48of a blizzard,

00:27:49begging a

00:27:49shred of

00:27:49mercy.

00:27:50I knelt

00:27:51until I

00:27:52lost all

00:27:52feeling in

00:27:52my legs,

00:27:53the ruby

00:27:54whip in

00:27:54my hands

00:27:55buried under

00:27:55a thick

00:27:56shroud of

00:27:56snow.

00:27:57Just as

00:27:57dawn threatened

00:27:58to break,

00:27:58a dragon's

00:27:59roar shattered

00:28:00the cloud.

00:28:00The black

00:28:01wings eclipsed

00:28:02the dawn as

00:28:02he dived,

00:28:03only to

00:28:03contract and

00:28:04transform the

00:28:05instant they

00:28:05struck the

00:28:06earth.

00:28:06From the

00:28:07heart of the

00:28:07erupting

00:28:08snow,

00:28:09Arthur emerged

00:28:10in human form,

00:28:11breaking through

00:28:11the mist.

00:28:12The crunch of

00:28:13his boots against

00:28:13the frozen

00:28:14ground echoed

00:28:15the frantic

00:28:15beating of

00:28:16my heart.

00:28:16His cold,

00:28:17indifferent gaze

00:28:18lingered for a

00:28:18moment on the

00:28:19whip I held.

00:28:20Tell me,

00:28:21Miss Vivian,

00:28:22which hand was

00:28:23it?

00:28:24Which hand did

00:28:25you use to

00:28:25leave those scars

00:28:26on my body?

00:28:27His voice held

00:28:29no warmth,

00:28:29only the crushing

00:28:30weight of a judge

00:28:31passing said in.

00:28:32I was so frozen,

00:28:33I could barely

00:28:34breathe.

00:28:35Before I could

00:28:35find my voice,

00:28:36my strength

00:28:37failed me.

00:28:38My knees

00:28:38buckled and I

00:28:39collapsed forward,

00:28:40falling directly

00:28:41into his arms.

00:28:42His chest was

00:28:43burning hot,

00:28:44a searing

00:28:44contrast to

00:28:45the ice.

00:28:45The heat

00:28:46instantly triggered

00:28:47the memory of

00:28:47our night of

00:28:48soul resonance,

00:28:49the way he had

00:28:50pinned me against

00:28:50the altar of

00:28:51predatory hunger.

00:28:52My eyes

00:28:53welled with

00:28:53bitter tears.

00:28:56Your Highness,

00:28:57please,

00:28:58save my father.

00:29:00I'm begging you.

00:29:01His pupils

00:29:02narrowed into

00:29:02golden vertical

00:29:03slits,

00:29:04and a faint

00:29:05rhythmic glow

00:29:05of molten fire

00:29:06pulsed beneath

00:29:07the skin of

00:29:07his throat.

00:29:10Elena,

00:29:11is this

00:29:12how big?

00:29:18Two years ago,

00:29:20I was the

00:29:21arrogant

00:29:22saintess,

00:29:23and he was

00:29:24the dragon

00:29:24slave I whipped

00:29:25at my whim.

00:29:26Two years later,

00:29:27he awakens the

00:29:28imperial dragon

00:29:29blood and returns

00:29:31to the imperial

00:29:32capital.

00:29:33As the giant

00:29:34dragon dives

00:29:35to the earth,

00:29:36he transforms

00:29:37into a king

00:29:38of extraordinary

00:29:39elegance.

00:29:40His dark

00:29:41gold dragon

00:29:42pupils are

00:29:42locked firmly

00:29:43onto me,

00:29:44once his

00:29:45equal,

00:29:46now a

00:29:46disgraced

00:29:47slave of

00:29:47the clan,

00:29:48fallen into

00:29:49the abyss

00:29:50beneath the

00:29:50altar.

00:29:51To save

00:29:52my father,

00:29:53I was forced

00:29:54to kneel at

00:29:55his feet and

00:29:55let him tear

00:29:56away my

00:29:56white robes,

00:29:57the very

00:29:58symbol of

00:29:59my sanctity.

00:30:00He laughed

00:30:01coldly,

00:30:02demanding I

00:30:03pleasure him

00:30:03to repay

00:30:04the debts

00:30:04of those

00:30:05two years.

00:30:05He already

00:30:07has a perfect

00:30:07match by

00:30:08his side,

00:30:09yet he

00:30:09insists on

00:30:10taking me

00:30:11by force,

00:30:12trapping me

00:30:12in an

00:30:13eternal

00:30:13cage.

00:30:14Oh,

00:30:16you want

00:30:16me,

00:30:17but I will

00:30:18never let

00:30:19your children

00:30:19become your

00:30:20prisoners.

00:30:21Watching the

00:30:22madness of

00:30:22his possessive

00:30:23gaze,

00:30:24I press my

00:30:25hand against

00:30:25my stomach,

00:30:26where a faint

00:30:27draconic sigil

00:30:28flickered,

00:30:29the mark

00:30:30pulsing with

00:30:31the rhythmic

00:30:31cadence of a

00:30:32heartbeat.

00:30:33It was this

00:30:34very secret

00:30:34that had

00:30:35driven me

00:30:35to orchestrate

00:30:36my own

00:30:36death,

00:30:37a scandalous

00:30:38escape that

00:30:38had shocked

00:30:39the world.

00:30:40A month

00:30:40ago,

00:30:41the Holy

00:30:41Kingdom fell

00:30:42under a

00:30:43sudden monster

00:30:44assault.

00:30:44I found

00:30:45myself cornered

00:30:46in the black

00:30:46forest,

00:30:48trapped and

00:30:48suffocating under

00:30:49the weight of

00:30:50a dark malevolent

00:30:51curse.

00:30:51As my

00:30:52consciousness

00:30:52began to

00:30:53fracture,

00:30:53he appeared.

00:30:54He rode the

00:30:56chaos.

00:30:56As he charged

00:30:58forward on

00:30:58horseback,

00:30:59I could have

00:31:00sworn I saw

00:31:00the spectral

00:31:01shimmer of

00:31:01dragon wings

00:31:02unfurl behind

00:31:03him.

00:31:03A broken

00:31:04sword in one

00:31:05hand and

00:31:06a spear

00:31:06in the

00:31:06other,

00:31:07cutting a

00:31:07path to

00:31:08my side.

00:31:09In my

00:31:10blurred vision,

00:31:12he looked

00:31:12breathtaking.

00:31:13That night,

00:31:15amidst a

00:31:15frantic soul

00:31:16resonance,

00:31:17I let myself

00:31:18cross the

00:31:18forbidden line

00:31:19with him.

00:31:19I think I

00:31:20might have

00:31:20actually fallen

00:31:21for him.

00:31:22I thought of

00:31:22him the moment

00:31:23I opened my

00:31:23eyes.

00:31:24I banished him

00:31:25once more to

00:31:26the most remote,

00:31:27crumbling tower

00:31:27of the estate.

00:31:28Before sending

00:31:29him to the

00:31:29tower was a

00:31:30triumph of my

00:31:30power.

00:31:31Now I

00:31:32found myself

00:31:32sneaking toward

00:31:33it just to

00:31:34catch a glimpse

00:31:34of him.

00:31:35He was right

00:31:36there in my

00:31:36temple, yet I

00:31:38was dying of

00:31:39an incurable

00:31:39heartache.

00:31:40Today was his

00:31:4122nd birthday.

00:31:42I had spent

00:31:43hours baking a

00:31:44lemon tart with

00:31:45my own hands,

00:31:46wanting to give

00:31:47him a surprise.

00:31:48I wanted to

00:31:49tell him that he

00:31:50was going to be

00:31:51a father.

00:31:52Two years ago

00:31:53in the arena,

00:31:54I bestowed upon

00:31:55him the name

00:31:55Shadow.

00:31:56He was but a

00:31:57flicker of

00:31:58darkness, easily

00:31:59erased.

00:32:00Now, that

00:32:01name has become

00:32:02my only longing.

00:32:03I reach the

00:32:04tower only to

00:32:05find my world

00:32:05collapsing.

00:32:06My shadow

00:32:07was gone.

00:32:09A massive

00:32:09dragon shadow

00:32:10reared its

00:32:11head, its

00:32:12wings sweeping

00:32:13across the

00:32:13ceiling.

00:32:14A blinding

00:32:14burst of

00:32:15molten gold

00:32:16erupted

00:32:16before my

00:32:16eyes, before

00:32:18shrinking and

00:32:19condensing into

00:32:19the form of

00:32:20a noble man.

00:32:21The slave had

00:32:22vanished, replaced

00:32:24by a prince

00:32:24radiating golden

00:32:25light.

00:32:26The rumors

00:32:27followed quickly.

00:32:28He already

00:32:29had a fiancé, a

00:32:31childhood match.

00:32:32Lady Isabella, the

00:32:34most brilliant

00:32:34woman in the

00:32:35empire.

00:32:36As soon as he

00:32:37returned to the

00:32:37capital, their

00:32:38grand wedding

00:32:39would begin.

00:32:42My sanctuary had

00:32:44been transformed

00:32:44into a cage,

00:32:46surrounded by the

00:32:47cold steel of the

00:32:48paladins.

00:32:49The moment they

00:32:49spotted me, skulking

00:32:51in the shadows like

00:32:51a common theme, a

00:32:53royal guard lunged

00:32:54forward, pressing the

00:32:56frigid edge of a

00:32:56heavy greatsword

00:32:57against my throat.

00:32:58Neil, daughter of a

00:32:59traitor, how dare

00:33:00you stand in the

00:33:01presence of Prince

00:33:02Arthur?

00:33:02I looked past the

00:33:03blade of the man in

00:33:04the center of the

00:33:04crowd.

00:33:05The ragged, homespun

00:33:07clothes were gone.

00:33:08In their place was a

00:33:10magnificent robe of

00:33:11black and gold.

00:33:13Risking execution, I

00:33:15read the

00:33:16head of the

00:33:17man in the

00:33:17center of the

00:33:17I didn't catch his

00:33:18hand.

00:33:19A low, rhythmic

00:33:20vibration hummed in

00:33:22the air as glowing

00:33:23embers of dragonfire

00:33:24drifted from the gold

00:33:25embroidery of his

00:33:26robes.

00:33:29You, are you truly

00:33:30the crown prince?

00:33:31Tell me, Miss

00:33:32Vivlin, how do you

00:33:33plan to torture me

00:33:34today?

00:33:34Will it be the

00:33:35jeweled whip or

00:33:35shall I feel the

00:33:36weight of your

00:33:37dancing shoes again?

00:33:39Once I return to

00:33:40the capital, I will

00:33:40send the official

00:33:41documents to sever our

00:33:42contract.

00:33:43A woman from this

00:33:44wretched holy kingdom

00:33:44has no place beside

00:33:45my throne.

00:33:46My eyes burned with

00:33:47unshed tears.

00:33:49I hadn't come to

00:33:50hurt him.

00:33:51I had come to

00:33:52celebrate his birth,

00:33:53to tell him that I

00:33:54was carrying his

00:33:55children, but even

00:33:57my touch was a

00:33:57stain to him now.

00:33:59I finally understood

00:34:00the brutal reality.

00:34:02He loathed me.

00:34:03He would never want

00:34:04me, and he would

00:34:05certainly never want

00:34:06the bastards in my

00:34:07womb, even if they

00:34:08carried his own

00:34:09dragon blood.

00:34:11I shielded the faint

00:34:12yet searing spark of

00:34:13dragon blood within

00:34:14me, standing amidst

00:34:16the hallowed ruins in

00:34:16utter despair.

00:34:18I wanted to tell him

00:34:19that I would give up

00:34:19everything.

00:34:20I would follow him to

00:34:21the capital as a lowly

00:34:22handmaid, anything just

00:34:24to stay by his side.

00:34:25But to him, my very

00:34:27touch was a defilement.

00:34:29The deposition decree,

00:34:30sealed with the

00:34:31dragon crest, had

00:34:32severed our contract

00:34:33forever.

00:34:34At eighteen, I had

00:34:36fallen from the

00:34:36adored saintess to a

00:34:37prisoner abandoned by

00:34:38the gods.

00:34:39I finally woke up

00:34:40from the dream.

00:34:41Arthur hated me.

00:34:43He would go on to

00:34:44marry the pure-blooded

00:34:45Lady Isabella and

00:34:46father noble dragon

00:34:47heirs, to him.

00:34:49Do you have any

00:34:50final prayers, Miss

00:34:52Vivian?

00:34:52He looked down at me,

00:34:54as if I were a speck

00:34:55of dust.

00:34:56I had wanted to beg

00:34:57him to taste the

00:34:58lemon tart I baked

00:34:59with my own hands.

00:35:00But seeing the frost

00:35:01in his eyes, I could

00:35:03only bite my lip and

00:35:03shake my head through

00:35:04a blur of tears.

00:35:06Golden scales erupted

00:35:07across his skin.

00:35:08As the air ignited

00:35:10with his draconic

00:35:10aura, with a

00:35:12mocking smear, his

00:35:13body shifted and

00:35:14expanded in a

00:35:15blinding flash of

00:35:16light, transforming

00:35:17into a massive

00:35:18dragon.

00:35:19The gale from his

00:35:20wings slamming me

00:35:21violently into the

00:35:22snow.

00:35:22He vanished into the

00:35:24clouds without a

00:35:24single backward

00:35:25glance.

00:35:26I sat frozen in the

00:35:27ice, until a sharp

00:35:29searing pain tore

00:35:30through my abdomen,

00:35:31nearly causing me to

00:35:32lose the child.

00:35:33Watching the fading

00:35:34silhouette in the sky,

00:35:35I clutched my

00:35:36stomach where a faint

00:35:37dragon mark pulsed,

00:35:38beating rhythmically

00:35:39like a second heart.

00:35:44Disaster struck.

00:35:45Three days, after

00:35:46Arthur's departure, my

00:35:48father, the Holy

00:35:49Father, was branded,

00:35:50with the twin sins of

00:35:51treason and black

00:35:52magic.

00:35:53Then cast into the

00:35:54darkest depths of the

00:35:55abyss prison, I rushed

00:35:56to the capital, desperate

00:35:57and breathless, only to

00:35:59be met with the death

00:35:59sentence.

00:36:00He was to face the

00:36:02trial of Holy Fire on

00:36:03the night of the next

00:36:04full moon.

00:36:05Inside the stench-ridden

00:36:06dungeon, my mother's

00:36:08withered hand gripped

00:36:09mine with terrifying

00:36:10strength.

00:36:11Elena, you must go to

00:36:13Prince Arthur.

00:36:14You must go to your

00:36:16shadow.

00:36:17You swore vows before

00:36:19the dragon god.

00:36:21You are high on only

00:36:22contract holder.

00:36:24He cannot simply watch

00:36:25us die.

00:36:27Her words cut through

00:36:28my like-acerated blood,

00:36:29but he couldn't find the

00:36:31voice to answer.

00:36:31How could I admit that

00:36:33during those two years

00:36:34of shadow, I had forced

00:36:36him into the freezing

00:36:37depths of the Holy

00:36:38Lake just to retrieve a

00:36:39lost jewel for my

00:36:40amusement?

00:36:42How could I confess

00:36:43that, in fits of rage,

00:36:45I had left scars upon

00:36:46his back that would

00:36:46never heal?

00:36:47He likely wanted to

00:36:49see my family reduced

00:36:50to ash more than

00:36:51anyone else in the

00:36:52world.

00:36:53But looking at the

00:36:54last flickering spark of

00:36:55hope in my mother's

00:36:55eyes, I forced myself

00:36:57to move.

00:36:57I picked up the ruby

00:36:59encrusted whip, the

00:37:00very symbol of my

00:37:01former tyranny, and

00:37:03dragged my trembling

00:37:04body to the crown

00:37:05prince's palace.

00:37:06There, before the

00:37:08towering obsidian iron

00:37:09gates, I fell to my

00:37:11knees and waited.

00:37:14Back in the Holy

00:37:15Kingdom, a single

00:37:16command from my lips

00:37:17was enough to make

00:37:18shadow crawl to my

00:37:20feet.

00:37:20If I wanted him to

00:37:21bow, he never dared

00:37:22to meet my eyes.

00:37:23But now, the tables

00:37:25had turned with a

00:37:26cruel irony.

00:37:27To see him for even a

00:37:29moment, I had to

00:37:30kneel in the teeth of

00:37:31a blizzard, begging a

00:37:32shred of mercy.

00:37:33I knelt until I lost

00:37:35all feeling in my

00:37:36legs, the ruby whip in

00:37:37my hands, buried under

00:37:38a thick shroud of

00:37:39snow.

00:37:40Just as dawn threatened

00:37:41to break, a dragon's

00:37:42roar shattered the

00:37:43cloud.

00:37:43The black wings eclipsed

00:37:45the dawn as he dived,

00:37:46only to contract and

00:37:47transform the instant

00:37:48they struck the earth.

00:37:49From the heart of the

00:37:50erupting snow, Arthur

00:37:52emerged in human form,

00:37:54breaking through the

00:37:54mist.

00:37:55The crunch of his boots

00:37:56against the frozen

00:37:57ground echoed the

00:37:58frantic beating of my

00:37:59heart.

00:37:59His cold, indifferent

00:38:00gaze lingered for a

00:38:01moment on the whip I

00:38:02held.

00:38:03Tell me, Miss Vivian,

00:38:05which hand was it?

00:38:07Which hand did you use

00:38:08to leave those scars on

00:38:09my body?

00:38:10His voice held no

00:38:12warmth, only the

00:38:13crushing weight of a

00:38:14judge-passing sentence.

00:38:15I was so frozen, I

00:38:16could barely breathe.

00:38:18Before I could find my

00:38:19voice, my strength

00:38:20failed me.

00:38:21My knees buckled and I

00:38:22collapsed forward,

00:38:23falling directly into his

00:38:24arms.

00:38:24His chest was burning

00:38:26hot, a searing contrast

00:38:27to the ice.

00:38:28The heat instantly

00:38:29triggered the memory of

00:38:30our night of soul

00:38:31resonance, the way he

00:38:32had pinned me against

00:38:33the altar of predatory

00:38:34hunger.

00:38:35My eyes welled with

00:38:36bitter tears.

00:38:38Your Highness, please,

00:38:41save my father.

00:38:43I'm begging you.

00:38:44His pupils narrowed

00:38:45into golden vertical

00:38:46slits, and a faint

00:38:48rhythmic glow of

00:38:48molten fire pulsed

00:38:49beneath the skin of his

00:38:50throat.

00:38:53Elena.

00:38:54Is this how beg?

00:39:01Two years ago, I was

00:39:04the arrogant saintess, and

00:39:06he was the dragon slave I

00:39:08whipped at my whim.

00:39:09Two years later, he

00:39:11awakens the imperial

00:39:12dragon blood and returns

00:39:14to the imperial capital.

00:39:16As the giant dragon dives

00:39:18to the earth, he transforms

00:39:20into a king of extraordinary

00:39:22elegance.

00:39:23His dark gold dragon

00:39:24pupils are locked firmly

00:39:26onto me.

00:39:27Once his equal, now a

00:39:29disgraced slave of the

00:39:31clan, fallen into the

00:39:32abyss beneath the altar.

00:39:34To save my father, I was

00:39:36forced to kneel at his

00:39:38feet and let him tear away

00:39:39my white robes, the very

00:39:41symbol of my sanctity.

00:39:43He laughed coldly,

00:39:45demanding I pleasure him to

00:39:46repay the debts of those

00:39:48two years.

00:39:48He already has a perfect

00:39:50match by his side, yet he

00:39:52insists on taking me by

00:39:54force, trapping me in an

00:39:56eternal cage.

00:39:58Oh, you are.

00:40:00But I will never let your

00:40:02children become your

00:40:02prisoners.

00:40:04Watching the madness of his

00:40:05possessive gaze, I press my

00:40:08hand against my stomach, where

00:40:10a faint draconic sigil

00:40:11flickered, the mark pulsing

00:40:13at the rhythmic cadence of a

00:40:15heartbeat.

00:40:15It was this very secret that

00:40:18had driven me to orchestrate

00:40:19my own death, a scandalous

00:40:21escape that had shocked the

00:40:22world.

00:40:23A month ago, the Holy

00:40:24Kingdom fell under a sudden

00:40:26monster assault.

00:40:27I found myself cornered in the

00:40:29black forest, trapped and

00:40:31suffocating under the weight of

00:40:33a dark malevolent curse.

00:40:34As my consciousness began to

00:40:35fracture, he appeared.

00:40:37He rode the chaos.

00:40:39As he charged forward on

00:40:41horseback, I could have sworn I

00:40:43saw the spectral shimmer of

00:40:44dragon wings unfurl behind

00:40:46him, a broken sword in one

00:40:47hand and a spear in the

00:40:49other, cutting a path to my

00:40:51side.

00:40:52In my blurred vision, he

00:40:55looked breathtaking.

00:40:56That night, amidst a frantic

00:40:59soul resonance, I let myself

00:41:01cross the forbidden line with

00:41:02him.

00:41:02I think I might have actually

00:41:03fallen for him.

00:41:05I thought of him the moment I

00:41:06opened my eyes.

00:41:07I banished him once more to the

00:41:09most remote, crumbling tower of

00:41:10the estate, before sending him to

00:41:12the tower was a triumph of my

00:41:13power.

00:41:14Now I found myself sneaking

00:41:16toward it just to catch a

00:41:17glimpse of him.

00:41:18He was right there in my

00:41:19temple, yet I was dying of an

00:41:22incurable heartache.

00:41:23Today was his 22nd birthday.

00:41:25I had spent hours baking a lemon

00:41:27tart with my own hands, wanting

00:41:30to give him a surprise.

00:41:31I wanted to tell him that he was

00:41:33going to be a father.

00:41:35Two years ago in the arena, I

00:41:37bestowed upon him the name

00:41:38Shadow.

00:41:39He was but a flicker of darkness,

00:41:41easily erased.

00:41:43Now, that name has become my only

00:41:45longing.

00:41:46I reach the tower only to find my

00:41:48world collapsing.

00:41:49My shadow was gone.

00:41:52A massive dragon shadow reared its

00:41:54head, its wings sweeping across the

00:41:56ceiling.

00:41:57A blinding burst of molten gold

00:41:58erupted before my eyes, before

00:42:01shrinking and condensing into the

00:42:02form of a noble man.

00:42:04The slave had vanished, replaced by a

00:42:07prince radiating golden light.

00:42:09The rumors followed quickly.

00:42:11He already had a fiancé, a childhood

00:42:14match.

00:42:15Lady Isabella, the most brilliant

00:42:17woman in the empire.

00:42:18As soon as he returned to the capital,

00:42:21their grand wedding would begin.

00:42:25My sanctuary had been transformed into

00:42:28a cage, surrounded by the cold steel of

00:42:30the paladins.

00:42:31The moment they spotted me, skulking in

00:42:34the shadows like a common theme, a royal

00:42:36guard lunged forward, pressing the

00:42:38frigid edge of a heavy greatsword

00:42:40against my throat.

00:42:41Neil, daughter of a traitor, how dare

00:42:43you stand in the presence of Prince

00:42:45Arthur?

00:42:45I looked past the blade of the man in

00:42:47the center of the crowd.

00:42:48The ragged, homespun clothes were gone.

00:42:51In their place was a magnificent robe

00:42:54of black and gold.

00:42:55Risking execution, I reached out with

00:42:58trembling fingers, desperately trying to

00:43:01catch his hand.

00:43:02A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the

00:43:05air as glowing embers of dragonfire

00:43:07drifted from the gold embroidery of his

00:43:09robes.

00:43:12You, are you truly the crown prince?

00:43:14Tell me, Miss Vivian, how do you plan to

00:43:16torture me today?

00:43:17Will it be the jeweled whip, or shall I

00:43:19feel the weight of your dancing shoes

00:43:20again?

00:43:21Once I return to the capital, I will send

00:43:24the official documents to sever our

00:43:25contract.

00:43:26A woman from this wretched holy kingdom

00:43:27has no place beside my throne.

00:43:29My eyes burned with unshed tears.

00:43:32I hadn't come to hurt him.

00:43:34I had come to celebrate his birth.

00:43:36To tell him that I was carrying his

00:43:38children.

00:43:39But even my touch was a stain to him

00:43:41now.

00:43:42I finally understood the brutal reality.

00:43:44He loathed me.

00:43:46He would never want me.

00:43:47And he would certainly never want the

00:43:49bastards in my womb, even if they

00:43:51carried his own dragon blood.

00:43:54I shielded the faint yet searing spark of

00:43:56dragon blood within me.

00:43:57Standing amidst the hallowed ruins in

00:43:59utter despair, I wanted to tell him

00:44:02that I would give up everything.

00:44:03I would follow him to the capital as a

00:44:05lowly handmaid.

00:44:06Anything just to stay by his side.

00:44:08But to him, my very touch was a

00:44:11defilement.

00:44:12The deposition decree, sealed with the

00:44:14dragon crest, had severed our contract

00:44:16forever.

00:44:17At eighteen, I had fallen from the adored

00:44:19saintess to a prisoner abandoned by the

00:44:21gods.

00:44:22I finally woke up from the dream.

00:44:24Arthur hated me.

00:44:25He would go on to marry the pure-blooded

00:44:28Lady Isabella and father noble dragon

00:44:30heirs to him.

00:44:32Do you have any final prayers, Miss

00:44:35Vivian?

00:44:35He looked down at me as if I were a

00:44:38speck of dust.

00:44:39I had wanted to beg him to taste the

00:44:41lemon tart I baked with my own hands.

00:44:43But seeing the frost in his eyes, I could

00:44:45only bite my lip and shake my head through

00:44:47a blur of tears.

00:44:49Golden scales erupted across his skin as

00:44:52the air ignited with his draconic aura.

00:44:54With a mocking smear, his body shifted and

00:44:57expanded in a blinded flash of light,

00:44:59transforming into a massive dragon.

00:45:02The gale from his wings slamming me violently

00:45:04into the snow.

00:45:05He vanished into the clouds without a single

00:45:08backward glance.

00:45:08I sat frozen in the ice, until a sharp searing pain tore

00:45:13through my abdomen, nearly causing me to lose the

00:45:16child.

00:45:16Watching the fading silhouette in the sky, I

00:45:19clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark

00:45:21pulsed, beating rhythmically like a second heart.

00:45:27Disaster struck three days.

00:45:29After Arthur's departure, my father, the

00:45:31Holy Father, was branded with the twin sins of

00:45:34treason and black magic.

00:45:35Then cast into the darkest depths of the abyss

00:45:38prison, I rushed to the capital, desperate and

00:45:40breathless, only to be met with a death sentence.

00:45:43He was to face the trial of Holy Fire on the night of

00:45:47the next full moon.

00:45:48Inside the stench-ridden dungeon, my mother's

00:45:51withered hand gripped mine with terrifying strength.

00:45:54Elena, you must go to Prince Arthur.

00:45:57You must go to your shadow.

00:46:00You swore vows before the dragon god.

00:46:03You are high on only contract, Calder.

00:46:07He cannot simply watch us die.

00:46:10Her words cut through my leg as a rated blood, but he couldn't find the voice to answer.

00:46:15How could I admit that during those two years of shadow, I had forced him into the freezing

00:46:20depths of the Holy Lake just to retrieve a lost jewel for my amusement?

00:46:25How could I confess that?

00:46:26In fits of rage, I had left scars upon his back that would never heal.

00:46:30He likely wanted to see my family reduced to ash more than anyone else in the world.

00:46:36But looking at the last flickering spark of hope in my mother's eyes, I forced myself to move.

00:46:40I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip, the very symbol of my former tyranny,

00:46:45and dragged my trembling body to the Crown Prince's palace.

00:46:49There, before the towering obsidian iron gates, I fell to my knees and waited.

00:46:57Back in the Holy Kingdom, a single command from my lips was enough to make shadow crawl to my feet.

00:47:03If I wanted him to bow, he never dared to meet my eyes.

00:47:06But now, the tables had turned with a cruel irony.

00:47:10To see him for even a moment, I had to kneel in the teeth of a blizzard, begging a shred

00:47:15of mercy.

00:47:16I knelt until I lost all feeling in my legs, the ruby whip in my hands, buried under a thick

00:47:22shroud of snow.

00:47:23Just as dawn threatened to break, a dragon's roar shattered the cloud.

00:47:26The black wings eclipsed the dawn as he dived, only to contract and transform the instant they struck the earth.

00:47:32From the heart of the erupting snow, Arthur emerged in human form, breaking through the mist.

00:47:38The crunch of his boots against the frozen ground echoed the frantic beating of my heart.

00:47:42His cold, indifferent gaze lingered for a moment on the whip I held.

00:47:46Tell me, Miss Vivian, which hand was it?

00:47:50Which hand did you use to leave those scars on my body?

00:47:53His voice held no warmth, only the crushing weight of a judge passing sentence.

00:47:58I was so frozen, I could barely breathe.

00:48:00Before I could find my voice, my strength failed me.

00:48:04My knees buckled and I collapsed forward, falling directly into his arms.

00:48:07His chest was burning hot, a searing contrast to the ice.

00:48:11The heat instantly triggered the memory of our night of soul resonance, the way he had pinned me against the

00:48:16altar of predatory hunger.

00:48:18My eyes welled with bitter tears.

00:48:21Your Highness, please, save my father.

00:48:25I'm begging you.

00:48:27His pupils narrowed into golden vertical slits, and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire pulsed beneath the skin of

00:48:33his throat.

00:48:36Elena, is this how beg?

00:48:44Two years ago, I was the arrogant saintess, and he was the dragon slave I whipped at my whim.

00:48:52Two years later, he awakens the imperial dragon blood and returns to the imperial capital.

00:48:58As the giant dragon dives to the earth, he transforms into a king of extraordinary elegance.

00:49:06His dark gold dragon pupils are locked firmly onto me.

00:49:10Once his equal, now a disgraced slave of the clan, fallen into the abyss beneath the altar.

00:49:17To save my father, I was forced to kneel at his feet and let him tear away my white robes,

00:49:23the very symbol of my sanctity.

00:49:26He laughed coldly, demanding I pleasure him to repay the debts of those two years.

00:49:32He already has a perfect match by his side, yet he insists on taking me by force, trapping me in

00:49:38an eternal cage.

00:49:40Oh, you want me.

00:49:43But I will never let your children become your prisoners.

00:49:47Watching the madness of his possessive gaze, I press my hand against my stomach, where a faint draconic sigil flickered.

00:49:54The mark pulsing with the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.

00:49:58It was this very secret that had driven me to orchestrate my own death, a scandalous escape that had shocked

00:50:05the world.

00:50:05A month ago, the Holy Kingdom fell under a sudden monster assault.

00:50:10I found myself cornered in the black forest, trapped and suffocating under the weight of a dark malevolent curse.

00:50:17As my consciousness began to fracture, he appeared.

00:50:20He rode through the chaos.

00:50:22As he charged forward on horseback, I could have sworn I saw the spectral shimmer of dragon wings unfurl behind

00:50:29him.

00:50:29A broken sword in one hand, and a spear in the other, cutting a path to my side.

00:50:35In my blurred vision, he looked breathtaking.

00:50:39That night, amidst a frantic soul resonance, I let myself cross the forbidden line with him.

00:50:45I think I might have actually fallen for him.

00:50:48I thought of him the moment I opened my eyes.

00:50:50I banished him once more to the most remote, crumbling tower of the estate.

00:50:54Before sending him to the tower was a triumph of my power.

00:50:57Now I found myself sneaking toward it just to catch a glimpse of him.

00:51:01He was right there in my temple.

00:51:03Yet I was dying of an incurable heartache.

00:51:06Today was his 22nd birthday.

00:51:08I had spent hours baking a lemon tart with my own hands, wanting to give him a surprise.

00:51:14I wanted to tell him that he was going to be a father.

00:51:17Two years ago in the arena, I bestowed upon him the name Shadow.

00:51:22He was but a flicker of darkness, easily erased.

00:51:26Now, that name has become my only longing.

00:51:29I reach the tower only to find my world collapsing.

00:51:32My shadow was gone.

00:51:34A massive dragon shadow reared its head, its wings sweeping across the ceiling.

00:51:39A blinding burst of molten gold erupted before my eyes,

00:51:43before shrinking and condensing into the form of a noble man.

00:51:47The slave had vanished, replaced by a prince radiating golden light.

00:51:52The rumors followed quickly.

00:51:54He already had a fiancé, a childhood match.

00:51:58Lady Isabella, the most brilliant woman in the empire.

00:52:01As soon as he returned to the capital, their grand wedding would begin.

00:52:08My sanctuary had been transformed into a cage, surrounded by the cold steel of the paladins.

00:52:14The moment they spotted me, skulking in the shadows like a common theme,

00:52:18a royal guard lunged forward, pressing the frigid edge of a heavy greatsword against my throat.

00:52:24Neil, daughter of a traitor, how dare you stand in the presence of Prince Arthur?

00:52:28I looked past the blade of the man in the center of the crowd.

00:52:31The ragged, homespun clothes were gone.

00:52:34In their place was a magnificent robe of blackened gold.

00:52:38Risking execution, I reached out with trembling fingers, desperately trying to catch his hand.

00:52:45A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air, as glowing embers of dragonfire drifted from the gold embroidery of his

00:52:52robes.

00:52:55You... are you truly the crown prince?

00:52:57Tell me, Miss Vivune, how do you plan to torture me today?

00:53:00Will it be the jeweled whip, or shall I feel the weight of your dancing shoes again?

00:53:04Once I return to the capital, I will send the official documents to sever our contract.

00:53:09A woman from this wretched holy kingdom has no place beside my throne.

00:53:12My eyes burned with unshed tears.

00:53:15I hadn't come to hurt him.

00:53:17I had come to celebrate his birth.

00:53:19To tell him that I was carrying his children.

00:53:22But even my touch was a stain to him now.

00:53:25I finally understood the brutal reality.

00:53:27He loathed me.

00:53:29He would never want me.

00:53:30And he would certainly never want the bastards in my womb, even if they carried his own dragon blood.

00:53:37I shielded the faint yet searing spark of dragon blood within me.

00:53:40Standing amidst the hallowed ruins in utter despair, I wanted to tell him that I would give up everything.

00:53:46I would follow him to the capital as a lowly handmaid.

00:53:49Anything just to stay by his side.

00:53:51But to him, my very touch was a defilement.

00:53:55The deposition decree, sealed with the dragon crest, had severed our contract forever.

00:54:00At eighteen, I had fallen from the adored saintess to a prisoner abandoned by the gods.

00:54:05I finally woke up from the dream.

00:54:07Arthur hated me.

00:54:09He would go on to marry the pure-blooded Lady Isabella and father noble dragon heirs.

00:54:13To him!

00:54:15Do you have any final prayers, Miss Vivian?

00:54:18He looked down at me, as if I were a speck of dust.

00:54:22I had wanted to beg him to taste the lemon tart I baked with my own hands.

00:54:26But seeing the frost in his eyes, I could only bite my lip and shake my head through a blur

00:54:30of tears.

00:54:32Golden scales erupted across his skin, as the air ignited with his draconic aura.

00:54:37With a mocking smear, his body shifted and expanded in a blinding flash of light, transforming into a massive dragon.

00:54:44The gale from his wings slamming me violently into the snow.

00:54:48He vanished into the clouds without a single backward glance.

00:54:52I sat frozen in the ice, until a sharp, searing pain tore through my abdomen, nearly causing me to lose

00:54:58the child.

00:54:59Watching the fading silhouette in the sky, I clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark pulsed, beating rhythmically like

00:55:06a second heart.

00:55:10Disaster struck, three days, after Arthur's departure, my father the Holy Father was branded, with the twin sins of treason

00:55:17and black magic.

00:55:19Then cast into the darkest depths of the abyss prison, I rushed to the capital, desperate and breathless, only to

00:55:24be met with the death sentence.

00:55:26He was to face the trial of Holy Fire, on the night of the next full moon.

00:55:31Inside the stench-ridden dungeon, my mother's withered hand gripped mine with terrifying strength.

00:55:37Elena, you must go to Prince Arthur.

00:55:40You must go to your shadow.

00:55:43You swore vows before the dragon god.

00:55:47You are high on only contract holder.

00:55:49He cannot simply watch us die.

00:55:52Her words cut through my leg as a rated blood, but he couldn't find the voice to answer.

00:55:57How could I admit that during those two years of shadow, I had forced him into the freezing depths of

00:56:03the holy lake just to retrieve a lost jewel for my amusement?

00:56:08How could I confess that, in fits of rage, I had left scars upon his back that would never heal?

00:56:13He likely wanted to see my family reduced to ash more than anyone else in the world.

00:56:18But looking at the last flickering spark of hope in my mother's eyes, I forced myself to move.

00:56:23I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip, the very symbol of my former tyranny, and dragged my trembling body to

00:56:30the crown prince's palace.

00:56:32There, before the towering obsidian iron gates, I fell to my knees and waited.

00:56:40Back in the Holy Kingdom, a single command from my lips was enough to make shadow crawl to my feet.

00:56:46If I wanted him to bow, he never dared to meet my eyes.

00:56:49But now, the tables had turned with a cruel irony.

00:56:53To see him for even a moment, I had to kneel in the teeth of a blizzard, begging a shred

00:56:58of mercy.

00:56:59I knelt until I lost all feeling in my legs, the ruby whip in my hands, buried under a thick

00:57:04shroud of snow.

00:57:06Just as dawn threatened to break, a dragon's roar shattered the cloud.

00:57:09The black wings eclipsed the dawn as he dived, only to contract and transform the instant they struck the earth.

00:57:15From the heart of the erupting snow, Arthur emerged in human form, breaking through the mist.

00:57:21The crunch of his boots against the frozen ground echoed the frantic beating of my heart.

00:57:25His cold, indifferent gaze lingered for a moment on the whip I held.

00:57:29Tell me, Miss Vivian, which hand was it?

00:57:32Which hand did you use to leave those scars on my body?

00:57:36His voice held no warmth, only the crushing weight of a judge passing sentence.

00:57:41I was so frozen, I could barely breathe.

00:57:43Before I could find my voice, my strength failed me.

00:57:46My knees buckled and I collapsed forward, falling directly into his arms.

00:57:50His chest was burning hot, a searing contrast to the ice.

00:57:54The heat instantly triggered the memory of our night of soul resonance.

00:57:57The way he had pinned me against the altar of predatory hunger.

00:58:01My eyes welled with bitter tears.

00:58:04Your Highness, please, save my father.

00:58:08I'm begging you.

00:58:10His pupils narrowed into golden vertical slits,

00:58:13and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire pulsed beneath the skin of his throat.

00:58:18Elena, is this how beg?

00:58:27Two years ago, I was the arrogant saintess, and he was the dragon slave I whipped at my whim.

00:58:35Two years later, he awakens the imperial dragon blood and returns to the imperial capital.

00:58:41As the giant dragon dives to the earth, he transforms into a king of extraordinary elegance.

00:58:49His dark gold dragon pupils are locked firmly onto me.

00:58:53Once his equal, now a disgraced slave of the clan, fallen into the abyss beneath the altar.

00:58:59To save my father, I was forced to kneel at his feet and let him tear away my white robes.

00:59:06The very symbol of my sanctity.

00:59:09He laughed coldly, demanding I pleasure him to repay the debts of those two years.

00:59:15He already has a perfect match by his side, yet he insists on taking me by force, trapping me in

00:59:21an eternal cage.

00:59:29Watching the madness of his possessive gaze, I press my hand against my stomach,

00:59:35where a faint draconic sigil flickered, the mark pulsing at the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.

00:59:41It was this very secret that had driven me to orchestrate my own death,

00:59:45a scandalous escape that had shocked the world.

00:59:48A month ago, the Holy Kingdom fell under a sudden monster assault.

00:59:53I found myself cornered in the black forest, trapped and suffocating under the weight of a dark malevolent curse.

01:00:00As my consciousness began to fracture, he appeared.

01:00:03He rode the chaos.

01:00:05As he charged forward on horseback, I could have sworn I saw the spectral shimmer of dragon wings unfurl behind

01:00:12him.

01:00:12A broken sword in one hand, and a spear in the other, cutting a path to my side.

01:00:18In my blurred vision, he looked breathtaking.

01:00:22That night, amidst a frantic soul resonance, I let myself cross the forbidden line with him.

01:00:28I think I might have actually fallen for him.

01:00:30I thought of him the moment I opened my eyes.

01:00:33I banished him once more to the most remote, crumbling tower of the estate.

01:00:37Before sending him to the tower was a triumph of my power.

01:00:40Now I found myself sneaking toward it just to catch a glimpse of him.

01:00:43He was right there in my temple, yet I was dying of an incurable heartache.

01:00:49Today was his 22nd birthday.

01:00:51I had spent hours baking a lemon tart with my own hands, wanting to give him a surprise.

01:00:57I wanted to tell him that he was going to be a father.

01:01:00Two years ago in the arena, I bestowed upon him the name Shadow.

01:01:05He was but a flicker of darkness, easily erased.

01:01:08Now, that name has become my only longing.

01:01:12I reached the tower only to find my world collapsing.

01:01:15My shadow was gone.

01:01:17A massive dragon shadow reared its head, its wings sweeping across the ceiling.

01:01:22A blinding burst of molten gold erupted before my eyes,

01:01:26before shrinking and condensing into the form of a noble man.

01:01:30The slave had vanished, replaced by a prince radiating golden light.

01:01:35The rumors followed quickly.

01:01:37He already had a fiancé, a childhood match.

01:01:41Lady Isabella, the most brilliant woman in the empire.

01:01:44As soon as he returned to the capital, their grand wedding would begin.

01:01:51My sanctuary had been transformed into a cage, surrounded by the cold steel of the paladins.

01:01:57The moment they spotted me, skulking in the shadows like a common theme,

01:02:01a royal guard lunged forward, pressing the frigid edge of a heavy greatsword against my throat.

01:02:07Neil, daughter of a traitor, how dare you stand in the presence of Prince Arthur?

01:02:11I looked past the blade of the man in the center of the crowd.

01:02:14The ragged, homespun clothes were gone.

01:02:17In their place was a magnificent robe of blackened gold.

01:02:21Risking execution, I reached out with trembling fingers, desperately trying to catch his hand.

01:02:28A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air as glowing embers of dragon fire drifted from the gold embroidery of

01:02:35his robes.

01:02:38You... are you truly the crown prince?

01:02:40Tell me, Miss Vivian, how do you plan to torture me today?

01:02:43Will it be the jeweled whip, or shall I feel the weight of your dancing shoes again?

01:02:47Once I return to the capital, I will send the official documents to sever our contract.

01:02:52A woman from this wretched holy kingdom has no place beside my throne.

01:02:55My eyes burned with unshed tears.

01:02:58I hadn't come to hurt him.

01:03:00I had come to celebrate his birth.

01:03:02To tell him that I was carrying his children.

01:03:05But even my touch was a stain to him now.

01:03:08I finally understood the brutal reality.

01:03:10He loathed me.

01:03:11He would never want me.

01:03:13And he would certainly never want the bastards in my womb.

01:03:16Even if they'd carried his own dragon blood.

01:03:20I shielded the faint yet searing spark of dragon blood within me.

01:03:23Standing amidst the hallowed ruins in utter despair.

01:03:26I wanted to tell him that I would give up everything.

01:03:29I would follow him to the capital as a lowly handmaid.

01:03:32Anything just to stay by his side.

01:03:34But to him, my very touch was a defilement.

01:03:38The deposition decree, sealed with the dragon crest, had severed our contract forever.

01:03:42At eighteen, I had fallen from the adored saintess to a prisoner, abandoned by the gods.

01:03:48I finally woke up from the dream.

01:03:50Arthur hated me.

01:03:51He would go on to marry the pure-blooded Lady Isabella and father noble dragon heirs.

01:03:56To him!

01:03:58Do you have any final prayers, Miss Vivian?

01:04:01He looked down at me, as if I were a speck of dust.

01:04:05I had wanted to beg him to taste the lemon tart I baked with my own hands.

01:04:09But seeing the frost in his eyes, I could only bite my lip and shake my head through a blur

01:04:13of tears.

01:04:15Golden scales erupted across his skin, as the air ignited with his draconic aura.

01:04:20With a mocking smear, his body shifted and expanded in a blinding flash of light, transforming into a massive dragon.

01:04:27The gale from his wings slamming me violently into the snow.

01:04:31He vanished into the clouds without a single backward glance.

01:04:34I sat frozen in the ice, until a sharp searing pain tore through my abdomen, nearly causing me to lose

01:04:41the child.

01:04:42Watching the fading silhouette in the sky, I clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark pulsed, beating rhythmically like

01:04:48a second heart.

01:04:52Disaster struck.

01:04:54Three days.

01:04:55After Arthur's departure, my father, the Holy Father, was branded.

01:04:59With the twin sins of treason and black magic, then cast into the darkest depths of the abyss prison,

01:05:04I rushed to the capital, desperate and breathless, only to be met with the death sentence.

01:05:09He was to face the trial of holy fire on the night of the next full moon.

01:05:14Inside the stench-ridden dungeon, my mother's withered hand gripped mine with terrifying strength.

01:05:20Elena, you must go to Prince Arthur.

01:05:23You must go to your shadow.

01:05:26You swore vows before the dragon god.

01:05:29You are high on only contract holder.

01:05:32He cannot simply watch us die.

01:05:35Her words cut through my like-acerated blood, but he couldn't find the voice to answer.

01:05:41How could I admit that during those two years of shadow, I had forced him into the freezing depths of

01:05:46the holy lake just to retrieve a lost jewel for my amusement?

01:05:51How could I confess that, in fits of rage, I had left scars upon his back that would never heal?

01:05:56He likely wanted to see my family reduced to ash more than anyone else in the world.

01:06:01But looking at the last flickering spark of hope in my mother's eyes, I forced myself to move.

01:06:06I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip, the very symbol of my former tyranny, and dragged my trembling body to

01:06:13the crown prince's palace.

01:06:15There, before the towering obsidian iron gates, I fell to my knees and waited.

01:06:23Back in the Holy Kingdom, a single command from my lips was enough to make shadow crawl to my feet.

01:06:29If I wanted him to bow, he never dared to meet my eyes.

01:06:32But now, the tables had turned with a cruel irony.

01:06:36To see him for even a moment, I had to kneel in the teeth of a blizzard, begging a shred

01:06:41of mercy.

01:06:42I knelt until I lost all feeling in my legs, the ruby whip in my hands, buried under a thick

01:06:47shroud of snow.

01:06:49Just as dawn threatened to break, a dragon's roar shattered the cloud.

01:06:52The black wings eclipsed the dawn as he dived, only to contract and transform the instant they struck the earth.

01:06:58From the heart of the erupting snow, Arthur emerged in human form, breaking through the mist.

01:07:03The crunch of his boots against the frozen ground echoed the frantic beating of my heart.

01:07:08His cold, indifferent gaze lingered for a moment on the whip I held.

01:07:12Tell me, Miss Vivian, which hand was it?

01:07:15Which hand did you use to leave those scars on my body?

01:07:19His voice held no warmth, only the crushing weight of a judge-passing sentence.

01:07:24I was so frozen, I could barely breathe.

01:07:26Before I could find my voice, my strength failed me.

01:07:29My knees buckled and I collapsed forward, falling directly into his arms.

01:07:33His chest was burning hot, a searing contrast to the ice.

01:07:37The heat instantly triggered the memory of our night of soul resonance,

01:07:40the way he had pinned me against the altar of predatory hunger.

01:07:44My eyes welled with bitter tears.

01:07:47Your Highness, please, save my father.

01:07:51I'm begging you.

01:07:52His pupils narrowed into golden vertical slits,

01:07:55and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire pulsed beneath the skin of his throat.

01:08:02Elena, is this how beg?

01:08:10Two years ago, I was the arrogant saintess, and he was the dragon slave I whipped at my whim.

01:08:18Two years later, he awakens the imperial dragon blood, and returns to the imperial capital.

01:08:25As the giant dragon dives to the earth, he transforms into a king of extraordinary elegance.

01:08:31His dark gold dragon pupils are locked firmly onto me, once his equal, now a disgraced slave of the clan,

01:08:40fallen into the abyss beneath the altar.

01:08:43To save my father, I was forced to kneel at his feet and let him tear away my white robes,

01:08:49the very symbol of my sanctity.

01:08:52He laughed coldly, demanding I pleasure him to repay the debts of those two years.

01:08:57He already has a perfect match by his side, yet he insists on taking me by force,

01:09:03trapping me in an eternal cage.

01:09:06Oh, you are.

01:09:09But I will never let your children become your prisoners.

01:09:12Watching the madness of his possessive gaze,

01:09:15I press my hand against my stomach,

01:09:18where a faint draconic sigil flickered,

01:09:21the mark pulsing with the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.

01:09:24It was this very secret that had driven me to orchestrate my own death,

01:09:28a scandalous escape that had shocked the world.

01:09:31A month ago, the Holy Kingdom fell under a sudden monster assault.

01:09:36I found myself cornered in the black forest,

01:09:39trapped and suffocating under the weight of a dark malevolent curse.

01:09:43As my consciousness began to fracture, he appeared.

01:09:46He rode the chaos.

01:09:48As he charged forward on horseback,

01:09:50I could have sworn I saw the spectral shimmer of dragon wings unfurl behind him,

01:09:55a broken sword in one hand and a spear in the other,

01:09:58cutting a path to my side.

01:10:01In my blurred vision, he looked breathtaking.

01:10:05That night, amidst a frantic soul resonance,

01:10:08I let myself cross the forbidden line with him.

01:10:11I think I might have actually fallen for him.

01:10:13I thought of him the moment I opened my eyes.

01:10:16I banished him once more to the most remote, crumbling tower of the estate,

01:10:19before sending him to the tower was a triumph of my power.

01:10:23Now I found myself sneaking toward it just to catch a glimpse of him.

01:10:27He was right there in my temple.

01:10:29Yet I was dying of an incurable heartache.

01:10:32Today was his 22nd birthday.

01:10:34I had spent hours baking a lemon tart with my own hands,

01:10:38wanting to give him a surprise.

01:10:40I wanted to tell him that he was going to be a father.

01:10:44Two years ago in the arena, I bestowed upon him the name Shadow.

01:10:48He was but a flicker of darkness, easily erased.

01:10:51Now, that name has become my only longing.

01:10:55I reached the tower only to find my world collapsing.

01:10:58My shadow was gone.

01:11:00A massive dragon shadow reared its head,

01:11:03its wings sweeping across the ceiling.

01:11:05A blinding burst of molten gold erupted before my eyes,

01:11:09before shrinking and condensing into the form of a noble man.

01:11:13The slave had vanished, replaced by a prince radiating golden light.

01:11:18The rumors followed quickly.

01:11:20He already had a fiancé, a childhood match.

01:11:24Lady Isabella, the most brilliant woman in the empire.

01:11:27As soon as he returned to the capital, their grand wedding would begin.

01:11:34My sanctuary had been transformed into a cage,

01:11:37surrounded by the cold steel of the paladins.

01:11:40The moment they spotted me,

01:11:42skulking in the shadows like a common theme,

01:11:44a royal guard lunged forward,

01:11:47pressing the frigid edge of a heavy greatsword against my throat.

01:11:49Neil, daughter of a traitor,

01:11:51how dare you stand in the presence of Prince Arthur?

01:11:54I looked past the blade at the man in the center of the crowd.

01:11:57The ragged, homespun clothes were gone.

01:12:00In their place was a magnificent robe of black and gold.

01:12:04Risking execution,

01:12:06I reached out with trembling fingers,

01:12:08desperately trying to catch his hand.

01:12:11A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air

01:12:14as glowing embers of dragon fire

01:12:16drifted from the gold embroidery of his robes.

01:12:20You...

01:12:21Are you truly the crown prince?

01:12:23Tell me, Miss Vivian,

01:12:24how do you plan to torture me today?

01:12:26Will it be the jeweled whip,

01:12:27or shall I feel the weight of your dancing shoes again?

01:12:30Once I return to the capital,

01:12:32I will send the official documents to sever our contract.

01:12:34A woman from this wretched holy kingdom

01:12:36has no place beside my throne.

01:12:38My eyes burned with unshed tears.

01:12:41I hadn't come to hurt him.

01:12:42I had come to celebrate his birth.

01:12:45To tell him that I was carrying his children.

01:12:47But even my touch was a stain to him now.

01:12:51I finally understood the brutal reality.

01:12:53He loathed me.

01:12:54He would never want me.

01:12:56And he would certainly never want the bastards in my womb,

01:12:59even if they carried his own dragon blood.

01:13:03I shielded the faint yet searing spark of dragon blood within me,

01:13:06standing amidst the hallowed ruins in utter despair.

01:13:10I wanted to tell him that I would give up everything.

01:13:11I would follow him to the capital as a lowly handmaid,

01:13:15anything just to stay by his side.

01:13:17But to him,

01:13:18my very touch was a defilement.

01:13:20The deposition decree,

01:13:22sealed with the dragon crest,

01:13:24had severed our contract forever.

01:13:26At eighteen,

01:13:27I had fallen from the adored saintess

01:13:29to a prisoner abandoned by the gods.

01:13:31I finally woke up from the dream.

01:13:33Arthur hated me.

01:13:34He would go on to marry the pure-blooded Lady Isabella

01:13:37and father noble dragon heirs to him.

01:13:41Do you have any final prayers, Miss Vivian?

01:13:44He looked down at me,

01:13:45as if I were a speck of dust.

01:13:47I had wanted to beg him to taste the lemon tart I baked with my own hands.

01:13:52But seeing the frost in his eyes,

01:13:53I could only bite my lip and shake my head through a blur of tears.

01:13:58Golden scales erupted across his skin,

01:14:00as the air ignited with his draconic aura.

01:14:03With a mocking smear,

01:14:04his body shifted and expanded

01:14:06in a blinding flash of light,

01:14:08transforming into a massive dragon.

01:14:10The gale from his wings slamming me violently into the snow.

01:14:14He vanished into the clouds

01:14:16without a single backward glance.

01:14:17I sat frozen in the ice,

01:14:19until a sharp searing pain tore through my abdomen,

01:14:23nearly causing me to lose the child.

01:14:25Watching the fading silhouette in the sky,

01:14:27I clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark pulsed,

01:14:30beating rhythmically like a second heart.

01:14:35Disaster struck.

01:14:37Three days,

01:14:37after Arthur's departure,

01:14:39my father the Holy Father was branded,

01:14:42with the twin sins of treason and black magic.

01:14:44Then cast into the darkest depths of the abyss prison,

01:14:47I rushed to the capital,

01:14:48desperate and breathless,

01:14:50only to be met with the death sentence.

01:14:52He was to face the trial of Holy Fire,

01:14:55on the night of the next full moon.

01:14:57Inside the stench-ridden dungeon,

01:14:59my mother's withered hand gripped mine

01:15:01with terrifying strength.

01:15:03Elena, you must go to Prince Arthur.

01:15:06You must go to your shadow.

01:15:09You swore vows before the dragon god.

01:15:12You are high on only contract holder.

01:15:15He cannot simply watch us die.

01:15:18Her words cut through my leg as a rated blood,

01:15:21but he couldn't find the voice to answer.

01:15:23How could I admit that during those two years of shadow,

01:15:27I had forced him into the freezing depths of the holy lake

01:15:30just to retrieve a lost jewel for my amusement?

01:15:34How could I confess that?

01:15:35In fits of rage,

01:15:36I had left scars upon his back that would never heal.

01:15:39He likely wanted to see my family reduced to ash

01:15:42more than anyone else in the world.

01:15:44But looking at the last flickering spark of hope in my mother's eyes,

01:15:48I forced myself to move.

01:15:49I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip,

01:15:51the very symbol of my former tyranny,

01:15:54and dragged my trembling body to the crown prince's palace.

01:15:58There,

01:15:59before the towering obsidian iron gates,

01:16:01I fell to my knees and waited.

01:16:06Back in the Holy Kingdom,

01:16:07a single command from my lips was enough to make shadow

01:16:10crawl to my feet.

01:16:12If I wanted him to bow,

01:16:13he never dared to meet my eyes.

01:16:15But now,

01:16:16the tables had turned with a cruel irony.

01:16:19To see him for even a moment,

01:16:21I had to kneel in the teeth of a blizzard,

01:16:23begging a shred of mercy.

01:16:25I knelt until I lost all feeling in my legs,

01:16:28the ruby whip in my hands,

01:16:29buried under a thick shroud of snow.

01:16:31Just as dawn threatened to break,

01:16:33a dragon's roar shattered the cloud.

01:16:35The black wings eclipsed the dawn as he dived,

01:16:37only to contract and transform

01:16:39the instant they struck the earth.

01:16:41From the heart of the erupting snow,

01:16:43Arthur emerged in human form,

01:16:45breaking through the mist.

01:16:47The crunch of his boots against the frozen ground

01:16:49echoed the frantic beating of my heart.

01:16:51His cold, indifferent gaze lingered for a moment

01:16:53on the whip I held.

01:16:55Tell me, Miss Vivian,

01:16:56which hand was it?

01:16:58Which hand did you use to leave those scars

01:17:00on my body?

01:17:02His voice held no warmth,

01:17:04only the crushing weight of a judge passing sentence.

01:17:06I was so frozen, I could barely breathe.

01:17:09Before I could find my voice,

01:17:11my strength failed me.

01:17:12My knees buckled and I collapsed forward,

01:17:14falling directly into his arms.

01:17:16His chest was burning hot,

01:17:18a searing contrast to the ice.

01:17:20The heat instantly triggered the memory

01:17:22of our night of soul resonance,

01:17:23the way he had pinned me

01:17:24against the altar of predatory hunger.

01:17:26My eyes welled with bitter tears.

01:17:30Your Highness, please,

01:17:32save my father.

01:17:34I'm begging you.

01:17:36His pupils narrowed into golden vertical slits,

01:17:38and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire

01:17:41pulsed beneath the skin of his throat.

01:17:42He was a part of the poison,

01:17:42a faint鼓 та choma zeer.

01:17:42He was a rock of the steel iron man.

01:17:43His airflow witch being myjay.

01:17:43His hair was small,

01:17:43he was a love of that.

01:17:43His bedo웅 suddenly a little bit

01:17:43He shook או

01:17:43He wan ми

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