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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.
00:00:24As 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.
00:01:07I'll see you, 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 marked pulsing of 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.
00:02:23Now 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.
00:02:32Today was his 22nd birthday.
00:02:34I had spent hours baking a lemon tart with my own hands, wanting to give him a surprise.
00:02:40I 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 reached 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,
00:03:09before 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.
00:03:20He 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.
00:03:34My 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.
00:03:50Neil, daughter of a traitor, how dare you stand in the presence of Prince Arthur?
00:03:53I 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,
00:04:08desperately trying to catch his hand.
00:04:10A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air
00:04:13as glowing embers of dragon fire drifted from the gold embroidery of his robes.
00:04:20You... are you truly the crown prince?
00:04:22Tell me, Miss Vivian, how do you plan to torture me today?
00:04:26Will 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.
00:04:38My eyes burned with unshed tears.
00:04:40I hadn't come to hurt him.
00:04:42I had come to celebrate his birth.
00:04:45To 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, standing amidst the hallowed
00:05:07ruins in utter despair.
00:05:09I wanted to tell him that I would give up everything.
00:05:12I would follow him to the capital as a lowly handmaid.
00:05:15Anything just to stay by his side.
00:05:17But 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.
00:06:03With 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.
00:06:14He 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, nearly causing me to lose
00:06:24the child.
00:06:25Watching the fading silhouette in the sky, I clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark pulsed, beating rhythmically like
00:06:31a second heart.
00:06:35Disaster struck.
00:06:36Three days.
00:06:37After Arthur's departure, my father, the Holy Father, was branded, with the twin sins of treason and black magic.
00:06:44Then cast into the darkest depths of the abyss prison, I rushed to the capital, desperate and breathless, only to
00:06:50be met with the death sentence.
00:06:52He was to face the trial of holy fire on the night of the next full moon.
00:06:57Inside the stench-ridden dungeon, my mother's withered hand gripped mine with terrifying strength.
00:07:03Elena, you must go to Prince Arthur.
00:07:06You must go to your shadow.
00:07:08Shadow, you 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 leg as a raided blood, but he couldn't find the voice to answer.
00:07:23How could I admit that during those two years of shadow,
00:07:26I had forced him into the freezing depths of the holy lake just to retrieve a lost jewel for my
00:07:32amusement?
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,
00:07:53and dragged my trembling body to the crown prince's palace.
00:07:58There, 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.
00:08:12If 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.
00:08:41From 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, the way he had pinned me against the
00:09:25altar 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, and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire pulsed beneath the skin of
00:09:41his throat.
00:09:45Elena, 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.
00:10:34He 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, trapping me in
00:10:47an eternal cage.
00:10:48Oh, you are.
00:10:52But I will never let your children become your prisoners.
00:10:55Watching the madness of his possessive gaze, I press my hand against my stomach, where 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, trapped and suffocating under the weight of a dark malevolent curse.
00:11:25As my consciousness began to fracture, he appeared.
00:11:29He rode through the chaos.
00:11:31As he charged forward on horseback, I could have sworn I saw the spectral shimmer of dragon wings unfurl behind
00:11:37him.
00:11:38A broken sword in one hand, and a spear in the other, cutting a path to my side.
00:11:44In my blurred vision, he looked breathtaking.
00:11:48That night, amidst a frantic soul resonance, I let myself cross the forbidden line with him.
00:11:54I 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, wanting 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, I bestowed upon him the name Shadow.
00:12:31He was but a flicker of darkness, easily erased.
00:12:34Now, that name has become my only longing.
00:12:37I reach the tower only to find my world collapsing.
00:12:41My shadow was gone.
00:12:43A massive dragon shadow reared its head, its 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, replaced by a prince radiating golden light.
00:13:00The rumors followed quickly.
00:13:02He already had a fiancé, a childhood match.
00:13:06Lady Isabella, the most brilliant woman in the empire.
00:13:10As soon as he returned to the capital, their grand wedding would begin.
00:13:16My sanctuary had been transformed into a cage, surrounded by the cold steel of the paladins.
00:13:23The moment they spotted me, skulking in the shadows like a common theme,
00:13:27a royal guard lunged forward, pressing the frigid edge of a heavy greatsword against my throat.
00:13:32Neil, daughter of a traitor, how dare you stand in the presence of Prince Arthur?
00:13:37I 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 was a magnificent robe of blackened gold.
00:13:47Risking execution, I reached out with trembling fingers, desperately trying to catch his hand.
00:13:53A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air, as glowing embers of dragonfire drifted from the gold embroidery of his
00:14:01robes.
00:14:03You...
00:14:03Are you truly the crown prince?
00:14:06Tell me, Miss Vivune, how do you plan to torture me today?
00:14:08Will it be the jeweled whip, or shall I feel the weight of your dancing shoes again?
00:14:13Once I return to the capital, I 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.
00:14:55I would follow him to the capital as a lowly handmaid.
00:14:57Anything just to stay by his side.
00:14:59But to him, my very touch was a defilement.
00:15:03The deposition decree, sealed with the dragon crest, had severed our contract forever.
00:15:09At eighteen, I had fallen from the adored saintess to a prisoner abandoned by the gods.
00:15:14I finally woke up from the dream.
00:15:15Arthur hated me.
00:15:17He would go on to marry the pure-blooded Lady Isabella and father noble dragon heirs.
00:15:22To him.
00:15:24Do you have any final prayers, Miss Vivian?
00:15:27He looked down at me, as if I were a speck of dust.
00:15:30I had wanted to beg him to taste the lemon tart I baked with my own hands.
00:15:34But seeing the frost in his eyes, I could only bite my lip and shake my head through a blur
00:15:39of tears.
00:15:40Golden scales erupted across his skin, as the air ignited with his draconic aura.
00:15:45With a mocking smear, his body shifted and expanded in a blinding flash of light, transforming into a massive dragon.
00:15:53The gale from his wings slamming me violently into the snow.
00:15:56He vanished into the clouds without a single backward glance.
00:16:00I sat frozen in the ice, until a sharp, searing pain tore through my abdomen, nearly causing me to lose
00:16:07the child.
00:16:08Watching the fading silhouette in the sky, I clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark pulsed, beating rhythmically like
00:16:14a second heart.
00:16:18Disaster struck, three days, after Arthur's departure.
00:16:22My father, the Holy Father, was branded, with the twin sins of treason and black magic.
00:16:27Then cast into the darkest depths of the abyss prison, I rushed to the capital, desperate and breathless, only to
00:16:33be met with the death sentence.
00:16:35He was to face the trial of Holy Fire on the night of the next full moon.
00:16:39Inside the stench-ridden dungeon, my mother's withered hand gripped 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 holder.
00:16:58He cannot simply watch us die.
00:17:01Her words cut through my like-acerated blood, but he couldn't find the voice to answer.
00:17:06How could I admit that during those two years of shadow, I had forced him into the freezing depths of
00:17:12the Holy Lake just to retrieve a lost jewel for my amusement?
00:17:16How could I confess that, in fits of rage, I had left scars upon his back that would never heal?
00:17:22He likely wanted to see my family reduced to ash more than anyone else in the world.
00:17:27But looking at the last flickering spark of hope in my mother's eyes, I forced myself to move.
00:17:32I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip, the very symbol of my former tyranny, and dragged my trembling body to
00:17:39the crown prince's palace.
00:17:40There, before the towering obsidian iron gates, I fell to my knees and waited.
00:17:49Back in the Holy Kingdom, a single command from my lips was enough to make shadow crawl to my feet.
00:17:54If I wanted him to bow, he never dared to meet my eyes.
00:17:58But now, the tables had turned with a cruel irony.
00:18:02To see him for even a moment, I had to kneel in the teeth of a blizzard, begging a shred
00:18:07of mercy.
00:18:07I knelt until I lost all feeling in my legs, the ruby whip in my hands, buried under a thick
00:18:13shroud of snow.
00:18:14Just as dawn threatened to break, a dragon's roar shattered the cloud.
00:18:18The black wings eclipsed the dawn as he dived, only to contract and transform the instant they struck the earth.
00:18:24From the heart of the erupting snow, Arthur emerged in human form, breaking through the mist.
00:18:29The crunch of his boots against the frozen ground echoed the frantic beating of my heart.
00:18:34His cold, indifferent gaze lingered for a moment on the whip I held.
00:18:37Tell me, Miss Vivian, which hand was it?
00:18:41Which hand did you use to leave those scars on my body?
00:18:45His voice held no warmth, only the crushing weight of a judge passing sentence.
00:18:49I was so frozen, I could barely breathe.
00:18:52Before I could find my voice, my strength failed me.
00:18:55My knees buckled and I collapsed forward, falling directly into his arms.
00:18:59His chest was burning hot, a searing contrast to the ice.
00:19:03The heat instantly triggered the memory of our night of soul resonance.
00:19:06The way he had pinned me against the altar of predatory hunger.
00:19:09My eyes welled with bitter tears.
00:19:13Your Highness, please, save my father.
00:19:17I'm begging you.
00:19:18His pupils narrowed into golden vertical slits,
00:19:21and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire pulsed beneath the skin of his throat.
00:19:27Elena, is this how beg?
00:19:36Two years ago, I was the arrogant saintess, and he was the dragon slave I whipped at my whim.
00:19:43Two years later, he awakens the imperial dragon blood, and returns to the imperial capital.
00:19:50As the giant dragon dives to the earth, he transforms into a king of extraordinary elegance.
00:19:57His dark gold dragon pupils are locked firmly onto me.
00:20:01Once his equal, now a disgraced slave of the clan, fallen into the abyss beneath the altar.
00:20:08To save my father, I was forced to kneel at his feet and let him tear away my white robes.
00:20:15The very symbol of my sanctity.
00:20:17He laughed coldly, demanding I pleasure him to repay the debts of those two years.
00:20:23He already has a perfect match by his side, yet he insists on taking me by force,
00:20:29trapping me in an eternal cage.
00:20:31Oh, you are.
00:20:34But I will never let your children become your prisoners.
00:20:38Watching the madness of his possessive gaze,
00:20:41I press my hand against my stomach, where a faint draconic sigil flickered,
00:20:46the mark pulsing at the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.
00:20:49It was this very secret that had driven me to orchestrate my own death,
00:20:54a scandalous escape that had shocked the world.
00:20:57A month ago, the Holy Kingdom fell under a sudden monster assault.
00:21:01I found myself cornered in the black forest,
00:21:05trapped and suffocating under the weight of a dark malevolent curse.
00:21:08As my consciousness began to fracture, he appeared.
00:21:12He rode the chaos.
00:21:13As he charged forward on horseback,
00:21:16I could have sworn I saw the spectral shimmer of dragon wings unfurl behind him,
00:21:21a broken sword in one hand and a spear in the other,
00:21:24cutting a path to my side.
00:21:27In my blurred vision, he looked breathtaking.
00:21:31That night, amidst a frantic soul resonance,
00:21:34I let myself cross the forbidden line with him.
00:21:36I think I might have actually fallen for him.
00:21:39I thought of him the moment I opened my eyes.
00:21:41I banished him once more to the most remote, crumbling tower of the estate,
00:21:45before sending him to the tower was a triumph of my power.
00:21:48Now I found myself sneaking toward it just to catch a glimpse of him.
00:21:52He was right there in my temple.
00:21:54Yet I was dying of an incurable heartache.
00:21:57Today was his 22nd birthday.
00:22:00I had spent hours baking a lemon tart with my own hands,
00:22:03wanting to give him a surprise.
00:22:05I wanted to tell him that he was going to be a father.
00:22:09Two years ago in the arena, I bestowed upon him the name Shadow.
00:22:13He was but a flicker of darkness, easily erased.
00:22:17Now, that name has become my only longing.
00:22:20I reached the tower only to find my world collapsing.
00:22:23My shadow was gone.
00:22:26A massive dragon shadow reared its head,
00:22:29its wings sweeping across the ceiling.
00:22:31A blinding burst of molten gold erupted before my eyes,
00:22:34before shrinking and condensing into the form of a noble man.
00:22:38The slave had vanished, replaced by a prince radiating golden light.
00:22:43The rumors followed quickly.
00:22:45He already had a fiancé, a childhood match.
00:22:49Lady Isabella, the most brilliant woman in the empire.
00:22:52As soon as he returned to the capital, their grand wedding would begin.
00:22:59My sanctuary had been transformed into a cage,
00:23:03surrounded by the cold steel of the paladins.
00:23:06The moment they spotted me,
00:23:07skulking in the shadows like a common theme,
00:23:10a royal guard lunged forward,
00:23:12pressing the frigid edge of a heavy greatsword against my throat.
00:23:15Neil, daughter of a traitor,
00:23:17how dare you stand in the presence of Prince Arthur!
00:23:20I looked past the blade of the man in the center of the crowd.
00:23:22The ragged, homespun clothes were gone.
00:23:25In their place was a magnificent robe of blackened gold.
00:23:30Risking execution,
00:23:32I reached out with trembling fingers,
00:23:34desperately trying to catch his hand.
00:23:36A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air
00:23:39as glowing embers of dragon fire
00:23:42drifted from the gold embroidery of his robes.
00:23:46You...
00:23:47Are you truly the crown prince?
00:23:49Tell me, Miss Vivlin,
00:23:50how do you plan to torture me today?
00:23:51Will it be the jeweled whip,
00:23:52or shall I feel the weight of your dancing shoes again?
00:23:56Once I return to the capital,
00:23:57I will send the official documents to sever our contract.
00:24:00A woman from this wretched holy kingdom
00:24:02has no place beside my throne.
00:24:03My eyes burned with unshed tears.
00:24:06I hadn't come to hurt him.
00:24:08I had come to celebrate his birth.
00:24:10To tell him that I was carrying his children.
00:24:13But even my touch was a stain to him now.
00:24:16I finally understood the brutal reality.
00:24:19He loathed me.
00:24:20He would never want me.
00:24:22And he would certainly never want the bastards in my womb.
00:24:25Even if they carried his own dragon blood.
00:24:28I shielded the faint yet searing spark of dragon blood within me.
00:24:32Standing amidst the hallowed ruins in utter despair.
00:24:35I wanted to tell him that I would give up everything.
00:24:38I would follow him to the capital as a lowly handmaid.
00:24:40Anything just to stay by his side.
00:24:42But to him,
00:24:44my very touch was a defilement.
00:24:46The deposition decree,
00:24:48sealed with the dragon crest,
00:24:49had severed our contract forever.
00:24:51At eighteen,
00:24:52I had fallen from the adored saintess
00:24:54to a prisoner abandoned by the gods.
00:24:56I finally woke up from the dream.
00:24:59Arthur hated me.
00:25:00He would go on to marry the pure-blooded Lady Isabella
00:25:03and father noble dragon heirs
00:25:05to him.
00:25:06Do you have any final prayers,
00:25:09Miss Vivian?
00:25:10He looked down at me
00:25:11as if I were a speck of dust.
00:25:13I had wanted to beg him
00:25:14to taste the lemon tart I baked with my own hands.
00:25:17But seeing the frost in his eyes,
00:25:19I could only bite my lip
00:25:21and shake my head through a blur of tears.
00:25:23Golden scales erupted across his skin
00:25:25as the air ignited with his draconic aura.
00:25:28With a mocking smear,
00:25:30his body shifted and expanded
00:25:32in a blinding flash of light,
00:25:33transforming into a massive dragon.
00:25:36The gale from his wings
00:25:37slamming me violently into the snow.
00:25:39He vanished into the clouds
00:25:41without a single backward glance.
00:25:43I sat frozen in the ice
00:25:45until a sharp searing pain
00:25:47tore through my abdomen,
00:25:49nearly causing me to lose the child.
00:25:51Watching the fading silhouette in the sky,
00:25:53I clutched my stomach
00:25:54where a faint dragon mark pulsed.
00:25:55Beating rhythmically like a second heart.
00:26:01Disaster struck.
00:26:02Three days.
00:26:03After Arthur's departure,
00:26:05my father, the Holy Father,
00:26:07was branded
00:26:07with the twin sins of treason and black magic.
00:26:10Then cast into the darkest depths
00:26:12of the abyss prison,
00:26:13I rushed to the capital,
00:26:14desperate and breathless,
00:26:15only to be met with the death sentence.
00:26:18He was to face the trial of Holy Fire
00:26:20on the night of the next full moon.
00:26:22Inside the stench-ridden dungeon,
00:26:24my mother's withered hand gripped mine
00:26:26with terrifying strength.
00:26:28Elena, you must go to Prince Arthur.
00:26:32You must go to your shadow.
00:26:35You swore vows before the dragon god.
00:26:38You are high on only contract holder.
00:26:41He cannot simply watch us die.
00:26:44Her words cut through my leg as a raided blood,
00:26:47but he couldn't find the voice to answer.
00:26:49How could I admit that during those two years of shadow,
00:26:52I had forced him into the freezing depths of the holy lake
00:26:55just to retrieve a lost jewel for my amusement?
00:26:59How could I confess that?
00:27:01In fits of rage,
00:27:02I had left scars upon his back that would never heal.
00:27:05He likely wanted to see my family reduced to ash
00:27:08more than anyone else in the world.
00:27:10But looking at the last flickering spark of hope in my mother's eyes,
00:27:13I forced myself to move.
00:27:15I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip,
00:27:17the very symbol of my former tyranny,
00:27:19and dragged my trembling body to the crown prince's palace.
00:27:23There, before the towering obsidian iron gates,
00:27:27I fell to my knees and waited.
00:27:32Back in the Holy Kingdom,
00:27:33a single command from my lips was enough to make shadow crawl to my feet.
00:27:37If I wanted him to bow,
00:27:39he never dared to meet my eyes.
00:27:41But now, the tables had turned with a cruel irony.
00:27:45To see him for even a moment,
00:27:46I had to kneel in the teeth of a blizzard,
00:27:49begging a shred of mercy.
00:27:50I knelt until I lost all feeling in my legs,
00:27:53the ruby whip in my hands,
00:27:55buried under a thick shroud of snow.
00:27:57Just as dawn threatened to break,
00:27:59a dragon's roar shattered the cloud.
00:28:01The black wings eclipsed the dawn as he dived,
00:28:03only to contract and transform the instant they struck the earth.
00:28:06From the heart of the erupting snow,
00:28:09Arthur emerged in human form,
00:28:11breaking through the mist.
00:28:12The crunch of his boots against the frozen ground
00:28:14echoed the frantic beating of my heart.
00:28:17His cold, indifferent gaze lingered for a moment on the whip I held.
00:28:20Tell me, Miss Vivian,
00:28:22which hand was it?
00:28:24Which hand did you use to leave those scars on my body?
00:28:28His voice held no warmth,
00:28:30only the crushing weight of a judge passing sentence.
00:28:32I was so frozen, I could barely breathe.
00:28:35Before I could find my voice,
00:28:36my strength failed me.
00:28:38My knees buckled and I collapsed forward,
00:28:40falling directly into his arms.
00:28:42His chest was burning hot,
00:28:44a searing contrast to the ice.
00:28:45The heat instantly triggered the memory of our night of soul resonance,
00:28:49the way he had pinned me against the altar of predatory hunger.
00:28:52My eyes welled with bitter tears.
00:28:56Your Highness, please,
00:28:58save my father.
00:29:00I'm begging you.
00:29:01His pupils narrowed into golden vertical slits,
00:29:04and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire
00:29:06pulsed beneath the skin of his throat.
00:29:09Elena,
00:29:11is this how beg?
00:29:18Two years ago,
00:29:20I was the arrogant saintess,
00:29:23and he was the dragon slave I whipped at my whim.
00:29:26Two years later,
00:29:27he awakens the imperial dragon blood
00:29:30and returns to the imperial capital.
00:29:33As the giant dragon dives to the earth,
00:29:36he transforms into a king of extraordinary elegance.
00:29:40His dark gold dragon pupils are locked firmly onto me.
00:29:44Once his equal,
00:29:46now a disgraced slave of the clan,
00:29:48fallen into the abyss beneath the altar.
00:29:51To save my father,
00:29:53I was forced to kneel at his feet
00:29:55and let him tear away my white robes,
00:29:58the very symbol of my sanctity.
00:30:00He laughed coldly,
00:30:02demanding I pleasure him to repay the debts of those two years.
00:30:06He already has a perfect match by his side,
00:30:09yet he insists on taking me by force,
00:30:12trapping me in an eternal cage.
00:30:14Oh,
00:30:16you are,
00:30:17but I will never let your children become your prisoners.
00:30:21Watching the madness of his possessive gaze,
00:30:24I press my hand against my stomach,
00:30:26where a faint draconic sigil flickered,
00:30:29the mark pulsing with the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.
00:30:32It was this very secret that had driven me to orchestrate my own death,
00:30:37a scandalous escape that had shocked the world.
00:30:40A month ago,
00:30:41the Holy Kingdom fell under a sudden monster assault.
00:30:44I found myself cornered in the black forest,
00:30:48trapped,
00:30:48and suffocating under the weight of a dark malevolent curse.
00:30:51As my consciousness began to fracture,
00:30:53he appeared.
00:30:54He rode the chaos.
00:30:56As he charged forward on horseback,
00:30:59I could have sworn I saw the spectral shimmer of dragon wings unfurl behind him,
00:31:03a broken sword in one hand,
00:31:05and a spear in the other,
00:31:07cutting a path to my side.
00:31:09In my blurred vision,
00:31:12he looked breathtaking.
00:31:14That night,
00:31:15amidst a frantic soul resonance,
00:31:17I let myself cross the forbidden line with him.
00:31:19I think I might have actually fallen for him.
00:31:22I thought of him the moment I opened my eyes.
00:31:24I banished him once more to the most remote,
00:31:27crumbling tower of the estate,
00:31:28before sending him to the tower was a triumph of my power.
00:31:31Now I found myself sneaking toward it just to catch a glimpse of him.
00:31:35He was right there in my temple.
00:31:37Yet I was dying of an incurable heartache.
00:31:40Today was his 22nd birthday.
00:31:43I had spent hours baking a lemon tart with my own hands,
00:31:46wanting to give him a surprise.
00:31:48I wanted to tell him that he was going to be a father.
00:31:52Two years ago in the arena,
00:31:54I bestowed upon him the name Shadow.
00:31:56He was but a flicker of darkness,
00:31:58easily erased.
00:32:00Now, that name has become my only longing.
00:32:03I reach the tower only to find my world collapsing.
00:32:07My shadow was gone.
00:32:09A massive dragon shadow reared its head,
00:32:12its wings sweeping across the ceiling.
00:32:14A blinding burst of molten gold erupted before my eyes,
00:32:17before shrinking and condensing into the form of a noble man.
00:32:21The slave had vanished,
00:32:23replaced by a prince radiating golden light.
00:32:26The rumors followed quickly.
00:32:28He already had a fiancé,
00:32:31a childhood match.
00:32:32Lady Isabella,
00:32:33the most brilliant woman in the empire.
00:32:36As soon as he returned to the capital,
00:32:38their grand wedding would begin.
00:32:42My sanctuary had been transformed into a cage,
00:32:46surrounded by the cold steel of the paladins.
00:32:49The moment they spotted me,
00:32:50skulking in the shadows like a common theme,
00:32:53a royal guard lunged forward,
00:32:55pressing the frigid edge of a heavy greatsword against my throat.
00:32:58Neil, daughter of a traitor,
00:33:00how dare you stand in the presence of Prince Arthur?
00:33:02I looked past the blade of the man in the center of the crowd.
00:33:05The ragged, homespun clothes were gone.
00:33:08In their place was a magnificent robe of black and gold.
00:33:13Risking execution,
00:33:14I reached out with trembling fingers,
00:33:17desperately trying to catch his hand.
00:33:19A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air
00:33:22as glowing embers of dragon fire drifted from the gold embroidery of his robes.
00:33:29You, are you truly the crown prince?
00:33:31Tell me, Miss Vivlin,
00:33:33how do you plan to torture me today?
00:33:34Will it be the jeweled whip,
00:33:35or shall I feel the weight of your dancing shoes again?
00:33:39Once I return to the capital,
00:33:40I will send the official documents to sever our contract.
00:33:43A woman from this wretched holy kingdom has no place beside my throne.
00:33:46My eyes burned with unshed tears.
00:33:49I hadn't come to hurt him.
00:33:51I had come to celebrate his birth,
00:33:53to tell him that I was carrying his children.
00:33:56But even my touch was a stain to him now.
00:33:59I finally understood the brutal reality.
00:34:02He loathed me.
00:34:03He would never want me.
00:34:04And he would certainly never want the bastards in my womb,
00:34:08even if they carried his own dragon blood.
00:34:11I shielded the faint yet searing spark of dragon blood within me,
00:34:15standing amidst the hallowed ruins in utter despair.
00:34:18I wanted to tell him that I would give up everything.
00:34:20I would follow him to the capital as a lowly handmaid,
00:34:23anything just to stay by his side.
00:34:25But to him,
00:34:26my very touch was a defilement.
00:34:29The deposition decree,
00:34:30sealed with the dragon crest,
00:34:32had severed our contract forever.
00:34:34At eighteen,
00:34:35I had fallen from the adored saintess
00:34:37to a prisoner abandoned by the gods.
00:34:39I finally woke up from the dream.
00:34:42Arthur hated me.
00:34:43He would go on to marry the pure-blooded Lady Isabella
00:34:46and father noble dragon heirs.
00:34:48To him!
00:34:49Do you have any final prayers, Miss Vivian?
00:34:53He looked down at me as if I were a speck of dust.
00:34:56I had wanted to beg him to taste the lemon tart I baked with my own hands.
00:35:00But seeing the frost in his eyes,
00:35:02I could only bite my lip and shake my head through a blur of tears.
00:35:06Golden scales erupted across his skin
00:35:08as the air ignited with his draconic aura.
00:35:11With a mocking smear,
00:35:13his body shifted and expanded
00:35:15in a blinding flash of light,
00:35:16transforming into a massive dragon.
00:35:18The gale from his wings slamming me violently into the snow.
00:35:23He vanished into the clouds without a single backward glance.
00:35:26I sat frozen in the ice
00:35:28until a sharp, searing pain tore through my abdomen,
00:35:31nearly causing me to lose the child.
00:35:34Watching the fading silhouette in the sky,
00:35:36I clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark pulsed,
00:35:39beating rhythmically like a second heart.
00:35:44Disaster struck.
00:35:45Three days.
00:35:46After Arthur's departure,
00:35:47my father, the Holy Father,
00:35:49was branded with the twin sins of treason and black magic.
00:35:53Then cast into the darkest depths of the abyss prison,
00:35:56I rushed to the capital, desperate and breathless,
00:35:58only to be met with the death sentence.
00:36:01He was to face the trial of Holy Fire
00:36:03on the night of the next full moon.
00:36:05Inside the stench-ridden dungeon,
00:36:07my mother's withered hand gripped mine with terrifying strength.
00:36:11Elena, you must go to Prince Arthur.
00:36:15You must go to your shadow.
00:36:18You swore vows before the dragon god.
00:36:21You are high on only contract holder.
00:36:24He cannot simply watch us die.
00:36:27Her words cut through my leg as a rated blood,
00:36:30but he couldn't find the voice to answer.
00:36:32How could I admit that during those two years of shadow,
00:36:35I had forced him into the freezing depths of the holy lake just to retrieve a lost jewel for my
00:36:41amusement.
00:36:42How could I confess that?
00:36:44In fits of rage, I had left scars upon his back that would never heal.
00:36:48He likely wanted to see my family reduced to ash more than anyone else in the world.
00:36:52But looking at the last flickering spark of hope in my mother's eyes,
00:36:56I forced myself to move.
00:36:58I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip, the very symbol of my former tyranny,
00:37:02and dragged my trembling body to the crown prince's palace.
00:37:06There, before the towering obsidian iron gates, I fell to my knees and waited.
00:37:14Back in the Holy Kingdom, a single command from my lips was enough to make shadow crawl to my feet.
00:37:20If I wanted him to bow, he never dared to meet my eyes.
00:37:24But now, the tables had turned with a cruel irony.
00:37:27To see him for even a moment, I had to kneel in the teeth of a blizzard,
00:37:32begging a shred of mercy.
00:37:33I knelt until I lost all feeling in my legs,
00:37:36the ruby whip in my hands buried under a thick shroud of snow.
00:37:40Just as dawn threatened to break, a dragon's roar shattered the cloud.
00:37:43The black wings eclipsed the dawn as he dived,
00:37:46only to contract and transform the instant they struck the earth.
00:37:49From the heart of the erupting snow,
00:37:52Arthur emerged in human form, breaking through the mist.
00:37:55The crunch of his boots against the frozen ground
00:37:57echoed the frantic beating of my heart.
00:37:59His cold, indifferent gaze lingered for a moment on the whip I held.
00:38:03Tell me, Miss Vivian, which hand was it?
00:38:07Which hand did you use to leave those scars on my body?
00:38:10His voice held no warmth,
00:38:12only the crushing weight of a judge passing sentence.
00:38:15I was so frozen, I could barely breathe.
00:38:18Before I could find my voice, my strength failed me.
00:38:21My knees buckled and I collapsed forward,
00:38:23falling directly into his arms.
00:38:25His chest was burning hot, a searing contrast to the ice.
00:38:28The heat instantly triggered the memory of our night of soul resonance,
00:38:32the way he had pinned me against the altar of predatory hunger.
00:38:35My eyes welled with bitter tears.
00:38:38Your Highness, please, save my father.
00:38:43I'm begging you.
00:38:44His pupils narrowed into golden vertical slits,
00:38:47and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire
00:38:49pulsed beneath the skin of his throat.
00:38:53Elena, is this how beg?
00:39:01Two years ago, I was the arrogant saintess,
00:39:06and he was the dragon slave I whipped at my whim.
00:39:09Two years later, he awakens the imperial dragon blood
00:39:13and returns to the imperial capital.
00:39:16As the giant dragon dives to the earth,
00:39:19he transforms into a king of extraordinary elegance.
00:39:23His dark gold dragon pupils are locked firmly onto me.
00:39:27Once his equal, now a disgraced slave of the clan,
00:39:31fallen into the abyss beneath the altar.
00:39:34To save my father, I was forced to kneel at his feet
00:39:38and let him tear away my white robes,
00:39:40the very symbol of my sanctity.
00:39:43He laughed coldly, demanding I pleasure him
00:39:46to repay the debts of those two years.
00:39:48He already has a perfect match by his side,
00:39:52yet he insists on taking me by force,
00:39:55trapping me in an eternal cage.
00:40:03Watching the madness of his possessive gaze,
00:40:07I press my hand against my stomach,
00:40:09where a faint draconic sigil flickered,
00:40:12the mark pulsing with the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.
00:40:15It was this very secret that had driven me to orchestrate my own death,
00:40:20a scandalous escape that had shocked the world.
00:40:23A month ago, the Holy Kingdom fell under a sudden monster assault.
00:40:27I found myself cornered in the black forest,
00:40:30trapped and suffocating under the weight of a dark malevolent curse.
00:40:34As my consciousness began to fracture, he appeared.
00:40:37He rode through the chaos.
00:40:39As he charged forward on horseback,
00:40:42I could have sworn I saw the spectral shimmer of dragon wings unfurl behind him,
00:40:46a broken sword in one hand and a spear in the other,
00:40:50cutting a path to my side.
00:40:52In my blurred vision, he looked breathtaking.
00:40:56That night, amidst a frantic soul resonance,
00:40:59I let myself cross the forbidden line with him.
00:41:02I think I might have actually fallen for him.
00:41:05I thought of him the moment I opened my eyes.
00:41:07I banished him once more to the most remote, crumbling tower of the estate,
00:41:11before sending him to the tower was a triumph of my power.
00:41:14Now I found myself sneaking toward it just to catch a glimpse of him.
00:41:18He was right there in my temple.
00:41:20Yet I was dying of an incurable heartache.
00:41:23Today was his 22nd birthday.
00:41:25I had spent hours baking a lemon tart with my own hands,
00:41:29wanting to give him a surprise.
00:41:31I wanted to tell him that he was going to be a father.
00:41:35Two years ago in the arena, I bestowed upon him the name Shadow.
00:41:39He was but a flicker of darkness, easily erased.
00:41:43Now, that name has become my only longing.
00:41:46I reach the tower only to find my world collapsing.
00:41:49My shadow was gone.
00:41:52A massive dragon shadow reared its head.
00:41:54Its wings sweeping across the ceiling.
00:41:57A blinding burst of molten gold erupted before my eyes,
00:42:00before shrinking and condensing into the form of a noble man.
00:42:04The slave had vanished, replaced by a prince radiating golden light.
00:42:09The rumors followed quickly.
00:42:11He already had a fiancé, a childhood match.
00:42:15Lady Isabella, the most brilliant woman in the empire.
00:42:19As soon as he returned to the capital, their grand wedding would begin.
00:42:25My sanctuary had been transformed into a cage, surrounded by the cold steel of the paladins.
00:42:31The moment they spotted me, skulking in the shadows like a common theme,
00:42:36a royal guard lunged forward, pressing the frigid edge of a heavy greatsword against my throat.
00:42:41Neil, daughter of a traitor, how dare you stand in the presence of Prince Arthur?
00:42:45I looked past the blade at the man in the center of the crowd.
00:42:48The ragged, homespun clothes were gone.
00:42:51In their place was a magnificent robe of blackened gold.
00:42:56Risking execution, I reached out with trembling fingers, desperately trying to catch his hand.
00:43:02A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air as glowing embers of dragon fire drifted from the gold embroidery of
00:43:09his robes.
00:43:12You... are you truly the crown prince?
00:43:14Tell me, Miss Vivian, how do you plan to torture me today?
00:43:17Will it be the jeweled whip, or shall I feel the weight of your dancing shoes again?
00:43:22Once I return to the capital, I will send the official documents to sever our contract.
00:43:26A woman from this wretched holy kingdom has 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 children.
00:43:39But even my touch was a stain to him now.
00:43:42I finally understood the brutal reality.
00:43:45He loathed me.
00:43:46He would never want me.
00:43:47And he would certainly never want the bastards in my womb.
00:43:50Even if they carried his own dragon blood.
00:43:54I shielded the faint yet searing spark of dragon blood within me.
00:43:58Standing amidst the hallowed ruins in utter despair.
00:44:01I wanted to tell him that I would give up everything.
00:44:03I would follow him to the capital as a lowly handmaid.
00:44:06Anything just to stay by his side.
00:44:08But to him, my very touch was a defilement.
00:44:12The deposition decree, sealed with the dragon crest, had severed our contract forever.
00:44:17At eighteen, I had fallen from the adored saintess to a prisoner abandoned by the gods.
00:44:22I finally woke up from the dream.
00:44:24Arthur hated me.
00:44:26He would go on to marry the pure-blooded Lady Isabella and father noble dragon heirs.
00:44:31To him.
00:44:32Do you have any final prayers, Miss Vivian?
00:44:35He looked down at me, as if I were a speck of dust.
00:44:39I had wanted to beg him to taste the lemon tart I baked with my own hands.
00:44:43But seeing the frost in his eyes, I could only bite my lip and shake my head through a blur
00:44:48of tears.
00:44:49Golden scales erupted across his skin.
00:44:51As the air ignited with his draconic aura.
00:44:54With a mocking smear, his body shifted and expanded in a blinding flash of light, transforming into a massive dragon.
00:45:02The gale from his wings slamming me violently into the snow.
00:45:05He vanished into the clouds without a single backward glance.
00:45:09I sat frozen in the ice, until a sharp searing pain tore through my abdomen, nearly causing me to lose
00:45:16the child.
00:45:16Watching the fading silhouette in the sky, I clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark pulsed, beating rhythmically like
00:45:23a second heart.
00:45:52Disaster struck.
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.
00:46:04You are high on only contract holder.
00:46:07He cannot simply watch us die.
00:46:10Her words cut through my like acerated blood, but he couldn't find the voice to answer.
00:46:14How could I admit that during those two years of shadow, I had forced him into the freezing depths of
00:46:21the holy lake just to retrieve a lost jewel for my amusement?
00:46:25How could I confess that, in 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, and dragged my trembling body to
00:46:47the 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.
00:47:07But 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.
00:47:55Only the crushing weight of a judge passing sent in.
00:47:58I was so frozen, I could barely breathe.
00:48:01Before 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.
00:48:15The way he had pinned me against the altar of predatory hunger.
00:48:18My eyes welled with bitter tears.
00:48:22Your Highness, please, save my father.
00:48:26I'm begging you.
00:48:27His pupils narrowed into golden vertical slits.
00:48:30And a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire pulsed beneath the skin of his throat.
00:48:35Elena, is this how Beg?
00:48:44Two years ago, I was the arrogant saintess.
00:48:49And he was the dragon slave I whipped at my whim.
00:48:52Two years later, he awakens the imperial dragon blood.
00:48:56And 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.
00:49:35Yet he insists on taking me by force.
00:49:38Trapping me in an eternal cage.
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,
00:49:52where a faint draconic sigil flickered, the marked pulsing of the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.
00:49:59It was this very secret that had driven me to orchestrate my own death,
00:50:03a scandalous escape that had shocked the 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.
00:51:02Yet 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.
00:51:18Two 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 reached the tower only to find my world collapsing.
00:51:32My shadow was gone.
00:51:35A massive dragon shadow reared its head, its wings sweeping across the ceiling.
00:51:40A 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,
00:52:19a 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,
00:52:43desperately trying to catch his hand.
00:52:45A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air
00:52:48as glowing embers of dragon fire drifted from the gold embroidery of his robes.
00:52:54You... 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.
00:53:24I 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.
00:53:33Even if they carried his own dragon blood.
00:53:37I shielded the faint yet searing spark of dragon blood within me, standing amidst the hallowed
00:53:42ruins in utter despair.
00:53:44I 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
00:54:30a blur of 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
00:54:43into a massive dragon.
00:54:45The gale from his wings slamming me violently into the snow.
00:54:48He vanished into the clouds without a single backward glance.
00:54:51I sat frozen in the ice, until a sharp searing pain tore through my abdomen, nearly causing
00:54:58me to lose the child.
00:54:59Watching the fading silhouette in the sky, I clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark
00:55:04pulsed, beating rhythmically like a second heart.
00:55:10Disaster struck.
00:55:11Three days.
00:55:12After Arthur's departure, my father, the Holy Father, was branded.
00:55:16With the twin sins of treason and black magic, then cast into the darkest depths of the abyss
00:55:21prison, I rushed to the capital, desperate and breathless, only to be met with the death
00:55:25sentence.
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.
00:55:43Shadow, you swore vows before the dragon god.
00:55:47You are high on only contract holder.
00:55:50He cannot simply watch us die.
00:55:53Her words cut through my like-acerated blood, but he couldn't find the voice to answer.
00:55:58How could I admit that during those two years of shadow, I had forced him into the freezing
00:56:03depths of the 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
00:56:13heal?
00:56:13He likely wanted to see my family reduced to ash more than anyone else in the world.
00:56:19But looking at the last flickering spark of hope in my mother's eyes, I forced myself
00:56:23to move.
00:56:23I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip, the very symbol of my former tyranny, and dragged my
00:56:29trembling body to the 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
00:56:45to 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
00:57:04thick shroud 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
00:57:14they struck the earth.
00:57:15From the heart of the erupting snow, Arthur emerged in human form, breaking through the
00:57:20mist.
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?
00:57:33Which 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.
00:57:47My 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, the way he had
00:57:58pinned me against the altar of predatory hunger.
00:58:00My 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, and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire pulsed
00:58:15beneath the skin of his throat.
00:58:19Elena, 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,
00:59:21trapping me in an 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 with the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.
00:59:42It was this very secret that had driven me to orchestrate my own death,
00:59:46a 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,
01:00:16cutting 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.
01:00:31I 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.
01:01:00Shadow.
01:01:01Two years ago in the arena, I bestowed upon him the name Shadow.
01:01:05He was but a flicker of darkness, easily erased.
01:01:09Now, 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.
01:01:23A 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,
01:01:54surrounded 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,
01:02:04pressing 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,
01:02:26desperately trying to catch his hand.
01:02:28A low, rhythmic vibration hummed in the air
01:02:31as glowing embers of dragon fire drifted from the gold embroidery of his 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 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.
01:03:27I 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,
01:03:41had severed our contract forever.
01:03:43At eighteen, I had fallen from the adored saintess
01:03:46to a prisoner abandoned by the gods.
01:03:48I finally woke up from the dream.
01:03:50Arthur hated me.
01:03:52He would go on to marry the pure-blooded Lady Isabella
01:03:54and 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,
01:04:11I could only bite my lip and shake my head through a blur of tears.
01:04:15Golden scales erupted across his skin
01:04:17as the air ignited with his draconic aura.
01:04:20With a mocking smear, his body shifted and expanded
01:04:23in a blinding flash of light,
01:04:25transforming 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,
01:04:40nearly causing me to lose the child.
01:04:42Watching the fading silhouette in the sky,
01:04:44I clutched my stomach where a faint dragon mark pulsed,
01:04:48beating rhythmically like a second heart.
01:04:53Disaster struck three days after Arthur's departure.
01:04:56My father, the Holy Father, was branded with the twin sins of treason and black magic.
01:05:01Then cast into the darkest depths of the abyss prison,
01:05:04I rushed to the capital, desperate and breathless,
01:05:07only 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,
01:05:16my 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.
01:05:30You are high on only contract holder.
01:05:32He cannot simply watch us die.
01:05:35Her words cut through me like acerated blood,
01:05:38but he couldn't find the voice to answer.
01:05:41How could I admit that during those two years of shadow,
01:05:44I had forced him into the freezing depths of the holy lake
01:05:47just to retrieve a lost jewel for my amusement.
01:05:51How could I confess that, in fits of rage,
01:05:53I had left scars upon his back that would never heal.
01:05:56He likely wanted to see my family reduced to ash
01:05:59more than anyone else in the world.
01:06:02But looking at the last flickering spark of hope in my mother's eyes,
01:06:05I forced myself to move.
01:06:06I picked up the ruby-encrusted whip,
01:06:08the very symbol of my former tyranny,
01:06:11and dragged my trembling body to the crown prince's palace.
01:06:15There, before the towering obsidian iron gates,
01:06:18I fell to my knees and waited.
01:06:23Back in the Holy Kingdom,
01:06:25a single command from my lips was enough to make shadow
01:06:27crawl to my feet.
01:06:29If I wanted him to bow,
01:06:30he never dared to meet my eyes.
01:06:32But now,
01:06:33the tables had turned with a cruel irony.
01:06:36To see him for even a moment,
01:06:38I had to kneel in the teeth of a blizzard,
01:06:40begging a shred of mercy.
01:06:42I knelt until I lost all feeling in my legs,
01:06:45the ruby whip in my hands,
01:06:47buried under a thick shroud of snow.
01:06:49Just as dawn threatened to break,
01:06:50a dragon's roar shattered the cloud.
01:06:52The black wings eclipsed the dawn as he dived,
01:06:55only to contract and transform
01:06:56the instant they struck the earth.
01:06:58From the heart of the erupting snow,
01:07:00Arthur emerged in human form,
01:07:02breaking through the mist.
01:07:04The crunch of his boots against the frozen ground
01:07:06echoed the frantic beating of my heart.
01:07:08His cold, indifferent gaze lingered for a moment
01:07:10on the whip I held.
01:07:12Tell me, Miss Vivian,
01:07:14which hand was it?
01:07:15Which hand did you use
01:07:17to leave those scars on my body?
01:07:19His voice held no warmth,
01:07:21only the crushing weight
01:07:22of a judge passing sentence.
01:07:24I was so frozen,
01:07:25I could barely breathe.
01:07:26Before I could find my voice,
01:07:28my strength failed me.
01:07:29My knees buckled and I collapsed forward,
01:07:32falling directly into his arms.
01:07:33His chest was burning hot,
01:07:35a searing contrast to the ice.
01:07:37The heat instantly triggered
01:07:39the memory of our night of soul resonance.
01:07:40The way he had pinned me
01:07:42against the altar of predatory hunger.
01:07:44My eyes welled with bitter tears.
01:07:47Your Highness, please.
01:07:49Save my father.
01:07:51I'm begging you.
01:07:53His pupils narrowed
01:07:54into golden vertical slits,
01:07:56and a faint rhythmic glow of molten fire
01:07:58pulsed beneath the skin of his throat.
01:08:01Elena,
01:08:02is this how beg?
01:08:10Two years ago,
01:08:12I was the arrogant saintess,
01:08:15and he was the dragon slave
01:08:16I whipped at my whim.
01:08:18Two years later,
01:08:19he awakens the imperial dragon blood
01:08:21and returns to the imperial capital.
01:08:24As the giant dragon dives to the earth,
01:08:28he transforms into a king
01:08:29of extraordinary elegance.
01:08:32His dark gold dragon pupils
01:08:34are locked firmly onto me.
01:08:36Once his equal,
01:08:37now a disgraced slave of the clan,
01:08:40fallen into the abyss beneath the altar.
01:08:43To save my father,
01:08:45I was forced to kneel at his feet
01:08:47and let him tear away my white robes,
01:08:49the very symbol of my sanctity.
01:08:52He laughed coldly,
01:08:54demanding I pleasure him
01:08:55to repay the debts of those two years.
01:08:58He already has a perfect match by his side,
01:09:00yet 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
01:09:11become your prisoners.
01:09:13Watching 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
01:09:22with the rhythmic cadence of a heartbeat.
01:09:25It was this very secret
01:09:26that had driven me
01:09:27to orchestrate my own death,
01:09:29a scandalous escape
01:09:30that had shocked the world.
01:09:31A month ago,
01:09:33the Holy Kingdom fell
01:09:34under a sudden monster assault.
01:09:36I found myself cornered
01:09:38in the black forest,
01:09:39trapped and suffocating
01:09:41under the weight
01:09:41of a dark malevolent curse.
01:09:43As my consciousness began to fracture,
01:09:45he appeared.
01:09:46He rode through the chaos.
01:09:48As he charged forward on horseback,
01:09:50I could have sworn
01:09:52I saw the spectral shimmer
01:09:53of dragon wings unfurl behind him,
01:09:55a broken sword in one hand
01:09:57and a spear in the other,
01:09:59cutting a path to my side.
01:10:01In my blurred vision,
01:10:03he looked breathtaking.
01:10:05That night,
01:10:06amidst a frantic soul resonance,
01:10:08I let myself cross
01:10:10the forbidden line with him.
01:10:11I think I might have
01:10:12actually fallen for him.
01:10:13I thought of him
01:10:14the moment I opened my eyes.
01:10:16I banished him once more
01:10:17to the most remote,
01:10:18crumbling tower of the estate,
01:10:20before sending him to the tower
01:10:21was a triumph of my power.
01:10:23Now I found myself
01:10:24sneaking toward it
01:10:25just to catch a glimpse of him.
01:10:27He was right there in my temple.
01:10:29Yet I was dying
01:10:30of an incurable heartache.
01:10:32Today was his 22nd birthday.
01:10:34I had spent hours
01:10:35baking a lemon tart
01:10:36with my own hands,
01:10:38wanting to give him a surprise.
01:10:40I wanted to tell him
01:10:41that he was going to be a father.
01:10:43Two years ago in the arena,
01:10:45I bestowed upon him
01:10:47the name Shadow.
01:10:48He was but a flicker of darkness,
01:10:50easily erased.
01:10:52Now,
01:10:52that name has become
01:10:54my only longing.
01:10:55I reach the tower
01:10:56only to find my world collapsing.
01:10:58My shadow was gone.
01:11:00A massive dragon shadow
01:11:02reared its head,
01:11:03its wings sweeping
01:11:04across the ceiling.
01:11:05A blinding burst
01:11:06of molten gold
01:11:07erupted before my eyes.
01:11:09before shrinking
01:11:10and condensing
01:11:11into the form
01:11:12of a noble man.
01:11:13The slave had vanished,
01:11:15replaced by a prince
01:11:16radiating golden light.
01:11:18The rumors followed quickly.
01:11:20He already had a fiancé,
01:11:22a childhood match,
01:11:24Lady Isabella,
01:11:25the most brilliant woman
01:11:26in the empire.
01:11:27As soon as he returned
01:11:29to the capital,
01:11:30their grand wedding
01:11:31would begin.
01:11:34My sanctuary
01:11:35had been transformed
01:11:36into a cage
01:11:37surrounded by the cold
01:11:39steel of the paladins.
01:11:40The moment they spotted me,
01:11:42skulking in the shadows
01:11:43like a common theme,
01:11:44a royal guard
01:11:45lunged forward,
01:11:47pressing the frigid edge
01:11:48of a heavy greatsword
01:11:49against my throat.
01:11:50Neil,
01:11:50daughter of a traitor,
01:11:51how dare you stand
01:11:52in the presence
01:11:53of Prince Arthur?
01:11:54I looked past the blade
01:11:55of the man
01:11:55in the center of the crowd.
01:11:57The ragged,
01:11:58homespun clothes
01:11:59were gone.
01:12:00In their place
01:12:01was a magnificent robe
01:12:03of black and gold.
01:12:04Risking execution,
01:12:06I reached out
01:12:07with trembling fingers,
01:12:09desperately trying
01:12:09to catch his hand.
01:12:11A low,
01:12:12rhythmic vibration
01:12:13hummed in the air
01:12:14as glowing embers
01:12:15of dragon fire
01:12:16drifted from the gold
01:12:17embroidery of his robes.
01:12:20You...
01:12:21Are you truly
01:12:22the crown prince?
01:12:23Tell me,
01:12:24Miss Vivian,
01:12:24how do you plan
01:12:25to torture me today?
01:12:26Will it be the jeweled whip
01:12:27or shall I feel the weight
01:12:28of your dancing shoes again?
01:12:30Once I return
01:12:31to the capital,
01:12:32I will send
01:12:32the official documents
01:12:33to sever our contract.
01:12:35A woman from this
01:12:35wretched holy kingdom
01:12:36has no place
01:12:37beside my throne.
01:12:38My eyes burned
01:12:39with unshed tears.
01:12:41I hadn't come
01:12:42to hurt him.
01:12:43I had come
01:12:43to celebrate his birth,
01:12:45to tell him
01:12:46that I was carrying
01:12:46his children.
01:12:48But even my touch
01:12:49was a stain to him now.
01:12:51I finally understood
01:12:52the brutal reality.
01:12:53He loathed me.
01:12:54He would never want me.
01:12:56And he would certainly
01:12:57never want the bastards
01:12:58in my womb,
01:12:59even if they carried
01:13:00his own dragon blood.
01:13:03I shielded the faint
01:13:04yet searing spark
01:13:05of dragon blood
01:13:05within me,
01:13:06standing amidst
01:13:07the hallowed ruins
01:13:08in utter despair.
01:13:09I wanted to tell him
01:13:11that I would give up everything.
01:13:12I would follow him
01:13:13to the capital
01:13:14as a lowly handmaid,
01:13:15anything just to stay
01:13:16by his side.
01:13:17But to him,
01:13:18my very touch
01:13:19was a defilement.
01:13:20The deposition decree,
01:13:22sealed with the dragon crest,
01:13:24had severed
01:13:24our contract forever.
01:13:26At eighteen,
01:13:27I had fallen
01:13:28from the adored
01:13:28saintess
01:13:29to a prisoner
01:13:29abandoned by the gods.
01:13:31I finally woke up
01:13:32from the dream.
01:13:33Arthur hated me.
01:13:35He would go on
01:13:35to marry
01:13:36the pure-blooded
01:13:36Lady Isabella
01:13:37and father
01:13:38noble dragon heirs.
01:13:39To him,
01:13:41Do you have any
01:13:42final prayers,
01:13:43Miss Vivian?
01:13:44He looked down at me
01:13:45as if I were
01:13:46a speck of dust.
01:13:48I had wanted to beg him
01:13:49to taste the lemon tart
01:13:50I baked with my own hands.
01:13:52But seeing the frost
01:13:53in his eyes,
01:13:54I could only bite my lip
01:13:55and shake my head
01:13:56through a blur of tears.
01:13:58Golden scales erupted
01:13:59across his skin
01:14:00as the air ignited
01:14:01with his draconic aura.
01:14:03With a mocking smear,
01:14:05his body shifted
01:14:05and expanded
01:14:06in a blinding
01:14:07flash of light,
01:14:08transforming into
01:14:09a massive dragon.
01:14:10The gale from his wings
01:14:12slamming me violently
01:14:13into the snow.
01:14:14He vanished into the clouds
01:14:16without a single
01:14:16backward glance.
01:14:17I sat frozen in the ice
01:14:19until a sharp searing pain
01:14:21tore through my abdomen,
01:14:23nearly causing me
01:14:24to lose the child.
01:14:25Watching the fading
01:14:26silhouette in the sky,
01:14:27I clutched my stomach
01:14:28where a faint dragon mark
01:14:29pulsed,
01:14:30beating rhythmically
01:14:31like a second heart.
01:14:35Disaster struck
01:14:36three days
01:14:37after Arthur's departure.
01:14:39My father,
01:14:40the Holy Father,
01:14:41was branded
01:14:42with the twin sins
01:14:43of treason
01:14:43and black magic
01:14:44then cast into
01:14:45the darkest depths
01:14:46of the abyss prison.
01:14:47I rushed to the capital
01:14:48desperate and breathless
01:14:49only to be met
01:14:51with the death sentence.
01:14:52He was to face
01:14:53the trial of Holy Fire
01:14:54on the night
01:14:56of the next full moon.
01:14:57Inside the stench-ridden dungeon,
01:14:59my mother's withered hand
01:15:00gripped mine
01:15:01with terrifying strength.
01:15:03Elena,
01:15:04you must go
01:15:04to Prince Arthur.
01:15:06You must go
01:15:07to your shadow.
01:15:09You swore vows
01:15:11before the dragon god.
01:15:12You are high one
01:15:14only contract holder.
01:15:15He cannot simply
01:15:17watch us die.
01:15:18Her words
01:15:19cut through
01:15:20my leg as a raided blood,
01:15:21but he couldn't
01:15:22find the voice
01:15:23to answer.
01:15:23How could I admit
01:15:25that during those
01:15:25two years of shadow,
01:15:27I had forced him
01:15:28into the freezing depths
01:15:29of the Holy Lake
01:15:30just to retrieve
01:15:31a lost jewel
01:15:32for my amusement.
01:15:34How could I confess
01:15:35that in fits of rage,
01:15:36I had left scars
01:15:37upon his back
01:15:38that would never heal.
01:15:39He likely wanted
01:15:40to see my family
01:15:41reduced to ash
01:15:42more than anyone else
01:15:43in the world.
01:15:44But looking at the last
01:15:46flickering spark
01:15:46of hope in my mother's eyes,
01:15:48I forced myself to move.
01:15:49I picked up
01:15:50the ruby-encrusted whip,
01:15:51the very symbol
01:15:52of my former tyranny,
01:15:54and dragged my trembling body
01:15:56to the crown prince's palace.
01:15:58There,
01:15:59before the towering
01:16:00obsidian iron gates,
01:16:01I fell to my knees
01:16:03and waited.
01:16:06Back in the Holy Kingdom,
01:16:08a single command
01:16:09from my lips
01:16:09was enough
01:16:10to make shadow
01:16:10crawl to my feet.
01:16:12If I wanted him to bow,
01:16:13he never dared
01:16:14to meet my eyes.
01:16:15But now,
01:16:16the tables had turned
01:16:17with a cruel irony.
01:16:19To see him
01:16:20for even a moment,
01:16:21I had to kneel
01:16:22in the teeth
01:16:22of a blizzard,
01:16:23begging a shred of mercy.
01:16:25I knelt until
01:16:26I lost all feeling
01:16:27in my legs,
01:16:28the ruby whip
01:16:29in my hands
01:16:29buried under
01:16:30a thick shroud of snow.
01:16:31Just as dawn
01:16:32threatened to break,
01:16:33a dragon's roar
01:16:34shattered the cloud.
01:16:35The black wings
01:16:36eclipsed the dawn
01:16:37as he dived,
01:16:37only to contract
01:16:38and transform
01:16:39the instant
01:16:40they struck the earth.
01:16:41From the heart
01:16:42of the erupting snow,
01:16:43Arthur emerged
01:16:44in human form,
01:16:45breaking through the mist.
01:16:46The crunch of his boots
01:16:48against the frozen ground
01:16:49echoed the frantic beating
01:16:50of my heart.
01:16:51His cold,
01:16:52indifferent gaze
01:16:52lingered for a moment
01:16:53on the whip I held.
01:16:55Tell me,
01:16:55Miss Vivian,
01:16:56which hand was it?
01:16:58Which hand did you use
01:17:00to leave those scars
01:17:01on my body?
01:17:02His voice held no warmth,
01:17:04only the crushing weight
01:17:05of a judge passing sentence.
01:17:07I was so frozen,
01:17:08I could barely breathe.
01:17:09Before I could find my voice,
01:17:11my strength failed me.
01:17:12My knees buckled
01:17:13and I collapsed forward,
01:17:15falling directly
01:17:15into his arms.
01:17:16His chest was burning hot,
01:17:18a searing contrast
01:17:19to the ice.
01:17:20The heat instantly
01:17:21triggered the memory
01:17:22of our night of soul resonance,
01:17:23the way he had pinned me
01:17:25against the altar
01:17:25of predatory hunger.
01:17:27My eyes welled
01:17:28with bitter tears.
01:17:30Your Highness,
01:17:31please,
01:17:32save my father.
01:17:34I'm begging you.
01:17:36His pupils narrowed
01:17:37into golden vertical slits,
01:17:38and a faint rhythmic glow
01:17:40of molten fire
01:17:41pulsed beneath
01:17:41the skin of his throat.
01:17:42never had a doubt.
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