A powerful full drama movie filled with love, secrets, and unexpected twists.
Follow a powerful story where relationships are tested, hidden truths are revealed, and lives change forever. From romantic moments to shocking surprises, this drama keeps you engaged from beginning to end.
Featuring stories about CEO, billionaire lifestyles, family connections, and life-changing decisions, this movie delivers strong emotions and unforgettable scenes.
Watch the full movie and discover what happens in the end.
New full drama movies uploaded regularly. Stay tuned for more captivating and trending stories.
#drama #fullmovie #lovestory #dramatic #billionaire #ceo #family #relationships #movie #story
Follow a powerful story where relationships are tested, hidden truths are revealed, and lives change forever. From romantic moments to shocking surprises, this drama keeps you engaged from beginning to end.
Featuring stories about CEO, billionaire lifestyles, family connections, and life-changing decisions, this movie delivers strong emotions and unforgettable scenes.
Watch the full movie and discover what happens in the end.
New full drama movies uploaded regularly. Stay tuned for more captivating and trending stories.
#drama #fullmovie #lovestory #dramatic #billionaire #ceo #family #relationships #movie #story
Catégorie
🦄
Art et designTranscription
00:00:00On the day of my wedding, my mother tore my wedding gown apart in front of every noble present.
00:00:05Raising the moon goddess Seppler high, she brought it crashing down toward me, sending me sprawling across the ground.
00:00:12Selina is not worthy of becoming the new Alpha King's bride.
00:00:16A deathly silence fell over the hall. I was the rejected silver-eyed daughter of the Silvermoon Wolfpack.
00:00:21Today, as long as I completed the blood oath with the newly crowned Alpha King Ryan, I would become his
00:00:26Luna, the queen of all werewolves.
00:00:28But my biological mother, Hera, the most revered high priestess of the Temple of Light, publicly declared,
00:00:35Last night, she seduced Karen, the Shadow Pletha clan's holy knight, and her sister Elena's fiancée.
00:00:43The crowd instantly erupted.
00:00:45I knew those silver eyes were filthy.
00:00:47She actually dared to betray the Alpha King?
00:00:50Drive her out of the Silvermoon Pack!
00:00:53A chill spread through my entire body as I stared at my mother.
00:01:00What are you talking about?
00:01:02Last night, she had personally handed me a cup of blessed potion.
00:01:06She had smiled and said,
00:01:08Drink this, and the moon goddess will bless you and Ryan with a bond that can never be broken.
00:01:14But when I woke up, the man lying beside me wasn't Ryan.
00:01:18It was at Karen.
00:01:19Both of us had been drugged.
00:01:20I wanted to explain, but Karen had already thrown on his cloak.
00:01:24His eyes were filled with nothing but disgust.
00:01:27Selina, I've never met a woman as shameless as you.
00:01:29You'd even go after your own sister's fiancée!
00:01:31Then Karen staggered backward until he reached Elena's side.
00:01:36His eyes were red as he looked at her.
00:01:38I've been tainted.
00:01:40You're so pure.
00:01:43I no longer deserve to marry you.
00:01:46Below the altar, Ryan stood motionless.
00:01:48He had once told me that even if the entire world despised my silver eyes,
00:01:53he would still marry me.
00:01:55But now, the way he looked at me was no different from looking at something filthy.
00:02:01I rushed down from the altar and grabbed his hand.
00:02:05Ryan, someone set me up.
00:02:07There was something wrong with that potion.
00:02:09It was Mother!
00:02:10Enough!
00:02:12He shook me off, his voice horsey.
00:02:16Selina, I used to think you were just unlucky.
00:02:19Now I realize you genuinely disgust me.
00:02:26I froze where I stood.
00:02:29Elena burst into tears and buried herself in our Mother's arms.
00:02:33She had a pair of noble golden eyes.
00:02:35Pale, delicate, and fragile.
00:02:38She looked like the most innocent, sainty continent.
00:02:40Sister, I know you've always been jealous of me, but Karen is my fiancée.
00:02:45My mother gently wiped away her tears before walking over to me.
00:02:48Then, with her own hands, she removed the silver moon crest pinned to my chest.
00:02:52It was the symbol of a wolf bride's status.
00:02:54And in all fifteen years of my life,
00:02:56it was the only thing that had ever truly acknowledged my existence.
00:02:59I stared at her.
00:03:00Why?
00:03:01She leaned close to my ear,
00:03:03her voice so low that only I could hear it.
00:03:06Because Elena is far more suitable to be Luna.
00:03:09She has golden eyes.
00:03:11You're nothing but a stain.
00:03:15In that moment,
00:03:17I finally understood.
00:03:19This wasn't an accident.
00:03:20It wasn't a misunderstanding.
00:03:22It was a trap they had prepared long ago.
00:03:25That moment,
00:03:25Elena suddenly wiped away her tears and stepped forward.
00:03:28Position of Luna of the silver moon wolf pack cannot remain vacant.
00:03:31It would only make us the laughingstock of everyone.
00:03:34Since my sister committed such a disgraceful offense,
00:03:36let me atone for her sins in her place.
00:03:38Ryan,
00:03:39if you're willing,
00:03:40I can complete this blood oath in my sister's stead.
00:03:42Ryan turned around and placed the blood crown,
00:03:45the symbol of the queen,
00:03:47upon Elena's head.
00:03:48The entire hall erupted in cheers.
00:03:51My sister wore my wedding gown,
00:03:53held my Grimm's hand,
00:03:54and stood in the place that should have been mine.
00:03:57And I was publicly sentenced by my own mother.
00:03:59At Selina,
00:04:00silver eyes has defiled the blood oath,
00:04:02stripped her of the wolf crest,
00:04:03and exiled her to the forbidden rift.
00:04:04She shall never return.
00:04:06As the temple knights dragged me down from the altar,
00:04:08Elena glanced at me,
00:04:09tears still lingued on her face,
00:04:10but the corners of her lips slowly curled forward.
00:04:14Fifteen years later,
00:04:16at the Inheritance Bankry of the Sacred Dominion Conforge,
00:04:19nables and power holders from all twelve clans
00:04:21gathered withneath one roof.
00:04:22They knelt before my Dragonbone Throne,
00:04:24competing to present Moon Tear Crystal Mines,
00:04:26territorial deeds,
00:04:27and bloodline oaths as tribute.
00:04:29None of them knew that the Empress of the Sacred Dominion,
00:04:32the woman who controlled 80% of the continent's Moon Tear Crystal Mines,
00:04:38was the same silver-eyed outcast
00:04:40they had once trampled into the mud.
00:04:43Until my adopted son,
00:04:45Kyaris,
00:04:46walked into the Grand Hall
00:04:48holding a young woman's hand.
00:04:50She wore a silver-white formal gown.
00:04:52Her golden eyes shunned brightly,
00:04:54and pride radiated from her face.
00:04:57Her name was Ivy,
00:04:58Elena's daughter,
00:04:59and she bore the exact same face
00:05:01her mother had fifteen years ago.
00:05:03Kyaw stopped before me,
00:05:04his tone unwavering.
00:05:05Mother,
00:05:06Ivy will become my blood oath mate.
00:05:08If you approve,
00:05:08we'll announce our engagement tonight.
00:05:10Every guest in the hall held their breath.
00:05:12Ivy lifted her chin slightly,
00:05:14waiting for me to bestow that honor upon her.
00:05:17She was the golden-eyed Saint Chris of the Silvermoon Wolfpack,
00:05:21Ryan's most cherished daughter,
00:05:22and Hera's favorite granddaughter.
00:05:24She was used to people lowering their heads the moment they saw her,
00:05:28but she had forgotten one thing.
00:05:29This was not the Silvermoon Wolfpack.
00:05:31This was the sacred dominion come forth.
00:05:33This was the throne I had clawed my way towards for fifteen years,
00:05:38inch by inch,
00:05:40through the bones and corpses of the Forbidden Rift.
00:05:43I looked at that face and remembered the wedding gown
00:05:45that had been torn apart fifteen years ago.
00:05:47I remembered the poison my mother had handed me.
00:05:50I remembered the cold look in Ryan's eyes.
00:05:52Then I set down my wine glass.
00:05:54The bass struck the dragonbone armrest.
00:05:56The sound was not loud,
00:05:57yet the entire hall fell silence in an instant.
00:06:00I do not approve.
00:06:01I said,
00:06:02Kairos froze.
00:06:03Mother?
00:06:04The smile on Ivy's face stiffened.
00:06:06I raised my eyes to her.
00:06:08You will never become the mate of the sacred dominion's heir,
00:06:10not in this lifetime.
00:06:11The crowd instantly exploded into an uproar.
00:06:14Ivy's eyes reddened at once.
00:06:16Why?
00:06:17What makes me unworthy?
00:06:20I looked at her and smiled.
00:06:22Because the thing your mother stole fifteen years ago
00:06:25is finally going to be returned today.
00:06:29Ivy's face went completely pale.
00:06:32Kairos stepped in front of her,
00:06:33his brows drawn tightly together.
00:06:35Mother,
00:06:36Ivy didn't do anything wrong.
00:06:37The grudges of the previous generation
00:06:39shouldn't fall on her shoulders.
00:06:41I looked at him.
00:06:42Do you even know what happened fifteen years ago?
00:06:44Ivy spoke before he-
00:06:46My mother told me everything!
00:06:47Fifteen years ago,
00:06:48you betrayed Alpha King Ryan
00:06:50and seduced Karen,
00:06:51my mother's fiancé.
00:06:52You were exiled because you committed a crime!
00:06:54She bit her lip,
00:06:55looking as though I were the one bullying her.
00:06:57But my mother always defended you.
00:06:59She said you were just too jealous of her.
00:07:02Muted whispers spread throughout the hall.
00:07:05Some of the older nobles lowered their heads.
00:07:07Back then,
00:07:08they had all stood with the moon goddess's altar.
00:07:11They had watched my wedding gown in green tone apart,
00:07:13and they had watched Elena put on my bridal dress.
00:07:16They knew about that stand,
00:07:17but they had never cared about the truth,
00:07:19because the stories written by the victors
00:07:21were always clean and respectable.
00:07:23Before I could speak,
00:07:24the doors of the hall were suddenly pushed open.
00:07:25Ivy wasn't wrong.
00:07:27Everyone turned around.
00:07:29Elena had a rye.
00:07:30Fifteen years had passed,
00:07:31yet she was still breathtakingly beautiful
00:07:33in that fragile way of hers.
00:07:35Her golden hair was pinned up behind her head,
00:07:37and the royal crest of the silver moon wolf pack's luna
00:07:39was embroidered on her white cloak.
00:07:41Behind her stood Alpha King Ryan,
00:07:43and Karen,
00:07:43the holy knight of the Shadow Leopard clan.
00:07:45Every person who had destroyed my life fifteen years ago
00:07:48had finally appeared before me once again.
00:07:50Elena's eyes stiffened for a certain second
00:07:53the moment she saw me.
00:07:55Sister,
00:07:56I never imagined the Empress of the Sacred Dominion
00:07:59would turn out to be you.
00:08:01She called me sister,
00:08:03but her tone sounded more like a reminder
00:08:06to everyone present
00:08:07that I had once been nothing more
00:08:09than the filthy, silver-eyed outcast
00:08:11of the silver moon wolf pack.
00:08:14Caius frowned.
00:08:15Mother,
00:08:16you know them?
00:08:18I didn't answer.
00:08:19Ryan stepped forward.
00:08:20He still carried the same arrogance of an Alpha King,
00:08:23though the sharpness in his golden eyes
00:08:25was no longer what it had been.
00:08:27He looked at me and remained silent for a long moment.
00:08:32Selena.
00:08:36Hearing that name come from his lips
00:08:37almost made me laugh.
00:08:40Fifteen years ago,
00:08:41he had used that name when he told me he loved me.
00:08:43Later,
00:08:44he had used the same voice
00:08:45to say that I disgusted him.
00:08:46And now he wanted to use that name again,
00:08:48pretending there were still
00:08:49unresolved feelings between us.
00:08:51I spoke calmly.
00:08:53Your Majesty,
00:08:54this is a private banquet
00:08:56of the Sacred Dominion Consortium.
00:08:58You are not invited.
00:09:06Sister,
00:09:07if you're angry with me,
00:09:08then take it out on me.
00:09:10Why make things difficult for Ivy?
00:09:12she simply fell in love with Kairos.
00:09:16How interesting.
00:09:18I looked at her.
00:09:20Fifteen years ago,
00:09:21you also claimed that you had simply fallen in love with Ryan.
00:09:25Karen suddenly spoke.
00:09:27His voice called,
00:09:28Selina,
00:09:29what happened back then is already in the past.
00:09:31I turned to him.
00:09:33Of course it is.
00:09:34For you.
00:09:35After you woke up,
00:09:36all you had to do was call me shameless.
00:09:39But I had to spend fifteen years in the Forbibin' Rift,
00:09:42carrying the crime you all forced onto me.
00:09:45Karen's throat bobbed.
00:09:46There was something complicated in his eyes.
00:09:49Pain,
00:09:49conflict,
00:09:50and a belated trace of doubt.
00:09:52But I didn't need it.
00:09:54Belated doubt was just like belated love.
00:09:56Both were worthless.
00:09:58Ryan took a deep breath.
00:10:00We didn't come here today to dig up the past.
00:10:03Ivy and Ki-itis love each other.
00:10:05An alliance between our two clans
00:10:07would benefit the Sacred Dimension as well.
00:10:10Selina,
00:10:11don't let personal grudges interfere with the bigger picture.
00:10:14I gently set down my wine glass.
00:10:16You're lecturing me about the bigger picture.
00:10:18Ryan frowned.
00:10:19I lifted a hand,
00:10:21and the attendant behind me
00:10:22unfurled a black and gold contract scroll.
00:10:25It was covered with the markings of moon-tier crystal veins.
00:10:28My voice wasn't loud.
00:10:29Everyone heard it clearly.
00:10:31The Sacred Dominion Commodum
00:10:32controls 80% of the continent's moon-tier crystal mines.
00:10:36Last year,
00:10:3670% of the Silvermoon Wolfpack's military supplies,
00:10:39potions,
00:10:39and room array maintenance
00:10:40came from Sacred Dominion resources.
00:10:44Ryan,
00:10:45you're standing on my territory,
00:10:47living off my mines.
00:10:49and still expecting me to prioritize your bigger picture.
00:10:59Ryan's expression instantly dartened.
00:11:01For the first time,
00:11:02panic flashed Kostot Ivy's face.
00:11:05She grabbed Kyos' hand.
00:11:06Kyos,
00:11:07say something!
00:11:08Mother,
00:11:09do you really have to do this?
00:11:10Kyris looked at me,
00:11:11and for the first time,
00:11:13there was anger in his eyes.
00:11:14Do what?
00:11:16I asked.
00:11:17Expose the truth in front of everyone?
00:11:20Or refuse to hand over the life's work I've built to my enemy's daughter?
00:11:24Kyros lowered his voice.
00:11:27Ivy isn't her mother.
00:11:29Neither are you me.
00:11:30You don't have the right to forgive them on my behalf.
00:11:33I fixed my gaze on him.
00:11:34The moment those words left my mouth,
00:11:36the last trace of hesitation vanished from Kyros' face.
00:11:39He took Ivy's hand and turned to face the guests.
00:11:41If Mother refuses to give us her blessing,
00:11:42then I'll make the announcement myself.
00:11:44I, Kyros,
00:11:45as the heir of the Sacred Dominion,
00:11:46choose Ivy as my blood oath mate.
00:11:48From this night forward,
00:11:49anyone who humiliates her becomes my enemy.
00:11:51The entire hall fell silent.
00:11:52A flash of triumph crossed Elena's eyes.
00:11:54Even Ryan slowly looked pleased.
00:11:56Kyros,
00:11:56I knew you wouldn't abandon me.
00:11:57Crying,
00:11:58Ivy threw herself into Kyros' arms.
00:12:00I watched them and suddenly felt tired.
00:12:02Not heartbroken.
00:12:04Just tired of it all.
00:12:05I raised my hand.
00:12:07Bring me the blood oath scroll.
00:12:09Hope lit up in At-Kyros' eyes.
00:12:11Mother, you agree?
00:12:12I smiled.
00:12:14Of course.
00:12:15Before Ivy could even breathe a sigh of relief,
00:12:17I finished the sentence.
00:12:18I agree to sever the blood oath between us as mother and son.
00:12:22The smile on Kyata's face frozen.
00:12:24What did you say?
00:12:25An attendant brought over a black parchment scroll.
00:12:28It was no ordinary contract.
00:12:31Someone recognized it,
00:12:33their voice trembling.
00:12:36The soul-severation blood oath.
00:12:38Once it's signed,
00:12:39blood ties,
00:12:40inheritance rights,
00:12:41and family protection are all permanently cut off.
00:12:45Ivy instantly let let go of Kyros' hand.
00:12:48But Kyros didn't notice.
00:12:50He stared at me.
00:12:52Mother,
00:12:53just to stop me from marrying her,
00:12:55you're actually using something like this to threaten me?
00:12:58I answered calmly.
00:13:00It's not a threat.
00:13:01It's a choice.
00:13:03You just said that anyone who humiliates Ivy is your enemy.
00:13:08Then an enemy like me shouldn't keep supporting you.
00:13:13Kyros' eyes reddened.
00:13:18I'm your only son.
00:13:19The hall became even quieter.
00:13:22I looked at him and suddenly remembered when he was a child.
00:13:26Fifteen years ago,
00:13:27when I was thrown into the Forbidden's Rift,
00:13:29I had still been carrying him in my arms.
00:13:32He had only been a newborn.
00:13:33He had cried until he could barely breathe.
00:13:36I had fed him with my own blood,
00:13:38used Moontir crystals to keep him alive,
00:13:40and washed away the curse on his silver eyes with dragon's blood.
00:13:43I had thought that,
00:13:45at the very least,
00:13:46he would understand gratitude.
00:13:48But now,
00:13:49for the daughter of my enemy,
00:13:51he stood against me.
00:13:52You don't have to be.
00:13:54I said.
00:13:56Kyros froze.
00:13:57Elena's expression changed.
00:13:59Ryan frowned.
00:14:01Selina, what are you talking about?
00:14:03I ignored him.
00:14:06Kyros looked genuinely enraged.
00:14:08He snatched up the blood oath scroll
00:14:11and bit his fingerip.
00:14:13Fine.
00:14:14Don't be afraid.
00:14:15She's just trying to scare me.
00:14:17I'm her only heir.
00:14:19He looked at me.
00:14:20His eyes filled with confidence
00:14:22someone who had always been indulged.
00:14:24Mother,
00:14:25you'll regret this sooner or later.
00:14:28You think I don't dare.
00:14:31Ivy hurriedly grabbed his arm.
00:14:33Kyros, don't.
00:14:35He clasped her hand instead,
00:14:36his voice gentle.
00:14:38I said nothing.
00:14:39He pressed his blood onto the scroll.
00:14:42The next second,
00:14:43every light in the hall
00:14:44went out at once.
00:14:46Dark crimson rudels
00:14:47erupted from the scroll
00:14:48and wrapped around
00:14:49Kyistus-like chains.
00:14:52What is this?
00:14:55I rose to my feet.
00:15:00The blood oath you signed
00:15:02with your own hand.
00:15:05It's taking effect.
00:15:11The first chain
00:15:12pierced his chest.
00:15:16He let out a scream
00:15:18and collapsed to the floor.
00:15:21Ivy stumbled back in terror.
00:15:24Kyros!
00:15:25The silver armor on his body
00:15:26suddenly cracked apart,
00:15:28dissolving into countless streams of light
00:15:29that flew back to the weapon racked behind him.
00:15:31It was the battle armor
00:15:33I had forged for him
00:15:34from abyssal black iron
00:15:35and a moon-tier crystal core.
00:15:37The second chain descended.
00:15:39The sacred dominion air's insignia
00:15:41at his waist
00:15:42shattered into dust.
00:15:43The third chain fell.
00:15:44The black and gold mark
00:15:46on his wrist
00:15:46the symbol of his inheritance rights
00:15:48within the consortium
00:15:49peeled away from his skin inch by inch.
00:15:52Kyros trembled violently in agony.
00:15:57I didn't move.
00:15:58You are no longer my son.
00:16:00I have no obligation
00:16:01to stop it from you.
00:16:03I was just angry.
00:16:05I never really meant
00:16:06to sever ties with you.
00:16:07I looked at him.
00:16:08I taught you this
00:16:09when you were young.
00:16:10A blood oath isn't something
00:16:11you say in anger.
00:16:12Power isn't a toy.
00:16:13And choices aren't a performance.
00:16:15A dragon's roar burst
00:16:17from within Kyros' body.
00:16:18It wasn't something
00:16:19he had been born on.
00:16:21It came from the first
00:16:22dragon blood crystal heart
00:16:24I had found
00:16:24in the forbidden rift.
00:16:26I had nearly died
00:16:27in the jaws
00:16:28of an abysmium beast
00:16:29to take it.
00:16:30I had refined it
00:16:31into medicine
00:16:32and fed it to Kyros
00:16:34when he had been
00:16:34on the verge of death.
00:16:36Only then
00:16:36had he gained a physique
00:16:37far beyond that
00:16:38of ordinary werewolves.
00:16:40Only then
00:16:41had he gained
00:16:41the dragon blood talent
00:16:42everyone envied.
00:16:43Now it was time
00:16:44to return it.
00:16:45I raised my hand
00:16:46and curled my fingers slightly.
00:16:48A blinding black and gold light
00:16:50suddenly flared
00:16:50from Kyros' chest.
00:16:52A strand of dragon blood
00:16:53was forcibly ripped
00:16:54from his body.
00:16:55He collapsed
00:16:56to the floor
00:16:57in agony.
00:16:58His fingernails
00:16:59scraping into the cracks
00:17:00between the stones.
00:17:03No!
00:17:05Mother, I was wrong!
00:17:07Ivy turned deathly pale
00:17:08and hid behind Ryan.
00:17:10Kyros saw it.
00:17:11He reached out a hand.
00:17:12Ivy, please!
00:17:14Ask her to stop!
00:17:16Ivy's lips trembled.
00:17:17I...
00:17:17A final trace of hope
00:17:18remained in Kyros' eyes.
00:17:20Didn't you say
00:17:21you'd love me
00:17:21no matter what I became?
00:17:22Ivy looked at the dragon markings
00:17:23fading from his body,
00:17:25then at the silver eyes
00:17:25that were rapidly
00:17:26losing their shine.
00:17:27The love in her eyes
00:17:28faded bit bit.
00:17:29In its place
00:17:30came disgust.
00:17:31Kyros, don't touch me!
00:17:33Kyros froze.
00:17:34What did you say?
00:17:35Ivy took a step forward.
00:17:36I thought you were the heir
00:17:37to the Sacred Dominion.
00:17:38Now you're nothing.
00:17:39Why would I offend
00:17:40the Empress of the Sacred Dominion
00:17:41for your sake?
00:17:42It was like someone
00:17:42had slapped Kyros
00:17:43across the face.
00:17:44He had just betrayed me
00:17:46for her.
00:17:46and now,
00:17:47standing over his wounds,
00:17:49she was the first
00:17:49to draw a line between them.
00:17:51The final chain
00:17:52of the Blood Oath
00:17:52descended.
00:17:53His dragon blood
00:17:54was completely stripped away.
00:17:56His werewolf powers
00:17:57dropped to their lowest level
00:17:58and his silver eyes
00:17:59turned dull.
00:18:00I withdrew the glow
00:18:01of the dragon blood
00:18:01piston and spoke coldly.
00:18:03From this night forward,
00:18:05Kyros is no longer
00:18:06the heir
00:18:07to the Sacred Dominion.
00:18:08His name is to be erased
00:18:10from the Book of Succession.
00:18:11Kyros jerked his head up.
00:18:13And who inherits it?
00:18:14At the far end of the hall,
00:18:16the doors opened once more.
00:18:17A figure dressed in black
00:18:19walked in.
00:18:19The man wore a simple dark robe
00:18:21and was still holding
00:18:22a kitchen glove
00:18:23he hadn't had time
00:18:24to take off.
00:18:24He lazily lifted his gaze
00:18:26and looked over
00:18:27the gathered nobles.
00:18:28The next instant,
00:18:30the overwhelming pressure
00:18:31of an abysmary dragon
00:18:33crashed down upon the hall.
00:18:36Every noble of the wolf,
00:18:38leopard and fox plans
00:18:39turned deathly pale.
00:18:40Ryan's knees buckled
00:18:41and he nearly collapsed.
00:18:43Elena cried out,
00:18:43What kind of power is this?
00:18:45The man removed his glove
00:18:46and walked to my side.
00:18:48He lowered his gaze to me,
00:18:49his voice quiet.
00:18:50Dinner's getting cold.
00:18:51Not a single noble
00:18:52in the hall
00:18:53dared to breathe too loudly.
00:18:54I glanced at him.
00:18:56Valian,
00:18:56this isn't the time
00:18:57to talk about dinner.
00:18:58He smiled.
00:18:58I know.
00:18:59Then he turned towards Ryan
00:19:00and black slit pupils
00:19:02slowly emerged in his eyes.
00:19:03I just didn't expect
00:19:04that while I was
00:19:05in the kitchen making soup,
00:19:06someone would dare
00:19:07cause trouble
00:19:08in front of my wife's throne.
00:19:09Ryan's expression
00:19:10completely changed.
00:19:11A black dragon.
00:19:12Karen blusted out,
00:19:14The progenitor black dragon
00:19:15of the abysmal empire.
00:19:16Valerian calmly corrected him.
00:19:18Her husband.
00:19:18The moment those words fell,
00:19:20a young woman
00:19:20stepped out from behind him.
00:19:21She had black hair
00:19:22and golden eyes,
00:19:23with the dark markings
00:19:24at the corners of her eyes
00:19:25that belonged only
00:19:25to pureblood dragons.
00:19:26She wore silver
00:19:27and black battle gear,
00:19:28and at her waist hung
00:19:29the seal of the highest authority
00:19:30within the sacred dominion.
00:19:31I held out a hand to her.
00:19:32Aria,
00:19:33come here.
00:19:34The young woman
00:19:35walked to my side
00:19:36and dropped to one knee.
00:19:39Mother.
00:19:40Then she turned
00:19:41to face everyone.
00:19:43Starting today,
00:19:44I assume the position
00:19:45of first pair
00:19:45to the sacred dominion consort.
00:19:47Kairos stared at her in shock.
00:19:49Mother,
00:19:49you have another daughter?
00:19:51I lowered my braise to him.
00:19:52Not another daughter.
00:19:53I've always had one.
00:19:54You just never cared
00:19:55where I went.
00:19:56I gave you all my favor,
00:19:58but I never said
00:19:59you were in an overplace.
00:20:01Kairos's lips turned pale.
00:20:03For the first time,
00:20:04he understood
00:20:04that what he had lost
00:20:05wasn't a reckless argument.
00:20:07He had lost
00:20:07his entire future.
00:20:14Elena was the first
00:20:14to recover.
00:20:15She forced a smile
00:20:16onto her face.
00:20:17Sister,
00:20:18so you've already married?
00:20:19Something this important,
00:20:21why did you never tell us?
00:20:22I looked at her indifferently,
00:20:23so you could steal him too?
00:20:25Elena's expression darkened.
00:20:26Ryan's gaze shifted
00:20:27to Valerian,
00:20:28then back to me.
00:20:29At last,
00:20:29he understood
00:20:30that I was no longer
00:20:30the young girl
00:20:31who used to chase after him,
00:20:32desperate to explain herself.
00:20:33Selene,
00:20:34let's end this here tonight.
00:20:35Kairos has already
00:20:36paid the price.
00:20:37Ivy is innocent.
00:20:39Innocent?
00:20:40Arya suddenly laughed.
00:20:41She lifted a hand,
00:20:42and an attendant
00:20:43stepped forward
00:20:44with a memory crystal.
00:20:46The crystal lit up.
00:20:49In the image,
00:20:50Ivy stood outside
00:20:51a sacred dominion garden,
00:20:52speaking with a maid.
00:20:53Kairos is so easy
00:20:54to manipulate.
00:20:56All I have to do
00:20:57is cry a little,
00:20:57and he'll go against
00:20:58his mother for me.
00:20:59The maid asked,
00:21:01Mist,
00:21:01do you really like him?
00:21:02Ivy let out
00:21:03a scornful laugh.
00:21:04The hall fell
00:21:05into dead silence.
00:21:07It was as if
00:21:08the last breath
00:21:08had been ripped
00:21:09from Kairos' body.
00:21:11He turned to Ivy.
00:21:13This is fake,
00:21:14isn't it?
00:21:14Ivy panicked.
00:21:15No!
00:21:16I was just talking!
00:21:17I didn't mean it!
00:21:18Arya switched
00:21:19to another memory crystal.
00:21:21This time,
00:21:22the image showed
00:21:22Ivy and Elena
00:21:23in a private room.
00:21:24Elena was fixing
00:21:25her daughter's hair.
00:21:26Her voice was gentle,
00:21:27but her words
00:21:28were venomous.
00:21:28Remember,
00:21:29Kairos isn't
00:21:30the important part.
00:21:31The important part
00:21:31is making Selene
00:21:32lose control.
00:21:33She lost to me
00:21:34once before,
00:21:35which means betrayal
00:21:35from family
00:21:36is her greatest weakness.
00:21:37As long as she loses
00:21:39her composure
00:21:39at the banquet,
00:21:40the elders of the
00:21:41sacred dominion
00:21:42will start questioning
00:21:43whether she's fit
00:21:44to remain in power.
00:21:45Ivy smiled.
00:21:46Mother,
00:21:47what if I actually
00:21:48marry Kairos?
00:21:49Even better.
00:21:51Elena stroked her cheek.
00:21:52I stole her place
00:21:54as Luna.
00:21:55You can steal
00:21:56her sacred dominion.
00:21:57That's what I call
00:21:58a perfect victory.
00:22:00The image went dark.
00:22:03Elena's face
00:22:04turned deathly pale.
00:22:05Ryan whipped around
00:22:05to look at her.
00:22:06Elena?
00:22:07Elena frantically
00:22:07shook her head.
00:22:08No, that's not real.
00:22:09It's fabricated.
00:22:10Valenian raised
00:22:11a hand casually.
00:22:12A wisp of black flame
00:22:13landed on the memory
00:22:14didger the crystal.
00:22:15Instead,
00:22:16silver runes bearing
00:22:16the moon goddess
00:22:17secured across its surface.
00:22:19It couldn't be forged.
00:22:20It couldn't be altered.
00:22:21Elena was finally speechless.
00:22:23Fifteen years later
00:22:24and you're still a thief.
00:22:26You stole a wedding gown.
00:22:27You stole a man.
00:22:29You stole a reputation.
00:22:31And now you wanted
00:22:32your daughter
00:22:32to steal my sacred dominion.
00:22:35Tears immediately
00:22:35strimmed down Elena's face.
00:22:38Ryan, I was just scared.
00:22:39Selina hates me.
00:22:41She'll destroy Ivy.
00:22:43I couldn't let
00:22:44our daughter get hurt.
00:22:45Ryan didn't pull her
00:22:46into his arms
00:22:47the way he always had before.
00:22:49Fifteen years ago.
00:22:51Was that your doing too?
00:22:53He simply stared at her,
00:22:54his voice low.
00:22:56Elena's body stiffened.
00:22:57How could you even
00:22:58ask me that?
00:22:59That potion that night,
00:23:01was it you and Hera?
00:23:02Something changed
00:23:03in Ryan's eyes.
00:23:04No!
00:23:06Elena screamed.
00:23:07She was the one
00:23:08with no self-control.
00:23:09When I woke up,
00:23:10I smelled the Temple of Light's
00:23:12purification's incense
00:23:13on my clothes.
00:23:14That incense only came
00:23:15from High Priestess
00:23:16Hera's alchemy chamber.
00:23:18Elena whipped around
00:23:18to look at him.
00:23:19Karen's expression
00:23:20was darker
00:23:20than anyone had ever seen.
00:23:22For all these years,
00:23:23I believe Selina drugged me
00:23:25to sabotage your engagement.
00:23:27But if Hera was involved...
00:23:29Elena took a step back.
00:23:30Karen stared at her.
00:23:31You cried back then
00:23:33and told me
00:23:33you didn't blame me.
00:23:35You said you knew
00:23:36I was a victim too
00:23:37and you begged me
00:23:38not to investigate.
00:23:40Elena,
00:23:41did you know the truth
00:23:42all along?
00:23:46Panic flickered
00:23:47across Elena's eyes.
00:23:48I sat back
00:23:49onto my throne
00:23:49to the long-overdue
00:23:50interrogation
00:23:51with cold indifference.
00:23:52At last,
00:23:53they were questioning.
00:23:54At last,
00:23:54they were suffering.
00:23:55But this wasn't justice
00:23:56finally arriving for me.
00:23:58This was simply
00:23:59in fighting
00:23:59before the collapse
00:24:00of their power.
00:24:02Selina,
00:24:04if it really was
00:24:06all a misunderstanding
00:24:07back then...
00:24:07It wasn't a misunderstanding.
00:24:13You were a fool.
00:24:16Ryan's face turned pale.
00:24:18I continued.
00:24:19You were the Alpha King.
00:24:21You held the highest
00:24:22authority of judgment.
00:24:24You didn't investigate
00:24:25the potion.
00:24:27You didn't question
00:24:28any witnesses.
00:24:29You didn't check
00:24:30the altar records.
00:24:31You saw Karen and me
00:24:33in the same bed
00:24:33and you declared me guilty.
00:24:39Ryan,
00:24:40you weren't deceived.
00:24:42You simply chose
00:24:43the answer
00:24:44that was easiest
00:24:45to believe.
00:24:46Because believing
00:24:47I had betrayed him
00:24:48was easier than admitting
00:24:49he couldn't protect
00:24:50his own bride.
00:24:51Because marrying
00:24:52golden-eyed Elena
00:24:52was more respectable
00:24:53than marrying
00:24:54a silver-eyed woman
00:24:55rejected by her entire pack.
00:24:57Because his so-called love
00:24:59had never been strong enough
00:25:00to outsweigh power.
00:25:01Ryan's fingers trembled.
00:25:03He wanted to say something,
00:25:04but not a single word
00:25:06came out.
00:25:06See them out.
00:25:08I turned to the commander
00:25:09of the Royal Guard.
00:25:10The Royal Guards
00:25:11moved in immediately.
00:25:13You can't do this to us!
00:25:14I'm the Luna!
00:25:15Elena screamed,
00:25:16There is no Luna here.
00:25:18Only outsiders
00:25:19who entered the sacred
00:25:20Demation without invitation.
00:25:23He knew at Valerian's
00:25:24dragon pressure
00:25:25was weighing on him.
00:25:26If he made a move,
00:25:27the Silvermoon Wolfpack
00:25:28would lose its Alpha King
00:25:29tonight.
00:25:32Aziris, save me!
00:25:33was dragged away by the guards.
00:25:34She suddenly shouted at Caius.
00:25:36Kairus lay on the ground,
00:25:37unable even to lift his hand.
00:25:40Useless!
00:25:41The disgust in Ivy's eyes deepened.
00:25:43After she spit the word,
00:25:45she was dragged out of the hall.
00:25:48Tears finally fell
00:25:49from Kairus' eyes.
00:25:51Mother!
00:25:52I didn't look at him.
00:25:53Take him out as well.
00:25:55The guard hesitated.
00:25:56Empress,
00:25:57where should we take him?
00:25:58To the outer city
00:25:59of the Sacred Dominion.
00:26:00Give him ordinary clothes
00:26:02and a bag of silver coins.
00:26:05From this moment on,
00:26:07he will live however he chooses,
00:26:09on his own.
00:26:11Mother!
00:26:12Kairus suddenly looked up.
00:26:13I stood and walked away.
00:26:15Behind me came his breaking scream.
00:26:20But I didn't turn back.
00:26:23Fifteen years ago,
00:26:24I had called out for my mother
00:26:25countless times
00:26:26in the Forbidden Rift.
00:26:27Hera had never once turned back.
00:26:29Now,
00:26:30I finally understood something.
00:26:32Some people didn't fail to hear you.
00:26:34They simply believed
00:26:35you weren't worth being saved.
00:26:38Mother,
00:26:39the Silvermoon Wolfpack has arrived.
00:26:40The next morning,
00:26:41Arya walked into the study.
00:26:43I flipped a page
00:26:44of the Mineral Vein report.
00:26:47Who?
00:26:49She paused slightly.
00:26:50Ryan.
00:26:51He brought ten carriages
00:26:52of Moontreed Crystal Ore.
00:26:53Valerian stood by the window,
00:26:55holding a cup of coffee
00:26:56and raised an eyebrow slightly.
00:26:57How wealthy.
00:26:58I said.
00:27:00How shabby.
00:27:01Arya smiled.
00:27:03Do you want to see him?
00:27:06Yes.
00:27:14Selene.
00:27:15Your Majesty.
00:27:16What brings you here
00:27:16so early in the morning
00:27:17with a shipment of ore?
00:27:18What are you trying to buy?
00:27:20A chance.
00:27:22For Ivy
00:27:22and for Elena.
00:27:25I will investigate
00:27:26what happened last night.
00:27:27If they truly did wrong,
00:27:28I will punish them.
00:27:28But Ivy is still young.
00:27:29She shouldn't have
00:27:30her entire future cut off
00:27:31because of the grudges
00:27:32of the previous generation.
00:27:33Was she young
00:27:34when she cut Kyaris' future off?
00:27:36Was Elena young
00:27:37when she put on
00:27:37my wedding gown
00:27:38fifteen years ago?
00:27:39Was Hira merciful
00:27:40when she exiled me
00:27:41to the Probidden Rift?
00:27:42I know you hate me,
00:27:43but back then I...
00:27:43Back then what?
00:27:44You want to say
00:27:44you were deceived?
00:27:45That you were also a victim?
00:27:46Ryan, don't cast yourself
00:27:47as the victim.
00:27:48You were the judge back then.
00:27:49One word from you
00:27:50and my crest was stripped away.
00:27:51You turned around
00:27:51and Elena became the Luna.
00:27:53You enjoyed fifteen years
00:27:54of a position stolen from me
00:27:55and now you're telling me
00:27:56you were also a victim?
00:27:58Then what do you want?
00:27:59What I want
00:28:00is something you can't give.
00:28:02This is only the first batch.
00:28:04If you're willing
00:28:05to spare Ivy,
00:28:06I can give up
00:28:07three of the Silvermoon Wolfpack's
00:28:08northern mining vials.
00:28:10What are you laughing at?
00:28:12Are these the three
00:28:12you mean, Your Majesty?
00:28:14Seven years ago
00:28:14a Silvermoon Wolfpack
00:28:15northern prines were depleted.
00:28:17Was the sacred dominion
00:28:18that Sixth Slide Responders
00:28:19allow you to maintain production?
00:28:21Three years ago
00:28:21the jite writes
00:28:22to those northern's
00:28:23Manchester's good.
00:28:24Now those three
00:28:24quang owners
00:28:25are the sacred dominion consortes.
00:28:27You're using our property
00:28:28to plead for mercy
00:28:29for my mother?
00:28:30Send them back.
00:28:32The sacred dominion
00:28:33doesn't need these.
00:28:34Selena,
00:28:34do you really have
00:28:35to push things this far?
00:28:36Ryan,
00:28:37when you pushed me
00:28:38into the Forbibbon Rift
00:28:39fifteen years ago
00:28:40you didn't ask
00:28:41how far was Tuwa?
00:28:42Now that you're
00:28:43the one in pain
00:28:43you want to talk
00:28:44about limits?
00:28:47I raised my hand.
00:28:48All ten carts
00:28:49of Moontreeb crystal ore
00:28:51lifted into the air
00:28:52at once.
00:28:53What are you doing?
00:28:54I closed my fingers.
00:28:55All the crystal ore
00:28:56exploded into powder
00:28:57midair.
00:28:58A storm of blue-silver dust
00:29:00fell like snow
00:29:01over Ryan's shoulders.
00:29:02Your so-called attainment
00:29:03is worthless to me.
00:29:05Your Majesty,
00:29:06bad news!
00:29:07The sacred dominion
00:29:08has terminated
00:29:09all military supply agreements
00:29:10with the Silvermoon Wolfpack.
00:29:11The northern rune formations
00:29:12have already begun
00:29:13to shut down.
00:29:14The Council of Elders
00:29:15demands your immediate return.
00:29:16Ryan snapped his head
00:29:17toward me.
00:29:18You did this?
00:29:19I didn't deny it.
00:29:21Last night,
00:29:22your daughter
00:29:23and your wife
00:29:23attempted to seize
00:29:24control of the
00:29:25Sacred Dimension.
00:29:26Today,
00:29:27the Sacred Dimension
00:29:28is reassessing
00:29:29the Silvermoon Wolfpack's
00:29:30credit standing.
00:29:31Aria added,
00:29:32The result was
00:29:33not qualified.
00:29:35From this moment on,
00:29:37the Silvermoon Wolfpack
00:29:38must pay triple
00:29:39the security deposit
00:29:40in advance
00:29:40to purchase
00:29:41any Moontreed
00:29:42crystal ore.
00:29:44You're trying to
00:29:44bankrupt the
00:29:45Silvermoon Wolfpack!
00:29:46No.
00:29:47You were the one
00:29:48who handed
00:29:48the Silvermoon Wolfpack
00:29:49over to Elena.
00:29:50I'm just making you
00:29:51pay the bill.
00:29:52Ryan's shoulders
00:29:53finally slumped.
00:29:54He looked at me
00:29:55and for the first time,
00:29:56real regret
00:29:57appeared in his eyes.
00:29:58Selena,
00:29:59if I had believed
00:30:00you back then...
00:30:01Don't.
00:30:01I don't want to hear
00:30:02your imagined alternate ending.
00:30:04My ending as it stands
00:30:05is just fine.
00:30:07Valerian walked
00:30:07to my side.
00:30:08He simply stood there
00:30:09and Ryan
00:30:10instinctively
00:30:11stepped back.
00:30:12The Pragerner Black Dragon
00:30:13looked at the Alpha King,
00:30:15his tone calm.
00:30:16Take your dust
00:30:17and leave.
00:30:21If you ever look
00:30:22at my wife
00:30:23like that again,
00:30:25I will make
00:30:26the Silvermoon Wolfpack
00:30:27change its king.
00:30:34Hera arrived
00:30:35faster than I expected.
00:30:36She did not wear
00:30:37her High Priestess
00:30:38ceremonial robes.
00:30:39Instead,
00:30:40she wore a grey-white cloak,
00:30:41once called
00:30:42the most merciful
00:30:43saintess of the entire
00:30:44continent.
00:30:44She now stood outside
00:30:45the gates of the
00:30:46Sacred Dominion,
00:30:46blocked by the Royal Guards,
00:30:48her face twisted with rage.
00:30:49I let her in.
00:30:51When Hera walked
00:30:52into the main hall,
00:30:53her back was still straight.
00:30:55She had always been used
00:30:56to being worshipped
00:30:57by believers.
00:30:58And even now,
00:30:59when she had come
00:30:59to beg me,
00:31:00she refused to abandon
00:31:02that ridiculous sense
00:31:02of dignity.
00:31:03The first thing she said
00:31:04when she saw me
00:31:05was not an apology.
00:31:07It was,
00:31:07Selina,
00:31:08have you had enough
00:31:09of this nonsense?
00:31:10I almost laughed
00:31:11out loud.
00:31:12Fifteen years apart,
00:31:14and you still speak
00:31:15the same way.
00:31:16Hera frowned.
00:31:18I am your mother.
00:31:19Your sister has been
00:31:20crying all night
00:31:21because of you,
00:31:22and Ivy is afraid
00:31:23to even leave her room.
00:31:24Are you really going
00:31:25to force your own family
00:31:26to their deaths
00:31:27before you're satisfied?
00:31:28Family.
00:31:30High Priestess Hera.
00:31:33Fifteen years ago
00:31:34when you stripped me
00:31:35of my wolf crest.
00:31:39You said I had defiled
00:31:41the bloodline.
00:31:54When you exiled me
00:31:55to the Forbidden Rift,
00:31:56you said I was never
00:31:57to return.
00:31:58And now you're telling me
00:32:00we're family?
00:32:00Hera's expression stiffens.
00:32:02but soon her eyes reddened.
00:32:04I had no choice back then.
00:32:06Elena was weak.
00:32:07She couldn't handle
00:32:09any shock.
00:32:10She had admired Ryan
00:32:11since she was a child.
00:32:13If she had lost
00:32:13everything that day,
00:32:14she wouldn't have survived.
00:32:16So you just
00:32:16let me go die?
00:32:17I asked.
00:32:18You didn't die,
00:32:19did you?
00:32:20Hera's voice trembled,
00:32:21yet she still tried
00:32:22to argue.
00:32:23The moment those words fell,
00:32:25even Arya's gaze
00:32:26turned cold.
00:32:29Valerian stood
00:32:29by the window,
00:32:30the teacup in his hand
00:32:31slowly cracked
00:32:32with a thin fracture.
00:32:33But I remained calm.
00:32:35That's right.
00:32:36I didn't die.
00:32:37So I came back
00:32:38for all of you.
00:32:39Only then did
00:32:40At-Hara realize
00:32:40I was no longer
00:32:41the daughter
00:32:41who once cried
00:32:42and begged her
00:32:43for even a glance.
00:32:44Her tone softened.
00:32:45Selina,
00:32:46mother knows you were wronged,
00:32:47but Elena has been
00:32:48married to Ryan
00:32:49for 15 years.
00:32:50Her life can't be ruined.
00:32:52And Ivy is still young.
00:32:54She can't be ruined either.
00:32:55You have everything now.
00:32:56Why can't you be
00:32:57a little more generous?
00:32:59Because I'm not a statue
00:33:00in the Temple of Light.
00:33:01I won't stand there
00:33:02smiling at the ones
00:33:02who carve out my flesh.
00:33:04I looked at her.
00:33:05Here's tears fell.
00:33:06But I'm your mother.
00:33:08I gave birth to you.
00:33:09My blood runs
00:33:10in your veins.
00:33:11I slowly stood
00:33:12and walked up to her.
00:33:14Perfect.
00:33:15I've always wanted
00:33:16to return it.
00:33:17Hera stumbled back
00:33:18in fear.
00:33:19What are you doing?
00:33:20I grabbed her wrist.
00:33:21Today,
00:33:22I'll grant your wish.
00:33:23The Silvermoon Wolfpack
00:33:24bloodline imprint
00:33:25within her body
00:33:26was forcibly drawn out.
00:33:27It blazed with golden light,
00:33:29the symbol of her
00:33:30noble Exidonese
00:33:30as High Priestess.
00:33:31I stared at that golden glow
00:33:33and said coldly,
00:33:34I hereby declare,
00:33:35the mother-daughter bloodshot
00:33:36between Salun and Hera
00:33:37is severed today.
00:33:38Hera screamed,
00:33:40but it was already too late.
00:33:42The moment the blood peat shattered,
00:33:44the insignia dimmed
00:33:46into darkness.
00:33:47Her face went deathly pale
00:33:48as she staggered
00:33:49and grabbed the table
00:33:50for support.
00:33:51Back then,
00:33:52she had used her identity
00:33:53as my mother to judge me.
00:33:55Now,
00:33:55I stripped away her right
00:33:56to use that same identity
00:33:57to demand anything from me.
00:33:59How dare you?
00:34:01You taught me this.
00:34:02Bloodlines can be stripped.
00:34:03Family ties can be judged
00:34:05and severed.
00:34:06I just learned it
00:34:07better than you did.
00:34:08Hera's lips trembled.
00:34:11Selina!
00:34:12You will regret this!
00:34:13I said,
00:34:15no.
00:34:17Regret is something
00:34:18I'll leave to you.
00:34:20When the Royal Guards
00:34:22escorted Hera away,
00:34:23she finally lost control.
00:34:25she struggled and screamed.
00:34:27I never should have
00:34:28kept you alive!
00:34:29You were a curse
00:34:30from the moment
00:34:31you were born!
00:34:32How could a sylva-eyed
00:34:33wrisset ever be worthy
00:34:34of golden eyes?
00:34:36I looked at her.
00:34:36I've been waiting
00:34:37fifteen years
00:34:38to hear that line.
00:34:44Hera froze.
00:34:46I raised my hand
00:34:47and at an attendant
00:34:49activated another memory crystal.
00:34:54Everything she had just said
00:34:55was recorded.
00:34:57Arya spoke calmly.
00:34:58The High Priestess
00:34:59of Temple of Light
00:35:00publicly declared
00:35:01that the Silver-Eyed Lineage
00:35:02is a curse.
00:35:03This recording
00:35:04will be submitted
00:35:05to the Council of Twelve Clans.
00:35:07The Temple will face
00:35:08imbeetment tomorrow.
00:35:09The color drained
00:35:10completely of Hera's face.
00:35:13Only then
00:35:14did she finally understand.
00:35:15I hadn't been provoked.
00:35:18I had been waiting
00:35:19for her to expose
00:35:20her true self.
00:35:22That night,
00:35:23a crisis of faith
00:35:24erupted within
00:35:25the Temple of Light.
00:35:27All Silver-Eyed followers
00:35:28who once worshipped Hera
00:35:30withdrew from the Temple.
00:35:32The Council of Twelve Clans
00:35:34demanded that she be
00:35:35suspended and put on trial.
00:35:37The image of mercy
00:35:38she had carefully built
00:35:39over half her life
00:35:40cracked.
00:35:41And from those cracks,
00:35:42everything she had hidden
00:35:43for fifteen years
00:35:44crawled out.
00:35:45Her bias
00:35:46and her cruelty.
00:35:47On the third day,
00:35:49news came from
00:35:50the Outer City.
00:35:51Kyos had stood
00:35:52outside the gates
00:35:53of the Sacred Dominion
00:35:54for an entire night.
00:35:57Not kneeling.
00:36:00The Sacred Dominion
00:36:02did not indulge
00:36:03in such performances
00:36:04of penance.
00:36:05He simply stood
00:36:06in the snow,
00:36:06clutching the broken
00:36:07fragments of his
00:36:08now-invalid heir Signia.
00:36:10When Arya
00:36:11brought me the news,
00:36:12I was reviewing
00:36:13the Silvermoon Wolfpack's
00:36:15debt ledger.
00:36:17She looked at me.
00:36:21Mother,
00:36:22do you want to see him?
00:36:24I didn't look up.
00:36:26No.
00:36:28Arya fell silent
00:36:29for a moment.
00:36:33He looks like
00:36:34he's about to break.
00:36:35I signed the last document.
00:36:39Then send a healer.
00:36:44Not seeing him
00:36:45doesn't mean
00:36:45I want him dead.
00:36:47Arya nodded.
00:36:48She turned to leave,
00:36:50but I called her back.
00:36:52Arya,
00:36:54do you think
00:36:55I'm too cruel?
00:36:57I don't.
00:37:03She thought for a moment.
00:37:08No.
00:37:10I just think
00:37:11you've finally stopped
00:37:13turning the knife
00:37:13on yourself.
00:37:15That answer
00:37:16made me pause
00:37:16for a moment.
00:37:18Arya walked over
00:37:19and knelt
00:37:20in front of me.
00:37:24She said,
00:37:25brother did not know
00:37:26you cared about him.
00:37:27He just believed
00:37:28that no matter
00:37:28how much he hurt you,
00:37:30you would always stay.
00:37:33Mother,
00:37:34making him pay the price
00:37:36isn't cruelty.
00:37:37It's you finally
00:37:38stopping him
00:37:38from becoming worse.
00:37:40I stroked her hair.
00:37:45You're quite good
00:37:46at comforting people.
00:37:51She smiled.
00:37:54Father taught me.
00:38:02Valerian just walked in
00:38:03at that moment.
00:38:06I only taught her
00:38:07to tell the truth.
00:38:14In the afternoon,
00:38:15Cairo still broke in.
00:38:16He never made it
00:38:17into the main hall
00:38:18and was stopped
00:38:18by the royal guards
00:38:19in the courtyard.
00:38:20I stood on the second floor
00:38:21corridor
00:38:22and looked down at him.
00:38:24In just a few days,
00:38:26he looked like
00:38:27a different person.
00:38:27After losing
00:38:29the dragon blood,
00:38:30his face had turned pale,
00:38:32his werewolf power
00:38:33was unstable,
00:38:34and the proud silver armor
00:38:35he once wore
00:38:36was gone,
00:38:37replaced by a simple
00:38:38outer tout cloak.
00:38:41Mother.
00:38:42His voice was hordy.
00:38:44I know I was wrong.
00:38:46I said nothing.
00:38:47He hurried on.
00:38:49I've cut ties with Ivy.
00:38:51I won't see her again.
00:38:53Please,
00:38:53let me come back.
00:38:55I looked at him.
00:38:58Come back to what?
00:39:01To be my son
00:39:03or to be the heir
00:39:04of the sacred dominion?
00:39:07He froze.
00:39:08He answered too slowly.
00:39:10Slow enough
00:39:10that I already knew
00:39:11the answer.
00:39:12I said,
00:39:12See?
00:39:15Even you can't tell anymore.
00:39:17Tyrus' eyes turned red.
00:39:19No, it's not like that.
00:39:20I'm just used to this place.
00:39:21I grew up in the sacred dominion.
00:39:22This is my home.
00:39:24I nodded.
00:39:25So I gave you 15 years.
00:39:28You had the best teachers.
00:39:30The finest crystals.
00:39:31The best weapons.
00:39:33You never had to bow to anyone.
00:39:36You even had the courage
00:39:37to spill blood wine on me
00:39:39at my own banquet.
00:39:41Kaios' face went deathly pale.
00:39:44I was just impulsive back then.
00:39:46Impulse is not a pardon.
00:39:48I looked at him.
00:39:49Kaios,
00:39:49what you're truly grieving
00:39:50isn't the loss of me
00:39:51as your mother.
00:39:53It's the realization
00:39:54that you're no longer special.
00:39:56He swayed
00:39:57as if I had struck
00:39:58something inside him.
00:40:00I continued.
00:40:01If I didn't have Arya today,
00:40:03if the sacred demation
00:40:05had no other heir,
00:40:07would you still be so certain
00:40:09that I would eventually
00:40:09take you back?
00:40:12Kaios couldn't answer.
00:40:15That silence was more honest
00:40:16than any cry.
00:40:19I turned to leave.
00:40:21Suddenly,
00:40:22Kaios shouted,
00:40:23So you did nothing wrong?
00:40:26I stopped.
00:40:27His eyes were red,
00:40:28as if he could no longer
00:40:30hold back everything
00:40:31he had been suppressing.
00:40:32You were always busy.
00:40:34You left for months
00:40:36every year.
00:40:37You gave me teachers,
00:40:38weapons,
00:40:39power,
00:40:40but you never told me
00:40:41the truth.
00:40:42I didn't know
00:40:43who Ivy was.
00:40:45I didn't know
00:40:46what you went through.
00:40:47I only knew Ivy crying
00:40:49and saying you hated her,
00:40:50and I thought you were
00:40:51just taking out
00:40:51your anger on her.
00:40:54I looked back at him,
00:40:55so you chose to believe
00:40:56a girl you had known
00:40:57for a few months
00:40:58over the mother
00:40:59who raised you
00:40:59for 15 years.
00:41:00Kairo's lips trembled.
00:41:02My voice remained
00:41:03very calm.
00:41:04You can blame me
00:41:04for not being gentle enough.
00:41:06You can blame me
00:41:07for not laying
00:41:07every wound bare
00:41:08for you to see.
00:41:09But you don't get
00:41:10to use ignorance
00:41:11as a weapon
00:41:11to stab me
00:41:12and then ask me
00:41:12to understand
00:41:13that your hand hurts.
00:41:14He finally broke down.
00:41:15Mother, I was wrong.
00:41:17I really was wrong.
00:41:19I said,
00:41:20then survive
00:41:22as an ordinary man.
00:41:24And when the day comes
00:41:25that you seek forgiveness
00:41:26not to come back,
00:41:27but because you truly
00:41:28understand
00:41:29what you did wrong,
00:41:31then come see me.
00:41:33Kairo stared at me
00:41:34in a daze.
00:41:35How long will that take?
00:41:37I did not answer
00:41:39because some roads
00:41:40could only be walked alone.
00:41:42That evening,
00:41:44Kairo's left the main city
00:41:45of the Sacred Dominion.
00:41:46I had someone assign him
00:41:48an Outer City Apprentice identity,
00:41:50starting with Hauling Ore.
00:41:52He had once believed
00:41:54he was born noble.
00:41:55Then I would let him feel,
00:41:57with his own hands,
00:41:58just how heavy
00:41:59the foundation
00:42:00of that nobility
00:42:01really was.
00:42:03The collapse
00:42:04of the Silvermoon Wolfpack
00:42:05happened faster
00:42:06than I had expected.
00:42:07After the Sacred Dominion
00:42:08cut off supply,
00:42:09three defensive formations
00:42:11along the northern frontier failed.
00:42:12Ryan had no choice
00:42:13but to convene
00:42:14the Council of Elders.
00:42:15But on the day of the meeting,
00:42:16Ivy publicly accused Elena.
00:42:18She said,
00:42:19It was my mother
00:42:21who forced me.
00:42:23She made me approach Kairos.
00:42:26She made me seize
00:42:27the Sacred Dominion's
00:42:28air position.
00:42:29I was only following
00:42:31her orders.
00:42:34When the news reached
00:42:35the Sacred Dominion,
00:42:37Arya was having breakfast.
00:42:39She nearly spit out
00:42:40her coffee.
00:42:42Of course she's
00:42:43her mother's daughter.
00:42:45Valerian slowly
00:42:46cut his bread.
00:42:47Faster than her mother, too.
00:42:49I looked at the report,
00:42:50not surprised.
00:42:52Ivy had never truly
00:42:54loved Caius.
00:42:55Then there was no doubt
00:42:56that she also never
00:42:57truly loved Elena.
00:42:58What she loved
00:42:59was status,
00:43:00power,
00:43:01and the feeling
00:43:02of being surrounded
00:43:02by attention.
00:43:04Now that the Silvermoon Wolfpack
00:43:06could no longer protect her,
00:43:07she would immediately
00:43:08look for another way out.
00:43:10Of course Adelaina
00:43:11refused to accept it.
00:43:12Mother and daughter
00:43:13tore into each other
00:43:14in front of the Council of Elders.
00:43:15Ivy, crying,
00:43:16produced more memory crystals.
00:43:18Inside them were recordings
00:43:19of Elena teaching her
00:43:20how to get close to Caius,
00:43:22how to provoke me,
00:43:23and how to use
00:43:24Hera's temple connections
00:43:25to spread rumors.
00:43:26The Council of Elders
00:43:27erupted in fury.
00:43:29Ryan immediately demanded
00:43:31that Alashna hand over
00:43:32the Wolf Queen's seal.
00:43:34Alashna lost control
00:43:35completely
00:43:36and lunged at Ivy.
00:43:38I did it for you!
00:43:40If not for you,
00:43:42why would I have
00:43:43ever crossed Selina?
00:43:45Ivy screamed back.
00:43:47You did it for yourself!
00:43:49You were jealous
00:43:50of her.
00:43:55You stole her betrothal
00:43:57fifteen years ago,
00:43:58and fifteen years later
00:44:00you still wanted
00:44:01to take her sacred dominion!
00:44:03Don't turn me
00:44:04into your excuse.
00:44:11The mother-daughter fallout
00:44:12was spread across
00:44:13the entire continent
00:44:14by twelve clans and formants.
00:44:16The once-admired Wolf Queen
00:44:18and...
00:44:19Sanxes
00:44:19became the most humiliating
00:44:21joke whispered
00:44:22over noble tea tables,
00:44:23but I knew it still
00:44:24wasn't enough.
00:44:25The real blade
00:44:26hadn't fallen yet.
00:44:28Three days later,
00:44:29Karen came to see me.
00:44:31He came alone,
00:44:32wearing only a black
00:44:34knight's uniform,
00:44:35and stood outside
00:44:35the gates of the
00:44:36sacred dominion
00:44:37for two hours.
00:44:39I let him in.
00:44:40When he saw me,
00:44:42he did not sit.
00:44:44He lowered his head
00:44:46and performed
00:44:46the highest apology
00:44:47ritual of the
00:44:48Shadow Panther clan.
00:44:49Selene,
00:44:50I owe you an apology.
00:44:52I looked at him.
00:44:54Only one?
00:44:55Karen's face
00:44:56turned pale.
00:44:57His voice was rough,
00:44:58strained.
00:44:59When I woke up
00:45:00back then,
00:45:00I thought you had
00:45:01set me up.
00:45:02I hated you
00:45:03for fifteen years.
00:45:04I even burned
00:45:05every piece of evidence
00:45:06from that knight
00:45:07with my own hands
00:45:08because I thought
00:45:08it was disgusting.
00:45:10He closed his eyes
00:45:12briefly.
00:45:12Only now do I realize
00:45:15what I burned
00:45:16wasn't humiliation.
00:45:17It was the truth.
00:45:19I asked,
00:45:20So?
00:45:22Karen looked up.
00:45:24I found the potion
00:45:25records from that year.
00:45:27Hera took a double dose
00:45:28of the soul-binding draft
00:45:29from the Temple of Light.
00:45:30One was given to you
00:45:32and the other to me.
00:45:33The signature on the
00:45:34approval record
00:45:35was Elena's.
00:45:36He handed me
00:45:37a black file.
00:45:39If you choose to judge them,
00:45:40I will testify.
00:45:43I took the file.
00:45:44You're not doing this
00:45:45for me.
00:45:46Karen did not deny it.
00:45:48I'm doing it
00:45:49for myself too.
00:45:51I don't want to be
00:45:52their fool anymore.
00:45:54He let out
00:45:55a bitter laugh.
00:45:58Though I suppose
00:45:59I already was.
00:46:00I looked at him.
00:46:01The man who had once
00:46:03called me filthy
00:46:04fifteen years ago
00:46:05had finally bowed
00:46:06his head,
00:46:07but I felt no satisfaction.
00:46:09Because his testimony
00:46:10was not meant to save
00:46:11the me back then,
00:46:12but to save himself
00:46:13at present.
00:46:14I said,
00:46:16I'll take the evidence.
00:46:17As for your apology,
00:46:19I don't accept it.
00:46:21Karen's face fluttered
00:46:22pale for a moment,
00:46:23then he nodded.
00:46:24I understand.
00:46:26Before turning to leave,
00:46:27he suddenly asked,
00:46:29If I had believed you
00:46:30when I woke up back then,
00:46:32would things have turned
00:46:33out differently?
00:46:34I flipped open the file
00:46:36without looking up.
00:46:37Yes.
00:46:38A faint light
00:46:39rose in Karen's eyes.
00:46:43I continued,
00:46:44you would have died sooner.
00:46:49He froze.
00:46:51Only then
00:46:52did I look at him,
00:46:53but at least
00:46:54I would have remembered you
00:46:55as someone
00:46:56who wasn't complicit.
00:46:57The light in his eyes
00:46:58dimmed little by little.
00:47:00He said quietly,
00:47:02So even being a better man,
00:47:05I still missed my chance.
00:47:09I didn't answer.
00:47:11Some people always believe
00:47:12that showing up late
00:47:13still count as showing up.
00:47:14But life was not a ball.
00:47:16If you missed it,
00:47:18you missed it.
00:47:19I decided to reopen
00:47:21the Moon Goddess Temple
00:47:22for judgment.
00:47:23When the news spread,
00:47:24the entire continent
00:47:25was thrown into turmoil.
00:47:27Fifteen years ago,
00:47:28it was there
00:47:28that I was declared impure
00:47:29and condemned.
00:47:30Fifteen years later,
00:47:31I would return
00:47:32to the same place
00:47:33and burn every accusation
00:47:34they had ever written,
00:47:35word by word.
00:47:36On the day of the trial,
00:47:38all twelve clan council members
00:47:40arrived.
00:47:41The Temple of Light
00:47:42sent a new acting high priest.
00:47:46Hera had been suspended
00:47:47and stood beneath the altar
00:47:49in a gray prison robe.
00:47:51Elena had been stripped
00:47:52of her Wolf Queen seal
00:47:53and stood pale beside Ryan.
00:47:56Ivy did not dare approach her.
00:47:58Mother and daughter
00:47:59stood only a few steps apart,
00:48:01yet it felt like
00:48:02an entire abyss
00:48:03lay between them.
00:48:04Kairos was there too.
00:48:06He stood among
00:48:06the Outer City Apprentice,
00:48:08wearing a rough linen cloak,
00:48:09his hands still marked
00:48:10with wounds from hauling ore.
00:48:11When he saw me,
00:48:12his gaze turned complicated,
00:48:13but he did not call me.
00:48:15This time,
00:48:16he only lowered his head.
00:48:17I walked up onto the altar.
00:48:19The wind lifted
00:48:20the hem of my black robe.
00:48:21Fifteen years ago,
00:48:23I stood here
00:48:23in a white wedding veil
00:48:24pushed down from this very place
00:48:26by the hand of my own mother.
00:48:28Fifteen years later,
00:48:29I returned in black.
00:48:32not to marry anyone,
00:48:34but to judge them all.
00:48:38The acting high priest
00:48:39opened the case file.
00:48:40Karen was the first to testify.
00:48:42He publicly admitted
00:48:43that both he and I
00:48:44had been drugged
00:48:45with forbidden wishes
00:48:45from the Temple of Light.
00:48:47Potion records,
00:48:48traces of purification scents,
00:48:49and the temple's
00:48:50drug requisal signatures
00:48:51were laid out
00:48:51one by one on the altar.
00:48:53Ivy screamed.
00:48:55He's lying!
00:48:57Karen looked at her coldly.
00:49:00I've already sealed
00:49:01my testimony
00:49:02with a Shadow Panther
00:49:03soul oath.
00:49:05Do you dare
00:49:07to do the same?
00:49:08Ivy said nothing.
00:49:09The second witness
00:49:11was the old maid
00:49:12who had once
00:49:12brewed potions for Hera.
00:49:14By the time
00:49:15the Sacred Dominion
00:49:16found her,
00:49:17she had been hiding
00:49:18in a border town
00:49:18for seventeen years.
00:49:20She stood beneath the altar,
00:49:22her voice trembling.
00:49:23It was High Priestess Hera
00:49:25who ordered me
00:49:25to add the potion
00:49:26into Lady Selina's
00:49:27pre-wedding blessing
00:49:28wine.
00:49:29She said that once
00:49:30Lady Selina lost her purity,
00:49:33Lady Elena would be able
00:49:34to marry the Wolf King
00:49:35instead.
00:49:36Hera roared.
00:49:38Shut up!
00:49:40Shut up!
00:49:41I looked at her.
00:49:43Why so anxious?
00:49:46There's more.
00:49:47Aria raised her hand,
00:49:48and a third memory crystal
00:49:50tit up.
00:49:51The image came from
00:49:52the Temple of Light's
00:49:53potion trout
00:49:54fifteen years ago.
00:49:55A young Hera
00:49:56stood by the candlelight.
00:49:59Elena clutched her,
00:50:01crying.
00:50:02Mother!
00:50:04Ryan still wants
00:50:05to marry my sister?
00:50:07Hera gently wiped
00:50:08away her tears.
00:50:10Don't be afraid.
00:50:12After tomorrow,
00:50:13the only one
00:50:14he will marry
00:50:14is you.
00:50:18Elena asked,
00:50:20What about my sister?
00:50:23Hera was silent
00:50:24for a moment.
00:50:25silver-eyed blood
00:50:26was never meant
00:50:27to stand in the way
00:50:28of golden eyes.
00:50:31In the projection,
00:50:32Elena slowly smiled.
00:50:35Then let her
00:50:35never come back.
00:50:38The crystal
00:50:39went dark.
00:50:40The entire moon
00:50:41goddess altar
00:50:42erupted into uproar.
00:50:43Ryan stood frozen
00:50:44as if he had been
00:50:45nailed in place.
00:50:46Slowly,
00:50:47he turned to look
00:50:48at Elena.
00:50:52So it really
00:50:52was you?
00:50:53Elena completely
00:50:54broke down.
00:50:57So what if it was
00:50:58me?
00:50:58I love you!
00:51:00I've loved you
00:51:00since I was a child!
00:51:02Why should a
00:51:03silver-eyed woman
00:51:03like her be allowed
00:51:04to marry you?
00:51:06Why does everyone
00:51:07insist you were
00:51:07meant to be hers
00:51:08and hers alone?
00:51:09She pointed at me,
00:51:10her voice sharp
00:51:11and piercing.
00:51:12I was only taking
00:51:13back what was
00:51:13rightfully mine!
00:51:15Ryan's face
00:51:15gradually drained
00:51:16of all color.
00:51:18But I was never
00:51:19yours to begin with.
00:51:21Elena froze.
00:51:22That sentence
00:51:22was more brutal
00:51:23and every loss
00:51:24of judgment.
00:51:25The man she had
00:51:26stolen for 15 years
00:51:27had finally,
00:51:28on the day the truth
00:51:29came out,
00:51:29told her he had
00:51:30never belonged
00:51:30to her at all.
00:51:32Hera suddenly
00:51:32rushed onto the altar.
00:51:34Enough!
00:51:35Her hair was
00:51:36disheveled,
00:51:37her eyes wild.
00:51:38I did it!
00:51:39All of it!
00:51:40Spare Elena!
00:51:40She was just a child
00:51:41then!
00:51:42I was the biased mother!
00:51:43I was the one
00:51:43who drugged her!
00:51:44I was the one
00:51:45who passed judgment!
00:51:46If you want hatred
00:51:47then hate me!
00:51:48I looked at her.
00:51:49So you finally
00:51:50admitted it.
00:51:51Hera stiffened.
00:51:53The acting
00:51:53high priest
00:51:54raised his staff.
00:51:55The judgment
00:51:56light of the
00:51:57moon goddess
00:51:57descended upon
00:51:58the altar,
00:51:59bathing Hera
00:52:00and Elena
00:52:01in its glow.
00:52:02No lie
00:52:03could survive
00:52:03it any longer.
00:52:05Hera was stripped
00:52:05of her position
00:52:06as high priestess.
00:52:08Elena was stripped
00:52:09of her status
00:52:10as wolf queen.
00:52:11The charge
00:52:12of impurity
00:52:12that had been
00:52:13placed on me
00:52:1415 years ago
00:52:15was publicly annulled.
00:52:16The council
00:52:17of 12 clans
00:52:18announced,
00:52:18Selina of the
00:52:19Silver Eyes
00:52:20was found
00:52:21innocent of all
00:52:22charges.
00:52:22The entire crowd
00:52:23turned to look at me.
00:52:25Some looked ashamed.
00:52:26Some feared me.
00:52:27Some were already
00:52:28trying to flatter me.
00:52:29Ryan stepped forward.
00:52:31His eyes
00:52:32were bloodshot.
00:52:34Selina,
00:52:36I'm sorry.
00:52:38Those three words
00:52:39carried the weight
00:52:40of blood
00:52:40for 15 years.
00:52:42I looked at him
00:52:43but felt nothing
00:52:44ripple within me.
00:52:46Ryan,
00:52:46I heard your apology.
00:52:48A flicker of hope
00:52:49rose in his eyes.
00:52:51I continued,
00:52:52but I don't need it.
00:53:00The hope shattered
00:53:01across his face.
00:53:02I turned to face
00:53:03everyone present.
00:53:0615 years ago,
00:53:07you all stood here
00:53:08and watched me
00:53:09be condemned.
00:53:10Not a single one
00:53:11of you asked
00:53:12for evidence.
00:53:13Not a single one
00:53:14of you asked
00:53:15for the truth.
00:53:16Today,
00:53:16I am not here
00:53:17to ask you
00:53:17to restore my innocence.
00:53:19I am here
00:53:19to inform you.
00:53:20I raised my hand.
00:53:21The black and gold
00:53:22banners of the
00:53:23Sacred Dominion
00:53:23rose around the altar.
00:53:25From this day forward,
00:53:26the Sacred Dominion
00:53:27will no longer accept
00:53:28any trade justified
00:53:29by bloodline hierarchy.
00:53:30silver-eyed,
00:53:32mixed-blood
00:53:32and exiled clans
00:53:33will all be granted
00:53:34access to the Sacred Dominion.
00:53:36And any family involved
00:53:37in the exile case
00:53:3815 years ago
00:53:39will be banned
00:53:40from purchasing
00:53:41core moon crystal resources
00:53:42for three generations.
00:53:44That was the real reckoning.
00:53:45Not to make them cry,
00:53:47but to drain their power
00:53:49from the inside out.
00:53:50The nobles' expressions
00:53:52changed drastically,
00:53:54but none dared to object.
00:53:56Because Valyrian
00:53:57stood behind me.
00:53:58Because Aria
00:53:59held the mineral vein
00:54:00contracts in her hands.
00:54:01Because I was no longer
00:54:03the girl they once
00:54:03pushed off the altar.
00:54:05I was the Empress
00:54:06of the Sacred Dominion.
00:54:08The one who controlled
00:54:09the lifeblood
00:54:10of the entire continent.
00:54:12One month after the trial,
00:54:14Hera's condition
00:54:14became critical.
00:54:15The Temple of Light
00:54:16sent for me.
00:54:17They said,
00:54:18Hera wishes to see you
00:54:19one last time.
00:54:21So I went.
00:54:22Not because I had softened,
00:54:23but because there were words
00:54:25I wanted to deliver
00:54:26to her in person.
00:54:27Hera lay in the
00:54:28Temple Infirmary,
00:54:29connected to a
00:54:30life-sustaining formation.
00:54:31The once-mighty
00:54:32High Priestess
00:54:32was now nothing
00:54:33but skin and bone.
00:54:35When she saw me,
00:54:36her eyes lit up at once.
00:54:38Selene.
00:54:39I stood by the bed
00:54:40without stepping closer.
00:54:41She weakly reached
00:54:41out her hand.
00:54:45You've finally come
00:54:47to see your mother.
00:54:48I said,
00:54:49Don't misunderstand.
00:54:50I came to confirm
00:54:51whether you had
00:54:52any last words.
00:54:53Tears instantly fell
00:54:54from her eyes.
00:54:55You still hate me?
00:54:58Yes.
00:54:59She choked back a sob.
00:55:01I know I was wrong.
00:55:02I shouldn't have favored Elena.
00:55:03I shouldn't have destroyed
00:55:04you for her.
00:55:05But Selene,
00:55:06Elena has nothing left now.
00:55:07She lost her Wolf Queen title,
00:55:09was driven out of the palace
00:55:11by Ryan.
00:55:11Ivy was also removed
00:55:13from the council.
00:55:14They've already been punished enough.
00:55:16I looked at her.
00:55:17Even at this moment,
00:55:18she was still pleading for Elena.
00:55:20She knew she owed me.
00:55:22Yet,
00:55:22even on her deathbed,
00:55:24the person she was still
00:55:25most worried about
00:55:26was the younger daughter
00:55:26she had once held
00:55:27in the palm of her thing.
00:55:28I tardily felt it was absurd.
00:55:31Hera,
00:55:32have you ever,
00:55:32even once,
00:55:33asked anyone to protect me?
00:55:36She froze.
00:55:37On the day I was exiled,
00:55:38did you ask Ryan
00:55:39to investigate the truth?
00:55:41When I was thrown
00:55:41into the forbidden rift,
00:55:43did you beg the moon god
00:55:44to spare my life?
00:55:45After I survived
00:55:46and came wait,
00:55:47did you ask Elena
00:55:48to apologize to me?
00:55:49Hera's lips trembled,
00:55:50but she could not answer.
00:55:52I gave a faint smile.
00:55:56No.
00:55:58So why do you think
00:55:59I would spare her?
00:56:01For you.
00:56:03Hera shook her head in tears.
00:56:05She is your sister.
00:56:07She wasn't.
00:56:08You drove me out of the family
00:56:09fifteen years ago.
00:56:11Hera panicked
00:56:12and grabbed my sleeve.
00:56:13Salama, please.
00:56:14I'm your mother.
00:56:15I'm begging you.
00:56:16I'm dying.
00:56:17Just grant me my final wish.
00:56:19I looked down
00:56:19at her withered hand.
00:56:20Then I peeled her fingers
00:56:21off mine,
00:56:22one by one.
00:56:23Hera stared at me
00:56:24and Tara.
00:56:25I leaned down
00:56:25and whispered in her ear,
00:56:27I won't forgive you.
00:56:33Her pupils contracted sharply.
00:56:35I continued,
00:56:36and I won't spare Elena,
00:56:38nor will I clear
00:56:38the path for Ivy.
00:56:41They will live.
00:56:42but they will live in a world
00:56:44without privilege,
00:56:45without kneeling crowds,
00:56:46without anyone paying
00:56:48their debts for them.
00:56:49That's far more painful
00:56:51than death, isn't it?
00:56:55She fixed her gaze on me
00:56:57and for the first time,
00:56:59fear finally surfaced in her eyes.
00:57:03Silly.
00:57:05I straightened.
00:57:09You once said
00:57:10silver-eyed wolves
00:57:11were never meant to stand
00:57:12in the way of gold-eyed ones.
00:57:15Now I'm telling you this.
00:57:18From this day forward,
00:57:26tears kept spilling down
00:57:28Hera's face.
00:57:29She murmured,
00:57:31If I had treated you
00:57:32a little better back then,
00:57:35would you have hated me
00:57:37this much?
00:57:38I looked at her.
00:57:40Yes.
00:57:41A faint light flickered
00:57:42in Hera's eyes.
00:57:45I added,
00:57:48But you didn't.
00:57:51That light went out.
00:57:53Hera opened her mouth
00:57:55as if she still wanted
00:57:56to say something,
00:57:57but in the end,
00:57:58nothing came out.
00:58:00She died without
00:58:01ever closing her eyes.
00:58:03I turned and left.
00:58:06Outside the door,
00:58:07Elena was sitting
00:58:08in the corridor.
00:58:10The moment she saw me,
00:58:11she lunged forward.
00:58:16Sister!
00:58:17Before she died,
00:58:18did Mother say
00:58:20she forgave me?
00:58:21I stopped.
00:58:23She asked me to spare you.
00:58:25Hope immediately surged
00:58:27in Elena's eyes.
00:58:28Then you?
00:58:30I refused.
00:58:35She froze completely.
00:58:38The next second,
00:58:40she screamed
00:58:40and tried to rush at me,
00:58:42but the saint guards
00:58:43pinned her down.
00:58:44How could you do this?
00:58:45she was our mother.
00:58:47Yours,
00:58:49not mine.
00:58:52Elena cried so hard
00:58:54she looked
00:58:55completely disheveled.
00:58:56But this time,
00:58:58no one stepped forward
00:58:59to help her.
00:59:00Ryan stood
00:59:01at the far end
00:59:01of the corridor,
00:59:03watching everything
00:59:04with a complicated expression.
00:59:06He neither approached
00:59:07Elena
00:59:07nor came toward me.
00:59:11because he finally
00:59:12understood.
00:59:14The mistake
00:59:15he had made
00:59:1515 years ago
00:59:16was something
00:59:17that could never
00:59:17be undone.
00:59:19Two months later,
00:59:20the Saint Sanctum
00:59:21and the Abysmal Empire
00:59:22announced a marriage alliance.
00:59:24The news shook
00:59:25the entire continent.
00:59:27Everyone had already
00:59:28thought the Saint Empress
00:59:29was powerful enough
00:59:30until they learned
00:59:31her husband
00:59:31was the ancient
00:59:32black dragon ancestor
00:59:34who had slumbered
00:59:35for a thousand years
00:59:36in the Abyssal Empire.
00:59:38The wedding was not held
00:59:39at the Moon Goddess Altar.
00:59:41I no longer wanted
00:59:42that altar
00:59:42to witness my life.
00:59:44Valerian chose
00:59:45the Forbidden Rift
00:59:46as the wedding site.
00:59:47I asked him
00:59:47if he had done it
00:59:48on purpose.
00:59:49He said,
00:59:49Of course.
00:59:50They abandoned you there.
00:59:52I found you there.
00:59:53This place deserved
00:59:54a new name.
00:59:55On the wedding day,
00:59:57the sky above the rift
00:59:58was covered
00:59:58in black gold dragon flame.
01:00:01The banners
01:00:02of the Saint Sanctum
01:00:03and the Abysmal
01:00:04Dragon Crift
01:00:05rose side by side.
01:00:08Arya stood beside me
01:00:09as my heir.
01:00:10While adjusting
01:00:11my wedding gown,
01:00:12she suddenly said
01:00:13in a low voice,
01:00:15Mother,
01:00:15you look beautiful today.
01:00:17I glanced at her.
01:00:19Only today?
01:00:20She immediately
01:00:21corrected herself.
01:00:23Every day.
01:00:24Valerian stood ahead
01:00:25and when he heard it,
01:00:27he let out a low chuckle.
01:00:29She takes after you,
01:00:30he said.
01:00:31Strong survival instinct.
01:00:33I walked toward him.
01:00:35Fifteen years ago,
01:00:36I had once walked
01:00:37towards a man
01:00:38in a wedding dress.
01:00:39Back then,
01:00:40I thought a wedding
01:00:41meant handing myself
01:00:42over to someone else.
01:00:43Only now did I understand
01:00:45that real love
01:00:45was not surrender.
01:00:47It was standing
01:00:47side by side.
01:00:49Valerian reached out
01:00:50his hand to me.
01:00:51He did not speak
01:00:52any grand vows,
01:00:53only asked in a low question.
01:00:55Selene,
01:00:56this time,
01:00:57will you let me
01:00:58stand beside you?
01:00:59I placed my hand
01:01:00into his palm.
01:01:01Haven't you always
01:01:02been there?
01:01:03He smiled.
01:01:05The dragon wings
01:01:06of the black dragon
01:01:07ancestor unfurled
01:01:08behind him,
01:01:09shielding the sky
01:01:10above the forbidden
01:01:11rift from wind and snow.
Commentaires