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Fated To The Ancient Wyrm
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00:00This familiar scene is exactly the same as in the previous life.
00:03The sky outside turned the color of a wound.
00:06A Lycan lord, in his full power, in human form.
00:09But how did the person in his arms become my sister?
00:11In my previous life, on the day of the sacred bonding rite, my sister chose the phoenix.
00:16She left the bear shifter, the one nobody wanted.
00:19It was fate.
00:21A cast off for a beast.
00:23Instead, I saved a Lycan lord by accident.
00:25He took me as his queen.
00:27After the bonding, I bore five heirs for the Lycan bloodline, a clan that had gone generations without children.
00:33I became a legend across the realm beyond.
00:35My sister, bonded to the phoenix, was cast out for barrenness.
00:39I came home with my youngest.
00:41My sister poisoned my bowl.
00:43Me and my child both.
00:50When I woke, it was the day of the rite again.
00:53The very one present is a worthy son of their bloodline.
00:57Choose freely.
00:59The hall filled with glances, with quiet negotiations between bodies and bloodlines.
01:03I didn't want any of it.
01:04In my last life, childbirth had nearly killed me.
01:07I wasn't doing it again.
01:09I stood alone.
01:10Then the doors blew open.
01:11Time returns to the present.
01:13And for some reason, my sister has taken my husband from my previous life.
01:19Vivian saved my life.
01:21From this day forward, she is my true mate.
01:23A Lycan lord choosing one of ours.
01:25Choosing her as first and only.
01:27It hadn't happened in living memory.
01:29I knew then.
01:30She'd been reborn too.
01:32Now I looked at her.
01:33Draped against the Lycan lord.
01:34Already victorious.
01:36She thought she'd won.
01:37She hadn't thought through what it would cost her.
01:39Lycan lords are of the fire element.
01:41Their mates sleep in fire.
01:43Eat fire-aspected food.
01:45For a bloodline like ours, cold-aspected by nature, that's not a marriage.
01:50It's a slow execution.
01:52Last time, I had no choice but to pretend to like it.
01:55Every day.
01:56I smiled through the sacred fire walks.
01:58Through the meals that felt like swallowing coals.
02:01By the time I was pregnant, my core was already cracked.
02:04The children drew what was left.
02:05Vivian was cold-aspected too.
02:08She just didn't know what she'd agreed to yet.
02:10The whole heat celebrated.
02:12Every unmated girl in the Order delayed her own bonding to help prepare Vivian's.
02:16The gift list ran ten feet long.
02:19The High Lord nearly emptied the sanctuary's vaults.
02:22I was the only unmated woman left.
02:24That made me the obvious choice for Handmaid.
02:26Vivian stood over me and smiled.
02:29Before you were the Elder, I deferred to you.
02:32How does this feel, sister?
02:34I said nothing.
02:35Ha!
02:36That look.
02:37You'll get used to it.
02:39The High Lord has already agreed.
02:40You belong to me now.
02:41I'll hit you when I want.
02:43Praise you when I want.
02:45You have no say.
02:46Start learning.
02:48A courier arrived from the Lycan Lord.
02:50A red and gold cloak.
02:52Light as feathers.
02:53Fire-resistant.
02:54Enchanted for speed.
02:56Vivian touched it with both hands.
02:58I knew that cloak.
02:59For fire-aspected bloodlines, it was a treasure.
03:02For cold-aspected bloodlines, it was a punishment.
03:05I'd worn it every day of my first marriage.
03:07It had carved away at my core for years.
03:10Vivian would find that out eventually.
03:12Then a girl came running.
03:14Fire on the back mountain!
03:15What an awful omen.
03:17Today of all days.
03:18I didn't wait.
03:19I ran.
03:20The mountain was burning hard when I arrived.
03:22Black smoke.
03:24Screaming from inside the tree line.
03:26The elders stood at the edge and wouldn't move.
03:27That fire belongs to a Lycan Lord.
03:30We interfere.
03:31We offend him.
03:33Your sister's bonding is today.
03:34Don't make trouble.
03:35No rank valenties.
03:38I looked at him for a long moment.
03:40Then I went in.
03:41The smoke blinded me fast.
03:43The fire took my fur.
03:45But I was cold-aspected.
03:47Wherever I moved, frost spread behind me.
03:49It slowed the flames enough to matter.
03:54But I can't stop this fire with my own strength.
03:57I remembered what my foster mother taught me.
04:00Clear a line.
04:01Deny the fire somewhere to go.
04:02I shifted to full form and called out.
04:05Wolf.
04:06Eagle.
04:06Tiger.
04:07Bear.
04:08They came.
04:09They carried ice-hardened vessels in their jaws.
04:12An elephant used its trunk.
04:14Ants and mantises worked the fire breaks.
04:16We were losing.
04:17Then we weren't.
04:18Then the mountains shook.
04:19The ground split open.
04:21A dragon came out of it.
04:23Black.
04:23Ancient.
04:24Large enough to block the sun.
04:27He opened his eye and it rained.
04:29The fire died.
04:30The dragon's voice didn't come from one direction.
04:32It came from everywhere.
04:35This mountain is mine.
04:37Who lit it?
04:39The elders said nothing.
04:40A thousand years in this valley.
04:42And nobody had thought to check whether something older already lived here.
04:45Then Vivian pointed at me.
04:47Ash everywhere.
04:48Burned fire.
04:49It had to be her.
04:50Every eye turned.
04:52Charred.
04:52Bleeding in two places.
04:54The same hands that had just spent an hour fighting the fire.
04:57I was certain someone would say it.
04:58Any of them.
04:59They'd all see me run in.
05:01The elder looked at me for a long time.
05:03Then he knelt.
05:05The dragon's sovereign.
05:07Our wayward daughter did this.
05:09She is yours to punish.
05:10We offer her freely.
05:11I stood still.
05:13Not one of them spoke for me.
05:16I had bent myself in half for these people in my last life.
05:19I had burned from the inside out.
05:21Carrying children for a clan that wasn't mine.
05:24For a man who never once made me warm.
05:26I'd done it for them.
05:28Kept them safe.
05:29Kept them proud.
05:30And now they were handing me to a dragon.
05:32To buy themselves a quite.
05:33The fire was Lyakon.
05:35Everyone here knows that.
05:36I'm cul-de-sected.
05:37How would I produce sacred flame?
05:38You're my handmaid.
05:39You had access to my husband's fire tokens.
05:41Easy enough to steal a spark.
05:42If I started it, why did I try to stop it?
05:44To look innocent.
05:45What do I have to gain?
05:47Any of it.
05:48What exactly do you think I wanted?
05:50Mara.
05:51Just admit it.
05:52I'm done with this covenant.
05:53All of redept between us is settled.
05:55Enough.
05:55The girl comes with me.
05:57Whatever she is to you, she isn't anymore.
06:00When I opened them, I was somewhere else.
06:02Torchlight.
06:03Stone.
06:04A ceiling so high I couldn't see the end of it.
06:07He was in human form.
06:08Black robes edged in gold.
06:10He sat like someone who had never once needed anything from anyone.
06:14He was watching me with something almost like amusement.
06:17He said.
06:18Go ahead.
06:18Say what you want to say.
06:20You knew.
06:21You knew the whole time what happened.
06:23Why play along with them?
06:25Because you needed a reason to leave.
06:27And my palace is considerably more comfortable than a foxhole.
06:30I thought you might prefer it.
06:31I thought about what he'd said.
06:33In my last life, he had sent me a healing stone during my labor.
06:36Only later did I understand.
06:38The mountain was his.
06:40I had defended it.
06:41He remembered.
06:42Thank you, my lord.
06:44I'll serve faithfully.
06:45Don't do it again.
06:46He looked satisfied.
06:48Do what?
06:49Throw yourself at people who aren't worth it.
06:51He tilted his head.
06:53Get dressed.
06:54We're going to watch the bonding ceremony.
06:56He handed me a gown.
06:58Black.
06:59Covered with shimmering scales.
07:01I put it on and stood beside him.
07:02And we looked like we matched.
07:04I felt my face go warm without meaning to.
07:06The ceremony hall blazed with firelight.
07:09Vivienne walked the red carpet on the Lycan Lord's arm.
07:12She looked extraordinary.
07:14She always did.
07:16Then they reached the threshold.
07:17Every Lycan bonding began the same way.
07:20The new mate had to walk a path of sacred embers.
07:23The Lycan Lord stepped onto the embers without pausing.
07:26For him, it was nothing.
07:28Vivienne stopped cold.
07:29People noticed.
07:30He pulled her toward the embers.
07:32She dug in.
07:33The hall went quiet in that particular way that means everyone is watching, while pretending
07:38not to.
07:38He leaned in and said something low and sharp.
07:41She went white.
07:43Then she walked.
07:44The sound when the fire touched her was something I would remember.
07:48She made it through.
07:49Barely.
07:50She knelt before the clan elder with shaking hands and held a cup of tea for half an hour
07:54before he finally took it.
07:56After the ceremony, in the corridor outside...
07:59No mate in our head have insulted the sacred fire at her own binding.
08:03Not one.
08:05You were the first.
08:07Congratulations.
08:08He walked.
08:09Don't wait up.
08:10I had turned to leave when my foot landed on a dry branch.
08:13Vivienne spun.
08:15How are you here?
08:16Her face twisted.
08:17She lunged.
08:18Her feet still burned.
08:20Betrayed her.
08:21She went down hard.
08:22The dragon should have killed you!
08:24I touched the fabric of my new gown.
08:27He's fair-minded.
08:28He doesn't punish the innocent.
08:29I looked at her.
08:30I'm his now.
08:32You can't touch me.
08:33She grabbed my throat.
08:35Her nails drew blood.
08:37You're lying.
08:38If he wanted you, he'd be here.
08:40He wouldn't leave you alone.
08:42One more inch, and she'd have managed it.
08:44I'll kill you right now, and no one will care.
08:46The air moved.
08:48The air moved.
08:48Vivienne flew sideways.
08:50She hit the wall hard enough to cough blood.
08:53A hand settled at my waist.
08:55Warm.
08:55Steady.
08:57Power moving through it, like current.
08:59The dragon sovereign said pleasantly.
09:01I'm her intended.
09:02You can call me Aldric.
09:04Or dragon sovereign.
09:06Either works.
09:08Vivienne stared at him.
09:10You can't.
09:10She has no standing.
09:12She's nothing.
09:13The lichen lord appeared in the doorway.
09:15Took one look at the dragon sovereign.
09:17Your grace.
09:18I apologize for my mate's behavior.
09:21Today of all days, I hope you'll forgive it.
09:24Your mate could use managing.
09:26The dragon sovereign glanced back at Vivienne.
09:28Then he took my arm, and we left.
09:32The next morning, his household was buzzing.
09:35The lichen lord's new bride had lost favor on her wedding night.
09:38She'd insulted the sacred fire.
09:40He'd taken a sparrow shifter servant to his bed.
09:42And elevated her to second mate.
09:44Vivienne had locked herself in her chambers.
09:46That news traveled fast.
09:48I found a mineral spring in the upper realm.
09:50I went every night for a month.
09:52One night I arrived and heard laughter.
09:54I looked.
09:55Then I wished I hadn't.
09:56Vivienne was in the water.
09:57With two men.
09:58Two dragon shifters.
10:00Junior officers by the look of them.
10:02I left quietly.
10:03The heat didn't go away.
10:04I wandered the grounds trying to walk it off.
10:07Aldric was outside his own chambers.
10:09Not sleeping either.
10:10He looked like the night had gotten into him.
10:12Dragonkind had their own rhythms.
10:14Their own seasons.
10:15I looked at him for a moment.
10:16Then I made a decision.
10:18I used the oldest skill our bloodline carried.
10:21He would experience it as a dream.
10:23He wouldn't remember clearly.
10:26You're too thin.
10:27I don't know how you're holding yourself up.
10:28His skin against mine carried a faint, natural coolness.
10:32Like stone in a river.
10:33It moved through me like relief.
10:51I'd planned to clear the memory.
10:53He seemed not to have noticed.
10:55Or not to care.
10:56Then my body reminded me of something.
10:58I recognized the feeling immediately.
11:00I was pregnant.
11:02Around the same time.
11:03So was Vivian.
11:04The Lycan Lord's servants spread it everywhere.
11:07Seven heirs expected.
11:08A miracle for a clan that hadn't produced children in generations.
11:11The keep rejoiced.
11:13Even Aldric's household received the announcement.
11:15I thought about those two men in the spring.
11:17I hoped for her sake.
11:18She knew what she was carrying.
11:20She came to see me a few weeks later.
11:22Surrounded by attendants.
11:23She looked radiant.
11:25She always found a way to look radiant.
11:27She pressed her hand to my stomach.
11:28Then looked at my broom.
11:30I thought you'd found yourself a dragon sovereign.
11:32Looks like you're still sweeping floors.
11:34I'm going to be named Holy Sovereign of the Lycan Clan.
11:36First woman in a thousand years to carry their heirs.
11:39The clan elder promised.
11:40Once these children come, I'll have everything.
11:43You should stay away from my hall once I'm settled.
11:46Don't embarrass yourself pretending we're still family.
11:49She turned.
11:50With a gesture, she scattered dead leaves across the path I'd just cleaned.
11:54Then Aldric appeared.
11:55The leaves reversed direction and hit Vivian in the face.
11:59My household staff aren't yours to entertain yourself with.
12:03I'm carrying the Lyland Lord's A's.
12:05You wouldn't dare hurt me.
12:07My wife is also expecting.
12:10You disrespect her.
12:12I haven't begun to address that yet.
12:14You.
12:14You have no bond.
12:16No ceremony.
12:17No standing.
12:18You're a hollowborn with a child and no covenant.
12:24Mara became my wife before heaven and earth witnessed it.
12:27This stone is my Lyne's oldest heirloom.
12:30It belongs to her now.
12:32She is my mate in full.
12:35A messenger arrived from the High Court.
12:37Mara of the Holy Mating Bloodline, recognized for valor in defense of a sacred site, is hereby elevated to Holy
12:43Sovereign.
12:43Her bonding to the Dragon Sovereign, Aldric, is sanctioned and recorded.
12:47Let it be so.
12:48Vivian's eyes filled.
12:49She cried silently, and the tears were not the soft kind.
12:53The Lycan Lord arrived shortly after.
12:55Dragon Sovereign, I apologize.
12:57The pregnancy is affecting her temperament.
12:59Aldric looked at her one last time.
13:01She could use a firmer hand.
13:03Then he brought me home.
13:05That night.
13:07Do you remember it?
13:10My gift of recall isn't something your bloodline's arts can touch.
13:13You were never dreaming either.
13:15I wanted you.
13:17I've wanted you since I watched you fight a sacred fire to save animals that weren't yours and people who
13:23didn't deserve it.
13:24I took you to my bed.
13:26I owe you a name for it.
13:28A name isn't enough.
13:29So I owe you the formal bond, witnessed by heaven and earth and every treasure in my line.
13:35And the largest bonding celebration the realm has seen in a century.
13:39You'll have all of it.
13:40After the children come, when you're ready.
13:44But you are mine, Mara.
13:48That part was settled the moment I chose it.
13:50I held on to him, and for the first time since waking into this second life, I didn't have to
13:54hold myself together.
13:56My body moved through the pregnancy with almost uncanny ease.
13:59I was tired, and hungry for strange things, and I slept too long.
14:03Vivian's nights were another matter.
14:05She screamed through them.
14:06Every night, longer.
14:08The Lycan Lord put a silencing ward around her wing.
14:11It didn't reach the gossip.
14:12They sent fire-aspected tonics.
14:14Womb-strengthening remedies.
14:16All of it intensified the fire.
14:18None of it helped the mother.
14:19She came to show off, still.
14:21By the time I saw her, she was enormous.
14:23Her face had hollowed out.
14:25Her hands and feet were swollen.
14:27She moved like it hurt.
14:28I took her arm before she fell.
14:30You shouldn't be walking around like this.
14:32She shook me off.
14:33My husband says movement makes labor easier.
14:36He knows more about this than you do.
14:38He knows Lycan physiology.
14:40That's not the same thing.
14:41She looked at me with complete contempt.
14:43You're jealous.
14:44You've got that cold little belly, and you know I've won.
14:48Seven heirs.
14:50Seven!
14:51What do you have?
14:53One.
14:56I'm going to be holy sovereign of the most ancient shifter bloodline in the realm.
15:00My children will be legends.
15:03Yours will be a footnote.
15:04She used her power to scatter leaves across my clean steps on the way out.
15:08I watched her go.
15:10Vivian, what's going to happen when those children arrive?
15:13And none of them are what anyone's expecting?
15:16Vivian went into labor before me.
15:17I brought snacks and found a good position near the back.
15:20She'd been sending celebration suites to every household in the upper realm since she announced the pregnancy.
15:26Half the realm had shown up to witness the arrival of the Lycan clan's first heirs in a thousand years.
15:32The Lycan lord paced outside.
15:33His entire extended family had come in.
15:36The high court had sent observers.
15:38They weren't there to congratulate anyone.
15:40They were there to record.
15:41I spotted the two dragon shifters from the spring, both very still.
15:46Vivian screamed from midday to sunset.
15:48Then she went quiet.
15:49The crowd held its breath.
15:50The attending midwife came out first.
15:53Then six attendants behind her.
15:54One after another.
15:56Seven children.
15:57The Lycan lord went to look.
15:59He picked up the first one.
16:00It shifted in his hands.
16:02Black scales.
16:02His face had gone very wrong.
16:05What is this?
16:05My lord, please, don't.
16:08The Lycan lord looked at him.
16:09Then at the child.
16:10Then back.
16:11He understood.
16:12He picked up the next five.
16:14One by one.
16:15His hands were shaking by the third.
16:17None of them were Lycan.
16:19He looked up at the crowd.
16:21Hundreds of witnesses.
16:22The high court observers with their recording stones.
16:25Then six more men stepped forward from different directions, each one claiming a child.
16:30The seventh child was half Sparrow.
16:32The same bloodline as the servant Vivian had despised enough to betray on purpose.
16:37The crowd didn't make any sound for a long moment.
16:39I found a clay urn by the back door.
16:42Inside was, let's call it a person.
16:44Her whole body was stuffed in that urn like a captured seal.
16:47She had no arms or legs.
16:48Her hair tangled in knots.
16:49Face covered in filth.
16:50I was about to turn away, but right at that moment, I saw the back of her neck.
16:54There it was.
16:55The same birthmark as my daughter's.
16:57It hit me like a bolt from the blue.
17:00Because I had just received a letter from her, saying she was living happily with House Ashburn.
17:05I dropped the potion bowl and called my top undead knight.
17:10Gordon, come to me quickly.
17:11Your subordinate is here, awaiting your orders, master.
17:14Go to Ashenhold and bring back the mistress.
17:18Bring them back alive or bring them back dead.
17:23My lady, this month's turnover is as follows, mainly from the magic material trade.
17:31My lady, it's terrible!
17:34The back door!
17:34Speak clearly.
17:35What frightened you?
17:37A jar.
17:38A big earthen jar under the back doorsteps.
17:41You'd better not look.
17:41It's too scary.
17:43At the gate of my mountain city, there's nothing I can't see.
17:48A jar beneath the steps was oozing blood.
17:51It's mouth wrapped in rags.
17:56Take off the rag.
17:58Inside lies a broken wretch, with all limbs severed and body covered in wounds.
18:06Selka!
18:07Oh my god!
18:08I lose Harry to Bodo Basil Jason.
18:10Date of her!
18:11It's this old you are!
18:19Take her back to the Shancity.
18:21Ride the best helas.
18:22My lady, no!
18:25Take her back to the Shancity.
18:27Ride the best helas.
18:28My lady, no!
18:30She's of unknown origin.
18:31What if she's cursed?
18:34I said, take her back.
18:39My lady, give up.
18:41Her broken bones were cursed with bone-shattering spell.
18:44Even the top bone regeneration spell can't heal her.
18:48Her tongue is destroyed.
18:49She can't speak forever, and her life is almost gone.
18:53Even if she can't be saved, we must try.
18:55Use the best potions to keep her alive.
18:57Go to my private parmetry and get Phoenix Tears and Silverhorn Beast Blood.
19:00My lady, we can't waste such rare treasures like this.
19:04Do as I say.
19:11In the vast orchard of the universe, planets are ripe, juicy fruits waiting to be discovered.
19:19My lady, good news from Ash's castle.
19:21The mistress wrote in person, say the young master is healthy.
19:28Gordon, come to me quickly.
19:30Your subordinate is here, awaiting your orders, master.
19:32Go to Ash and Hold and bring back the mistress.
19:36Bring them back alive or bring them back dead.
19:44Cedric acted swiftly.
19:46Within two hours, he arrived at Ashford with his men,
19:48lying that the matriarch of the Blackstone family was on the verge of death
19:52and took the woman away before Lord Aldric returned.
19:58Mother!
20:02Mother!
20:03Mother!
20:05Mother, why are you so ill?
20:08You didn't send someone to tell me!
20:10I'm not ill.
20:13I just missed you.
20:17Mother, you scared me to death!
20:21I thought you were really...
20:25You missed me just to send her anyone to tell me why.
20:30I bent you and just myself were to alarm the alarm, too.
20:35How is your recovery after giving birth?
20:38Thank you for your concern, Mother.
20:41There was some haste any more to do.
20:43It just hurt a lot.
20:45I never want to give birth again.
20:47Take off your outer garment.
20:50Mother?
20:51Let me see the birthmark on your neck.
20:57When she took off her clothes, I found out her birthmark was fake.
21:00Who would dare plot against my daughter?
21:02I will uncover them all and make them pay a hundredfold.
21:05Perhaps giving birth has weakened you.
21:07I told lies.
21:08Even the birthmark has faded.
21:11Only to uncover who was plotting against my daughter.
21:15It's good to have you back.
21:17During dinner, I wanted to test whether she was my real daughter or an imposter.
21:24The chef's skill is still excellent.
21:27Do you remember the origin of this moon-watching soup?
21:32Of course I remember.
21:35When I was a child, I liked to watch the moon at night.
21:39You made this soup to keep me warm.
21:41You even gave it such a nice name.
21:44I finally confirmed she was an imposter.
21:46Killing intent surged in me at once.
21:48Yet I held it back to find the ones behind this.
21:52Yes.
21:53You remember everything.
21:55You imposter who stole my daughter's place.
21:59What did you and your husband Raymond do to my daughter?
22:04I will make you pay a thousand times.
22:07Ten thousand times.
22:12The shops of Wontong Magic Chamber are in good locations.
22:18Why not put them under my name as private property?
22:22As you wish.
22:23You are so kind, Mother.
22:27The roses are not energetic enough.
22:30Yes, my lady.
22:31The black tea is not at the right temperature.
22:34I'm sorry, lady.
22:37Kneel there for an hour as punishment.
22:42The lady seems to be getting muddled in her old age.
22:44She indulges her daughter too much.
22:48I really don't understand her choice.
22:54The lady looks more beautiful than flowers.
22:58Of course I do.
23:02Come with me.
23:03I'll show you something.
23:06What is it, Mother?
23:14It's getting darker and darker here.
23:16What place is this?
23:18It's dirty and smelly.
23:26Hurry up, Mother.
23:44Look at her.
23:46How poor she is.
24:10Do you know her?
24:12No, I don't.
24:14How could I know such a monster?
24:16I'm unwell.
24:17I need to go back to rest.
24:20The fake daughter fled in terror without daring to look back.
24:23I will hunt every single one of you down.
24:32Isabel, don't be afraid.
24:35Mother is here.
24:38No one who hurts you will get away.
24:40Mother is here.
25:10Mother is here.
25:11Mother is here.
25:12Goodbye.
26:15Thank you for your thoughtfulness, Lord Raymond.
26:18But she caught a cold and is unaccustomed to the climate, so she's not fit to move.
26:22Is that so?
26:23I heard there's something unclean in your mansion that scared her ladyship?
26:26You're joking, Lord Raymond.
26:27The Blackstone family has operated for generations receiving guests.
26:30There's nothing unclean here.
26:32Instead, you, as the Lord's brother, ignore clan affairs and surround an allied family's mountain city with guards?
26:36If this gets out, I'm afraid it will violate the teachings of the Alliance.
26:40Eleanor, I respect you as an elder, so I've been tolerating you repeatedly.
26:45You'd better be sensible and hand over her ladyship immediately!
26:59Lord Raymond, do you know where the fleets of my Wontong Magic Chamber of Commerce are now?
27:05The fleets are on the river heading south, carrying 30 carts of magic crystals and dragon crystal weapons.
27:10If these supplies arrive at the northern border on time early next month, your brother the Lord will achieve great
27:15marnite.
27:15My boat shin are rough men. They only recognize me as their boss.
27:18They said, if something happens to me, they'll be uneasy and their hands will shake.
27:25The ship carrying your future might sink.
27:28Mother-in-law, take care of yourself.
27:31Please tell Lord Raymond.
27:34The cerny of money he deposited in my Wontong Yinghong, for Yu-Iro Lefer, the gift money.
27:40I won't take Isen Bays of Lieus.
27:43It's time to send a picket.
27:48Let's not bring them back dead.
28:00This war is now led by me.
28:02Raymond and Cecily were cornered by me.
28:05They planned to kill me off.
28:07Late at night, faint clashes and magic explosions echoed from the tower.
28:11I rose at once, only to find Cedric had already left.
28:15I stayed calm and waited inside.
28:17The tower was covered with my hidden spells and guards, and I knew Cedric would handle it all.
28:22Soon he returned, his horse hooves thudding on stone, reeking faintly of blood and sulfur.
28:30My lady, it's all done.
28:33There were twelve assassins, eleven dead and one alive.
28:38The survivor has been taken to the dungeon.
28:41Intensicate.
28:46I want to know who sent them.
28:59We are Raymond Ash's private soldiers, and dead men.
29:04Ma'am Morris, besides Cecily, gave us the order.
29:07Clean it up completely.
29:11Use all of Vantan's intelligence network to investigate.
29:14Investigate Cecily's background.
29:16Everything from her birth.
29:18Yes.
29:20Investigate everyone around my daughter Isabella before and after her marriage.
29:32Cecily, a distant fallen branch of the Blackstone family.
29:36Her parents were infracted gamblers, died young.
29:40She grew up dependent on others, full of contempt.
29:48Cecily secretly married Raymond Ash five years ago.
29:51Their marriage was unknown.
29:54Raymond needed her to be unmarried to infiltrate the two families.
29:57Raymond Ash, the gentle younger brother of the Patriarch, is secretly hunting for the lost ancient dragon soul horn of
30:03the Ash family.
30:05Legend says only the one who blows the horn can command all the dragons of the Ash family.
30:14The horn's approval requires not only bloodline, but also a witch with the Crescent Sky Seal as the sacrifice guide.
30:20The Crescent birthmark on the back of Isabelle's neck is the Semisic Sky Seal.
30:25An extremely rare, innate and magic mark.
30:29Raymond set this vicious trap just for this mark.
30:32He let Cecily sneak into Blackstone City, steal Isabelle's habits and birthmark, then kidnapped her, turned her into a selfie,
30:38and imprisoned her.
30:39Finally, let Cecily pretend to be Isabelle to marry Aldrich, the Patriarch, to steal the dragon soul horn from inside.
30:51And Cecily, for her husband's ambition, is willing to sacrifice herself to be another man's wife.
30:59Me, memory is awakened.
31:03Me remembered.
31:05There was indeed such a niece.
31:10My family suffered a disaster.
31:13I have nowhere to go.
31:14Please take me in, madam.
31:16I looked at Raid and you and Nur Sansa the Wolf and
31:19as changing to Goldlight.
31:27Aunt Eleanor, your tea.
31:29She was so kind to Cecilyia.
31:31Treated her as real family.
31:33Shared everything good with her.
31:35Me thought me just took in a poor homeless girl.
31:37But me let a most vicious white-eyed wolf into the house.
31:40Me can't imagine how painful and desperate Isabelle was when was betrayed and hurt by her most trusted sister.
31:52Copy a thousand copies and send them to the intelligence network.
31:56Find everyone who has seen this girl.
32:13I used to ride the young dragon at home and fell off.
32:18The ancient epic tells of endless sorrow and regret.
32:27The moon rises above the sea.
32:38Isabelle, it's Mother.
32:39Mother is here.
32:40Take your time.
32:42Write down what you want to tell me.
32:59I know.
33:00I will find the truth.
33:02The revenge has just begun.
33:05Let go of me!
33:06You dogs!
33:07Do you know who I am?
33:08I will kill you all!
33:09Press her down in front of the bed!
33:16Look carefully.
33:18Look again.
33:29Sis, sister.
33:37Your disguise is broken.
33:40Take her down and serve her well.
33:46No one is allowed to let her step out of the tower without my permission.
33:50No one is allowed to contact her.
33:58Her psychological defense has collapsed.
34:01Don't worry.
34:02I will avenge you.
34:06Raymond and Cecile will pay for what they did.
34:12I will make them suffer.
34:14Rest well.
34:15I will be with you.
34:23I will protect you forever.
34:30The truth will be revealed soon.
34:35My revenge has only just begun.
34:55Eleanor!
34:56You mad woman!
34:58How dare you imprison me!
35:13Raymond won't let you get away.
35:16Cecily.
35:1722 years old.
35:19Born into a declining branch in the north.
35:25Orphaned.
35:26Sold to an opera troupe at five.
35:28Fled at ten.
35:30Five years ago, you secretly married Raymond Ash.
35:34No one knew about it.
35:38Because Raymond needed you to approach my Blackstone family as an unmarried woman.
35:43At eighteen, you entered Blackstone Castle under the pretense of visiting relatives.
35:51My daughter Isabel treated you like a sister.
35:54But you were cruel and greedy.
35:57Two years ago, before Isabel got married, you bribed her maid, Morris.
36:03You were to give Pisen, sport a triple.
36:06You put a sleeping potion in her tea in the rose garden, then abducted her with Raymond.
36:11Raymond turned her into a Selphic and imprisoned her in a secret dungeon.
36:18You put on her wedding dress.
36:20Married Aldridge.
36:22Just to steal the dragon soul horn for Raymond.
36:26You're slandering me.
36:28I didn't do it.
36:33Really?
36:38Morris' family bought a big house in the North's capital last year, living comfortably.
36:47I wonder if her old mother in the countryside can stand the prison sentence.
36:56Do you really think Raymond loves you?
36:59You're just a pawn in his plan.
37:02He needs a ruthless woman to help him achieve his ambition.
37:06Do you think having five sons for him will stabilize your position and make you worry-free?
37:14Do you know how many of your five sons were born to you and other ministers to win over them?
37:19The trial of Cecilia is just an appetizer.
37:23The real main course is Raymond Ash.
37:26I no longer need anyone's help or wait for the council's ruling.
37:30I will avenge my daughter with my own hands.
37:37This is where I have planned for decades.
37:42From this day on, the war machine of Wontong will start operating.
37:47First order.
37:48All banks under Wontong stop providing any credit to Raymond's faction.
37:53This includes all wizards, merchants, and landlords related to him.
38:00Second order.
38:01Use all channels to spread the news about Raymond's Mannions.
38:06Say they are about to suffer huge losses due to mismanagement and corruption.
38:14Third order.
38:15Buy all magic crystals, dragon scales, and potion materials.
38:21Spare no cost to buy them secretly.
38:36A bloodless economic war has begun suddenly.
38:40Our funds are cut off.
38:42We can't get any credit.
38:43Pay us back!
38:44We terminate the cooperation!
38:47The price doubles!
38:49No more stock soon!
38:51Eleanor!
38:51I will not let you go!
38:55Raymond's have to send people to Blackstone Mountain City to threaten her!
39:04Get out!
39:05Don't come here to make trouble.
39:07All procedures are complete.
39:08No mistakes.
39:10You can't touch Eleanor, or you'll face us.
39:15I can't move her.
39:17I can't.
39:18I...
39:19I remember some of their conversations.
39:22Take your time.
39:23Don't push yourself too hard.
39:25I want to help you avenge me.
39:31Who sent these?
39:33Our secrets are exposed!
39:36These are all true.
39:37We must investigate.
39:38It's a frame-up.
39:39Eleanor framed us.
39:40You're praying again exiguous.
39:41No excuse.
39:42We need an explanation.
39:44Raymond is trapped.
39:45He's going to destroy.
39:46I won't lose!
39:47I can't lose!
39:49The decisive battle is coming soon.
39:52This time, I don't need any trial.
39:55I will do it myself.
39:59I've gathered all my power.
40:00Hold on, my daughter.
40:01Those who hurt you are going to pay.
40:07Let's go.
40:12I couldn't wait to avenge my daughter.
40:15I led my army toward Raymond's castle through the night.
40:26Dragons!
40:27Dragons are coming!
40:28Enemy attack!
40:29Enemy attack!
40:40Bring them back alive,
40:42or bring them back dead.
40:53I'm dead.
40:56Celica of Tento.
40:59You do not.
41:08What's going on?
41:16Raymond Ash.
41:20I'm here for my daughter.
41:26You...
41:27How dare you!
41:29I'm an elder of the Ash family.
41:31The Lord won't ignore this.
41:33The Lord?
41:34You let your wife pretend to be Isabel
41:37and marry your own brother.
41:42I'm here for my daughter.
41:43This is the account of your embezzlement of council funds.
41:46This is the secret letter of your collusion with external forces.
41:49This is the confession of you abusing my daughter
41:52and inciting Cecily to impersonate her.
41:54And this...
41:56is the handwritten letter from your elder brother, Lord Aldrich.
42:00You...
42:00You can't kill me.
42:02Cecian.
42:04Cecius will.
42:05Cecian.
42:06Your beloved wife has gone mad.
42:08Do you want to see her?
42:10I'll send you to her.
42:23Take him away.
42:25Take him away.
42:46Your five precious sons.
42:48Only one is Raymond's biological child.
42:54The other four are the sons of the council elders.
43:21I apologize to you on behalf of the Ashes family.
43:28I will seal the ancient dragon soul horn.
43:36Find out all their dirty secrets.
43:39Yes, madam.
43:52From today on, you are the Teared Blood Frost Eagle.
43:58My money cannot be owed.
44:00My people cannot be touched.
44:21I remembered what my foster mother taught me.
44:23Clear a line.
44:24Deny the fire somewhere to go.
44:26I shifted to full form and called out.
44:29Wolf.
44:30Eagle.
44:30Tiger.
44:31Bear.
44:32They came.
44:33They carried ice-hardened vessels in their jaws.
44:35An elephant used its trunk.
44:37Ants and mantises worked the fire breaks.
44:40We were losing.
44:41Then we weren't.
44:42Then the mountains shook.
44:43The ground split open.
44:45A dragon came out of it.
44:46Black.
44:47Ancient.
44:48Large enough to block the sun.
44:50He opened the mountains and it rained.
44:53The fire died.
44:53The dragon's voice didn't come from one direction.
44:56It came from everywhere.
44:59This mountain is mine.
45:01Who lit it?
45:02The elders said nothing.
45:04A thousand years in this valley.
45:06And nobody had thought to check whether something older already lived here.
45:09Then Vivian pointed at me.
45:11Ash everywhere.
45:12Burned fire.
45:13It had to be her.
45:14Every eye turned.
45:16Charred.
45:16Bleeding in two places.
45:18The same hands that had just spent an hour fighting the fire.
45:20I was certain someone would say it.
45:22Any of them.
45:23They'd all see me run in.
45:24The elder looked at me for a long time.
45:26Then he knelt.
45:29The dragon's sovereign.
45:31Our wayward daughter did this.
45:33She is yours to punish.
45:34We offer her freely.
45:36He stood still.
45:37Not one of them spoke for me.
45:38This familiar scene is exactly the same as in the previous life.
45:41The sky outside turned the color of a wound.
45:44A lichen lord.
45:45In his full power.
45:46In human form.
45:47But how did the person in his arms become my sister?
45:50In my previous life.
45:51On the day of the sacred bonding rite.
45:53My sister chose the phoenix.
45:55She left the bear shifter.
45:56The one nobody wanted.
45:57It was fate.
45:59A cast off for a beast.
46:01Instead.
46:01I saved a lichen lord by accident.
46:04He took me as his queen.
46:05I became a legend across the realm beyond.
46:07My sister.
46:08Bonded to the phoenix.
46:09Was cast out for barrenness.
46:11I came home with my youngest.
46:12My sister poisoned my bowl.
46:14Me and my child both.
46:22When I woke.
46:23It was the day of the rite again.
46:25Everyone present is a worthy son of their bloodline.
46:29Choose freely.
46:30The hall filled with glances.
46:32With quiet negotiations between bodies and bloodlines.
46:35I didn't want any of it.
46:36In my last life.
46:37Childbirth had nearly killed me.
46:39I wasn't doing it again.
46:40I stood alone.
46:42Then the doors blew open.
46:43Time returns to the present.
46:44And for some reason.
46:46My sister has taken my husband from my previous life.
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