Substitute Marriage: Awakening The Dragon King

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matrimony to the Fourth Lord, Jonah Montgomery, and the second daughte

one walls lined with heavy dragonscale tapestries. The golden Dragonfire shimmering across

ll through the thin soles of my plain shoes, a silent reminder of my place in this house a

or the hazy fog in

ctually

ommanding absolute authority and living a full life until my natural death,

te was truly a fic

y mud! How can we possibly marry Blaire off to him?" Eleanor Cruz, my nominal mother stood in the

scale-lineage to speak of. No one in the High Council paid him any mind, and the Dragon King loathed him so deeply he had practic

y enough to crush the lungs of any ordinary commoner. In my previous life, that aura would have forced me to my knees. Now, having wo

ge, but his physical constitution is sound. If Blaire marries him, she can stay far away from the bloodbath over the Crown. She will live the rest of her life in peace. On the other hand, look at

bly shortsighted. He saw only the immediate survival of his precious biological daughter, completely disregardi

e worthy matches! Why must I choose at all? With the pure bloodline and noble stand

se House Cruz holds such immense power. The Dragon King fears the wyvern legions I command! That is exactly why he decreed that both our

herous waters, I knew all too well how a monarch dealt with a general whose military might grew too vast. House Cruz was a t

r any of this? You spilled your blood on the battlefields, slaughtered countless enemies for this empire, all so you couldn't even h

w can you spout such reckless words? If the wrong ears were to catch

n destiny-as the other half of this forced royal arrangement-was merely an afterthought to them. If Blaire took the Fourth Lord, the Sixth would fall to me. Not t

If we absolutely must choose one... then Blaire should marry the Fourth Lord. Even if his dragon core

ly swept into the hall, her voice sharp as she hurriedly in

pped toward

round, staring at her biological daughter, my nominal sister

he had eagerly taken the Fourth Lord to bask in the King's remaining favor

not the only one who h