The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 51

Chapter 51

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Tsuneo looked surprised.

"What is it?"

"I was under the impression that your family of humans-"

I snickered. He wrinkled his nose.

"Is that odd phrasing?"

"A little," I smiled at him. "But a little endearing..."

His smile turned warm, and his eyes brightened. I looked away.

"You were saying?"

"Your family... is from an area that bathes communally, isn't it?"

"My father's family, yes." I nodded. "But I never got the to never had the time, and I was always excluded from going."

go to the communal baths. I

My lips twitched at the thought.

"The Jaki Baths in my hometown are the best on this side of the continent, but I never went."

"Why?"

"Well..." I shrugged. "It was a luxury, for one."

"Your family didn't seem to be poor."

aren't really. It's

like it was my fault that my family were jerk No one ever want to go with me when I had time, I said. "Then... I was too busy to go. Even though the estate has communal bathing arrangements, I never bothered to use them. It was pretty obvious that most

genuinely confused,

"That's terrible."

to try it, so this is a

sighed, leaning my head back against the stone and

me and I cracked an eye open. His

it hard to reconcile the fact that he'd killed his brother

proper honeymoon," he began,

at the thought. He

like that, but... I

away. "You

settle

hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water

The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better than bathing with

are in your realm, we will go to

sunk down a little

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

evening had melted away, replaced

ears, a maddening drumbeat that

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out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating

and consuming, pulsed through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak

down my face, blurring my vision. How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were

Empress.

His wife!

through my mind. I whirled around with a shriek of fury, knocking over a delicate porcelain vase in the process. The sound of shattering echoed through the room was almost cathartic. I screamed and threw chairs. I clawed through a tapestry I'd had since I was child. I couldn't stop until every surface was bare and overturned. My pillows on the floor. Sheets ripped and shredded, yet it did nothing for the

"That little bitch!"

concubines and managed them and their

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