The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 69

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I turned away. Praying myself from his hand over my eyes. my face was heated, but heat pooled in my stomach.

"Tell me why it matters so much that you're not a golden dragon. Maybe you won't be the most benevolent ruler, but you certainly won't let anything happen to them."

He sighed. "The elders and the subjects know that I would defend them with my life. But they wouldn't be certain that I could rule them."

"You're dancing around it. What's the problem?"

He sighed. "Is it typical for humans to be so straightforward?"

"No, but I don't have much time to waste. We have a court appearance to make in the morning, and I'd like to be rested for it. I want to have breakfast with Kai, and not have to drown myself in tea. You may wake up and look like you've slept in a pool of holy moonlight for cons and be completely well-rested after only a few minutes of sleep, but I, being human, will have bags under my eyes and be completely useless."

He laughed. "What in the name of the dawn is holy moonlight?"

"It's just a saying. Don't worry about it. And I'm serious. If we're going to go face Ari and the Elders, who clearly have designs against you,' I need to know why. Kai deserves the best defense we can give him, so we're both going to have to be on our game. Out with it, Tsuneo."

"What happened to not having to talk about it if I didn't want to?"

"You're not saying you don't want to." I paused and namowed my eyes. "Unless you're saying you don't want to."

He smiled and kissed my nose. "I want to."

He lay back down and pulled me down on top of him.

"Golden dragons are always meant to have more than one child. While Golden Dragons tend to have multiple colors of children. Only a golden dragon can give birth to a black dragon... Black Dragons cannot have children."

"Is that a government

that I know, like a memory that

is a thing?? I'd have

you think your father

but I think that if I was on the throne, it would take no

another one of those anyway. And there is the fact that I am a

to your stories, a black dragon rose from a void from which everything else came. You're a creature of chaos and potential.

difference."

And yet again, somehow, you have surprised me. No one would have ever said that to me. No one would

think it necessary." He chuckled as I turned the information over in my mind. There's no one, but she knows that

have only ever known

your sisters are

assume

We don't speak much. They resent the

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best. The Cousins whose

time you wish to press charges of treason on her and her family, I will

so

his father could be reached? I'm pretty sure no man would like his son to be claimed by another man, right? Do you all have a concept of lineage

Knis, father, I'm not entirely sure. The things Kai said about how he grew up while not very informative, were informative enough, don't think he grew up inside the capital or even the central territories. At least he didn't grow up somewhere where he

just outright lie? About his lineage, she has to be hanking on that lineage test, saying that this could

long as he is related to me through my father, the lineage test will say that he is of our lineage and- "Wait, the

not. It just says, if

"It is a lineage

mind. You clearly don't, because you don't even have a word

shook my head. That