The Dragon King's Substitute Bride
Chapter 110
Chapter 110
CHIIO
Tsuneo
I couldn't believe it. My own father, the king of the Dragon Empire, a king of the Celestial Realm, had been hiding.
Hiding from what?
"Why?" I asked, my voice filled with a mixture of confusion and anger.
My father took a deep breath, his eyes filled with a mixture of sadness and resignation.
"I... Shame, honestly."
"What?"
He didn't answer at first, as if he hadn't heard me. But then, slowly, he glanced at me, his eyes distant, unfocused. There was a sadness there, one that I hadn't seen before. It was unsettling.
I studied his face for a moment, the lines deeper than I remembered. His eyes, once so sharp and
calculating, seemed guilty.
He looked away, his gaze drifting back to the Pool. For a long moment, he said nothing, just staring into the water as if searching for answers. Finally, he spoke, his voice heavy with. something I hadn't expected-guilt.. "I dreamed of your mother."
The words hit me like a stone to the chest. It was as if I already knew what he was going to say. My mother was his phoenix, his equal in every sense. Her presence still lingered in this palace, in every room, in every corner of our lives, but I'd known when I first woke up and found out that she was considered dead that the only thing holding him on this plane was duty.
Duty did not make the heartbeat.
It was a line from a poem that he read to me often as a child. It was a poem about grief, written by an ancestor who
simply called himself A Husband Without A
Was it you?
entry. The last one I made before I left
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do you mean?" I asked, my voice colder than I
her. In the dream, it felt so real, as if no time had passed. We were... together again. I could feel her, hear her voice. For a moment, I thought I was dead. I thought I had finally gone to
question. I could
was all the
with her. It felt... peaceful. I had not remembered
at him, a mix of disbelief and fear swirling in my chest. This was
was ours. And yet here he was, that
stay if
his voice croaking. "For a dream..." His voice cracked. "I had thought I was dead until I woke up. It had felt the way you would imagine death... We were back in that meadow we met as if we had all the time in the world. There was no guilt. No grief..." He shuddered and put his head
then I woke up beside the casket. I woke up in the cavern, warm, with no knowledge of how long I
I asked, approaching
allowed to happen. I've watched as my children. turn on one another... You had to kill two of your siblings, Tsuneo... I've made you my heir though you are the youngest... Of all my wrongdoings and misteps... it was the knowledge of what would have happened to you in taking my seat that hurt the most... I couldn't bear it... I couldn't bear to face you as if nothing had happened, as if all I could think of in that moment hadn't been how easy it would be to just
had never felt so inadequate as a father until that
you to face your failures, your mistakes,
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into
"Yet, you are here."
I wanted to
could
still and turned slowly toward me. My eyes stinging
I woke up and knew that mother was gone that... that you thought of it, that you had a million plans to make it
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