The Dragon King's Substitute Bride
Chapter 117
Chapter 117
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She sounded so unsure but I smiled.
""I'm sure."
She nodded. "Then... if you think it best." She chuckled. "I lean on your judgement, though I have to say that the heavens really have brought an amazing young woman into my son's life."
She smiled, her eyes misty. "I can not think of a bride who would forgo her own honeymoon for
another."
I scoffed. "Given the circumstances, I'm not sure why it's such a surprise."
Haruka blinked and then she burst into laughter..
"I really shouldn't laugh!" She cried. "It's been so long since I remembered the fact of how I got to be here..." She shook her head. "And I imagine that your circumstances are not quite the same.
I frowned at that. "What do you mean by that?"
I thought the Trial was pretty much the same throughout time.
She sighed and looked off into the distant, as if she were looking back through the years. She looked utterly blissful and in love. Anya sat beside me, looking just as curious as I felt.
Her fingers traced the edge of her teacup absentmindedly, a small smile playing at the corners of her lips before she finally began.
died when I was young, leaving me an orphan. The village wasn't kind to children without families, and for the most part, I raised myself. It didn't help that I was a foreign orphan
"We'll get into how
I'd asked her, she glossed over it stating that
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spend the rest of your life scraping by as a servant. Marriage was considered a way to better your position, but it wasn't what I wanted. Not to the men that were in the village or anyone who might have wanted me. I was
forward in how much I had no plans
up
meadow beneath the mountain, not far from the gate that led to the Celestial Realm. I need medicine. I was planning to leave the village and just chance my luck in the forests. He just... appeared seemingly." She smiled softly, her eyes brightening for a moment. "He wasn't the king you know today. He was younger, quieter, still
tightening around the cup, a flicker of something deeper passing
didn't know that the gate he'd come through was the Trial Gates," she said quietly. My jaw dropped. She shrugged. "I was injured. He wanted to bring me to the doctor. At the time, the veil was open. There hadn't been a queen in a long time. Hayato is actually the son
chuckled. "He did. Scooped me right up and-hurried through
laughed. "It was absolute chaos. We got through the gate. The gong sounded, the whole palace went crazy, and suddenly, I'd gone
blinked. "Just like
it was filled with irony. "Yep. The way I understand
something bitter in the back of my mind. It wasn't envy-not exactly-but it was hard not to compare her story to mine. There had been no fear for her. Her and Hayato's relationship had started from a place
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twisting in my chest. My own trial had been so much more dramatic, traumatic, and complicated. I was still dealing with the effects of how I'd ended up here due to Goro and
that was why she
me. I don't know
"And... you adjusted?"
insistent that he court me. He was my greatest defender and apologetic while I got through all the classes, the endless education, and nonsense that I
how to keep the palace afloat and the kingdom in possession of money, probably
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