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.
edge of the Celestial Range, where the mountains met the sky. My parents... well, I barely remember them. They died when I was young, leaving me an orphan. The village wasn't kind
"We'll get into how I came to be
a similar story. She never spoke about her past much. Any time I'd asked her, she glossed over it stating that it didn't matter. Haruka's eyes flickered with old memories-some painful, some bittersweet. For a moment, I saw the girl she must have
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to survive more or less." She chuckled. I'll have to visit them soon. In those days, there were only two paths for someone like me," she continued, leaning back in her chair, "marry a lord or spend the rest of your life scraping by as a servant. Marriage was considered a way to
been very forward in how much I had no plans to participate in their plans... That's how I ended in the meadow where I met
up
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
the cup, a flicker of something deeper passing over
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
me right up and-hurried
sounded, the whole palace went crazy, and suddenly, I'd gone from an injured
blinked. "Just
let out a soft laugh, but it was filled with irony. "Yep. The way I understand it... your entry into the realm was
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 of care. It had
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still dealing with the effects of how I'd ended up here due to Goro and Adele's machinations.
why she was Hayato's
always been the way it had been with me. I don't know how I would have felt to know for sure that
"And... you adjusted?"
and apologetic while I got through all the classes, the endless education, and nonsense that I was certain was just made
to figuring out how to keep the palace afloat and the kingdom in
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