All Chapters of The Rejected Son In-law Is A Dragon : Chapter 21
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Chapter 21
THE PRICE THAT ANSWERS BACKThe ground answered her.Not with fire.With resistance.The warmth beneath Liana’s feet deepened, spreading outward in slow, deliberate pulses, like a heartbeat syncing to her own. The fractures in the sky shuddered, their golden glow dimming—not retreating, but recalibrating.The ancient hunger did not like that.Its presence pressed closer, heavy enough to make the air thicken. The vast shape shifted within the void, scales grinding against unseen limits.“CHANGE IS A LIE YOU TELL YOURSELVES,” it rumbled. “THE FLAME HAS ONE END.”Liana swallowed hard. Her legs trembled, but she stayed upright.“Then why am I still standing?” she asked.The question wasn’t defiant.It was honest.The void pulsed.For the first time, the hunger did not answer immediately.Aidan felt it too—the hesitation. His fire coiled low and steady, no longer straining to break free, but ready. Waiting.The Watcher’s expression tightened. “Careful,” he warned quietly. “The Trial does n
Chapter 22
WHAT THE WORLD TAKES NOTICE OFThe gate closed behind them without a sound.No explosion.No final flare of light.Just absence—like a breath held too long and finally released.Liana staggered the moment her feet touched solid ground again. The world snapped back into place with brutal clarity: broken marble, fractured pillars, the ruined Frost estate still smoldering under a sky that had no idea how close it had come to changing forever.Aidan caught her before she fell.“I’ve got you,” he murmured, pressing his forehead briefly to hers.She nodded, exhausted beyond words. “I know.”But something was… different.The air felt thinner. Sharper. As if the world itself were paying attention now.The Watcher stepped through last.The golden gate folded in on itself and vanished, leaving nothing behind—not even heat.For a moment, none of them spoke.Then Liana felt it.A tug.Not violent. Not overwhelming.Curious.Her breath hitched. “Aidan.”He felt it too. His shoulders tensed. “They’