Comédie

Ethan Morrison spent eighteen years believing that if he loved harder, sacrificed more, and endured in silence, his family would finally accept him. Instead, the day he awakened his legendary bloodline, his parents forced him to his knees. "You don't deserve that power," his father spat. When Ethan refused to surrender his future to his favored brother, twenty brutal lashes tore his back open until he collapsed in a pool of his own blood. Locked inside a cold basement and abandoned to die, he clung to the only person he thought would save him. His fiancée. Instead, she drugged him, stole his bloodline for another man, and watched without remorse as his brother claimed everything that should have been his. "You'll understand one day," she whispered. No. She would be the one forced to understand. Cast aside as a powerless nobody, Ethan is offered a marriage no one wants—a union with Serena Clarke, the beautiful Virgin Priestess cursed to remain in an endless coma. To everyone else, she is nothing more than a burden. But fate had other plans. The moment Ethan touched his new bride, an ancient True Dragon awakened within him, while Serena's legendary True Phoenix Body answered his call. Together, they unlocked a power that could shake the world. The discarded son became the heir of legends. The broken man became the strongest Dragon. And the woman who betrayed him? She can only watch in regret as Ethan marries into her own family... becoming her aunt's husband, the very man she once abandoned. He is now her uncle. "They whipped me because they thought I was weak," Ethan said, his dragon aura shaking the heavens. "Now they'll kneel because they finally know who I am."

On the day their daughter died… Lyra chose to comfort another child. Brandon spent seven years loving a woman who slowly stopped loving him back. He endured the coldness, the humiliation, and the pain of watching another man and his son replace him and his daughter inside their own home. Still, he stayed. Because he believed that even if Lyra no longer loved him… she would always love Maggie. He was wrong. On Maggie’s sixth birthday, Lyra abandoned her sick daughter to celebrate another child instead. When Maggie collapsed in Brandon’s arms, Lyra still refused to believe the truth. “You used your own daughter to manipulate me!” she screamed in disgust. Meanwhile, Maggie’s tiny body trembled violently as her failing heart slowly gave up. “Lyra… please…” Brandon begged brokenly. “I’ll kneel if I have to. Just take us to the hospital…” But Lyra looked at her dying daughter with cold disappointment. “I’m ashamed of both of you.” Then she abandoned them on the side of the highway. As Brandon desperately carried his little girl toward the hospital, Maggie smiled weakly through her tears. “Daddy… don’t cry anymore. When I reach Heaven, I’ll ask God to send someone who will love you better than Mommy did.” Moments later, her tiny hand slipped away forever. That was the moment Brandon Hale died too. The gentle husband who forgave everything disappeared forever, replaced by a man driven only by grief, revenge, and the truth behind his wife’s betrayal. But when Lyra finally realizes the horrifying mistake she made… It’s already too late. “Brandon… I’m sorry…” she sobbed at his feet. “I never wanted Maggie to die…” Brandon stepped away from her trembling hands, his eyes empty and cold. “It’s too late.”