บททั้งหมดของ I Abandoned Dragon Fiancé and Chose His Three Bastard Brothers After Rebirth: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

After shaking off those two revolting people, I went straight to the Beast King's hall.I'd barely stepped inside when three tall, broad-shouldered figures caught my eye.Victor Crane, Louis Mercer, and Domi Voss — Kael's three half-blood bastard brothers.While Kael had been spending his days in Ivy's company, these three, all younger than him, had quietly taken on the heaviest military and administrative burdens of the royal city on his behalf.In my previous life, I'd let Kael's lies keep me away from them, deliberately keeping my distance. But now, looking at their straight backs, I couldn't stop the memory from surfacing: the three of them cutting through a frenzied beast horde to reach me, covered in blood, fighting to drag me out, until they died there alongside me.My eyes stung. I crossed the room quickly."Victor. Louis. Domi."All three went rigid. The shock in their eyes was plain to see. After all, in every moment before this, I had been Kael's untouchable fiancée, a pure-

The fallout from the broken engagement hadn't even settled when Kael's mother, the Queen, pure-blooded dragon and every inch the imperious royal, summoned me to her chambers.The moment she laid eyes on me, she gestured at the floor. "Kneel."Her voice had the weight of someone who had never once been told no.I stayed exactly where I was. "As the only pure-blooded white wolf in the realm, I kneel before no one."Since she couldn't get me on my knees, she settled for cutting me down with words. "You really think you deserve my son? Kael noticed you — that's the greatest gift you'll ever receive in this life. And how do you repay that? By defying him in public, spreading lies about him? Who gave you the nerve?"She wasn't finished. "Go apologize to Kael. Get him to forgive you. Look at Ivy — yes, she's half-blood, but she's respectful to her elders and devoted to Kael. That is what a proper woman looks like. Learn from her. Learn to be a useful, obedient complement to a great man, not a

Right as I was about to be shoved into the fire, three figures descended like a force of nature.Victor, Louis, and Domi.Victor hit with enough force to snap the chains off my wrists in one strike. Together, the three of them drove back the dozen men surrounding me. They folded me into the center of their formation, their voices steady and warm."Don't be scared."The crowd fell back, pressed away by the sheer presence of them.Victor lowered his head. Those eyes, usually cold as winter steel, were full of something else entirely now, something that cut right through all the steadiness he usually wore. "Vivienne. You're safe. We won't let anyone hurt you. Not this time."Being held by all three of them, surrounded by them, I felt something shift in my chest. Two lives, and finally there was someone on my side.But there was no time to sit with that feeling, because the day of my coming-of-age ceremony had arrived, the day I was supposed to stand before the entire Beast Realm and annou

"Impossible. This is impossible!"When my announcement landed, Kael scrambled to his feet like something had shorted out inside him. He couldn't accept that he'd actually lost everything. He couldn't accept that three brothers he'd spent years grinding under his boot were now going to stand over him.His entitlement had always been bottomless. Now, with even the Beast King caving, Kael threw every shred of self-control away and turned his fury on his own father."Are you losing your mind, old man?!" Kael jabbed a finger at the Beast King's face, the filth pouring out of him without any restraint. "I'm the pure-blood! I'm the one who inherited your dragon blood! You're actually throwing away my throne for some woman and three bastards? What good are you? Why are you even alive?"The Queen matched him, shrieking from her seat. "If you hand that crown to these three animals today, I want a divorce! I am done with you — do you hear me? You have humiliated me beyond all limits!"The two of

Between the spectacle Kael had made of himself and everything that followed, his reputation was ash. He had no choice but to marry Ivy, and the two of them squeezed into a rotting wooden shack in the commoner district, roof leaking whenever it rained.But without wealth to maintain the lifestyle she'd always demanded, Ivy's carefully constructed persona, the soft-spoken devoted sweetheart, disintegrated in a matter of weeks. What was left underneath was not pretty."You hauled bags at the docks all day and this is all you made?! You can't even afford one tin of cheap face powder! What is the point of you?"Ivy stood in the middle of the shack, visibly pregnant and not a trace of her former grace remaining, screaming at Kael with her finger in his face.Kael's eyes were bloodshot. Exhaustion and humiliation had been rotting him from the inside for weeks. "Shut up. If it weren't for you, I would never have fallen this far! You eat my food, you use my money, and now you're going to sit th