Chapter 22: The Thing in the Soup
Alexander POV
Cream of mushroom soup. Thyme. A touch of pepper.
And underneath it, a thread of bitterness.
Very faint, like scorched bark, hidden behind the cream, almost impossible to taste.
I tasted it. A dragon's tongue is ten times sharper than a man's.
Back in the Northern War, before the ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Bride Who Was Swapped
2. Chapter 2: The False Dragon in the Groom's Place
3. Chapter 3: Into the Bridal Chamber, With a Sword
4. Chapter 4: What Are You Hiding
5. Chapter 5: What Happens on a Wedding Night
6. Chapter 6: The First Full Night's Sleep in Three Years
7. Chapter 7: The Coachman in the Dungeon
8. Chapter 8: The Stranger in the Mirror
9. Chapter 9: One Night of Marriage and I Felt Much Better
10. Chapter 10: That Princess
11. Chapter 11: I Don't Perform
12. Chapter 12: That Pot of Boiling Water
13. Chapter 13: Two Years Left
14. Chapter 14: A Secret for a Secret
15. Chapter 15: The Assassin
16. Chapter 16: The Locked Door
17. Chapter 17: The Side Door
18. Chapter 18: Hoard Law
19. Chapter 19: The Silver Bracer
20. Chapter 20: Uninvited
21. Chapter 21: Behind the Stable
22. Chapter 22: The Thing in the Soup
23. Chapter 23: She Bit Me
24. Chapter 24: Anchored
25. Chapter 25: The Silver Mongrel
26. Chapter 26: You Have a Home
27. Chapter 27: The Old Maid Who Came to Collect
28. Chapter 28: Calluses in the Palm
29. Chapter 29: The Box
30. Chapter 30: Alive
31. Chapter 31: You Are Not a Bad One
32. Chapter 32: Mother's Song
33. Chapter 33: The Queen Mother's Tea
34. Chapter 34: The Stepmother's Letter
35. Chapter 35: The Poison in the Soup
36. Chapter 36: I Am Not His Daughter
37. Chapter 37: The Old Man at the Theatre
38. Chapter 38: The Old House in the North
39. Chapter 39: The Silver-Winged Knight
40. Chapter 40: I Am a Dragon
41. Chapter 41: The Crown Prince's Nose
42. Chapter 42: The Crown Prince Claims His Bride
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