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Swapping Twins: The Wolf General's Ruin HD
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00:00Twin sisters had to wed on the same full moon.
00:03Otherwise, a curse would descend upon the entire family.
00:07Dragging my frost-poisoned, sickly bones, I waited three years for Alistair.
00:15Finally, his wedding procession arrived.
00:20Send Evangeline off first.
00:22She is delicate.
00:24The night wind makes her cough.
00:26Serafina has endured for years.
00:27She can at least survive tonight a broken wolf heap.
00:31But Lady Serafina caught frost-poison saving you.
00:34She waited three years for you.
00:36What if the king discovers the carriage swap?
00:38I bribe the royal attendants.
00:40The marriage contract names are already changed.
00:42The king won't kill me for a woman.
00:44I control one-third of the border army.
00:47He must consider my power before acting.
00:51Kyrian is a brutal cripple, but I have spies.
00:53They will deliver her medicine regularly.
00:56Serafina won't die.
00:57But for Evangeline, it would be a death sentence.
01:02Serafina must bear this burden for now.
01:04A metallic sweetness surge up my throat.
01:06I coughed black blood onto my white satin wedding gown.
01:09He decided my fate without asking for my consent.
01:13Everyone expected me to wreck the procession after discovering the switch.
01:16Instead, I let them lead me into the carriage.
01:19I became the tyrant, crippled king's new wife.
01:22The dried black blood felt stiff against the satin.
01:27My lady, are we really going to Broken Wolf?
01:32Yes.
01:33But they say Kieran Ashthrock.
01:34He killed twelve servants the night he lost his arm.
01:37And Kieran displayed their bones as ornaments by his throne.
01:40The previous queen vanished less than six months after marrying.
01:43They never even found her remains.
01:45Rumor has it his cellar has chains for disobedient brides.
01:49I know.
01:52This is the fate Alistair gave me.
01:55I will go.
01:56Serafina, stop throwing a tantrum.
01:59He rode on horseback, his voice coming through clearly despite the carriage curtains.
02:03Alistair leaned close, his soft voice dripping with his usual self-righteous certaincy.
02:06As if the ones sent to Broken Wolf weren't his three-year fiancée.
02:11Evangeline wouldn't last a day there.
02:16I'll send medicine via spies when you go there.
02:20Once the stir dies down, I'll find a reason to fetch you.
02:27I know you've been wronged.
02:30But Evangeline is timid and cried earlier in the carriage.
02:34I gave your mother's moonstone to her to soothe her nerves.
02:38She is prone to the cold and needs it more than you do.
02:43You're always sensible.
02:45So you won't hold this against your sister, right?
02:48My mother had squeezed that relic into my hand while dying.
02:53Sera, this moon-blessed stone protects you.
02:57Never give it to anyone.
02:58I bit my lip until it bled, tasting iron.
03:02By the way, I've prepared frost-healing ointment.
03:05It will arrive at Broken Wolf to sustain your life.
03:08You...
03:09That medicine only prolongs a dying life.
03:13Glad you understand.
03:15Just grit your teeth and you'll pull through.
03:22Looking down at my bruised fingertips, I recalled his words as he held me.
03:29Sera, you've suffered enough in this life.
03:36From now on, I protect what was yours with my life.
03:43Now I understood.
03:46It was never me he intended to protect.
03:55Watch your step.
03:57I hesitated for a moment, then gave him my hand.
04:01Gentle inner power surged into my palm, slightly dispersing my bone-deep chill.
04:06I could barely stand.
04:08My knees buckled, nearly making me fall.
04:11He wordlessly caught my elbow, steadying my frame.
04:14Porched torches crackled, illuminating his face.
04:17His other sleeve hung empty, snapping in the wind.
04:21This was Ciaran Ashtern.
04:24The Broken Wolf King.
04:27He lost an arm in a coup.
04:30Supposedly, the killer was never caught.
04:32Since then, the kingdom mocked him.
04:34Even lowest-ranked wolves gossiped.
04:43Wipe the blood from your mouth.
04:49Are you hungry?
04:53There is hot soup in the kitchen.
04:55Come in.
04:57On the third day, someone arrived.
05:00Alistair's personal valet, Pip, held a laquited wooden box.
05:04My lady, no, your majesty, my lord had me deliver this frost-healing ointment.
05:08He said a famous doctor sought across half the kingdom made it.
05:12It was meant to let you...
05:13Leave it there.
05:15My lord asks why you aren't wearing the circon he personally designed.
05:18He spent three months sketching patterns, then hired the capital's best craftsman.
05:22I closed my eyes, hiding the mockery in them.
05:25That circlet, encrusted with gauty rubies, was flamboyant and heavy.
05:28It wasn't my style at all.
05:30Evangeline casually remarked that such a lavish style suited me.
05:34He took her seriously and forced it on me.
05:36I pawned it.
05:39Pawned?
05:40For ten silver coins.
05:42I gave it to the driver as a tip.
05:46You didn't actually pawn it?
05:48No.
05:49And the circlet?
05:52Tossed under the bed, gathering dust.
05:56From now on I want nothing of his, not a single thing.
06:00The dark grey cloak had frayed edges and a faint pine scent.
06:04It was very warm.
06:06Ten nights later, I startled awake from a dream.
06:09Instinctively, I reached under my pillow for my dagger.
06:12But I found that someone was already in the room.
06:15Alistair's hidden guard.
06:17Shadow.
06:22What is it?
06:26My lord said Evangeline was startled last night.
06:29She's coughing constantly and couldn't sleep all night.
06:32Please remove your frost scale armor to give her warmth.
06:37Does he know what removing it means?
06:40My lord says the medicine will sustain your life.
06:42Just endure it.
06:43I sneered inwardly.
06:45Frost scale armor.
06:46Three years ago, I intercepted a poisoned arrow for Alistair.
06:50I forged that armor from scale beast hide, nearly dying in the icy abyss.
06:54The armor feuded with my flesh and merch rings over three years.
06:58Forcing it off meant being flayed and stripped to the bone.
07:01A living hell.
07:04My lord also says Evangeline is fragile.
07:07Only you can remove it.
07:08Please.
07:10Get out.
07:13Three years.
07:14I took arrows and hunted armor, sacrificing my health for him.
07:18It left me with incurable frost poison.
07:21Now, he wanted my fused armor as a stove for pampered Evangeline.
07:26I stepped behind the screen and undid my outer robes.
07:34I grabbed the edge of the armor, clenched my teeth, and ripped it from my flesh piece by piece.
07:41Blood instantly soaked my shirt.
07:44My teeth chumded from the blinding pain.
07:47But my mind filled with Alistair's gentleness.
07:50Sarah, wear this always.
07:52I'll never let you feel another ounce of pain.
08:03It finally detached.
08:07The armor crashed down, dripping with my blood.
08:11Suppressing convulsions, I bent down to grab the blood-stained armor.
08:18Take it.
08:20Tell Alistair this armor is my gift to Evangeline.
08:23The window stood wide open.
08:26Northern winds rushed in and made me shover.
08:29My knees buckled.
08:31I collapsed to the floor as my consciousness blurred.
08:34The last image was a pair of black boots stopping before me.
08:38I was unconscious for three days.
08:40Awake, I lay in soft bedding atop layers of thick blankets.
08:44My wounds were carefully dressed, wrapped in clean bandages.
08:47Gentle inner energy suppressed the frost poison deep in my bones.
08:52Awake.
08:56Don't move.
08:59You too.
09:01It's nothing.
09:05Three years ago, I was in a distant shadow alley.
09:09I watched as you shielded him from that poisoned arrow.
09:12I saw you fight bloodly, taking that fatal chill for him.
09:17I thought he would protect you forever.
09:26From now on, I will be the one to protect you.
09:29Kingdom tradition required newlywed royals to visit home three days after the full moon.
09:34Kieran and I shared a carriage.
09:36Broken Wolf's carriage wasn't grand, lacking crests and gold.
09:40Even the horses were just ordinary blacks.
09:42But the axles were sturdy and the ride was steady.
09:45Inside, the carriage stove burned brightly.
09:53Evangelion wore my wedding gown.
09:55That wedding gown took three months of sewing.
09:57Silver moonlight patterns graced the satin, embroidered needle by needle.
10:02Between frost poisoning bouts, I stitched them needle by needle through piercing pain.
10:07She also wore the frost scale armor, which glowed faintly.
10:13Why aren't you wearing the ruby circle I gave you?
10:17The king dislikes flashy ornaments.
10:20Sarah, you...
10:20Queen of Broken Wolf, mind your tongue.
10:23Why is it this?
10:25The love token he gave me once rested there.
10:27A wolf-tooth knot graded with red cord, each tooth hand-polished.
10:31I wore it for three years, never removing it to bathe.
10:34You.
10:35Now a moonstone bracelet replaced it.
10:39A secret letter slipped from her sleeve.
10:41Unfolding at the corner, everyone's gaze fell upon that line of text.
10:46Evangeline, your secret letter dropped.
10:54My queen, the weather has turned.
10:56We should return to prepare for the funeral.
11:05That night, Alistair frantically searched the Royal Medical Archives.
11:09He smashed the lock, fist-dents covered the oak door.
11:13Lighting three oil lamps, he rustled through dusty parchments page by page.
11:17At dawn, he finally found the page.
11:19It was a military healer's handwritten record from three years ago.
11:24Messy handwriting lay hidden beneath thick war reports, as if concealed.
11:29For three years, he believed Serafina was merely frail.
11:33He assumed those medicines were enough to sustain her.
11:36My lord, are you okay?
11:37Every time Serafina smiled, she was hanging on by a thread.
11:41Yet in three years, he never noticed once.
11:45My lord says this cinnamon almond cake was the queen's past favourite.
11:48So he specifically had the kitchen use premium honey and tenderest almonds.
11:51He personally...
11:52Take them back.
11:52The queen is allergic to it.
11:53Bleeding hives keep her itching all night if she tries it.
11:56Does your lord really not know?
11:58Did she get it?
12:00My lord, their guard says she's allergic.
12:02Eating cinnamon almond cakes will cause bleeding hives.
12:05Don't send such harmful things again.
12:07Alistair suddenly remembered.
12:09Eveline was the one who loved them.
12:11It tastes so good.
12:15Yes.
12:16Just bug bites.
12:21I cannot wait any longer.
12:25The next day, citing border defense, he led a small troop to the main road.
12:31There, he intercepted the broken wolf carriage.
12:41Serafina!
12:42Cover!
12:53Why didn't you tell me?
12:56Tell you what?
12:57Removal that armor would kill you!
12:59If you had said a single word about skinning and pulling tendons!
13:03If I did, would you watch Evangeline die?
13:06I watched his bulging veins, clenched fists, and shattered expression.
13:10His face showed anger, grievance, and a truth refeared.
13:13You cannot answer.
13:17I could?
13:18I could.
13:18You did not.
13:22Alistair, you never did.
13:29I'll beg the king now!
13:31I'll cancel the engagement with Evangeline and take you back!
13:34Alistair, I am very satisfied as the queen of broken wolf.
13:43Kiran treats me wonderfully.
13:45Better than all your charity.
13:47Don't be foolish!
13:51Kiran is a cripple!
13:53How can he save your life?
13:55He cannot even protect himself!
13:58Serafina!
14:01Stop interrupting my carriage from now on.
14:04My husband will be displeased.
14:21You knew stripping that armor would kill her, didn't you?
14:27I did it for love!
14:30Alice, I love you so much!
14:34When did you know she would die?
14:37I...
14:37Tell me!
14:40Three years ago, I overheard the army healer outside the tent.
14:44The day she intercepted the arrow for you.
14:49You think I didn't know Frostgale armor?
14:51I asked you for it on purpose, because I knew she'd take it off.
14:55I knew she'd die if she took it off.
14:58I just wanted to see who you'd choose in the end.
15:02Strip that armor off her!
15:04Molly!
15:07Strip it!
15:21Get out.
15:24the rain came that day without warning waking from a nap i heard bramble say alistair was outside
15:30he drove his sword into the mud and knelt on one knee and he stayed for nearly two hours
15:35refusing to get up despite all persuasion i leaned on the lounge chair with bramble's help
15:40behind me stood kieran bone comb in hand don't move one lock remains
15:46seraphina i brought the armor back i know everything evangeline lied and i lied to myself
15:55want to see him
15:59no i'll give you my life please just come out and give me one look
16:06the rain is too loud giving me a headache bramble close the window
16:14it's crooked where the strand on the left
16:25the rain poured harder i rose from the lounge chair and walked to the window through the crack
16:32i saw alistair kneeling on the gravel road
16:36he clutched the frost grain armor to his chest with a death grip
16:41then he looked up meeting my eyes
16:44sarah listen to me thinking i relented by opening the window a flash of ecstasy crossed his face
16:51sarah i
16:54alistair since the swap a chasm divides us that you can never cross
16:59we shall never meet again
17:04what did you say i said we are done
17:09no it's not true i can make it up to you
17:12how with what will you compensate i reached out and shut the window again
17:20this time even the crack was sealed i thought alistair would leave
17:24instead he knelt in the rain all night at dawn bramble reported he remained lips purple and face livid
17:32should we drive him away
17:33he simply refused to go
17:35ignore him
17:42at noon he began battering the door
17:44he slammed his body repeatedly like a maddened beast
17:47like a desperate man losing control
17:52the iron gate thundered under the impact
17:56kieran's guards deployed
17:59twelve warriors lined up blocking the entrance
18:02the second was bitten on the shoulder
18:05teeth sinking into flesh
18:07as blood ran down the corner of his mouth
18:11seraphina i'll give you my life
18:13look at me
18:15one look
18:16just one look
18:20only the rain answered him
18:21dawn broke
18:23he was still gripping the frost scale armor she no longer wanted
18:26he's alive
18:27return him to his manor
18:28he is banned from ever stepping foot in the north
18:31after that storm
18:32alistair fell gravely ill
18:34fever raged for seven days and nights
18:37he remained deteriorous and unconscious
18:43alistair woke much thinner
18:44he banished evangeline from the clan and burned all her belongings
18:54at the royal council he began to fail repeatedly
18:57first he mistook three thousand border troops for thirty thousand
19:00then he confused the three northern passes pointing east while discussing the west
19:04the king questioned him
19:06general alistair are you listening to me
19:10yes
19:11i am listening
19:12then what did i just say
19:15alistair simply stood there with blank eyes
19:18your rank is stripped right now
19:20you are a commoner
19:21never to serve
19:22alistair accepted the decree on one knee
19:24forehead against the cold floor tiles
19:27he exposed his bare neck to everyone
19:30it was the ultimate werewolf humiliation
19:33is this the once invincible werewolf general
19:36he ruined himself over a woman
19:40kneeling there alistair recalled a secret report from border scouts three days ago
19:44kieran was secretly rallying old troops
19:46the court was oblivious
19:47reporting this could turn the tables for him
19:50but if he informed on kieran she would never look at him again
19:54in the end alistair didn't say a single word he accepted his punishment in silence
19:58my health was slowly improving
20:01every three days
20:02kieran suppressed my frost poison with inner energy
20:06that midnight feeling restless
20:08i passed his study while walking
20:11i don't know what drew me there
20:13something felt
20:15off
20:17a crystal was embledded in his severed arms greasy scar
20:23it was no ordinary gem
20:25it was the moonshadow crystal
20:29moonlight hit it
20:30emitting a ghostly blue glow
20:33legend says only royal werewolf blood can activate this relic
20:37it grants extraordinary power
20:38even the power to resurrect the dead
20:40but the cost
20:42once fused with blood
20:44it stays forever
20:45are you sure you want to do this
20:47i am
20:48you are the last of the royals
20:52dismissed
21:02i didn't know what they were saying
21:05but i sensed this was kieran's long buried secret
21:08the next day kieran didn't channel energy into me
21:12instead an old woman arrived
21:15i am the frost whisperer
21:18lie down
21:27cold energy poured from her fingertips into my matricians
21:31it collided fiercely with the relisional frost poison inside me
21:41far too late
21:42the frost poison has penetrated your marrow
21:45deeply rooted
21:46to completely uproot it
21:49there is only one way
21:50what way
21:51split your moonshadow crystal
21:54in two
22:03okay
22:08are you sure
22:10once split you will lose all martial prowess
22:15you will become truly crippled
22:19i know
22:19hearing her words i froze completely in place
22:24suddenly i understood what kieran was discussing with the butler last night
22:27relying on the moonshadow crystal
22:30he was never truly crippled
22:32all these years
22:34but now
22:35to save me
22:36he would hand over that power himself
22:38he would become a completely helpless invertal
22:43this was kylan's secret
22:48you can't
22:50it's fine
22:52for you
22:53everything is worth it
22:55you
22:57you
22:58you
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