Rebirth & Bond: The Dragon's Bride

In a past life, Lithia and her stepsister Arya Hearthguard were given in marriage by their father to strengthen the family. Arya wed Draken Vorgath, the cold golden dragon clan leader who cared more for gold than for his bride, leaving her in a gilded cage. Desperate and lonely, she seduced the future fox clan leader. When the scandal broke, Draken divorced her without hesitation, and family honor forced their father to exile her in disgrace. Lithia, sent to the crumbling lion clan, found unwavering devotion in Kael Hawthorne. Within a year, she bore him a golden lion cub blessed with Aetheric Divinity. Kael rose to rule all beastfolk as supreme chieftain, and Lithia became their most revered chieftess. On the cub's first birthday, envy drove Arya to sneak in, strangle the infant in his cradle, and set the hall ablaze, burning Lithia alive.

When Lithia wakes, she is back on the very day of the arranged marriages. Arya eagerly claims the lion clan, leaving Lithia the dragon match and a tenth of the dowry. Lithia accepts meekly, a satisfied smile hidden beneath her compliance. She knows Kael is infertile—the only reason she conceived in her past life was a sliver of aether divinity from her mother's blood. And lion law forces any bride who fails to conceive within six months to mate with every proven male of the clan. Arya, who lacks that bloodline, is blindly marching toward that very fate. Her only goal is to bear Draken an heir. That night, she finds him utterly ignorant of intimacy. He reaches for the covers and asks if they are getting ready to sleep. She slips three potent pills into his water, but he simply snores. Determined, she strips him, climbs over him, and begins to teach him. Half an hour later, her screams ring out—he has two members, lined with barbs. Overwhelmed, Draken shifts into his massive golden dragon form, shatters the window, and hurls himself into the night sky. Lithia, naked and exposed to the freezing wind, shivers on the bed, shouting for the coward to return. He never does, and she spends the night falling ill.