Chapter 3

When I finished dressing and went out, my wife Aria had already changed into her golden thread dress and nine-dragon phoenix crown, making her even more dazzling and unparalleled in beauty.

She reached out her hand to hold mine. I withdrew my hand without changing my expression. She frowned slightly and pouted: "What's wrong, my dear?"

I smiled: "My hand is bony. I'm afraid it would be uncomfortable for you to hold."

"In all the heavens and earth, I only want to hold your hand!"

When King Triton and Queen Marina arrived, they saw Aria and me hand in hand, talking and laughing happily.

The maid Lily couldn't help but tease: "Your Majesty, look how loving the Prince Consort and Princess are! You are truly blessed!"

King Triton, holding the seven-colored dragon egg, smiled so hard his beard quivered.

"It's all thanks to Aria's good judgment, finding us such a wonderful son-in-law. How else could we have a golden dragon born to us?"

My wife Aria blushed and leaned into my embrace: "Father, what are you saying? It's embarrassing!"

Queen Marina smiled brightly beside them: "Child, why are you so shy now? Wasn't it you who cried and insisted you would marry no one but him?"

King Triton placed his hand on my shoulder and solemnly put the dragon egg in my hands: "The future of the dragon clan is entrusted to you!"

I looked at my wife's blushing face and felt a surge of anger rising.

I strongly resisted the urge to crush the dragon egg and accepted it: "Please rest assured!"

Rest assured! I will surely bury the filthy future of the dragon clan with my own hands!

Queen Marina looked at me lovingly: "Don't worry, everything is prepared. The auspicious time is almost here. You are the great benefactor of our Eastern Sea. The child should see you first when it hatches!"

I pretended to decline: "Not at all. I'm lucky to have married a fairy like Aria. Anything I do for her is worth it!"

"It doesn't matter who the child sees first. I won't compete with Aria."

Aria took my hand and smiled: "No, I want you to compete!"

Everyone laughed and crowded around us, the family of five, as we headed to the main hall.

In the center of the great hall was a giant seashell cradle. A dreamcatcher hung above it, and incense burned around it.

Everyone's expectant gazes turned to me: "Prince Consort, quickly place the young prince on it!"

I gently placed the dragon egg on it, and a bell chimed.

A crack appeared on the seven-colored eggshell. Everyone held their breath, staring at the dragon egg.

Soon, seven-colored golden light shone through the crack. The dragon child had broken through its shell!

"A golden dragon, it really is a golden dragon!"

Amidst Chancellor Sheldon's exclamation, everyone knelt before this little creature.

How adorable. Though a golden dragon, it was so tiny. At this moment, it was holding its belly and laughing at me.

I couldn't help but reach out to touch the little one's dragon horns. Its little claws eagerly grasped my fingertip and called me: "Daddy!"

The warm, soft touch made me lose myself for a moment. This was the child I had waited 600 years for!

I shed tears of emotion, then decisively cut off his head with the silver snake sword hidden in my sleeve!

It happened so suddenly that no one had time to react.

My wife Aria, who had been watching our intimate interaction with a happy face, looked at the scene before her in disbelief.

She rushed towards me like a madwoman: "Have you gone crazy? What are you doing? This is the child we waited 600 years for!"

Unfortunately, her hand hadn't even touched my sleeve before she collapsed to the ground, her body weak.

I had secretly put anesthetic powder in the incense. Soon, everyone in the palace fell down.

"Son-in-law, son-in-law, what's wrong with you? I'm Triton, your father-in-law! Have you been bewitched by something? Wake up!"

Hearing King Triton's voice, I turned and emotionlessly plunged my sword into the bodies of my dear father-in-law and mother-in-law.

They struggled desperately, splattering blood on my face. How dirty!

My wife opened her mouth in horror: "No, no! What are you doing? You're not my husband. You must be possessed!"

I walked to her side and examined this face that once made me fall deeply in love: "My lady, I know you're in pain. Just wait a little longer. But first, give me your eyes!"

I cruelly gouged out her eyeballs with my sword. Soon, those eyes seemed to have a life of their own and burrowed into my body.

My black, lifeless eyes turned golden, with golden spiritual energy overflowing from the sockets.

I then peeled off all the scales from her body, as easily as scaling a fish.

Those scales, unsurprisingly, also entered my body.

Immense spiritual power awakened in me. I no longer looked weak and powerless.

I then cut off her dragon horns and pressed them onto my head. Now I looked like a true dragon.

"You, you did this to become a dragon? If you wanted to become a dragon, there were other ways. Why did you have to kill my entire family!"

"Were all our past feelings fake? You once swore in public that you loved me most, and if you betrayed me, you'd be struck by lightning!"

I stopped in my tracks, turned to look at her, and shed a tear.

She showed a joyful expression, thinking I would have a change of heart.

But I only said: "Then let's wait for divine punishment. I'm willing to bear it!"

Then I resolutely left. Nothing could stop my steps of revenge. I slaughtered the entire Eastern Sea.

The royal physician who diagnosed me, the maid Lily who helped me dress, the guard who taught me martial arts...

Yesterday, they stood beside me, congratulating me on becoming a father. Today, they became vengeful spirits under my sword!

I kept cutting, kept cutting, until even the blade of the silver snake sword was bent.

I checked again and again to make sure there were no survivors in the Eastern Sea except for Aria.

Knowing my sins were grave, I threw down the sword, picked up the golden dragon's head.

I sat in the pool of blood, waiting silently for divine punishment to arrive.

When relatives and friends of the Eastern Sea arrived for the celebration, they saw this sea of red.

The expressions on their faces were truly a spectacle!

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"Heavens, what have you done? What you're holding is a golden dragon!"

"Why? Why did you do this?"

"Of course, it was for the Eastern Sea, for the future of the Eastern Sea. I had to eliminate this evil!"

Aria struggled to get up: "What nonsense are you talking about? Killing the entire Eastern Sea clan for the sake of the Eastern Sea?"

I snorted coldly, looking at Aria on the ground, and kicked the golden dragon's head over: "What your family did ten thousand years ago, you know better than anyone!"

"With people like you in charge of the Eastern Sea, how can there be a future?"

I looked at everyone and spoke again: "I am guilty and willing to be punished, but the sins of the Eastern Sea people should also be accounted for!"