VBNWDW - Chapter 156

Chapter 156

By the time Wodaixina had grown up, Metis had already been recognized by the plane, obtaining divinity and eternal life.

The story was a bit of a lament. No one had expected the opportunity to ascend to godhood to be right under their noses. The method the first queen had painstakingly sought, racking her brains for, was one she had actually abandoned long ago.

After falling in love with the dragon, the first queen ruled the Roy Kingdom for only ten years. Once the newly established nation had stabilized a little, she abdicated the throne to the current Roy royal family and left the mortal world with the dragon to live on Dragon Island.

Yet Metis, a queen who had also fallen in love with a dragon, chose to continue ruling and leading armies. She brought the entire continent under the banner of Roy, ending the thousand-year fragmentation of the Chryse Continent. And it was for this reason that she was recognized by the plane and granted divinity.

If the first queen had known of this, her feelings would surely have been incredibly complex. It turned out she was meant to attain divinity, but she had given it up herself. After all, with her abilities and the dragon's help, unifying the Chryse Continent would have been merely a matter of time, had she been willing.

But reality was just like that, full of drama.

Even Metis herself found it unbelievable. It took her several days to realize it wasn't some absurd dream.

Everyone was happy for her, especially the Black Dragon, who was so delighted she had to tell everyone she met, wishing the whole world knew that the goddess of war was her wife.

And the only victim in this matter—Wodaixina—just wanted to clutch her head and weep.

The Chryse Continent had an unwritten rule: gods could not interfere in mortal affairs. Aside from instances like the God of Light being summoned by his followers to protect them, no other reasons were permitted. Therefore, if a god wished to acquire faith and meddle in the mortal realm, they had to hide themselves as much as possible and act in secret. A public identity like Her Majesty the Queen was, of course, not allowed.

So it was Wodaixina who suffered, suddenly becoming the ruler of Roy—no, the second empress of the Roy Empire, which had unified the entire continent.

Heavens knew how devastated Wodaixina was when she heard the news. She was just a young dragon, a hatchling who, on Dragon Island, would have been a cub who didn't have to do anything, doted on and protected by her elders.

But now, she had been kicked onto the throne by an overjoyed Black Dragon, forced to take over this huge mess before she was even fully grown. It was like working an illegal job—no pay, just endless toil, all while fearing the disappointed glances of her mothers.

Poor little Poached Egg, having to learn to worry about an entire continent at such a tender age.

Whether it was because she was growing up or due to the exhausting daily grind of managing state affairs, the little chubby dragon who once needed her mothers to supervise her diet gradually lost her layered belly fat. She became slender and sleek, like the great dragons described in storybooks.

As for her heartless mothers, they had helped at first, breaking down every lesson and teaching her patiently. But the moment Wodaixina learned the ropes, they turned and left. They claimed they were going to travel all over the Chryse Continent to see the lands they had conquered with their own eyes and to investigate public sentiment on their daughter's behalf.

Wodaixina was highly skeptical. The first part was surely true, but the second part... As long as they remembered she was still in the capital and sent letters occasionally, that would be enough.

As for anything else, the great Empress Wodaixina was still unable to defeat her Black Dragon mother, nor could she snatch her Queen Mother back from the dragon's clutches. She couldn't even change the Black Dragon's insistence on calling her "Poached Egg."

For this, the great Empress Wodaixina felt utterly defeated.

Her suffering reached a monthly peak whenever she received their letter.

The letters usually went something like this: Her Queen Mother and Mother had flown to the highest snowy peak, sat side-by-side on the summit to watch the sunset and sunrise, and hoped that little Poached Egg could one day watch it with her wife, too.

Mother and Queen Mother visited the dwarves, tasted their prized spirits, and stayed in a cave they had arranged. The Black Dragon made sure to emphasize that the cave was terribly shabby and not nearly as nice as their castle, but that little Poached Egg could bring her wife to try it out for a nice experience.

Mother and Queen Mother stopped on a small island, built a wooden cabin on a deserted azure coast, fished like ordinary fishermen, and picked their own coconuts. Their days were leisurely and comfortable. Of course, the last sentence always had to add that, if she had a wife in the future, she could come here for a vacation.

In short, every letter ended with them pushing her to get married. Wodaixina was furious. Couldn't she just go with her mothers?

At worst... at worst...

When they were being all clingy, she would just hide somewhere else.

She wasn't oblivious to how clingy they were. She had heard them even when she was still in her eggshell. They didn't even think to move the dragon egg to another room, starting their... activities right in front of it.

While still inside the egg, Wodaixina had learned to cover her ears, shut her eyes tight, and pretend she knew nothing.

And after she hatched, when her Mother and Queen Mother slept beside her, they couldn't just fool around right there, even if she was asleep!

Couldn't a young dragon be woken up? A dragon's senses were incredibly keen.

And even if her Queen Mother was unaware, the Black Dragon had to know. She was doing it on purpose. It was a nastiness etched into the very bones of dragons—they wouldn't allow even their own offspring to get too close to their mate, finding every possible way to assert their ownership.

That was why Wodaixina was certain that the postscripts in every letter were added by her Black Dragon mother, who was desperate to find Wodaixina a wife immediately, lest the young dragon covet her Metis.

But despite the Black Dragon's constant prodding, Wodaixina had no interest. She still felt like a young dragon, and finding a mate seemed like a far-off matter.

But she couldn't fight the arrangements made by the overbearing Black Dragon. The letter from last month stated that her two mothers were deeply concerned about her future, since it would be difficult for anyone to fall in love with a roly-poly dragon.

So, the Black Dragon had personally selected a fiancée for Wodaixina—the queen of the elves, a race that rarely appeared, hidden deep within the mountains.

Wodaixina couldn't be bothered with her childish and petty mother. She put the letter down and promptly forgot about it, assuming the woman and dragon were just joking, and turned back to her state affairs.

Fortunately, the dragon and the woman hadn't been completely heartless when they left. At least they had left all their capable subordinates to Wodaixina.

It was just that recently, Auntie Mo Wen and Auntie Ivo had gone on their honeymoon, supposedly to make up for the vacation time Metis had previously withheld.

Wodaixina had no choice but to approve, begging them to return as soon as possible and not be like her own unreliable mothers, who would disappear for half a year at a time and even find her a fiancée out of the blue.

Still, Auntie Mo Wen probably wouldn't be so unreliable. After all, she was the Roy Empire's finest knight. Before she was married, the line of her suitors stretched from her front door to the outskirts of the capital. Thankfully, Auntie Ivo had been quick enough to win her over.

But lately, rumors had been spreading that a necromancer was unworthy of a knight of light.

Wodaixina was so angry she issued three consecutive decrees to capture those spreading such baseless rumors. Auntie Mo Wen and Auntie Ivo were clearly the second-most perfect couple in the world—the first, of course, had to be her mothers.

Things were not quiet in the Roy Kingdom, and the Dragon Clan was just as restless.

Her most beloved Grandpa Dragon God had suddenly shown up in the Roy Empire one day. After observing her furtively for a week, he finally appeared and slyly mentioned that he, too, wanted to retire.

Wodaixina was swamped with work; she had no time to care about his retirement plans. With a swish of her tail, she turned and left him with her unfeeling back.

But the Dragon God refused to give up. He pestered her for over a month, talking nonstop about some grand plan for the dragons, about promoting inter-species marriage to boost the dragon birth rate. As the offspring of a dragon and a human, he claimed, Wodaixina was the perfect successor.

Already miserable enough, Wodaixina flatly refused the Dragon God. She was just a cub who wasn't yet an adult and had zero interest in boosting the dragon birth rate. Besides managing the affairs of the Roy Empire, all she wanted was to stay at the Dragon Academy and be an ordinary teacher.

That's right. As the second empress of the Roy Empire, Wodaixina was only interested in teaching.

Ever since her two mothers left, she had quietly taken over the class the Black Dragon used to teach, hiding her identity to become an ordinary homeroom teacher.

"Hina, are you listening?"

Wodaixina snapped back to reality and turned to her colleague.

The person continued with a sigh, "To comply with imperial policy, the academy is enrolling students from all races. It looks like your class is getting four transfer students."

"Really? How come I didn't know?" Wodaixina looked completely lost.

Her colleague sighed heavily. "What on earth are you busy with all day? Where did you run off to during the last meeting? This was announced last week."

Wodaixina scratched the back of her head with a sheepish grin. Large, black-framed glasses covered most of her face, concealing her true features and making her look utterly ordinary.

Her colleague hesitated, but finally just said, "Never mind. Just try to pay more attention from now on. This is the top academy on the continent; you have no idea how many people are dying for a chance to teach here."

She changed the subject. "Oh, right. I remember your class is getting an elven student."

Wodaixina's eyes lit up behind her glasses. "Really? That's wonderful news. I've heard elven students are both beautiful and brilliant."

Her colleague opened her mouth to speak again but was cut off by the school bell. The dazed woman immediately spun around and dashed toward her classroom, shouting that she was going to be late.

How did this person even get a job at the academy? the colleague wondered once again.

But it wasn't long before a commotion erupted from the classroom.

The little teacher who had rushed over was blocked at the doorway by a transfer student.

"You... you!" Wodaixina stammered, the signed contract boiling in her blood as her heart suddenly began to race.

Across from her, a woman with the classic features of an elf casually tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and chuckled. "Hello. Please allow me to introduce myself."

"My name is Valentina. I am the queen of the elves, a transfer student in this class, and your fiancée."

"I heard from your mother that you do not wish to marry for the time being, but I simply could not wait any longer. Forgive me for coming so presumptuously."

"Wodaixina, are you pleased with me?"

The self-proclaimed powerful young dragon was thus backed into a corner, her cheeks flushing crimson, stammering so much she couldn't form a complete sentence.

But in her heart, for the very first time, she praised her Black Dragon mother.

Her mothers really did have the best taste!

Long live arranged marriages!

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