The Dragon's Bride

About this drama

The source for this entry is a 478-character synopsis in a world of orc tribes and dragon royalty. Tove, a half-orc convenience store worker in the human world, is abducted by her estranged father Oden, an ambitious orc chieftain. He forces her to attend the Dragon King Simon's bride-selection banquet as a disposable substitute for his beloved pure-blood daughter Ruby. The premise is a substitution with the stakes named: disposable is the source's word. Simon, plagued by a deadly curse and hidden behind monstrous rumors, is unexpectedly drawn to Tove's unyielding spirit and quiet kindness, and chooses her as his queen. The stated ending is the choice itself, and the synopsis closes there, with the marriage made and the curse and rumors left as standing threats the source does not resolve on the page. It counts as an effective full source with a stated romantic endpoint. The substitution is cruel by design. A father spends one daughter to protect another, and the source calls the spent one disposable to her face. The kindness is the counterweight. The curse stays open. Whether it lifts or claims him is where the episodes go. The run is thirty-five episodes with 1,350 views, in the lower half for this batch.

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