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I was the most noble, pure-blooded princess of the Sea Elves. I willingly gave myself to Edmund King, ruler of the humans, as his bride, all for the sake of peace between our realms and the whispered promise of immortality. At first, Edmund was captivated by my beauty. For a fleeting moment after our wedding, we were genuinely happy. But he was never satisfied with my reserved nature. I wasn't the wildly passionate lover he craved. One drunken night, he took my cousin into his bed and crowned her his consort. From that night on, she was the only woman he touched. And it was her toxic whispers in his ear that eventually got me banished to the brutal wastelands of Forsaken Peak. Three years later, his consort fell gravely ill. To survive, she desperately needed the sacred essence of a sea elf. Edmund finally summoned me back to Acalia. But what he didn't know was that I had already taken a permanent human form, so there wasn't a single drop of sacred essence left in my veins. I fully expected him to explode in a violent rage. Yet, when I finally opened my eyes, the all-powerful king was on his knees at my feet.