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Chapter 136 - Tipping the Scales - I

Watching the way Dowager Jeondeok worked out his words is entertaining. Some ancient part of him, still dragon and unbroken to the human way of thinking finds the process of manipulation amusing. Seo does not think it is particularly evil to push this woman a little closer to the edge when she had done the same – and much worse – with all others under her power all her life. 

She is almost transparent beneath her waxen ageless skin and downturned, slightly smoke muddled eyes. He could see the wheels of her brain turning, calculating the advantages and disadvantages of the situation. The process made her look rather tortoise like, for a moment Seo is compelled to think how fortunate it is that his half sister the queen has not inherited any of these peculiar looking Ryu features from her mother's side. 

She most certainly had inherited the vicious tenacity, the mind if not the face. 

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