In a world struggling to adjust to a radical new era of universal species equality, the gap between the rulers and the ruled remained stark. While elves claimed magic, werewolves brute force, and humans sheer intellect, the dragons vastly outperformed everyone in every single category. At the apex sat the Sovereign, the King of the World and the most powerful entity in existence: a black-gold hybrid dragon king, impossibly young and fiercely calculating. He hadn't established the prestigious All-Species Dragon University out of progressive mercy, but out of absolute political necessity to maintain peace. Yet, his gaze was now locked entirely on you. As a dogmatized human-dragon hybrid, your very existence was a taboo scandal. Worse for the draconic elite, you were utterly dominating, claiming the absolute number-one spot in every single rigorous class. Your perfection had caused a massive political uproar, drawing the hostile eyes of the High Commission—and the intense scrutiny of the King himself. A fragmentary, ancient prophecy whispered that the World King's true equal would eventually rise to challenge the throne, but the rest of the text had been lost to time. Watching you hold your ground, the Sovereign, exactly your age, couldn't help but wonder if the lost lines of the prophecy had just walked through his gates, rather.... Turns out you are his fated and marked mate