Hurt My Husband, Face the Dragon Royals

In the dragon kingdom of Aetherland, Leah Valiant is the daughter of an ancient royal house that rules the North. Three years ago, she married Aiden West while posing as the daughter of an ordinary noble family, wearing a necklace that concealed her royal aura and putting away both her whip and her former fierceness. Aiden was gentle and devoted, while his adoptive mother, Helen, and younger sister, Nora, sincerely treated Leah as family. Cherishing the peaceful life they had built together, Leah never revealed her true origins. Everything changes when Nora is drugged by Vera, the mistress of her husband, Lucien, and loses her unborn child. Aiden and Helen go to Voss Castle to demand justice, only for Aiden to have his leg broken and Helen to be humiliated and thrown out. Seeing her badly injured husband still trying to comfort her, Leah picks up her whip once more and sends an urgent message to her parents. She strikes back on her own first, before her mother, Celine, arrives and publicly claims her as her daughter. Then her father, Gareth, descends on the castle with the northern army, and the sheer force of their royal bloodline drives the castle guards to their knees. Only then do the lord and his son realize that the couple they chose to bully has the entire northern royal family behind them. During Aiden’s treatment, Leah discovers that he has been slowly poisoned for a long time. The lord and his son, Vera, and the bribed apothecary all turn out to have secret ties to the royal palace. Aiden then reveals the truth: he is the surviving heir of the royal family that was overthrown fifteen years ago. After discovering Aiden’s identity, the current Dragon King, Malcolm, arranged for him to weaken gradually and die of what would appear to be natural illness. Meanwhile, while Leah’s family is occupied at the castle, palace guards abduct the still-recovering Nora. Malcolm uses her as a hostage to force the northern royal family into the palace, demanding that they p