Dragons and Roses [Western Fantasy]

Blurb for my next book. Please add it to your favorites~ Three years later, I saw Liang Zhoushen again. She was still the lofty head of the Liang family, wearing a hearing aid in her left ear and turning slightly to listen to whoever was speaking. After the banquet, I stopped her. She looked at me coldly and said: “Jian Yi, I won’t let you deceive me again.” I leaned toward her ingratiatingly, wanting to kiss her left ear, and begged her to give me one more chance to win her over. Just let me get close one more time. The year I was with Liang Zhoushen was the happiest time of my life. No one knew how much the cold, ruthless CEO Liang doted on me in private. She’d postpone meetings to come see my performances. She’d set off fireworks all night on New Year’s Eve. She’d wear her hearing aid all night, just so she could hear me breathe. Those were once dreams I could reach out and touch, but now they’re far beyond my grasp. When I woke from them, all that remained was her saying she didn’t love me anymore. Liang Zhoushen told me, “I’m not young anymore. If I’m going to marry someone, I want her to be steady and reliable, someone who’ll stay by my side. But that person can’t be you.” Getting close to you means getting close to pain. Staying away from you means staying away from happiness. Blurb Happy ending, Western fantasy + nonhuman + raising a child Lively, adorable little sunshine × mature older top Elena should have died. An abandoned infant, left in a dangerous, desolate canyon, was found and taken in by a dragon. The dragons raised her. The clan leader, Masi, personally combed her hair, cooked for her, and taught her magic. They ran together beneath the sun and cuddled up to sleep at night. Elena once thought that would be her whole life “My place is by your side, until the end of time.” But the world outside was vast, and Elena deserved a life that was grand, fulfilling, and happy. Masi thought she was the most selfish dragon in the world. Afraid of dying, she had sent away her student, the human child she had raised with her own hands. -- The first thing Elena learned after leaving the Dragon Valley was how to be independent. She enrolled in school, faced trials, rescued her kidnapped companions, and exposed the crimes of an entire kingdom. She was determined to prove that she no longer needed anyone’s protection. She rose higher and higher, from the academy to the battlefield. Those who had once looked down on her could only look up at her, as she drew closer, step by step, to the truth of her origins. It was a mystery that would silence half the kingdom. Some wanted her dead; others had erased the name she was born with. So she rose against all odds, reaching for the scepter at the very top. The red royal banners flew across the continent. The people bowed wherever her carriage passed, and even the gods of other races looked upon her with favor. Until the seal on the abyss collapsed, and a cold blade, carrying two hundred years of history, struck toward Masi on the battlefield. Elena threw herself in front of her without a moment’s hesitation. “Time blesses you; time curses you.” The long-delayed prophecy would come true at last. Some words would never be spoken in time. Some things were destined to happen. And Masi finally understood her own heart When did the rose begin to grow? It had already taken root in my heart. - Theme: Those who are protected will one day become protectors