The Three-Thousand-Year Wound
Vera recalls the heart torn out long ago and moves into the stone keep; the tower talk warns that a dragon answering the call might destroy whoever summoned it.
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Hidden Identity · 36 episodes · YourChannel
Three thousand years after her dragon heart was torn out, Vera enters Greyfort Castle as a maid to reclaim it, only to find it beating inside the heiress she cannot stop wanting.
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Episode one sets the ancient wound: Vera's opening line recalls that three thousand years ago her heart was torn out, and the castle scene frames a high tower where an answering dragon might finally have a reason to come close. The maid disguise and the stone keep establish the infiltration before any name exchange.
Episode five turns the plan toward feeling. Vera admits that the heart beating inside Elenora leaves her asking why she wants the woman herself; the exchanges move to warm corridors, flushed cheeks, and quiet orders to breathe quietly, showing the pact pulling two people together while the retrieval deadline still stands.
Episode three introduces the blood-linked collar: it knows her blood, and breaking it would announce her presence to the castle. Vera states that the heart and its vessel are both awake, and sets a seven-day clock before she takes her heart back, turning the infiltration into a timed retrieval.
Series facts checked against the YourChannel listing. Notes cover the opening episodes only; nothing here reveals the ending.
Vera, Elenora and The Dragon Lord carry the opening arc.
Patient, ancient, and guarded, Vera enters Greyfort Castle under maid's livery with a seven-day retrieval plan. The blood collar marks her presence, and the closer she studies Elenora, the more her stated goal competes with an attraction she did not plan for.
“"The heart is awake, so is the vessel. Seven days, then I take my heart back." — episode 3”
Raised inside Greyfort as the family heiress, she carries the heart that belongs to Vera without knowing its origin. Her early scenes pair close, wary exchanges with the maid, and the family that protects her becomes the force Vera must evade while growing attached to her.
He appears in the keep as the authority connected to the dragon side of the myth, warning that an answering dragon could kill whoever calls it. His position frames the external danger between Vera's retrieval and the blood pact with Elenora.
The opening arc moves from the ancient heart wound, to the collar and seven-day clock, to the corridor closeness. Four editorial picks from episodes 1–5 — no ending spoilers; note ASR for this title covers sparse short lines, so beats stay scene-level.
Vera recalls the heart torn out long ago and moves into the stone keep; the tower talk warns that a dragon answering the call might destroy whoever summoned it.
The collar recognizes Vera's blood; breaking it would expose her inside the castle, tying her disguise to a visible magical marker.
With the heart and vessel both awake, Vera sets seven days before reclaiming her heart, converting the infiltration into a timed plan.
Vera questions why the heart inside Elenora makes her want the woman herself; warm corridor exchanges and a quiet breathing order show the pact overriding the retrieval plan.
Captured from the opening episodes — not promotional art.






Written from the opening arc. These are editorial impressions, not audience scores.
"The collar and seven-day clock give the fantasy premise a working mechanism: a visible marker, a deadline, and a reason the maid cannot simply walk out once the retrieval succeeds."
"The corridor scenes do the emotional turn in small beats — flushed cheeks, lowered voices, a question about wanting the woman — which keeps the romance grounded inside the castle rather than in exposition."
Best for viewers who like gothic fantasy romance with a hidden dragon identity, a castle heiress, and a blood-pact slow burn; if you want large battle set pieces, the opening five entries stay intimate and dialogue-light. Compared with most dragon-romance shorts, this one centers the retrieval clock and the two-woman bond over court wars — that focus is both its strength and its limit.
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