Just out for a walk, Syl, who had recently moved to Dragon Island, nearly had a heart attack after accidentally crushing an abandoned egg from his own kind. Upon learning it was one of many eggs carelessly discarded by other dragons—and that newborn dragons relied solely on luck to hatch—he stopped wasting words and quietly gathered all the surviving eggs he could find. Soon, he holed up in his cave, raising hatchlings under the baffled gazes of his kin, becoming Dragon Island’s one-of-a-kind male mother. Though many of his fellow dragons lamented the behavior of this golden-scaled, elegant, and rare thousand-year-old Gold Dragon—who had the shimmering scales and grace they adored—they quickly lost interest. They returned to their hedonistic ways, passing the endless time among themselves. —That is, until over a decade later, when they were ambushed and beaten black and blue by the very troublemaker dragons raised by this male mother, howling in pain as they finally grasped the severity of the situation… *The protagonist is adored by dragons, the most beautiful, and overwhelmingly perfect—kindly refrain from harsh critiques if this isn't to your taste. *The love interest is not one of the adopted children.