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It was all just a possibility, and she would never be able to prove it with her life. Just like the past in that blood-colored palace, it had already rotted away into dust, never to be picked up again by anyone.

Ten months later, Nameless Feng was born into the world.

She would never forget the first glance she had of this world.

She saw a room with no light, saw the pale-faced woman gritting her teeth as she cut the umbilical cord in the bloody water, saw a tiny, jade lotus floating above the bloody water, heard the woman's cries muffled by the sheets, smelled the metallic stench of blood in the air, felt the tears from the woman's eyes falling ceaselessly upon her face as she begged, "Child, don't cry… You cannot cry… Once you cry we'll both be dead… I'm begging you, don't cry…"

Henceforth, she had become the first infant never to cry, in order to save the lives of that woman and herself.