A princess from the Cold Palace
Li An, abandoned at birth in the cold palace, gains a miraculous gift when a seed from the Tree of Knowledge enters her mind, enhancing her intelligence and pushing her on a mission to gather wisdom points by applying her newfound knowledge. As she grows, she uncovers her noble heritage and encounters her destined fiancé, a proud young general who looks down on her. Will she be able to win his heart, or will he conquer her first? In time, as she showed her abilities, she was given a fief, a barren land. Now, will she be able to turn this wilderness into a blossoming rose? Or will she give up and just live a carefree life? Let's read and find out.
Book 2 Going All Out
Chapter 70 Book 2 Going All Out
Vera's background is not as tragic as it was portrayed by most of her group. When she was young she had grown up in an orphanage.
The orphanage, with its rotting walls and sunken ceilings, was a place where childhood innocence went to die. Vera had spent her earliest years in its suffocating confines, where survival meant taking more than you gave and trusting no one. At nine, Vera learned the most valuable lesson of all: violence was the only language people understood.
It was late one evening, the dim light of the moon barely penetrating the broken windows of the orphanage, when Vera snapped. The caretaker, a greedy man with a penchant for cruelty, had struck one of the younger children for stealing food. Vera, too hungry and too furious to care anymore, took up a fire poker and swung. Once, twice, and then thrice, until his screams ceased, replaced by the sickening squelch of metal against flesh.