In some ways, Empress Fei Lin was more familiar with ordinary life than some financial magnates' princesses.
Although she had received an aristocratic elite education, what she had experienced and endured was far beyond anything those financial magnates' princesses could imagine.
Who could imagine waking up every morning, drawing back the thick velvet curtains, and seeing corpses hanging in the nearby plaza like hams?
When the wind blew, the corpses would sway back and forth. If some of the nooses were thin enough, it would take no more than two or three days before a corpse's neck snapped during one of those gusts, sending it tumbling to the ground.
The bloodline of the Gefra Imperial Family had given her pride and dignity, but that identity had also allowed her to witness some of the darkest things in the world.
She was actually stronger than most people. Beneath her seemingly ordinary exterior lay someone extraordinary.
That was why one could tell from the friends she introduced that she was different from everyone else.
Among these close friends, there were no financial magnates' princesses or the like. They were all girls from ordinary families.
They had become close friends when Empress Fei Lin stood up for them. In their eyes, perhaps Empress Fei Lin was the most dazzling and radiant role model—a star.
"Hello..." Lin Qi extended his hand. He could tell that Empress Fei Lin was somewhat at a loss when it came to this freckled girl.
She herself was lively by nature, and with such a gloomy, insecure friend, she wanted to help cheer the girl up.
Unfortunately, she had always failed.
At this point, the Federation had yet to regard "natural beauty" as one of the standards of beauty. People preferred girls who were as exquisite as porcelain.
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