"New life?" Xianna chewed over those two words, suddenly feeling something strange.
Ever since childhood, Xianna had been regarded as the source of disaster for the duchy, and her father had hated her. Though her mother loved her, she was too weak to protect Xianna. From an early age, Xianna had lived amid scorn, disgust, wariness, and all manner of cold abuse.
Later, the man she called father could no longer stand having a calamity wandering before his eyes. Despite her mother's desperate pleas, he forcibly sent her to Waterdeep. There, she had originally thought she would spend her life incognito.
She had hated it too. She was a princess, yet she could only hide in a place where no one knew her and live a timid, modest life. (For royalty, the life of a minor noble in Waterdeep was a modest one.) But later, she came to accept it. At least there, she would not be discriminated against, and she had people who loved her and people she loved.
She had thought that forgetting her identity and living an ordinary life here would not be so bad, so she began the new life she had imagined.
But then life's hardships struck again, this time even more viciously. They stripped Xianna of everything and kicked her back into the Abyss.
Once again, driven by fate, she became a dark avenger.
There was no need to mention what came afterward. Even in the Abyss, she had merely been a pitiful pawn under someone else's control. Her entire life had been tragedy after tragedy after tragedy. Yet today, someone had finally told this woman that she could begin a new life.
It gave Xianna a very subtle feeling. Joy? Yes. Shock? That too. Disbelief? That as well. In short, it was extremely