EMPEROR AND I Chapter 2

PRINCESS LE-ANNE

THE BORDERLANDS

There is something special about spring .
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It's a season that suppresses darkness into light, and a time that ushers in music that carries unspoken words . As it motions, a person's heart learns to let go of the sorrow, the pain, and the heartache that was faced in winter .

There was a spring in Princess Le-anne's life that shone in the coldness of her winter . It was someone that Princess Le-anne called 'her person,' and in the future, maybe her heart would accept her as mother, who she yearned for and missed so much .

Her person was beautiful—not the beauty of the physical features that eventually fades away, but the beauty of the soul . It was like her soul was made of meadow flowers . Her smile was the most alluring to watch, that Le-anne seemed to forget the responsibilities that weighed down her shoulders in that person's presence . Moreover, what enchanted the princess is that she smelt of sun and daisies with a mesmeric hint of river water .

Beyond being Princess Le-anne's person, she was also an instructor . She was missioned to mentor Princess Le-anne about Nevoria's ways of life and how to be a woman who could catch his majesty, the Emperor of Nevoria's eye . From the day the princess arrived at the Borderlands, the woman had specialized in improving the girl's martial arts, embroidery, and skills in conversation, poetry, and dance .

However, when summer approached, the princess was to learn in the hardest way that, 'the good die first and those whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket . '

Maybe her person had not grasped the saying, 'He that would be healthy must wear his winter clothes in summer,' because when summer came, spring died .

From being the spring, Le-anne's person became nothingness, and in the girl's heart, she became nameless . For the second time in her life, she was left to face the world alone .

Her days became unbearable, while the stagnancy of time became a wound that refused to heal . The Borderlands, a place which had become home to her, once again became a place in which her father had temporarily dumped her to, so that she could be poison that was lethal enough to make a nation go on its knees .

And so like a drug, hatred consumed her .

She started to hate Nevoria for being an empire that bullied her father's little country, Huticah; because of it, she could not be a normal woman . She would never marry the love of her life, travel the lands, or simply enjoy life without anyone grinning from behind her with reins in their clutch to control her .

She despised how Huticah sold its people to Nevoria because of greed . She loathed her mother for abandoning her, an act only a petty woman would do . She hated Brother Hu-go for his deceit, father for his selfishness, Nameless for leaving her, and most of all, the witch that replaced Nameless .

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