CH871 Battle of Man and Matriarch I
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[A.N: This is an NSFW(ish) chapter. Proceed with caution.]
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Udara heaved a sigh of relief as she concluded her story.
Telling her story to Alex turned out to be easier than she expected.
'Perhaps it was because of the stele trial,' she thought to herself.
During the stele trial, she had been made to confront the person she could have been—an Imperial Princess—and accept the loss of that path, not as a past she should bury, but as an important foundation of who she had become… something she should embrace.
That had probably prepared her for this day, this moment, more than she realised.
Though she had lost many things, perhaps even a path that would have been solely her own, she had at least regained the gift of choice.
And with this gift, she chose to walk the path paved by the man before her—to walk by his side and with him, wherever said path might lead, be it victory or ruin.
