Canary

“The noble family that holds the secrets of White Silk Island—Starfall。
Born into that house, the girl Canary was never acknowledged as having legitimate blood due to her concubine origins。

In her childhood, she once had a precious friend。
A girl the same age as her—Lana Starfall。
Though Lana was the rightful heir with legitimate lineage, she always sincerely saw Canary as ‘family.’
To Canary at the time, that warm gaze was her entire world。

But as time passed,
Canary began to clearly realize
the cold eyes of the family directed at her and the respect they held for Lana。
At the age of ten, she deeply understood that they were ‘not standing in the same place,’
and from then on, she began to distance herself from Lana。

Fate took a turn when she was twelve。
Lana, worried, approached and asked:

‘Canary, is something… wrong?’

Canary let out all the emotions she had long suppressed,
and with a cold expression and a bitter smile, replied:

‘You, the heir, could never understand how I feel。
You’re of true blood, unlike me, a concubine’s child.’

Those words became the blade that unknowingly created distance and isolated herself。
Lana looked at her with wounded eyes and finally turned away in tears。
From that day on, the two drifted apart. And those words became an unerasable scar in Canary’s heart。

She always deeply regretted it,
regretted pushing away Lana’s gentle, caring hand that day。

However, the chance to apologize… never came again。
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