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CHAPTER 28

Author: GOLDEN TREE
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-05-30 16:16:24

CHAPTER 27: BLOOD IS NOT ENOUGH

The truth echoed through her bones like a strike of lightning.

“You were born of my vengeance.”

Chaewon stood frozen in the ruined warehouse, the smoke still curling from a shattered bullet casing near her heel. The rest of the world faded into silence. Even the rain outside the port seemed to still, as if giving space for the weight of revelation to take root.

Mrs. Lee—the woman Chaewon did think of only as her cold mother-in-law, Jian’s manipulative architect—h
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