XI. Egotistic

It was a story of a brilliant woman who chose to leave her beloved home to test her luck at the neighboring empire, in hopes of saving her bloodline from the danger of being extinct.

My mother once told me about her sacrifices for the Maharlikas. Due to unfortunate events and the consequences of their rage, the Maharlikas has faced a threatening crisis – poverty. Because of that, my first aunt was forced to work as a maid of an old baron in the empire. Her skills were recognized by the queen and took her as a lady-in-waiting. The second aunt never gave up the farmlands and worked as a farmer of another baron. She never attracted a member of the imperial family like her older sister, but she cared for her sickly mother, who cried all her joy because of her husband’s sudden death. My mother, Lira Maharlika, studied hard and gathered all the scholarships she could pass to sustain living in the expensive state of Larunduquez, while having me. She suffered from discrim