Azalea_Belrose

This is the story of Lara, a young woman from modern times, raised with one purpose: to exact revenge on the family of the general who destroyed her own.

But fate had other plans. On her way to carry out her mission of vengeance, a twist in the plan led to disaster. Lara was struck by a military truck escorting the very general she intended to assassinate.

When she awoke, she found herself in an entirely different world—one where her identity and purpose were starkly different from the life she had known and how she had been molded to be.

Abducted by human traffickers, she outsmarted them and escaped. Then, she encountered a mysterious martial arts master whose ancient skills far surpassed her own. For two years, she trained with him in the remote mountains. 

One fateful day, while staying deep in the jungle of Mount Ourea, Lara stumbled upon the Prince of Northem, disguised as an ordinary commander. He was gravely injured while pursuing a notorious group of bandits. Lara saved him and found herself entangled in the war that raged for two years.

Lara, disguised as a soldier, volunteered to deliver a very important message to the generals of the Northem army, embroiled in a fierce battle against the bandits, the rebels, and soldiers of Estalis in the Alta-Sierra mountain range.

Amid the chaos, Lara was swept onto the battlefield.

During the battle, fate played another cruel hand. Lara came face to face with General Odin and his sons—only to discover that General Odin was the spitting image of the general she had been trained to assassinate. Could the man from her world be a descendant of this brave general?

Torn between her mission and her newfound reality, Lara faced an impossible question: How could she kill her biological father?

Her internal conflict deepened when she uncovered an elaborate plot to frame General Odin and his sons as traitors. The true culprits? His subordinates and trusted allies.

In an ironic twist of fate, Lara found herself becoming the 'protector' of the family that, in modern times, she was supposed to ruin.

After the war, Lara returned as a hero, ready to reveal her identity to General Odin, but she learned of another betrayal. Her cousin, Mira—the orchestrator of her abduction—had taken over her identity. Mira lived in her home under the guise of comforting Lara's grief-stricken mother because of the death of her only daughter. Not only that, she also did a lot of scheming and eventually claimed Lara's betrothal to Prince Alaric.

With her identity stolen and her mission turned upside down, Lara faced a new challenge: reclaiming her life and honor and protecting her new family.

Return of the General's Daughter

Lara's face remained perfectly still, her expression unreadable. They watched her carefully, bracing for the crack in her composure, the outburst, the pain.

The solution had already been quietly decided: if Lara showed even the slightest hurt, they would return Mira to her family. Compensation would be given—money, inheritance, whatever was needed to make things right.

But Lara simply breathed in, slow and steady. Her eyes lingered on Mira's perfect smile, then drifted back to her father. Could she blame them? she wondered bitterly. When she had been gone, they had been alone. Grieving... Lost... And Mira had slipped into that emptiness like a phantom, filling the void with light and laughter.

Lara straightened her back, the storm of emotion settling behind her eyes. "I understand," she said softly, her voice steady, "Thank you for explaining."

Reya sobbed openly, her face crumpled with grief and fury, both for Lara and herself. "But Miss..."

Princess and the Pauper