Chapter 1: The legendary Truck Kun
The grand hallway was thick with tension. A white-haired girl, barely fourteen, knelt on the polished marble floor, trembling.
Before her stood a striking, black-haired woman in her mid-thirties, her cold gaze fixed on the child.
Selene's fingers clenched tightly around the ember-green fabric of her gown, her nails digging into her palms through the thin cotton.
"Mom... Please—cough! Cough!—listen to me." Her voice, soft and unsteady, barely escaped through her clenched teeth. Her breaths grew more ragged by the second.
THWACK!
A loud slap echoed through the hallway. The force sent Selene sprawling onto the cold, white marble.
The servants flinched—maids and butlers dressed in crisp black suits and traditional black-and-white uniforms.
Some kept their heads low. Others turned away, pretending they saw nothing.
But none dared to intervene—except a young, blonde-haired maid who fidgeted restlessly in the hands of her mother, who was covering her mouth so the sound of her crying wouldn't disturb Acier and get her executed.
"Don't try to act ignorant!" Acier's sharp voice cut through the silence.
"Did you really think you could deceive me? Your father works so hard to protect you, and yet this is how you betray his trust?"