Chapter 532
In the beginning, there was a girl who was gentle, kind and beautiful, and in a world ravaged by countless and never ending wars, she was a kindred soul. The sole daughter of Lu Keiran, she had looks and possessed a family background that could astound anyone. For her father, she was his one and only hope.
Lu Keiran was famous not as a officer in the army or a politician, rather, what made him famous were his amazing breakthroughs in the field of science. He had successfully made vaccines against various diseases and the country to which he belonged was one that had stood the test of time and many wars, the main reason for that being Lu Keiran's contribution towards biological warfare.
Lu Keiran was a jaded man, and when he first held his daughter in his hands, he was already forty. He had lost hope in this world, he had lost hope that people could be changed and wars avoided, and that people could still smile and
Lu Keiran had never loved his wife, for him she had just been there, her life and death would stir no emotions in him. In that moment, time stopped and it was just the three of them in a perfect bubble.
To this wife he had ignored for two decades, Lu Keiran now felt a grat.i.tude as deep as the sea.
"I will protect you, no matter what." He vowed as he looked into the brown eyes of his daughter who had just opened them for the first time. She gurgled—she couldn't smile yet—and her adorable face made his heart seemed to be melting with the warmth and gentleness he felt.
However, reality was cruel.
When Lu Meiran was thirteen, the promise that her father made at her birth was broken.
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(1) From what I gather, Illusion is the method, fantasy is what they see around them. The correct translation is in fact not fantasy but "land of fantasy/fairyland" from "幻境" (huàn jìng). So they were in an illusion but what they saw was a fantasy. I am explaining this horribly so let's just pretend you get it.