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.

From the stone-carved balcony above the training grounds, Odin and Freya watched in silence. Freya's eyes shimmered with a blend of pride and concern, her fingers gently twisting the edge of her silk shawl. Beside her, Odin stood with military precision—hands clasped tightly behind his back, expression carefully neutral. Only the faint tension in his jaw betrayed his thoughts.


"She's not the same little girl from two years ago," Freya murmured, her gaze fixed unwaveringly on Lara as she dipped and spun, effortlessly evading her brothers' strikes. The girl moved with lethal grace—each step measured, each parry smooth. A tremor of sadness in Freya's voice was softened by admiration. "She is no longer my little girl. Somehow, I could feel the change in her. She's a bit colder and distant."


If Lara had heard what Freya said, she would have cried, for she knew that as long as she could remember, she had shown her warmest self last night.


Chapter 240 - A Parent's Pride, A Sister's Jealousy